SF News [Update] SF Woman Found In Back Of Bus Likely Died From Meningitis Following a report out of Marin County last week about a 48-year-old man who died from meningitis, there's another case report here in San Francisco. ABC 7 reports that 53-year-old Laura Robson was
SF News Two More Cases Of Enterovirus Confirmed In S.F. Two more cases of Enterovirus D-68, the respiratory illness currently making parents hyper-paranoid, have been confirmed in San Francisco, bringing the city's total to three, KRON 4 reported Friday. Details on the most
SF News Veterans' Hospital Lab Worker Dies Of Meningitis A 25-year-old researcher at S.F.'s VA hospital died Saturday morning very shortly after showing the first symptoms of a serious meningitis infection, which he likely contracted from working with the bacteria
SF News Did You Get VD Last Year? A Lot of People in S.F. Did So, San Francisco is a regular hotbed of STDs, according to the Bay Area Reporter and the public health department, with cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia soaring in particular in 2011. The only
SF News Two Cases Of Mad-Cow Disease, One Already Fatal, Reported In Marin [Updated] Yikes. So, a 59-year-old San Rafael woman died in recent weeks of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a.k.a. mad-cow disease, and a second woman in Marin County has been diagnosed with it. According
SF News Morgellons Disease A Crock Says CDC; Not So Says Bay Area Doctor The CDC just conducted their first official study into the validity of Morgellons disease a bizarre phenomenon in which patients, including Joni Mitchell, insist that they have small fibers or threads growing under
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animals Rights Group Wants To Give Foie Gras-Hungry Anthony Bourdain Liver Exam Looking to draw attention to (cruel yet succulent) foie gras production and consumption, which will (technically) be banned in California come 2012, animal rights group Animal Legal Defense Fund stirred up a bit
SF News Get Immunized for Whooping Cough The whooping cough, or pertussis epidemic is getting worse in California, and to help quell the spread of the disease locally, the City of SF Public Health Department is offering $25 vaccines at
