Business & Tech SF-Based Telehealth Startup Hims & Hers Gets Negative Attention From Congress After Super Bowl Ad You may have seen a prominent ad that aired during the Super Bowl Sunday for the weight-loss meds known as semaglutides that can be ordered inexpensively as non-FDA-approved compounds through SF-based Hims & Hers. Well, a pair of US senators are now crying foul.
Arts & Entertainment 'Saw' Ad Campaign Brings Awareness To Discriminatory FDA Blood Donation Regulations In a new ad campaign to promote Jigsaw, the Saw sequel nobody saw (sorry not sorry) coming, Lionsgate threw its money and weight into highlighting a longstanding issue with healthcare. In addition to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent Issues Recall Over Possible Milk In Supposedly Milk-Free Product Meal replacement sludge company Soylent prides itself on the artificiality of its ingredients — no milk products or perishable components to worry about while you free yourself from the tyranny of actual food. That's
SF News Genetic Testing Co. 23andMe Gets Long-Sought FDA Clearance To Assess Disease Risk In 2013, 23andMe founder Ann Wojcicki received a warning letter from the FDA asking her popular company to halt services that told customers they were at genetic risk of disease. "You are marketing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Tofu Factory Deemed Totally Disgusting Until the FDA decides that Fong Kee Tofu Co. Inc. has firmed up its operations to sell clean and sanitary food, the company's owners have agreed to cease production at their San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Artisan Cheese Makers Freaking Out About New FDA Rules [Updated] Cheesehounds will recall the debacle of 2005 when the FDA ruled that Americans could no longer consume raw-milk cheeses aged for less than 60 days, causing chaos in the French cheese industry where
SF News Woman Sues FDA For Her Right To Free Sperm A local Jane Doe is suing the Food and Drug Administration over regulations she claims are unnecessary and unconstitutional in the way they seek to regulate her chosen method of getting pregnant. Specifically,
SF News O Noes! Vicodin and Percocet to Be Banned? Jesus Christ. As if this week could get any worse: A federal advisory panel has recommended that the FDA issue a ban on Vicodin and Percocet due to their damaging effects on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tomato Scare Prompts McDonald's to Get Even Less Healthful Ever since a few cry babies got the sniffles over a few bad tomatoes last week -- fine, it was salmonella food poisoning, but tomatoes are the most awesome thing to eat in
