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Why On Earth Would Anyone Do This?

Warning. Tomorrow is, ugh, National Run at Work Day. Which is also known as National Come to Work And Stink Up The Place With Your Rank Body Odor And Sweaty Ass Crack You

Get Poked for Free On Tuesdays

What with all this ballyhooing over health care, would you like to test drive some alternative medicinal practices? Take, for example, the prickly art of acupuncture, the popular practice of inserting tiny needles

Steve Jobs, the Rachel Zoe of Silicon Valley?

Though not nearly as important as Rachel Zoe (obvi), Apple CEO Steve Jobs is facing some of the same criticism as Hollywood's most stylish heroine, namely his pin-thin stature. "I probably need to

Newsom Announces Free H1N1 (Swine) Flu Shots

In our continuing will-we-live-or-will-we-die H1N1 (swine) flu coverage, we just got word that Mayor Gavin Newsom is handing out free H1N1 shots. According to the Mayor's Office, "San Francisco will be organizing free

Marijuana, Nature's Chemotherapy?

Noted no-nonsense humor haters Stuff Stones Like came across some revealing pot news. It seems a recent scientific survey suggests that kind bud protects against cancer. Pretty cool, huh? And with that in

Abstinence-Only Group Battles Department of Education Over Sonoma County Schools

CBS5 reports that despite the California Department of Education's strict laws that sex education programs be medically accurate and objective, abstinence-only group Free to Be has been teaching their scientifically-inaccurate curriculum in Sonoma

Five Bay Area Pregnant Women Contract Swine Flu

CBS5 reports that at least five Bay Area pregnant women in their early third trimesters have been admitted to intensive care units due to complications with the H1N1 swine flu. Two of the

Pot Smoke Causes Cancer / Marijuana Poll

Bad news, folks. The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment ruled yesterday that marijuana smoke causes cancer. Stemming from a "review of more than 30 scientific papers" state agency spokesperson Sam Delson said

Steve Jobs Had Liver Replaced

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple CEO / His Holiness Steve Jobs just underwent a successful liver transplant. While initially reported back in 2004 that Jobs took leave of Apple due to

Bring on the Swine Flu Miracle Cure Spam

There has just been a confirmed case of swine flu in San Francisco -- yikes! Our Gmail account efficiently filters out all undesirable emails, but we hear there's been an onslaught of swine

WHO Raises Influenza Pandemic Threat Level To 5

With 148 cases of swine flu in nine countries (Mexico has 26, including seven deaths; the U.S. has 91, with one death—14 in California), the World Health Organization raised the influenza

Schwarzenegger Declares Swine Flu Emergency in California‎

What with the swine flu breaking out in Sacramento, Marin County, and "the possibility that a California man may have died from the disease" (which, actually, wasn't the case) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Ahnuld Says California Is Ready For Swine Flu

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a press conference to reassure California residents that the state is ready to deal with the swine flu, "I can assure you that at this time there is no

Egg Roll Recall

Due to some sort of pepper recall, Chinese food appetizer the egg roll is now also being tainted pepper connected to a salmonella outbreak. According to reports, "California's Department of Public Health is

San Francisco Takes Gold in Low Ozone Competition

According to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine, you're most likely to die of a respiratory illness in Riverside, California, and least likely in our very own SF. San

SEC to Steve Jobs: How You Feeling?

Not since Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears has the media been so interested in one person's health condition. That person, of course, is Silicon Valley's Steve Jobs. And now the SEC wants to

Edward Kennedy Has Seizure During Inaugural Luncheon

Senator Edward Kennedy had a seizure during today's Inaugural luncheon at the National Statuary Hall. (Leave it do a Kennedy to steal Obama's thunder! ) According to reports, Kennedy's seizure lasted several minutes and

San Jose City College Starts Campus-Wide Smoking Ban

Initiating one of the toughest city college smoking bans, San Jose City College has kicked off an extreme no-smoking ban. In addition to the typical smoke-free rules inside of all buildings, the ban

Steve Jobs to Take Leave of Absence from Apple

According to CNBC and MacRumors, Apple says CEO Steve Jobs is taking "a leave of absence," citing health reasons. Story developing. More info as it comes to us. Apple CEO Steve Jobs sent

Judge Dismisses Walgreens Whine Over Cigarette Sales Ban

Our favorite 'no' judge in San Francisco, Peter Busch, brought the hammer down on beloved Walgreens today. See, after SF banned the sale of cigarettes at all Walgreens, the company, in turn, brought

Tuberculosis Scare Hits Kaiser Permanente In SF

Hey, did you give birth at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco between March 10 to Aug. 10? Well, you might want to get tested for TB. See, Kaiser is in the process of

SF Wants to Legislate Your Health, Fatties

Gone are the days of free love, free LSD, and freedom to eat whatever you want. After last week's historic decision to make San Francisco the first in the country to ban the

Cough, Cough, Says Daly: New Cigarette Ban Introduced

The entertaining/controversial Chris Daly, who seems a bit quiet as of late, has a new target now: wafts of cigarette smoke. We're told that his latest push of legislation "calls for a

Black Plague In SF?

You'd think the 1,000-plus wildfires blazing across Northern California would be our biggest concern. Not so. It seems that the Black Death is yet another thing we should fear, at least according

Update On Heart Attack Victim at Yesterday's Gay Marriage Melee

We briefly touched on this yesterday, that someone at City Hall had a heart attack during the celebration cum protest. According to SF Weekly, local AIDS activist Michael Petrelis saw what went down.