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Medical Treatments and Procedures

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Five Things to Do in 2012 That Aren't
    Radical Weight-Loss Surgery

    An acquaintance traveled to Los Angeles recently and saw the ubiquitous 1-800-GET-THIN billboards. "It was like, 'Welcome to LA ... You're fat!'" said Jennifer Yendes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took note of the notorious billboards in early December. Regulators officially told marketing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Dining

    November 30, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    October 26, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana

    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 >>

  • News

    October 5, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

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

    ​The controversy over male circumcisions has officially been nipped in the bud. Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed off on a new law that puts the kibosh on local cities and counties looking to criminalize circumcision for males younger than 18.Lawmakers passed the bill last month, claiming a ci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    March 16, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2010

    Real Horrorshow!

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2010

    It's Free

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2008

    Former President of Botswana

    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 >>

  • Culture

    April 23, 2008

    Monkey Room

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008

    Get Your Teenage Soccer Slut HPV-Proofed

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 20, 2007

    The Future of Hyphy?

    The Federation and Turk Talk survive major-label incompetence

  • News

    May 2, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of 5-2-2007

  • News

    April 25, 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

  • News

    July 26, 2006

    Lust for Life

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

  • 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

    August 7, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of August 7, 2002

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    The Revolutionary Test for Lung Cancer

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

  • News

    May 1, 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

  • News

    March 27, 2002

    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?

  • 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?

  • Calendar

    October 24, 2001

    She Blinded Me With Science

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

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Place to Get Eyeballed

    Urban Eyes

  • News

    July 14, 1999

    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.

  • News

    February 17, 1999

    Surgery Sans Blood

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

  • Calendar

    March 18, 1998

    Beat the Press

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

  • Calendar

    April 23, 1997

    Slap Shots

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

  • News

    December 4, 1996

    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

  • News

    April 24, 1996

    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.

  • News

    April 17, 1996

    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.

  • News

    July 19, 1995

    Getting Hep

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

  • News

    May 3, 1995

    Letters

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

  • 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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