Pebbles Trippet
Her life in outline: Aside from agonizing migraine headaches that killed all life within me, my childhood was not exceptional. Catcher on the baseball team, swimming, standing broad jump, horseback riding and helping my younger...
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Mission Bay Backgrounder
My medical problem wasn’t as grave as Bruce Anderson’s (described in the AVA February 28), but I, too, have been impressed by and... -
Stop Slandering Crows!
Consider the origins of the word “caucus” in the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology: Isn’t it likely –isn’t it... -
The trumped-up tragedy of ‘Cannabis Use Disorder’
By Fred Gardner O’Shaughnessy’s News Service Thanks to Benson Hausman, MD, for reminding me in October 2023 that this piece, first... -
GW Sues to Enforce its CBD-for-Epilepsy Patent
In 2021 an oddly named drug company headquartered in Ireland, Jazz, acquired GW Pharmaceuticals, a British company whose main asset was Epidiolex a... -
Lab Notes
By Fred Gardner December 6, 2022 To this day I’m kind of amazed when people flat-out lie to your face when they know you know the truth. Or... -
Laguna Honda’s Predictable Crisis
September 13, 2022 Today was the day on which all the patients at Laguna Honda were supposed to have been evacuated and the hospital’s...
"Poor compensation to be able to say 'I told you so.'" —Upton Sinclair
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Snuffing Out Medical Marijuana
Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather of Sebastopol is an OG among cannabis clinicians. He incorporated the...
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1455 Market St
March 30, 2023 Last week John King, who has the architecture beat for the SF Chronicle, wrote a piece about 1455 Market Street. Bank of America... -
Ozempic and Wegovy
The New York Times science writer Gina Kolata is the older sister of Judi Bari, but that’s not the item, as Mr. Caen used to say. Kolata is a... -
Welcome Home, Brittney!
The joy on Brittney Griner’s face –pure relief expressed in a smile– came as a sweet surprise after all these months of seeing her grim and...
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