Cancer

Last Shot: Telling Your Friends You Have Cancer

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and holding a day job at a hospital, of all places. As ... More >>

Bay Area Researchers Claim Cannabis Can Cure Cancer

Marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes--relieving stress and pain and fighting hunger and nausea--for centuries if not millennia. But now, a pair of doctors in San Francisco claim that they've compiled reliable data showing that a certain compound in cannabis--cannabidiol--may actually cure ... More >>

Last Shot: Struggling to Shoot Coachella

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and holding a day job at a hospital, of all places. As ... More >>

Last Shot: Helmet Doesn't Let My Dedication Go Unsung

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and holding a day job at a hospital, of all places. As ... More >>

Last Shot: Chemical Warfare

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and holding a day job at a hospital, of all places. As ... More >>

Shamrock Pub Crawl

Main St., Huntington Beach

Last Shot: Helplessness Blues at a Fleet Foxes Concert

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV

Co Dang Long Pham, Westminster OB/GYN, Disciplined by California Medical Board For Letting Rectal Mass Grow

Man, what is it with butt cancer nowadays? Weekly photographer/writer Andrew Youssef is documenting his battle with colon cancer for us, and I got another pal who's suffering from rectal cancer. And this morning, I learned that Westminster doctor Co Dang Long Pham was disciplined by the Medical Boar ... More >>

This Joint's For You: An Open Letter To Sheriff Sandra Hutchens About Medical Marijuana

Dear Sheriff Hutchens,We here at OC Weekly would like to extend our heartfelt condolences about your recent diagnosis of breast cancer. We're glad, however, that you plan to remain in office while you seek treatment, since you're the best sheriff this county's ever had--and yes, we know that's not s ... More >>

Race for the Cure

Fashion Island

Glen Justice, OC Cancer Doctor Who Devised $1 Million Insurance Fraud Scam, 'Couldn't Say No' To Patients

​A doctor charged with submitting bills for up to $1 million worth of cancer medications--medications that were never provided to patients--will be suspended for a year after he gets out of jail, then placed on 10 years of probation, the California Medical Board has announced.  Glen Justice r ... More >>

Etta James Dies at 73 of Leukemia Complications; Five Essential Recordings

​CNN reports that Etta James has died from leukemia complications in Riverside. She was 73. The singer, known for her definitive rendition of  "At Last," was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010. She had been battling Alzheimer's disease for a few years, and also had hepatitis C. Her husband, Art ... More >>

'Hot Coffee'

Huntington Beach Library

Beachwood BBQ To Raffle Off 130 Pints of Pliny The Younger

​We just got news that'll leave beer geeks salivating. Beachwood BBQ has Pliny The Younger--130 pints of it--and they're raffling it all away.   To honor the memory of Tony Carbone, a friend of the restaurant who died of cancer, Beachwood is hosting a charity raffle at its Seal Beach and ... More >>

Knocked Down In '50/50'

Cancer memoir meets Seth Rogen comedy in this slightly uncomfortable film

Fundraiser for Amber Pangan

OC Chili's Restaurants

[UPDATED:] The 88! Auctioning A Guitar Lesson For Leukemia Fundraiser

​Update: We just found out that Adam Merrin, also from the 88!, is auctioning off a piano lesson for the same charity as well. Bid on that here.Aw, sweet. Keith Slettedahl, guitarist/vocalist for the Los Angeles-based rock group, The 88!, is auctioning off a one-hour guitar lesson. What will you ... More >>

Bartender Again Gives Up Her Butt for Boobs

​Serena Stewart is once again giving up her butt for boobs--that is, the nanny, bartender and motorcyclist is enduring the pain to her backside from riding a motorcycle for more than 9,000 miles to raise money for breast cancer survivors.Stewart pushed off on her '06 Harley Davidson Road King in S ... More >>

LLS Benefit with Jo Koy

Irvine Improv

Local Surfer Jodie Nelson Makes a Friend on Her Marathon Paddle

Courtesy of Paddle With Purpose​Last weekend, co-founder of the SUP Spot and highly respected ambassador of stand-up paddling, Jodie Nelson, set out for an intense 39.8 mile paddle from Catalina Island to Dana Point during the Ohana Ocean Catalina Challenge, becoming the first woman ever to comple ... More >>

Local Surfer Jodie Nelson Paddles For Breast Cancer Awareness

​This weekend, co-founder of the SUP Spot and highly respected ambassador of stand-up paddling, Jodie Nelson, prepares for a historic challenge of being the first woman ever to paddle a grueling 39.8 miles from Catalina Island to Dana Point.

Todd Rocks Benefit

House of Blues

Researchers: Cell Phones and Brain Tumors Are a Bad Connection

​Keep those Blackberries pushed up tightly against your heads, Christmas shoppers: a very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia shows no link between cell-phone use and brain tumors.Reuters has the skinny.The findings validate what UC Irvine medical researchers have been sayin ... More >>

BreastFest

The Crosby

Gettin' Made: For a Good Cause

On October 29, The Vintage Emporium in Long Beach will be hosting a Crafty Thursday class to benefit breast cancer research. Class size is limited, so you breast sign up quick! Denise Hahn of In My Blue Room teaches a Mini-book workshop on October 29 to benefit breast cancer research.​ ... More >>

Doctor-Minister Arrested for Fake Cancer Cure Has OC Ties

​Another health practitioner with Orange County ties has been arrested on suspicion of prescribing phony cancer cures.WSJ.com​Licensed physician and ordained Pentecostal minister Christine Daniel of Mission Hills was arrested Thursday night in Los Angeles for allegedly taking $1.1 million from 5 ... More >>

"Natural Doctor" featured in OC Register Charged With Being a Fake

Daryn Peterson Daryn Peterson must have been flying pretty high on June 10, when he opened the Orange County Register and read Courtney Perkes' feature story on him, "A Rejection of Western Medicine." Today, the 37-year-old Las Vegas resident was arrested and charged with unauth ... More >>

The Story Continues: Bone Marrow Donation Facts, Statistics, and Other Stuff

Courtesy of HelpTami.Org​ Before I wrote this week's news article, "A Bone Marrow to Pick," about Matthew Nguyen and bone marrow donation, my assumption of the whole process came from watching Grey's Anatomy. It was the third season and Izzy Stevens (Katherine Heigl) had to donate bone ... More >>

Local Leukemia Patients Struggle with the Shortage of Asian Bone-Marrow Donors

Lit Drummer Allen Shellenberger Dead at 39

​Early this morning, news broke that Allen Shellenberger, drummer and founding member of Orange County band Lit, died yesterday at the age of 39. Shellenberger was diagnosed with brain cancer in May of last year. A tribute video to Shellenberger was produced and played before Lit's show at the Hou ... More >>

Health Care Agency Blocks Planned Parenthood's Final Attempt to Secure County Funding

​After thirty years of working closely with the county and swooping in to absorb patients the county's shoddy public health care system could no longer treat, Planned Parenthood was forced to give up the county grant it has received for the past nine years. In a scathing letter written to the coun ... More >>

PETA Tee Prefers Breasts Over Animal Testing

PETACatalog.org​ We all know PETA is no stranger to using "edgy" marketing campaigns, showcasing naked (and half-naked) women to trumpet their cause--see our recent slightly NSFW Ringling Bros. protest slideshow here--but some think their priorities are a little misaligned, worthy cause or not.Che ... More >>

Stop the Dying of African American Women from Breast Cancer

Faith Deliverance Apostolic Church

Grape Expectations

Ambrosia Wine Fest

Lit Drummer Diagnosed With Brain Tumor

Allen Shellenberger, drummer for Orange County’s Platinum rock band Lit, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor earlier this month. After biopsy, it was discovered that Shellenberger’s cancer is malignant glioma ‑ a type of primary central nervous system tumor that usually occurs in the ... More >>

Takin' Care

Cruisin’ For A Cure

Saving the Boobs

Breast Cancer Benefit at Alexs Bar

Running with Rockers

The Cold War Kids are playing a very special Orange County show on Sept. 24, and anyone can go. Anyone, that is, who's willing to walk five kilometers for tickets. The 24th is also the day of the Orange County Race for the Cure - namely the cure for breast cancer. The Race, held at Fashion Island ... More >>

Tongue tied (sort of)

A dispatch arrives from the cutting edge of science, where the wonders never cease: Tongue made from buttocks A Polish man who had his tongue removed has had a new one made using tissue taken from his buttocks. Jarislav Ernst, 23, from Gliwice, now has a functioning tongue made from his backside a ... More >>

Dr. Z, Sun God

UCI's Dr. Christopher Zachary gives the sun what-for

A Little Bit Pregnant

Whoever said you can't be a little bit pregnant never reckoned with the can-do spirit of the Bush administration. As the Washington Post reports: New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant ... More >>

Preemptive Strikes We Like

Free Mammogram Screenings

Bitter Harvest

Four Huntington Beach kids have died of a rare disease. Officials say theres no pattern. The parents say the answer could be underground

Crude Attitude

Residents pressure city to test for contamination at former Chevron site

Pulling Out the Roots

ROCK for CHOC benefit

A Prayer for the Dying

Anti-Nuclear War

Linda McLandrich says she lost her husband to San Onofre but swears she wont lose again

Russians, Rockets and the Santa Ana River

A closed weapons plant in the Chino Hills may be leaking hazardous chemicals into the Santa Ana River

Bad Dirt!

Are we inventing our own demise?