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Metabolic Disorders

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Takeda Pharmaceutical, Major Drug Company, Plans to Leave Bay Area

    Japan's largest drug manufacturer will be closing its research lab in South San Francisco come next January. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited will be consolidating its two California subsidiaries into one office based in San Diego. The South San Francisco-based lab opened in November 2007, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Edibles: Burned Out on Sweets? Cheesy Popcorn is a Savory Solution

    I'll admit, the whole drama that erupted between Anthony Bourdain and Paula Deen this year fascinated me. If you're not as gossip-driven as I am, here's a summary: Bourdain called out his fellow Food Network star Deen when she came out as a diabetic, despite pitching recipes like the one where she ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Restaurant Critic Gets Gout

    ​Seems about as obvious a chain of events as Paula Deen getting type 2 diabetes, doesn't it? Wait, didn't gout disappear in 1782? (The restaurant critic writing this post grows a little sweaty, flexes toes to make sure they're not producing burning, stinging pain.) Unfortunately not. Yesterday, f ... More >>

  • News

    January 25, 2012

    SF Weekly Letters

    ​Seems about as obvious a chain of events as Paula Deen getting type 2 diabetes, doesn't it? Wait, didn't gout disappear in 1782? (The restaurant critic writing this post grows a little sweaty, flexes toes to make sure they're not producing burning, stinging pain.) Unfortunately not. Yesterday, f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

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

    ​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 and vegetables. It's just one of a number of pilot progr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Hating on Diabetic Paula Deen Is Fun But Premature

    ​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. Yes, the Enquirer sniffed this out last year ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Could a Soda Tax Save Lives?

    ​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 sweetened fruit-juice drinks. Monning's office estimated that the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • 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 >>

  • 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

    December 27, 2007

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

    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

    December 17, 2007

    Napa Wine Tour Operator Unmaksed As Highway 101 Bandit

    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

    September 11, 1996

    Trickledown Health Care

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

  • News

    January 17, 1996

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

    What you should know about illin' in the city

  • Calendar

    April 5, 1995

    Savage Love

    What you should know about illin' in the city

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