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Medical Marijuana Cancer Patient Booted from UCSF

​Angel Raich is busy dying. The famous marijuana activist -- who took the federal government to the Supreme Court of the United States for the right to use medical cannabis -- was, earlier this year diagnosed with an inoperable terminal brain tumor, a condition that causes frequent seizures as wel ... More >>

Ernesto Manuel Gonzalez Accused of Killing Hells Angels President

​UCSF police last night arrested an alleged motorcycle gang member on suspicion of shooting and killing the president of the San Jose Hells Angels while at a casino in Nevada last week. Ernesto Manuel Gonzalez, who is purportedly a member of the Vagos motorcycle gang, was taken into custody at abo ... More >>

UCSF Shuttle Crash: Vehicle Had No Seat Belts

UCSFDr. Kevin Mack​UPDATE: Lieutenant Troy Dangerfield tells SF Weekly that witnesses said the shuttle driver ran a red light. Yesterday, we delivered the sad news about Kevin Mack, a UCSF psychiatrist who was killed in a major car crash. Mack was on his way to work when a big rig collided with th ... More >>

It's Spring, and Farmers' Markets Are Busting Out All Over S.F.

View San Francisco Farmers Markets 2011 in a larger map We're blessed to live in a part of the world where we have access to fresh, ripe, unadulterated fruit, plucked at local farms and brought to our very fingertips at a bevy of farmers' markets across the city. In fact, the handful of farmers' ma ... More >>

Bouncer: How to Sneak into a Wine Bar

View San Francisco Farmers Markets 2011 in a larger map We're blessed to live in a part of the world where we have access to fresh, ripe, unadulterated fruit, plucked at local farms and brought to our very fingertips at a bevy of farmers' markets across the city. In fact, the handful of farmers' ma ... More >>

Naked Man Runs Through Mount Sutro

Gross​We've already determined that in San Francisco you won't get arrested for walking through city streets with your genitals flapping in the air.  But what happens when you cross onto private property sans pants?At about dinnertime, an unexpected guest arrived at a home on the 700 block of ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

Gross​We've already determined that in San Francisco you won't get arrested for walking through city streets with your genitals flapping in the air.  But what happens when you cross onto private property sans pants?At about dinnertime, an unexpected guest arrived at a home on the 700 block of ... 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 >>

Miracle Headache Cure Is ... Aspirin !

They still do...​U.C. San Francisco's Headache Center has just released a stupefying new study regarding what drug remedies major headaches most effectively. Would you believe -- aspirin ? As reported in the current issue of Neurology, the most effective remedy for headaches and migraines triggere ... More >>

Standing Up with the Aboriginal Blackmen United

The rabble-rousers of the ABU have helped to achieve local hiring goals.

The Many Faces of Dr. Syed

A phony dermatologist misdiagnosed patients and stuck them with needles. It took four years for the medical board to figure it out.

Seasonal Farmers' Markets Are Back. Check Out Our Handy Map and Guide

Say hello to your neighbors and to fresh farmers' fare: your favorite neighborhood farmers' markets are back in full swing. Last Wednesday marked the much-anticipated comeback of the Castro market, open Wednesdays from 4 to 8 p.m. through the end of October, rain or shine. Two more neighborhood mar ... More >>

Swine Flu Fears Inundate UCSF Cafeteria With Sugar-Laden Kids

Get Me Out Of This Cafeteria!​Hundreds of kids have found themselves stranded in the cafeteria and lobby areas of the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center since the teaching hospital in November instituted a policy barring children under 16 from visiting patients, the facility' ... More >>

Top Ten Most Read Snitch Posts of 2009

It's almost the end of the year, and we're extremely grateful to the readers who visited our site in 2009. Here are the Snitch posts that garnered the highest readership, and reflect what is truly important to you: sex, crime, and weed. And serial killers.10. Lawsuit Alleges ER Doctor Let Man D ... More >>

Have You Seen This Alleged Mission Bay Serial Wallet Thief?

Red shoes!​It seems this is the year for folks to plunder weekly newspapers. Over the summer, some unknown miscreant drove off with the San Francisco Bay Guardian's eye-catching van, eventually ditching the vehicle in Sea Cliff where it stuck out like ... vestiges of the Guardian in Sea Cliff. Now ... More >>

Rupa and the Multimedia Project

Red shoes!​It seems this is the year for folks to plunder weekly newspapers. Over the summer, some unknown miscreant drove off with the San Francisco Bay Guardian's eye-catching van, eventually ditching the vehicle in Sea Cliff where it stuck out like ... vestiges of the Guardian in Sea Cliff. Now ... More >>

Blame it on the Chromosomes: UCSF Researchers Link Perfect Pitch to Genetics

Another genetic mutation...Milli Vanilli finally has the excuse they've been waiting for: It's not that they can't sing -- they just don't have musical talent in their blood. In the latest edition of the American Journal of Human Genetics, U.C San Francisco researchers say they've discovered a regio ... More >>

S.F. Study: Immigration Judges More Burned Out Than Prison Wardens

What happens when judges' job burnout level gets too high? You don't want to know.According to a just-published survey of 96 U.S. immigration judges, the men and women deciding delicate asylum cases are stressed and burned-out to the point that the term "asylum" begins to have unpleasant connotation ... More >>

Republican Senator Wades Into UCSF Financial Morass; Echoes Complaints of Fired Dean Profiled By SF Weekly

Dr. David KesslerOur paper's regular readers may recall a gem penned in April of last year by Ron Russell, in which he profiled Dr. David Kessler, the former dean of U.C. San Francisco Medical School ousted after years of complaining about "alleged financial malfeasance at the institution he was hir ... More >>

Good News For Your Prostate: You Can Have Your Omega-3 Fatty Acid And Eat it Too

UCSF researchers have taken this off the prostate blacklistAnyone creating a videogame football roster from scratch knows how it goes: You make him strong, he's going to be slow; you give him speed he's going to be easily tackled; you give him arm strength, he's going to get busted mid-season for a ... More >>

Did You Know We're In the Midst of 'Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Week'? Is This a Rhetorical Question?

If you had your head in the sand regarding Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Week, you can be forgiven -- it's easy to get distracted what with this being the week alloted to infertility and crime victims and the month to be aware of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, autism, and Cesareans (the C-sectio ... More >>

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

If you had your head in the sand regarding Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Week, you can be forgiven -- it's easy to get distracted what with this being the week alloted to infertility and crime victims and the month to be aware of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, autism, and Cesareans (the C-sectio ... More >>

Serious as a Heart Attack: Young Blacks Develop Coronary Failure at 20 Times Whites' Rate

Trouble brewingA 20-year study conducted by U.C. San Francisco researchers demonstrated alarmingly disproportionate results between whites and blacks when it comes to developing heart failure by age 50. Of the 5,115 subjects in the study, 27 developed heart failure by the time they were in their mid ... More >>

Ernest Gallo Research Center Discovers Human Jug-Wine Gene

"Back off, I'm a scientist." Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center have discovered a region of the human genome that determines how the body reacts to jug wine, according to findings announced in the Dec. 8 online edition of the Proceedin ... More >>

Dubious UCSF Study Claims Cops Extort Sex

"Back off, I'm a scientist." Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center have discovered a region of the human genome that determines how the body reacts to jug wine, according to findings announced in the Dec. 8 online edition of the Proceedin ... More >>

Union, Heal Thyself

Will a lobbyist for a local healthcare union extend a bill proven bad for patients' health?

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?

Goodbye West San Francisco, Hello East Jerusalem

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

Convicted Embezzler Linda Simwa Cons SF Symphony, UCSF

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

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

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

Free Trade (in Doctors)

If physicians really cared about our health, they'd drop their iron wall against immigrant doctors

Grave Anatomy

If physicians really cared about our health, they'd drop their iron wall against immigrant doctors

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Cinematic Calisthenics

Twelve sports films in two days

Best Romantic Date for Outdoorsy Types

Full Moon Paddles

Life During Wartime

Watching the motorcycle cops drive by from the Last Supper Club and Fringale

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?

Too Young to Die

They are the "AIDS babies." Born before doctors learned how to prevent HIV transmission to newborns, hundreds of California kids are growing up under the burden of a deadly disease.

Angel of Theft

A high-flying New Age company is grounded amid allegations that its main financial backer embezzled $4.5 million from UCSF

Dog Bites

Legoland Solves All Your Problems

We're Honored

Legoland Solves All Your Problems

Lab Rats

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

Fighting AIDS on the Body's Own Ground

Researchers are stunned by a gland they thought dormant

Letters

Researchers are stunned by a gland they thought dormant

Dog Bites

Researchers are stunned by a gland they thought dormant

Practice What You Teach

UCSF students wish the medical school would tend to their health

Mulch

UCSF students wish the medical school would tend to their health

The Grid

UCSF students wish the medical school would tend to their health

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.