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  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Woman Sues Starbucks Over Prosthetic Leg Fiasco

    Lawsuit brewing​A Central Valley woman is suing Starbucks and not because the coffee was too hot. Rather, Janet Marx is claiming the Stockton coffee house barred her from using the restroom so she could repair her prosthetic leg unless she first bought something. According to the claim, which was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Five Things You Can Do If You Find a Lightly Used Prosthetic Limb

    This morning, we woke up to the bizarre story by Chron columnist C.W. Nevius -- and no, it wasn't about feces on the street. Instead, he tells us a lovely vignette about Al Fraser, a local fisherman who stumbled across an artificial leg in the bay. "I looked at it and it is almost new,'' Fraser tell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Hope You Enjoyed CMCR Report, Because That's All, Folks

    It's not news that marijuana may have healing qualities: after all, medicinal cannabis has been (sort of) the law of the land since 1996, when California voters passed Proposition 215 . Still, it was a very big deal when the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research released the results last Wednesday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    State Agency Grants Signal Shift Away from Embryonic Stem Cells

    In an April cover story, we looked at the dilemma facing the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state agency created through Proposition 71 to fund stem-cell research: Should the landmark agency direct the remainder of its $3 billion in research funds towards "adult" stem cel ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2009

    Inside BART's lost-and-found: Porn, prosthetics, and pot

    In an April cover story, we looked at the dilemma facing the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state agency created through Proposition 71 to fund stem-cell research: Should the landmark agency direct the remainder of its $3 billion in research funds towards "adult" stem cel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Chronic City: The Results Are In -- Medical Marijuana Works

    julianayrs.comYou can't argue with results.​"There's no proof that medical marijuana works. It needs more study. There's only anecdotal evidence. It doesn't treat specific conditions. People just want to get high." Every cannabis advocate and medical marijuana patient has run into these arguments, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Cell Divisions: A Rough Week for S.F.-Based Stem Cell Agency

    Tempest in a petri dishIt's been a tough week in the news for California's San Francisco-based stem-cell research agency.Last week, it was revealed that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) -- created to fund stem-cell research through Proposition 71, the 2004 state ballot initi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 1, 2009

    Art Operations

    Tempest in a petri dishIt's been a tough week in the news for California's San Francisco-based stem-cell research agency.Last week, it was revealed that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) -- created to fund stem-cell research through Proposition 71, the 2004 state ballot initi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Chief Scientific Officer Resigns from S.F.-Based State Stem Cell Agency

    Marie CseteThe chief scientific officer at California's stem-cell agency has announced that she will step down from her position in a little over a month.Marie Csete, who had been at the San Francisco-based California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for slightly more than a year, has so f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2009

    Go Content! Beat Ignorance!

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    State Stem Cell Agency Announces $275 Million from Bond Sales

    Help -- or at least cash -- is on the wayThe California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced yesterday that it has received $275 million in fresh funding from a recent sale of state bonds, saving the state stem-cell agency from a cash crunch that would have left it without money to f ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    Help -- or at least cash -- is on the wayThe California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced yesterday that it has received $275 million in fresh funding from a recent sale of state bonds, saving the state stem-cell agency from a cash crunch that would have left it without money to f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    April 15, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    After 146-Year Absence, 'Living Human Products' Back on U.S. Market

    Library of CongressFor sale once more?In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring illegal the sale, purchase, or ownership of living human products, known then as people.In 2009, Barack Obama signed an order lifting restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research,& ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 4, 2009

    Love Hurts

    Library of CongressFor sale once more?In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring illegal the sale, purchase, or ownership of living human products, known then as people.In 2009, Barack Obama signed an order lifting restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research,& ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 4, 2009

    Richie's Rich

    Library of CongressFor sale once more?In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring illegal the sale, purchase, or ownership of living human products, known then as people.In 2009, Barack Obama signed an order lifting restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research,& ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Money, Money, Money: S.F.'s Big Charitable Spenders

    In these dire financial times, fewer of us have the opportunity to donate to charity (at least, that's what we keep telling ourselves). But some really, really rich people are more than capable of forking over large quantities of the stuff, as evidenced by Slate's list of the largest charitable dona ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2009

    So Scary

    In these dire financial times, fewer of us have the opportunity to donate to charity (at least, that's what we keep telling ourselves). But some really, really rich people are more than capable of forking over large quantities of the stuff, as evidenced by Slate's list of the largest charitable dona ... More >>

  • Music

    June 4, 2008

    Clipped Tones and Casios

    In these dire financial times, fewer of us have the opportunity to donate to charity (at least, that's what we keep telling ourselves). But some really, really rich people are more than capable of forking over large quantities of the stuff, as evidenced by Slate's list of the largest charitable dona ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2007

    Is he diaphragm-worthy? It may not even matter.

    In these dire financial times, fewer of us have the opportunity to donate to charity (at least, that's what we keep telling ourselves). But some really, really rich people are more than capable of forking over large quantities of the stuff, as evidenced by Slate's list of the largest charitable dona ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 3, 2005

    "Blood Bucket Ballyhoo"

    Don't get any on ya: Three violent plays, in the Grand Guignol vein

  • News

    July 27, 2005

    Onward, Christian Lawyers

    Why lawsuits filed by anti-abortion activists may be a blessing in disguise for the California stem cell institute

  • News

    March 23, 2005

    Wrong Prescription

    The sweet deal a local medical firm got from the Justice Department shows how soft the Bush administration really is on corporate crime

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Custom Makeup

    Oui, Three Queens

  • 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

    January 9, 2002

    But Is It Science?

    The challenges of studying distant healing

  • 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

    June 30, 1999

    Science of the Lambs

    Buying Dolly the duplicated sheep has brought researchers at the Bay Area's Geron Corp. to the threshold of remarkable frontiers in transplants and cloning. Do we want to follow their lead?

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    The Merger's Tangled Web

    Buying Dolly the duplicated sheep has brought researchers at the Bay Area's Geron Corp. to the threshold of remarkable frontiers in transplants and cloning. Do we want to follow their lead?

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Beauty Knows No Pain

    Building a Better Body at the 28th Annual Session of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

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