Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[UPDATED with Rescuers Put in Harm's Way:] Kyndall Jack and Nicholas Cendoya Saved

See Update No. 7 on page 3 about a recently concluded press conference giving a complete overview of the latest events in Trabuco Canyon.See Update Nos. 3-6 on page 2 about the man being found alive, the search resuming for the woman, Kyndall Jack being found and airlifted out and how it all happene ... More >>

OC-based Tea Party: Impeach Obama Over Gun Control Executive Orders ... or Benghazi

Before President Barack Obama just announced 23 executive orders he will issue and a $500 million package and changes in law he will seek from Congress in the wake of the mass shooting in Connecticut that killed 20 elementary schoolchildren, the Laguna Woods-based California Tea Party called for hi ... More >>

'The Bay' Aspires to YouTube

Auteur goes amateur in Barry Levinson's found-footage, eco-horror cheapie

OC Health Care Agency's Veil of Vomit

Why are they still covering up an April outbreak of E. coli at a local restaurant?

A Closer Look At OC's Anti-Vaccination Cluster

South County parents are opting out of the CDC schedule altogether

Dr. Robert Sears Takes on Both Sides of the Great Vaccination Divide

The author of 'The Vaccine Book' presents his own alternatives to the CDC-recommended schedules kenneth m. ruggiano

HBO's The Weight of the Nation Scales Santa Ana's Obesity Problem

Santa Ana gets a closeup in tonight's HBO documentary The Weight of the Nation.Not that Santa Ana's chamber of commerce is trumpeting the appearance. The documentary is about the obesity epidemic in the United States.

This Week in Terrifying Food News: Red Meat Kills, Fatty Food Zaps Sperm, Imported Seafood Causes Outbreaks

​Hate to be a buzzkill right before St. Patrick's de Drinko, but man, this week sucked in food news.   Let's recap, shall we? (Spoiler alert: We're all gonna die.)  

Freeway Pollution Linked to Brain Damage, Autism

​Robert Lee Hotz of the Wall Street Journal, of all places, put it best: "Congested cities are fast becoming test tubes for scientists studying the impact of traffic fumes on the brain."And what are these researchers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston, New York, North Carolina, Beij ... More >>

Ivan Von Staich, Convicted Murderer Who Scored Win in Parole Bid, Has Menaced Courts for Years

​The state parole board Wednesday found suitable for parole a two-time jail escapee convicted of bludgeoning a former girlfriend with a claw hammer and fatally shooting her husband in 1983. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas opposed Ivan Von Staich's parole bid, but if the 55-year-old is ultimately ... More >>

'Contagion' Shows It Can Happen Here

Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head

William Charles Payton, Who Still Sits on Death Row for 1980 Rape-Murder, Loses Latest Appeal

CDCPayton​William Charles Payton raped and murdered Pamela Montgomery in the early morning hours of May 26, 1980, stabbing her 12 times, six of the wounds in a line from Montgomery's stomach to her groin. After that he repeatedly stabbed Montgomery's Garden Grove boarding house landlady, Patricia ... More >>

Why Is Subway Adding Vitamin D and Calcium To Its Bread?

Edwin Goei​Subway has announced that it will add Vitamin D and calcium to all its breads, except for their English muffins and flatbreads. According to Nation's Restaurant News, eating a Subway six-inch sub will now give you 30% of the recommended daily allowance of calcium and 20% of the recommen ... More >>

[UPDATED: Billboards Removed] Anti-Choice Billboards Pop Up in California, Call a Latina's Womb 'Dangerous'

 UPDATE, JUNE 21, 3:57 P.M.:  If you haven't seen the anti-choice billboards in Los Angeles that proclaim, "The most dangerous place for a Latino is in the womb," you missed your chance--at least for now.All three billboards, which were paid for by The Latino Partnership for Conservative P ... More >>

Anti-Choice Billboards Pop Up in California, Call a Latina's Womb 'Dangerous'

Where's the most dangerous place for a Latino/a to be?unidosporlavida.org.mx​Well, according to a throng of recently-unveiled billboards in Los Angeles, it's inside their mom's womb.  Gabriela Valle, senior director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, says the billboards, which st ... More >>

Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Lawsuits Allege Salmonella Poisoning!

​In 2010, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention linked Taco Bell to a salmonella outbreak that left hundreds sick (but thankfully none dead). Two of those supposedly affected are now suing the company in Ohio courts, but I'm going to highlight the eating exploits of one of them affect ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Andy Irons' Widow Trying To Delay Release Of Autopsy Report

©ASP/RobertsonHis win in Tahiti was Andy Irons' last before passing away.​Controversy and questions have surrounded the tragic passing of world champion surfer Andy Irons, who was found dead in a Grapevine, Texas hotel room on Nov. 2, 2010.There was talk of drugs and foul play, or possibly a bad ... More >>

World AIDS Day is Marked in Orange County and Marked in Red in Downtown Long Beach

​Orange County does not go as ga-ga--Lady or otherwise--for World AIDS Day as many other municipalities (especially nearby Long Beach). But there are some commemorations today in the onetime gay mecca of Laguna Beach and Saturday in the future gay mecca of Santa Ana.

Sexually Aggressive Kids More Likely to Have Seen Violent Porn, Claims Local Research

​Viewing violent x-rated material may contribute to sexually aggressive behavior among 10-17 year olds, according to a Santa Ana-based research firm. Youth who look at violent porn are six times more likely to force someone else to do something sexual online or in-person versus kids who are not ex ... More >>

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Serpentine to Avoid Flying Serpentine!

​When state Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles) recently proposed legislation that would de-list serpentine as the state rock on grounds the mineral "contains asbestos, a known carcinogen," it raised hackles from the left and right.For instance, the New York Times editorial board opined, "To our m ... More >>

Iceback-Spotting?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And: Do Mexicans measure up?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Do Mexican Muchachos Like Asian Muchachas?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Wedding-Bell Azules

Hey CSULB Students, Don't Bother With the Surgi Masks, They're Useless!

After essentially quarantining a CSULB student who has received a "probable positive test" (um, is it or isn't it?) for piggy flu, health officials on the Long Beach campus handed out surgical face masks to students on campus who have "been paranoid," according to a Press Telegram report. Only probl ... More >>

Supervisors Abort Planned Parenthood Funding

As anticipated, the Orange County Board of Supervisors today cut about $300,000 in Planned Parenthood health education funding by canceling the nonprofit's contract through the Coalition of Orange County Community Clinics. Each Supe cited a moral objection to Orange-based Planned Parenthood providin ... More >>

MADD Has Become "a Tastless Joke," According to Study Author

You were told here about a study published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion that argues California should lower its drinking age for beer and wine to 18 and set up a system of low-alcohol bars. Mike Males, the study's author and senior researcher at the San Francis ... More >>

[Pucker Up] Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men

The Future Is Now!

Beirut is a timeless metaphor of the past

Beach Break: Swimming in shit

Three months ago, Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica-based environmental group, released its 17th Annual Beach Report Card. Although the group noted an overall improvement in the quality of water at California beaches, it reported that Long Beach had suffered a “dramatic drop in water quality” during ... More >>

25 years later

It was twenty-five years ago today, June, 5, 1981, that the first cases of what would become known as HIV/AIDS were reported in the Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It was by no means the beginning of the disease– a recent study has identified the earliest i ... More >>

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 >>

Diary of a Mad County

April 12 - April 18

Less Christ, More Right

Rick Warren unveils his strategy to fight AIDS: the gospel of the GOP

Fat Like Me

A pigs-eye view of the Happiest Place on Earth

Best of OC 2004: Part 1

In one corner, Jimmy Breslin!

In another, the foremost clerical authority on degenerate sex!

Like,Gross!

Four Reasons to Throw Away this Issue NOW!

Is That a Stinger Missile in Your Pants?

Seizures in the Middle East

I Could Fill Your Ear

Quotations from the files of the Reverend Lou Sheldon

True Life at the Register

My so-called life at Orange Countys biggest daily newspaper

Crisis in the Mosh Pit

The Death Ray

Welcome to South Orange County, home of uranium 238, illegal immigrants, rare trout, and the most powerful military laser in the world

Letters

Dana Swings

This Sister Oughta Be Famous

But of local publicity, this world-famous AIDS activist gets nun

Out of Sight

Hail, Caesar Salad

Budget's stuck, so Wilson scrambles for egg bill