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Food and Drug Administration

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Smoking Medical Marijuana Helps MS Patients, Study Says

    A common critique of medical cannabis is that there's no way anything "smoked" can be beneficial to someone of ill health. This simple and convenient theory -- smoking (tobacco) is bad, therefore anything that can be smoked must also be bad -- was recently repeated by former White House drug czar Jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Woman Sues Muscle Milk, Claims It's as Fatty as Krispy Kreme

    The problem with Muscle Milk is that it tastes really good (applies more to the carton version than the powdered version). Sure, it's a satisfying reward after a tough workout, possibly instilling a kind of Pavlovian mechanism that increases the desire to pump iron. But more than that, it tastes soo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Marijuana Sobriety Checkpoints: New Legislation to Outlaw Driving While Stoned

    ​Some will swear that marijuana has merit for motorists. Others fear impairment of any kind, at any level. We're pretty terrified of teen drivers, especially those with cell phones and hangovers, but we'll leave it to the government to intervene on this great debate. Driving while stoned would bec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    If You Want to Combat Corporate Lobbying, You Have to Put Up Your Dukes

    ​If you read the food media, especially in large cities, you'd believe that the sustainable food revolution is winning. But if you talk to a state senator or member of Congress, writes public-health advocate Michelle Simon, they'll assure you that the food-industry lobbyists are still the ones wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Trent Arsenault, FDA-Targeted Sperm Donor, Moonlights as Online Porn Star

    Trent Arsenault, pictured on one of his websites​We told you a few days ago about Trent Arsenault, the one-man sperm factory whose antics have been targeted as unsound by the Food and Drug Administration. Arsenault, a Silicon Valley tech worker, has set up a website in order to donate his semen to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Hey Food Activists: Can We Get a Ban on GMOs and BGH?

    PCC Farmland Trust​California's food activists are on the verge of gaining a ban on the import of shark fins. And starting next July, sale of foie gras in this state will be illegal. We care about animal welfare here; we passed a law regulating the size of chickens' cages. But perhaps becaus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Hey FDA: Pick On Big Food Producers, Not Little Ones

    Genaro Molina/Los Angeles TimesDanielle Fetzer and Steven Pociunas, volunteers at Rawesome Foods in Venice, after the store was raided​After a year-long investigation, agents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration joined state and local authorities yesterday to bust owners of a small Venic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Eric Quezada, Former Supervisor Candidate, Seeks Alternative Cancer Treatment in Germany

    Eric Quezada is fighting cancer overseas. ​Looking at Eric Quezada's career over the last couple years, you certainly wouldn't have guessed he'd been fighting cancer since 2004. The long-time Mission activist and executive director with Dolores Street Community Services ran a failed campaign for s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Medical Marijuana: Dad Says It Saved Two-Year-Old Son with Cancer

    Cash Hyde​There are many ways to look at the story of two-year-old brain-tumor survivor Cash Michael Hyde, whose father, Michael, secretly slipped him medical marijuana oil in his feeding tube during chemotherapy last fall. You could assume that the plant is an effective drug. Chemotherapy left ... More >>

  • Film

    March 16, 2011

    Limitless: Pill Makes You Smart, Movie Makes You Dumb

    Cash Hyde​There are many ways to look at the story of two-year-old brain-tumor survivor Cash Michael Hyde, whose father, Michael, secretly slipped him medical marijuana oil in his feeding tube during chemotherapy last fall. You could assume that the plant is an effective drug. Chemotherapy left ... More >>

  • Music

    March 16, 2011

    Bouncer: Switching Off Reason at Olive's Happy Hour

    Cash Hyde​There are many ways to look at the story of two-year-old brain-tumor survivor Cash Michael Hyde, whose father, Michael, secretly slipped him medical marijuana oil in his feeding tube during chemotherapy last fall. You could assume that the plant is an effective drug. Chemotherapy left ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Bouncer Ponders Pharmaceutical Escapes at Olive's Happy Hour

    ​The best bars in S.F. don't have to try too hard. Olive is small and artfully arrayed, like a hipster Munchkin. Bright, abstract paintings line the walls. The proprietor has put a lot of DIY love into the place, and made sure to hire friendly staffers. No fewer than three of them approached me wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Getting a Taste of PDX During SFBW

    NorthwestBeerGuide/FlickrOut-of-towner: Deschutes' The Dissident.​Bridgetown, aka Beervana, aka Portland has much to brag about when it comes to beer culture, but it doesn't yet have a Portland Beer Week (with stress on the "yet"). So some of Oregon's savvier breweries put some flowers in thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Female Condom 2 Campaign to Launch in San Francisco for Women and Gay Men

    Just slip it in. ​The Female Condom 2 is coming soon to San Francisco to line a vagina -- or anus -- near you. The Department of Public Health will be launching a campaign to promote the use of the Female Condom 2 (known as the FC2 for short) on Valentine's Day.The city received a $100,000 grant f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    UCSF Researchers Believe They Have Found a Drug To Cure Alcoholism

    Curing Alcoholism ​Leave it to Americans to try to cure alcoholism with a pill. UCSF researchers believe a muscle relaxant already out on the market can drastically reduce the urge to binge drink.Researchers from UCSF's Ernest Gallo Clinic used drunk rats to prove their hypothesis. They studied t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    TSA Scanners: U.C. San Francisco Radiologists Debunk Radiation Fears

    Calm down, people...​Update 12/3: TSA slaps us on the wrist about using this picture. This is an old image. The newer ones look more like Egyptian hieroglyphics. Among the elements of paranoia and righteousness emanating from those opting out of TSA scans today, U.C. San Francisco radiology specia ... More >>

  • News

    November 17, 2010

    Ibogaine has helped addicts kick meth and heroin. Is it the trip that does the trick?

    Calm down, people...​Update 12/3: TSA slaps us on the wrist about using this picture. This is an old image. The newer ones look more like Egyptian hieroglyphics. Among the elements of paranoia and righteousness emanating from those opting out of TSA scans today, U.C. San Francisco radiology specia ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 17, 2010

    Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

    Calm down, people...​Update 12/3: TSA slaps us on the wrist about using this picture. This is an old image. The newer ones look more like Egyptian hieroglyphics. Among the elements of paranoia and righteousness emanating from those opting out of TSA scans today, U.C. San Francisco radiology specia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Tobacco Leaves Popping Up on Lafitte's Menu

    Heirloom Connecticut broadleaf tobacco leaves from Happy Quail Farms.​San Francisco's tobacco lovers can finally get their nicotine fix without offending their neighbors or destroying their lungs ― and I'm not talking about those ridiculous electronic cigarettes. Uncured heirloom tobacco is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    How Safe Is Chicken Tartare? A Saga of Discovery

    CAKES A./FlickrChicken tartare at Ippuku: Just looking at this photo makes me crave it again.​In the week following simultaneous restaurant reviews in the Chronicle and SF Weekly of Ippuku, a Japanese restaurant in Berkeley, the Chronicle's comments sections filled with disgust over a dish that bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Woman Named Skye Sues Ben & Jerry's Over 'All Natural' Claim

    You lying bastards...​A wholesome food warrior named Skye is suing Ben & Jerry's for claiming its ice cream is "All Natural" on the label, when in fact -- horror of horrors -- ingredient No. 36 is alkalized cocoa. We feel tricked by those Vermont cows who subtly imparted in their placid, bovin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Bad Eggs Didn't Cause Salmonella Spike in San Francisco

    Yep, it's a bad egg​Wednesday's massive recall of 380 million potentially tainted eggs -- more than one for every American -- likely induced more hurling of eggs than any past Halloween and more worries about salmonella than those of every turtle-owning parent of all-time. Yes, you should dispose ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    This Week in Food Bloggery

    peter_r/FlickrBruce Hill's margherita, coming to a neighborhood slightly nearer you.​Highlights from the blogs this week:1. The imminent arrival of yet another wave of pizzerias ― Zero Zero, Ragazza, Una Pizza Napoletana, Antica Pizzeria Napoletana, not to mention something from ex-Flour Water ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Trader Joe's Private-Label Revelations More Complicated Than We Thought

    Shannon I./YelpMystery solved?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. In Doggy Bag last week, we pointed to an investigative post at The Faster Times, wherein Earth Island Journal managing editor Amy Westervelt looked behind some private label products at Trader Joe's and found some surprising ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Wall Street Journal Planning Lance Armstrong Doping Bombshell

    Might this affect Lance's concentration?​The Wall Street Journal, which for a week has been rumored to be preparing a Game of Shadows-style story detailing doping allegations against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, announced in Friday's paper that it plans to release just such ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Sparks Outlawed? Now You Can Make It at Home

    Back in December 2008, MillerCoors voluntarily removed caffeine, taurine, guarana, and ginseng from energy drink Sparks, due in part to pressure from San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera. Hipsters everywhere lost their collective shit. The overly sweet malt liquor/energy drink hybrid saturated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Is That a Frog in Your Throat or Are You Just Gagging?

    Mmm, froggy.​According to a CNN report today, the Food and Drug Administration Office of Regulatory Affairs has concluded that the foreign matter in a man's can of Diet Pepsi appears to have been a frog or a toad. Gulp. In July, Fred DeNegri of Ormond Beach, Florida, started gagging after he t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Camel Milk Chocolates? You Might Soon be Able to Score Some in Noe Valley

    A Noe Valley shop hopes to be among the first U.S. retailers to sell chocolate bars made with camel milk. Jack Epstein, owner of Chocolate Covered (4069 24th St. at Castro), told SFoodie he only recently found out about the camel milk chocolate bars, manufactured by Dubai-based chocolatier Al Nass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    USF Realizes Its Student Insurance Covered Abortions -- and Aborts It

    Abortion has commandeered headlines of late with the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade last week and Saturday's pro-life rally -- for which many protesters bused into this pro-choice lair from more conservative California zip codes. But there is one story of anti-abortion zeal here in our own bac ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2009

    Hot! Horny! Wasted! Teens!

    New research about young military recruits who smoke, drink, and screw too much.

  • News

    April 9, 2008

    Whistleblower

    By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

  • News

    January 2, 2008

    Coca-Cola for Culture Jammers

    By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2007

    America and Marijuana: “Medicinal” My Ass

    By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

  • News

    January 19, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, January 19, 2005

  • Film

    August 18, 2004

    I Hate It

    This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous, and graceless diatribe

  • News

    April 28, 2004

    Beaming in on The Cure

    A new type of radiation therapy, developed by a Bay Area company, shows astonishing promise in fighting cancer

  • News

    December 3, 2003

    Looking for Mr. Goodbucks

    In which we seek a nifty holiday gift for ourself: a rich gay boyfriend

  • News

    October 9, 2002

    Palookaville

    In S.F.'s political fight game, all the contestants are ignoring a national biotech debate that could put the local economy down for the count

  • News

    May 8, 2002

    Miracle at the KK Cafe

    Peanut milk can strengthen AIDS patients, heal gums, soothe chronic skin diseases, and prevent baldness, or so it is said. And it's found only one place on Earth.

  • News

    October 31, 2001

    Cell Therapy

    Bay Area researchers are using a particular cancer to produce neuronlike cells that, when injected into the brain, seem to reverse the effects of stroke. Is the treatment a historic medical breakthrough, or a reckless ploy to attract investors?

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    The Anthrax Detector No One Wants

    In Berkeley, researchers have found a way to identify deadly spores, which could lead to simple, smoke detector-like devices. So why isn't anyone interested?

  • Film

    August 19, 1998

    Blood Sucker

    In Berkeley, researchers have found a way to identify deadly spores, which could lead to simple, smoke detector-like devices. So why isn't anyone interested?

  • Calendar

    June 10, 1998

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    In Berkeley, researchers have found a way to identify deadly spores, which could lead to simple, smoke detector-like devices. So why isn't anyone interested?

  • Dining

    November 5, 1997

    Pacific Overtures

    In Berkeley, researchers have found a way to identify deadly spores, which could lead to simple, smoke detector-like devices. So why isn't anyone interested?

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    Giving Away the Hospital

    University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

  • Music

    August 27, 1997

    riff raff

    Take a Really Deep Breath

  • News

    March 19, 1997

    Men Behaving Viciously

    How ACT UP San Francisco spreads spit, fake blood, used cat litter, and potentially deadly misinformation through the AIDS community

  • News

    September 20, 1995

    Dog Bites

    How ACT UP San Francisco spreads spit, fake blood, used cat litter, and potentially deadly misinformation through the AIDS community

  • Calendar

    August 30, 1995

    Savage Love

    How ACT UP San Francisco spreads spit, fake blood, used cat litter, and potentially deadly misinformation through the AIDS community

  • News

    August 23, 1995

    Navel Maneuvers

    If Adam and Eve moved to Northern California, they'd probably note on the first day that the balmy weather, inspiring vistas, and mellow vibesreminded them of Eden. On the second day, they'd pick up a copy of "Common Ground" and enroll in a self-help cour

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