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Source: New Republic , Stanford Daily Porn star and producer Michael Lucas spoke at Stanford last month about safe sex, but his neocon political views generated controversy both before and during the talk Stanford Daily photo by Mehmet Inonu About 50 students gathered last month at Stanford for a lively...

Source: San Jose Mercury News , Bay Area Indymedia The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose the Food and Drug Administration's lifetime ban on blood donations by gay men and to encourage their federal lobbyists to work to overturn the ban. Supervisors said they...

Source: San Jose Mercury News San Jose, Calif -- In a move believed to be the first by a college campus in the nation, San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bars any man who has had sex with another man from...

Source: New York Times and Newsweek SAN FRANCISCO -- In a matter of days, it jumped from a routine press release to a medical controversy. The headlines this week about a new "gay" infection were dramatic. FLESH-EATING BUG SPREADS AMONG GAYS, said one Australian newspaper, referring to a study...

Source: Reuters , San Francisco Chronicle , and MedPageToday SAN FRANCISCO -- A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday. They said methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle To describe the negotiations that created the landmark health reform package that passed the state Assembly this month as "tense" is a bit of an understatement. But whenever numerous parties with billions of dollars at stake and wildly disparate interests get...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Dr. Merle Sande, an infectious disease expert who was on the front lines when the first AIDS cases appeared in San Francisco and who later focused his attention on the spread of the disease in Africa, has died. Sande died Nov. 14 of multiple myeloma at his home in Seattle...