SF News Bay Area Teen with Only Two Weeks To Live Will 'Go Down Swinging' "I'm gonna go down swinging," 17-year-old Alex Matlosz-Cox says. Two years ago, reports KRON4, the San Jose teen was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressively-malignant form of bone cancer. Since then, he's had 16
SF News Swine Flu Death Toll On The Rise Do you remember swine flu? Swine flu remembers you. And now that we're in the depths of the bowels of the pits of flu season (bizarre weather be damned), the dreaded H1N1 virus
SF News Have You Gotten Your Flu Shot? Relatively young, healthy people have been dying from the H1N1 flu strain going around this year not in large in numbers, but still. There have so far been nine Bay Area flu deaths
Arts & Entertainment Leukemia-stricken SF Child Needs Your Airline Miles, You Guys! Kiona from San Francisco is a bright little nine-year old who is battling leukemia. She really wants to travel to Hawaii with her family to swim with dolphins. Who wouldn't? But Kiona deserves
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 K-T Morning Commuters Get Stuck on Barfy Train A morning Muni nightmare occurred Thursday when a passenger lost his breakfast (or Wednesday night's dinner, we don't know what kind of morning meal habits you people have) on an outbound K-T train.
SF News Field Trip Sickness Diarrhea, vomiting — just your typical school field trip, right? CBS is reporting a sickening wave of flu-like illness amongst 50 Bay Area students and adults on a five-day educational trip at Walker Creek
SF News 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
SF News Napa Police Dispatcher Faked Her Cancer, Got Donations From Friends A crazy story just surfaced from the Napa Valley Register about Dannille Vanderpool, a police dispatcher who claimed to have both ovarian and brain cancer and subsequently scammed her way into free childcare,
SF News Newsom Urges Calm as Swine Flu Approaches While the Feds want you to nix your travel plans to Mexico and Governor Schwarzenegger says California is (allegedly) prepared for Influenza Watch 2K9, Mayor Gavin Newsom's team says there's no need to
SF News Swine Flu Map View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map Adding to the paranoia that is Swine Flu Tracker 2009, here's a handy map that shows reported cases of the flu throughout the U.S.
SF News U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu "Much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes," reports AP, the U.S. government officially declared a public health emergency today due to the swine flu. So far, conformed outbreaks are
SF News Steve Jobs Reveals Mysterious Illness A hormone imbalance is being blamed in the gaunt appearance of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Rumored to be stricken by a number of mysterious illnesses ranging from cancer to anorexia, Jobs appeared enviously
