SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frozen Costco Berries Might Have Caused Hepatitis A Outbreak If you've purchased Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend of frozen berries at Costco over the last few weeks, throw them out. People are getting sick from them. Very sick. See, a 62-year-old woman
SF News Open-Air Urinals Aim To Solve Tenderloin Street Pee Problem Humans have been pissing on the street since there was a street to piss on, and San Francisco residents have long been accustomed to sidestepping yellow puddles and practicing strategic breathing exercises to
SF News BREAKING: 'Mysterious White Powder' Shuts Down S.F. Post Office, Hospital UPDATE 2:30: The crews, according to a nearby commenter, appear to have dispersed now. Not sure what the "mysterious white powder" was, but we'll update as soon as we know more. 2:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Typhoid Alert For Those Who Ate At Stonestown Nordstrom We have a public health warning for those of you who ate at the Stonestown Nordstrom Cafe on April 16, 17, 18, 20, or 27. In a nutshell, you may be at risk
SF News HIV Vaccine Trial Halted After Too Many Subjects Contract HIV [Updated] Yet another clinical trial for a vaccine to prevent HIV has failed, and for 48 men and transgendered individuals it meant that they contracted the virus while participating in the study. The study,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger King Delivery Coming To S.F.? Compared to many places, the list of fast food options in San Francisco is bissfully short. You've got your KFC, your Taco Bell, your scattered burger franchises. That means that our most convenient
SF News S.F. Investigating Nevada Hospital For 'Dumping' Mental Patients Prerequisite lede: by differing standards, there are lots of mental cases in S.F. But San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office has opened a formal investigation into allegations that Nevada health officials
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marnee Thai Shut Down for Abysmal Health Score Of 58 Marnee Thai in the Inner Sunset is generally accepted as one of the city's favorite spots to score above-par pad thai, with over 1,000 Yelp reviews and a 4-star average (not easy
SF News Oh, God: Syphilis On The Rise Again In S.F. It's that time of year again, when San Francisco public health officials release data from the previous year and send us into new fits of hypochondria and prudishness. The latest cause for alarm:
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 going to the gym
SF News Chevron To Pay Residents Affected By Toxic Refinery Fire And finally, in crisis communications news: After Monday's fire at the Chrevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. sent a plume of black, toxic smoke into the air blanketing much of Richmond, North Richmond, and
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Troubled Tu Lan Closes Due to Vermin, Cockroach Problems Notorious for their no-so impeccably clean ways, Vietnamese staple Tu Lan, nestled in the heart of the burgeoning mid-Market area of doom, was forced to close of numerous health violations. Tu Lan's closure
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: 'I Don't Care About Spreading Germs' (By D. Hanousek) "This germ is your germ. This germ is my germ." As my three-year-old son lays passed out on the couch after throwing up three times this morning, I realize that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Restaurant Inspectors Accused Of Soliciting Bribes Two Department of Public Health employees tasked with making sure restaurant employees know how to properly handle your food have been accused of soliciting bribes in exchange for faking documents that ensure every
SF News Occupy SF Sent Eviction Notice According to Occupy SF ilk, the Department of Public Health distributed a letter telling them to remove their tents along Market Street. They must move immediately. "Twenty representatives came down and distributed letters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The McRib Returns Vomit. McDonald's legendary McRib wad—i.e., a sandwich consisting of a pork-like substance pressed into a ribcage shape, bathed in corn syrup and heated to palatability—makes a grand return to heart
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 recent interview with
SF News Wiener Talks Butt Legislation on CNN On Saturday in the city's Castro arrondissement, a smattering of residents attended a nude-in in response to Supervisor Scott Wiener's cover-up legislation. And, let's be frank, the protest, while titillating, made little to
SF News SF Students Barred for Not Having Whooping Cough Vaccinations Sorry, Jenny McCarthy, but San Francisco likes their students vaccinated. On Thursday, an estimated 2,000 city students "who still lacked proof of a whooping cough vaccination one month into the school year"
SF News S.F. Introduces New Public Nudity Legislation During today's Board of Supervisors meeting, District 8 Supervisor Scot Wiener will unsheathe new legislation about public nudity in San Francisco. Wiener represents the Castro, which has seen an uptick in nakedness as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Happy Meals Now Healthy-ish The nascent taste bud's loss is now the juvenile waistline's gain. So to speak. See, the noted fast food chain announced today that the McDonald's Happy Meal will receive a healthy makeover. Accused
SF News Next Thursday: World Hepatitis Day And in some The-More-You-Know news: next Thursday, July 28th is World Hepatitis Day. And with that, the San Francisco Task Force on Hepatitis will organize its first educational outreach campaign, sponsored by [pharmaceutical
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 Editor-at-Large since
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Hookah Lounges Done, Banned Over the past year, the San Francisco Health Department has tirelessly worked to shutdown the scourge known as hookah lounges. For those not in the know, hookah lounges are a rite of passage
