Medical Treatments and Procedures

Get Your Teenage Soccer Slut HPV-Proofed

Getting Hep

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

San Francisco Department of Public Health Contained Measles Outbreak, Possibly Saving Lives

Without a measles vaccine, your children's lives may be in danger.Just weeks ago, a San Francisco man who had traveled abroad brought back a deadly souvenier. He had spent some time in Europe with a friend who had been diagnosed with measles, and several days aft ... More >>

Phallus in Blunderland

The insatiable desire for bigger and better lured thousands of men into the operating room for penile augmentation surgery. Now, one of the nation's top docs is trying to clean up the mess.

The Living Daylights

Some people with HIV don't get sick for years and years and years. Their lives might contain the clues for the cure.

Former President of Botswana

Some people with HIV don't get sick for years and years and years. Their lives might contain the clues for the cure.

Monkey Room

Some people with HIV don't get sick for years and years and years. Their lives might contain the clues for the cure.

The Future of Hyphy?

The Federation and Turk Talk survive major-label incompetence

Letters to the Editor

Week of 5-2-2007

No Hail Caesarean

Expectant mothers are losing an option to birth babies naturally and activists are charging it is more about money than safety

Lust for Life

Testing of a promising HIV vaccine requires volunteers who will couple for the cause

Beaming in on The Cure

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 7, 2002

The Revolutionary Test for Lung Cancer

... the medical establishment doesn’t want you to have. Yet.

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

Staying Alive

An AIDS vaccine should be our government's highest priority. So why is one researcher forced to seek funding from the War on Terrorism?

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?

She Blinded Me With Science

A photographer turns common objects -- shark teeth, human organs, onions -- into art using high technology

Best Place to Get Eyeballed

Urban Eyes

Sticking Point

An AIDS vaccine designed by renowned researcher Don Francis is in final testing. The Plague could be over - but the gay and scientific establishments are utterly unenthused.

Surgery Sans Blood

Jehovah's Witnesses refused transfusions -- and led the way to bloodless surgery

Beat the Press

Jehovah's Witnesses refused transfusions -- and led the way to bloodless surgery

Slap Shots

Jehovah's Witnesses refused transfusions -- and led the way to bloodless surgery

Chick's in the Male

Under a proposal receiving serious consideration by the city, health insurers may be required to cover the cost of municipal workers' sex changes

Letters

Under a proposal receiving serious consideration by the city, health insurers may be required to cover the cost of municipal workers' sex changes

Beauty Knows No Pain

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

It's Free

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

Clubs preview: Stateside Dubstep Sessions

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

Whooping Cough Epidemic Prompts Possible Crackdown on Unvaccinated Kids

​So far this year, whooping cough has killed five babies in California. Although none of those were San Francisco children, cases of whooping cough in this city have increased sixfold -- and now the San Francisco Department of Public Health is considering a crackdown on children who are not vaccin ... More >>

Real Horrorshow!

​So far this year, whooping cough has killed five babies in California. Although none of those were San Francisco children, cases of whooping cough in this city have increased sixfold -- and now the San Francisco Department of Public Health is considering a crackdown on children who are not vaccin ... More >>

Carly Fiorina Hospitalized

No campaign pit stop...​In a role reversal from having angry nurses follow her around the state, Carly Fiorina has opted to visit them instead. The Republican Senate candidate's campaign confirmed that the breast cancer survivor was undergoing treatment due to an infection related to reconstructiv ... More >>

San Francisco Circumcision Ban Unconstitutional, Professor Says

Perform a brit milah, go to jail? ​San Francisco can have its proposed circumcision ban, or it can have the First Amendment. But it can't have both. That's the opinion of Peter Keane, dean emeritus at Golden Gate University School of Law and a constitutional law professor. The potential ballot mea ... More >>

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 >>

S.F. Circumcision Ban Is a Bad Idea But It Could Still Become Law

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 >>

Circumcision Ban Isn't "Only in San Francisco" After All

S.F. isn't the only city that wants to cut circumcision from its laws​Apparently, you can find a little touch of San Francisco's bizarre in nearly every corner of the country. The city isn't the only one looking to criminalize male circumcision. This national effort to ban the "mutilation" of fore ... More >>

Foreskin Man Comic Illustrates Controversy Over S.F. Circumcision Ban

Foreskin Man doesn't really sound like a name for a superhero ... ​Just when you thought the debate over San Francisco's circumcision ban couldn't get any kookier. The group behind the San Francisco ballot measure has released a comic called Foreskin Man.It depicts the story of a lovely Jewish cou ... More >>

Circumcision Ban Didn't Make the Cut in Santa Monica

Only in San Francisco​So it is only in San Francisco that a ban on circumcising would make it to the ballot. Efforts to replicate the city's outlandish proposal in Santa Monica are no more. Jena Troutman, a self-described child advocate, has been leading the charge to gather signatures to place a ... More >>

Circumcision Ban Is Unconstitutional and Anti-Semitic, City Attorney Says

Now things are really becoming uncomfortable ​City Attorney Dennis Herrera has weighed in on San Francisco's proposed circumcision ban issue, saying that, among other things, it's patently unconstitutional and should be removed from the November ballot. In a brief  filed Thursday afternoon, H ... More >>

Circumcision Ban Compromise: Snip Only Some of the Foreskin!

A third way?​The topic of babies' foreskins has been oddly prominent in our city's political and legal discourse as of late. With a ballot initiative that would ban circumcision going before San Francisco voters this fall, various legal authorities, religious groups, and comic-book illustrators ha ... More >>

ACLU Joins the Fight Against the Circumcision Ban

Cock fight ​As expected, we can now add the ACLU to the list of people officially against the proposed circumcision ban in San Francisco. Today, the organization's Northern California branch joined the Jewish Community Relations Council by filing an amicus curiae brief that urges the California S ... More >>

Assemblywoman Fiona Ma: Nobody Would Enforce a Circumcision Ban

Penis patrol​The state is (finally) intervening in the debate on whether San Francisco can criminalize circumcisions on males younger than 18. Assemblywoman Fiona Ma is headed to the city's Sunset District today to announce a new bill that will specifically stop California cities from trying to be ... More >>

Circumcision Ban Tentatively Snipped from S.F. Ballot

Snipped from the ballot?​The growing effort to remove San Francisco's circumcision ban from the November ballot San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta M. Giorgi issued a tentative ruling this afternoon, saying that because the measure attempts to regulate a medical procedure, the purpose of th ... More >>

Circumcision Ban Cut from the Ballot

"Intactivist" David Pinckney​The city's controversial circumcision ban was officially snipped from the November ballot after Judge Loretta Giorgi ruled this morning that the measure would violate state law that prevents cities and counties from regulating medical services -- when they are a matte ... More >>

A Jewish Perspective on Circumcision: SF Weekly Talks to Cut Director Eli Ungar-Sargon

Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon​Eli Ungar-Sargon was raised in an Orthodox household, with rabbis in the family and a Talmudic scholar father. But Ungar-Sargon, who dropped out of medical school to pursue a film career, struggled to reconcile Jewish traditions and ethical questions, especially regarding ritu ... More >>

Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill That Heads Off Local Ban on Circumcisions

Intactivists hopes are snipped -- for good ​The controversy over male circumcisions have officially been nipped in the bud. Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed off on a new law that puts the kibosh local cities and counties to criminalize circumcision for males younger than 18.Lawmakers passed t ... More >>

Miracle Faker: Rick Perry's Texas Teaches America the Wrong Lessons

Intactivists hopes are snipped -- for good ​The controversy over male circumcisions have officially been nipped in the bud. Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed off on a new law that puts the kibosh local cities and counties to criminalize circumcision for males younger than 18.Lawmakers passed t ... More >>

Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana

Intactivists hopes are snipped -- for good ​The controversy over male circumcisions have officially been nipped in the bud. Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed off on a new law that puts the kibosh local cities and counties to criminalize circumcision for males younger than 18.Lawmakers passed t ... More >>

Polata Organic in Albany Is Hearty, Simple, Healthy Vegetarian Food

There's a new, extremely healthy, veg restaurant in the East Bay with roots going back over 15 years to the old Organic Cafe in Oakland. A Macrobiotic institution in Oakland, the Organic Cafe changed names to Manzanita and then to Shangri-La Vegan, but the food mostly stayed the same, thanks in larg ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Polata Organic: Chef Tenzin's Fare Passes the Vegan Taste Test

There's a new, extremely healthy, veg restaurant in the East Bay with roots going back over 15 years to the old Organic Cafe in Oakland. A Macrobiotic institution in Oakland, the Organic Cafe changed names to Manzanita and then to Shangri-La Vegan, but the food mostly stayed the same, thanks in larg ... More >>

UCSF Medical Center, SF General Fined for Surgical Screw-Ups

​UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital have both been fined tens of thousands of dollars for operating-room mishaps, the California Department of Public Health announced today.The two are among 14 major hospitals against which state health officials issued sanctions, including top ... More >>