Internal Medicine

Party Foul: Five Million Party Pizzas Recalled Over E. Coli

Memorial Tonight at 6 p.m. for Jim Rivaldo

Party Foul: Five Million Party Pizzas Recalled Over E. Coli

Napa Wine Tour Operator Unmaksed As Highway 101 Bandit

What? The city's health care plan is illegal? How does that work?

Savage Love

Hep Help

Getting Hep

Hepatitis B is the Rodney Dangerfield of diseases: It just can't get respect. But it sure can kill you.

Hepatitis A-B-Cs: (source: American Liver Foundation)

Hepatitis B is the Rodney Dangerfield of diseases: It just can't get respect. But it sure can kill you.

Letters

Hepatitis B is the Rodney Dangerfield of diseases: It just can't get respect. But it sure can kill you.

To Live and Die (and Get Sick) in S.F.

What you should know about illin' in the city

Stem-cell stalemate: The push for cures may produce only disappointment - or worse

What you should know about illin' in the city

Golden Ticket

What you should know about illin' in the city

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 8, 2002

Dying to Know

As a young doctor's tragic fate makes clear, a lack of information about hepatitis B has put many Asian-American lives at risk

Savage Love

As a young doctor's tragic fate makes clear, a lack of information about hepatitis B has put many Asian-American lives at risk

Letters

As a young doctor's tragic fate makes clear, a lack of information about hepatitis B has put many Asian-American lives at risk

Letters

As a young doctor's tragic fate makes clear, a lack of information about hepatitis B has put many Asian-American lives at risk

Viral Combat

Chiron Corp. and the nasty fight over the billion-dollar rights to the hepatitis C test

Slap Shots

Chiron Corp. and the nasty fight over the billion-dollar rights to the hepatitis C test

Magical Mystery Tour

Chiron Corp. and the nasty fight over the billion-dollar rights to the hepatitis C test

Researchers Report Promising Results in Diabetes Stem-cell Treatment -- But Don't Say 'Breakthrough' Yet

Keep those fingers crossedThe front line of advanced biomedical research doesn't stand still. Whether it's promising advances or devastating setbacks, this field of human knowledge is so young -- and so populated by bright and ambitious scientists and entrepreneurs -- that it seems news is always b ... More >>

Trickledown Health Care

Hospitals and nursing homes call it "subacute care," but for some patients, it's just a death sentence

State Stem Cell Agency Chairman to Step Down

Robert Klein, the Palo Alto real-estate magnate who led the successful 2004 ballot-initiative campaign to create a $3 billion state stem-cell funding agency and then steered the agency through its first years as chairman, has announced that he will step down from his leadership post at the end of 20 ... More >>

Do You Have First Amendment Rights in San Francisco Parks or Not?

Now valid in National Parks! Right?​Jurisdictional lines are funny things. Here in San Francisco you can hoist your banners and beat your drum to express the message of your choosing per your First Amendment Rights -- until you tread onto Ocean Beach, the Presidio, or other federal land. The Natio ... More >>

See Jane Kim Run -- to the Right

Now valid in National Parks! Right?​Jurisdictional lines are funny things. Here in San Francisco you can hoist your banners and beat your drum to express the message of your choosing per your First Amendment Rights -- until you tread onto Ocean Beach, the Presidio, or other federal land. The Natio ... More >>

Mayor Lee Declares Soda Free Summer Because He Hates Summer

Nancy Pelosi/FlickrMayor Lee: ruiner of summer.​We love Mayor Ed Lee. The push-broom mustache, the quiet authority, the no-drama way he's run City Hall -- we'd give it five stars on Yelp. So it pains us to say this, but: Mayor Ed Lee is trying to destroy summertime. "San Francisco is fortunat ... More >>

The FDA Wants Your Gluten-Free Cookies to Actually Be Gluten-Free

Mariposa Baking's cinnamon rolls: actually gluten-free, actually good.​There are three kinds of people who buy gluten-free products: a) People whose doctor has told them celiac disease is what's making them miserable; b) people whose naturopath has told them they're probably gluten-intolerant; c) ... More >>

Five Great Jimi Hendrix Samples in Hip-Hop Songs

​ Today is officially Jimi Hendrix-Winterland Day in San Francisco, which is a fine excuse to soundtrack the rest of your afternoon with a dose of Hendrix's classic guitar grooves. But beyond the deceased guitarist's own oeuvre, his music has received a second life as the sample source for a f ... More >>

Free Gluten-Free Cookbook for Three Lucky Readers!

​Karen Morgan, author of "Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free: 75 Recipes for Irresistible Gluten-Free Desserts and Pastries," is in town Friday for a book-signing event. SFoodie asked her to sign three of those books for our readers and mail them to you for free. We ask a lot, but only on your beha ... More >>

Introducing the Bay Area Gluten Free Buying Club, a CSA for Celiacs!

Jonathan KauffmanLa Boulange's walnut peasant bread. Not gluten free but maybe one day!?​Sheryl Davies is a self-described foodie. She also has Celiac disease, a condition that prevents the small intestine from fully absorbing food. The damage is due to a reaction to eating gluten, and that me ... More >>

Thomas Keller's Cup4Cup Gluten-free Flour Put to the Test

​ Thomas Keller has jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon. Everything that Chef Keller touches turns to gold, so it is no surprise that his new flour has created quite the buzz among the gluten-free community. And the TV food world, too: Here he is cooking on Martha Stewart's show this morning: ... More >>

A Gluten-Free Cook Book for Foodies At Last

Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free by Karen Morgan (Chronicle Books $24.95)​ We usually don't review cookbooks by non-local authors here at SFoodie, but sometimes we'll make an exception in the case of something exciting or different that catches our eye. There's no way around the fact that glut ... More >>

Breaking: McDonald's Claims to Be the New Slow Food

celesteh​Slow food lovers, watch your back. McDonald's, the clown-headed conglomerate that's responsible for tricking the world's children into adult-onset Diabetes, has released a new video touting it's farm-to-table ethics. It is so awesome! Seriously, watch this insane video and then le ... More >>

Could a Soda Tax Save Lives?

At 12 cents a can, revenue from a soda tax would add up quickly. ​In April last year, the California state Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation shot down AB 669, Assemblymember Bill Monning's attempt to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on all sweetened beverages, such as sodas, energy drinks, and ... More >>

Hating on Diabetic Paula Deen Is Fun But Premature

Today ShowDon't you just want to hug/shake her?​Yesterday, after Paula Deen finally sat down with Al Roker on the Today Show and admitted that she'd been diagnosed with diabetes type three years ago, the food world has been engaged in the loudest round of "I told you so" SFoodie has ever heard.&n ... More >>

New Obesity Prevention Tactic: Take Two Chard Leaves and Call Me in the Morning

XuRa / ShutterstockNo, it doesn't come in a pill form.​According to an article this morning in the Bay Citizen, a group of pediatricians at Oakland's Highland Hospital have begun testing out a new tactic for reducing the risk of obesity and diabetes in children: writing prescriptions for fruits an ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

XuRa / ShutterstockNo, it doesn't come in a pill form.​According to an article this morning in the Bay Citizen, a group of pediatricians at Oakland's Highland Hospital have begun testing out a new tactic for reducing the risk of obesity and diabetes in children: writing prescriptions for fruits an ... More >>