SF News Cycling On City Streets Linked to Heart Risks Just what we've always expected, driving in a 2011 BMW X5 is safer and healthier than riding your bike along city streets. According to the Chronicle, "A new study published in the journal
SF News National HIV Testing Day Is Today Before it turned into lazy comedians' anti-gay punchline at bad comedy clubs across the country, HIV/AIDS continues to kill scores of people all over the world. But it doesn't have to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Oysterfest Investigated By Health Department After Attendees Fall Ill Given the control PR ilk try to exert over food writing in the Bay Area, we're shocked (and a bit tickled) to see this story go live. See, several people fell ill at
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 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,"government, community, public
SF News HIV Infections in Retreat, Claim SF Health Researchers The BAR (where one can now - at last! - comment on articles) says that HIV infections in San Francisco are now in "retreat." Over the last decade, the rate of new HIV
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 Lyon-Martin Health Clinic Closure: Emergency Meeting at 6:30pm Due to the probable closure of the Lyon-Martin Health Clinic, there will be an emergency community meeting tonight. An email being sent around reads: "As you may have heard, Lyon-Martin Health Clinic is
SF News Vital Queer and Transgendered Health Clinic to Close on Thursday, Local Media Fails to Report While local online news sites burn pounds of ink on an increasingly tepid KUSF story, a real closure that could cause real tragedy might flare up this week, and no one in the
SF News Photos: World AIDS Day 2010 Around The Globe Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day, a time set aside to collectively "take action to tackle HIV prejudice and to protect yourself and others from HIV transmission." In San Francisco, a city
SF News Lighting Up On Restaurant Patios Now Illegal In SF Although approved by the Board of Supervisors in March, a law banning smoking on restaurant patios went into effect this week. "Restaurants must not post signs advising customers they can only smoke at
SF News Target Dumping Hazardous Waste In Bay Area? First, Target came under fire for making an ill-advised contribution to an anti-gay politician. Now, according to SF Appeal, the retailer has been getting rid of hazardous waste in the Bay Area. SF
SF News San Bruno Jail Installs 16 Condom Machines If Oz taught us anything, it's that prisoners will have sex. That said, in an effort to curb sexually transmitted diseases, the San Francisco County Jail's San Bruno clink installed 16 condom machines
SF News Hazmat Situation at Pier 96 Bay City News reports that an evacuation at Pier 96 in Bayview/Hunters Point happened a little after 6:30 a.m. this morning after "[a] box was going down a conveyor belt
SF News New Leaf Closing for Good In October After 35 years of providing mental health, substance abuse, and senior services to the LGBT community, HIV/AIDS patients and beyond, New Leaf announced it will close its doors by the middle of
SF News Excessive Heat Advisory Issued With temperature the Bay Area expected to reach the mid 90s to around 100 near, an excessive heat advisory has been issued. This affects the very young and very old, so head for
SF News Cellular Telephone Industry Association Suing S.F. Oh dear. Folks from the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, a wireless "nonprofit" group established in 1984, is in the process of suing San Francisco over our (alarmist?) Cell Phone Right-To-Know ordinance, according to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AT&T Park Beats Dodgers Stadium, Food Health Inspector-wise More aesthetically pleasing, housing a better team, and situated in a superior neighbor -- AT&T Park can now say it's better than Dodgers stadium when it comes to food sanitary conditions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Raquel's Hummus Recalled for Contamination The California Department of Public Health, according to BCN (via SF Appeal) has warned consumers about a possible health risk with Raquel's brand of hummus and hummus products. Possible listeria contamination might be
SF News "Bad" Mosquito Season Looms What with brief storms drenching the Bay Area this spring, a "perfect ecosystem for raising mosquitoes" has formed due to the stagnant water. According to SF Examiner and SF Appeal, San Francisco should
Arts & Entertainment Walk Through Giant 'Super Colon' This Saturday During the sixth-annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration on Saturday (5/15), make sure you take a stroll through the 'super colon,' a 20-foot interactive inflatable colon showing you an example of healthy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Safety Certifications Revoked for Hundreds of SF Restaurants Oh boy. We just got work from Dennis Herrera's office that the SF Department of Health will come down hard on over three hundred San Francisco restaurants today, invalidating their food safety certifications.
SF News Swine Flu Outbreak at San Quinten? A quarantine has been "expanded" at San Quentin due to a probable outbreak of the swine flu epidemic. KTVU reports that "Luis Patino, a spokesman for the federal receiver who oversees medical care
misc Photo du Jour 432 Scene from yesterday's budget rally to, like, help save public health. Read more about it over at SFBG.
SF News Swine Flu Watch: Pandemic Following on the heels of yesterday's East Bay flu fatality, making it the third reported H1N1-related casualty in the Bay Area, the World Health Organization upgraded the swine flu to pandemic status today.
