SF News Cancer Death of Retired SF Firefighter Reignites Calls to Reform Blue Shield Coverage The death of San Francisco firefighter Ken Jones has renewed calls to reform Blue Shield, the city's designated insurance provider. The late firefighter’s battle to treat his stage 4 lung cancer first gained attention in January, with advocates now blaming delays in care for his premature passing.
SF News Report: More Than 150,000 US COVID Deaths Were Unreported In 2020 and 2021 A new study found that about 16% of people who died from COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic weren’t counted in the official US tally, totalling about 155,000. This is on top of the 840,000 officially reported deaths, as many of these died outside of hospitals.
SF News Googled Medical Complaints Bring New Meaning To 'Bay Area Flake' Stereotype What's the first thing you do when your body starts acting weird? Duh. You Google your symptoms. WebMD that shit! Sunbelt Staffing (yes, Sunbelt Staffing) took a gander at Google Trends
SF News UCSF Study Reveals Sugar Industry Plot To Blame Fat For Heart Problems In the early 1950s, warning signs appeared that linked sugar consumption to coronary heart disease. But by the mid-1960s, the New England Journal of Medicine had published studies — secretly sponsored by industry
SF News So Far Fitbits Seem To Be Out-Selling Apple Watches In its first full month on the market, according to one data source, the Apple Watch failed to outsell the already popular health monitoring device the Fitbit. The SF Business Times reports the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giant Wall Coming To The Beach To Provide Shade, Wi-Fi A giant wall will soon be at the beach to provide you shelter from the Sun's rays and a Wi-Fi signal to upload that beach bod selfie to Instagram. The
Arts & Entertainment Do This Saturday: Yoga in the Park Finale with Om Records Feeling frazzled by back-to-school season or stressed by summer's end? Lucky for you, it's the season finale of Yoga in the Park, which means a giant outdoor
Arts & Entertainment Audience Member At 'No Man's Land' Passes Out, Refuses To Go To Hospital Until He Sees The End An 80-year-old man who attended opening night of No Man's Land at Berkeley Rep on Sunday reportedly passed out with about 30 minutes left in the second act of
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Has The Skinniest Men In The Nation In the land of skinny jeans, the thin man is king. A new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington found that in 2011 (the year
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady Feels City Support, Vows to Hang On On Wednesday we reported that beloved S.F. fixture The Tamale Lady was no longer welcome to sell her tamales at Zeitgeist, sparking a furor among her fans and supporters. Two days later,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Thrillist Boys At Blackbird Thirllist gets gay tonight for a good cause when editors Grant Marek and Joe Starkey guest mix at Blackbird for healthy prostates. And to get you drunk, naturally. But mainly for prostates. Your
Arts & Entertainment The Best Non-Gym Workouts In San Francisco Here in San Francisco, our workout options are somewhat limited due to the fact that it's a hell of a hilly town and it's freezing (for Californians, anyway). But
SF News Yosemite Officials Warn 1700 Recent Visitors May Be at Risk for Rare Rodent-Borne Disease Officials from Yosemite National Park are reaching out to an estimated 1,700 past visitors for fear they have been exposed to a rare rodent-borne disease. In the wake of the recent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tu Lan To Close For Good? The city's tastiest, yet filthiest, place to grab cheap Vietnamese (as well as the greatest imperial rolls) could close for good. Today, the city revoked their permit after temporarily shutting it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tips For Throwing A Way Better Barbecue Is your barbecue grill making you ill? Could be. Who knows. This handy chart by the FDA, CDC, Mayo Clinic, and International Food Council will tell you at what temperatures one should prepare
SF News New Study Blames Spread of HIV/AIDS On Women, Sort Of Although the early stages of the AIDS epidemic saw more men infected with HIV than women, a new study from UC San Francisco suggests that certain factors unique to women could be contributing
SF News Bone Marrow Drive For 14-Year-Old Oakland Teen This Thursday Cynthia Rodriguez (AKA "C-Rod") is, according to the Oakland Tribune, athletic and enjoys playing softball, soccer and basketball. She's also only 14-years-old. And her life could
SF News Stomach Flu Outbreak Prompts S.F. Private School Closure Noted private school St. Ignatius College Preparatory canceled classes for the day after an outbreak of the stomach flu struck an estimated 50 students. Ugh. According to SF Examiner, "the campus will
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 Steve Jobs Regretted Trying Alternative Medicine Before he died, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted to world to know that he deeply regretted "wasting time" on alternative medicine while trying to combat his pancreatic cancer. During a
SF News Baby Boy Born on SFO-Bound Flight from Philippines Philippines Airlines passenger Aida Alamillo delivered a healthy baby boy mid-flight yesterday while en route to San Francisco with the help of three onboard nurses and several flight crew members. The baby
SF News Walgreens Sued For Firing Diabetic South S.F. Cashier As the Chronicle reported on Friday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal suit against Walgreens on Thursday for firing a diabetic South San Francisco cashier, Josefina Hernandez. Hernandez had
SF News Phil Bronstein: Penis Fan A bit saddened and surprised that Phil Bronstein failed to contact us immediately to get few choice quotes and some penetrative views on the human penis, we can forgive the Chronicle's
SF News Saturday: National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Looking to swipe your stash, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is this Saturday. In an effort to "prevent pill abuse and theft,"
SF News UC Berkeley Doctor Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Students Dr. Robert Martin Kevess, 53, has been charged with sexually assaulting six male students. He had been working at the University of California at Berkeley's Tang Center for almost 22 years
