National Institutes of Health

S.F.s 10 Tiniest Conspiracies

Outbreak

AIDS dissidents Peter Duesberg and Bryan Ellison find new enemies: each other

The Straight Poop

Human excrement in the parks -- dangerous or just dirty?

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.

Whistleblower

By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

Cruise Control

Public health advocates want gay hookup Web sites to promote safe sex.

Psycho Dogs

What makes canines go crazy? The answer is in their genes.

Super-Hyped Infection

Sensational headlines coupled with fearmongering public health reports have HIV-positive men in San Francisco running scared. It doesn't have to be that way.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Onward, Christian Lawyers

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

A Question of Risk

Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

The New Defenders

An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?

The Revolutionary Test for Lung Cancer

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

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?

A Test of Faith

A controversial San Francisco study is spending taxpayers' money to see if Christian clergy, Indian medicine men, and Tibetan lamas can heal patients with AIDS and brain tumors

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?

Reel World

Capitalizing on last year's success at Sundance, two S.F. filmmakers take on a new project with Doonesburycreator Garry Trudeau.

Transcendental Incarceration

The first San Bruno Jail inmates to take part in an experimental meditation program say it has helped to free their minds, if nothing else

Letters to the Editor

Letters from January 24, 2001

Hard Labor

County Jail No. 3 is a hellhole. Can an ancient, intense form of meditation improve life for the inmates?

The Cheetah Club

How a rare group of spotted patients and a small cadre of persistent doctors could help change the face of cancer research

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.

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?

Lab Rats

UCSF's Stanley Prusiner is a Nobel laureate and superstar of medical research. But employees don't feel safe working for him.

Gonna Fly Now

Trading with the enemy helps a Berkeley geneticist divine the secrets of the fruit fly

Fighting AIDS on the Body's Own Ground

Researchers are stunned by a gland they thought dormant

Viral Combat

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

Net Loss

How LatinoNet -- the poster child for Washington's attempt to empower the poor with technology -- wasted money and networked almost no one

Men Behaving Viciously

How ACT UP San Francisco spreads spit, fake blood, used cat litter, and potentially deadly misinformation through the AIDS community

Unspun

How ACT UP San Francisco spreads spit, fake blood, used cat litter, and potentially deadly misinformation through the AIDS community

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide

U.C. San Francisco Rolling in Metric Shitload of Federal Funds

​Money may not buy you love -- but it sure as hell can fund research into preventing and curing diseases associated with love. And that works fine for U.C. San Francisco, which came near the top of the class on recently released figures by the National Institutes of Health ranking which medical in ... More >>

Bryan Stow, Beaten Giants Fan, to Arrive at S.F. General Hospital Today

Dr. Geoff Manley, the neurosurgeon taking over the care of Bryan Stow today.​Bryan Stow, the Giants fan suffering brain damage after being beaten by Dodgers fans, will be delivered to a hospital on the Giants' home turf today. Stow is set to arrive at San Francisco General Hospital by 5 p.m., a ho ... More >>

Study: Bars, Liquor Stores and Restaurants More Dangerous than Marijuana Dispensaries

Thems the facts​Quick! Pick your crime magnet: The stretch of central Market Street in front of Zuni, or the alleyway near cannabis dispensary Shambhala Healing Center in the Mission District?Neither blocks are exactly San Francisco's cleanest, but let's face it, SFPD's finest have more work to do ... More >>