Medical Treatments and Procedures

Last Shot: Photographing Coachella is Like Running an Ultramarathon

[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 >>

Dr. Van Vu Linked to 17th Patient O.D. Death

Add another to the body count for Dr. Van Vu of California Pain Center in Fountain Valley. Already being investigated by the Medical Board of California for the deaths of 16 patients he prescribed powerful medications to, there is now reportedly a 17th deceased patient.

Last Shot: Time Is Running Out

[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 >>

[UPDATED with USC Clarifies:] Dr. Van Vu of California Pain Center in Fountain Valley Probed for String of 16 Patient Deaths

See the update at the end of this post where the University of Southern California clarifies the doctor's ties to the LA institution.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 15, 3:16 P.M.: The Medical Board of California has launched an investigation into 16 deaths connected to powerful narcotics prescribed by a Fountai ... More >>

Kevin Griffith Battles Rare Cancer With a Little Help From His Online Friends

Kevin Griffith was diagnosed with a rare cancer (Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma) in February, and the Aliso Viejo 29-year-old's family discovered he would require multiple international surgeries.So, they've turned to the Internet for help.

Never Burn Your Mouth With A Hot Pocket (Or Any Other Hot Food) Again

Let's face it. We're impatient people. There's no time to wait for hot coffee/pizza//pot pie/Hot Pockets to cool--we want it now, Now, NOW! This often leads to mouth burns, which can last for several days. But now scientists have invented a dissolvable oral strip that can be directly to the aff ... More >>

Dale Wayne Ziesmer, Honored LAPD Cop, Charged for Violent Threats Against Woman

A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer who was recently recognized for helping find emergency mental health services for people on the streets was charged today with making a violent criminal threat against a woman he lives with in San Clemente. The Orange County District Attorney's office ... More >>

Race for the Cure

Fashion Island

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

[UPDATED with Conviction:] Alejandro Arias, Nurse Assistant, Guilty of Sex Assaults on GILF Patients

See update at the end of this post on Alejandro Arias being found guilty.Between April 1 and July 18, 2008, male nurse's assistant Alejandro Arias entered the care center rooms of two women, ages 50 and 60, under the pretense of performing legitimate medical procedures.But, according to prosecutors, ... More >>

Fat NFL Players at High Risk of Brain Injuries, Says Newport Beach Head Examiner

​This is Navel Gazing but we also stare at heads, particularly the ones enveloping the brains of NFL players examined by Dr. Daniel G. Amen, the Newport Beach psychiatrist and brain-imaging researcher who strongly advocates better rules and helmets to protect noggins.But Amen's latest research als ... More >>

Obama's War On Weed

In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees

Ladera Ranch Woman is the Latest in a String of Post Lap-Band Surgery Deaths

Coming to a billboard near you. ​​​Los Angeles Times reporters have been staying on top of Lap-Band clinic practices like that maple bacon donut stays on top of your would-be waistline.    The Lap-Band, of course, is Allergan's surgically-implanted weight-loss device obnoxiously ... More >>

[UPDATED with Ruling:] A Ban on a Circumcision Ban in California?

UPDATE, JULY 28, 4:04 P.M.: ​Snip away. A Superior Court judge has ruled that the measure to criminalize circumcision in San Francisco violates both the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom, and a California law that makes regulating medical procedures solely a state matter, not a fu ... More >>

[UPDATED with Victim's Death:] Leovardo Vera Bustos, OC Homicide No. 33: Dies From Single Punch Outside Nightclub

Medina-Perez​UPDATE, JULY 26, 7:44 A.M.: 24-year-old Westminster resident Leovardo Vera Bustos has died from the brain injuries suffered after sustaining a single punch in front of La Barca NIght Club in Stanton on July 5.Bustos fell backward, hit the ground hard, lost consciousness and never reg ... More >>

Peter Newen, Surf City Cutter, Wins Big at First Plastic Surgery Awards

​They give awards to movie stars, schoolteachers and even rodeo ropers, so why not your friendly neighborhood cutter?Why not, indeed. They handed out hardware to plastic surgeons Saturday night in Las Vegas, site of the first Aesthetic Awards.The big winner of the night hailed from Orange County.

Allergan Wants The FDA To Approve Lap-Bands For Teens

​In another attempt to expand the fatty pool for its popular Lap-Band devices, Allergan Inc. is now targeting a younger set.  The Irvine-based pharmaceutical company has asked the Food and Drug Administration to allow the weight-loss surgery for those as young as 14, the Los Angeles Times rep ... More >>

Rock N' Roll Bingo Show

House of Blues

Dr. David Hung Do Loses Medical License After Examining Women Inappropriately

​A former Kaiser doctor who practiced in La Palma and Anaheim lost his medical license last week after giving female patients more services than they asked for.Free boob fondle, anyone?   Between 2006 and 2008, five women accused 40-year-old David Hung Do of touching ... More >>

State Report Blasts UC Irvine Dialysis Center; University Claims Recommendations in Place

​After a November inspection of UC Irvine's dialysis center, state regulators filed a 70-page report detailing poor oversight, unsanitary conditions and mistakes that put patient care and Medicare funding of the facility at risk.News of the report, posted by the Los Angeles Times today, prompted U ... More >>

OC Planned Parenthood Funding in Crisis

​On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a budget resolution that eliminates Title X, a program that gives low-income women access to family-planning services. Taking the biggest hit is Planned Parenthood--the nation's largest reproductive health services provider--which would lose a ... More >>

Allergan Seeks to Expand Fatty Pool for Lap-Bands

​Allergan Inc., which is already rolling in it thanks to remedies such as Botox, Latisse and Natrelle breast implants, aims to roll in even more of it by increasing the fatty pool for its Lap-Band weight-loss devices.The Irvine-based pharmaceutical company wants the government to decrease the mini ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Minus the Buzz?

​Imagine ingesting some primo marijuana and receiving all the benefits you've come to expect with one glaring exception:The buzz.WTF?

[UPDATED:] Carly Fiorina, Cancer Survivor, Hospitalized

​UPDATE: She'll apparently be back on the campaign trail tomorrow (see end of post) . . . The Carly for California campaign issued a statement Wednesday morning indicating cancer survivor Carly Fiorina was hospitalized due to an infection tied to her past reconstructive breast surgery.While Fiorin ... More >>

Pensive, Yet Airborne

[Best of OC 2010] Yuri Tag's 10 OC Survival Tips

Taxpayer-Funded Mental Health Conference Blasted for Denying the Mentally Ill Exist

​The Alternatives 2010 conference that began Wednesday at the Hyatt Anaheim is billed as a celebration of "Mental Illness Awareness Week" and gathering of "consumers and survivors of mental health services." But an advocate for the seriously mentally ill complains the government-funded conference ... More >>

Hope House of Anaheim Honored for Drug Treatment Program

​Hope House, Inc. has received an award acknowledging the Anaheim drug treatment facility's 30 years in the field of substance abuse recovery.The program was among three statewide to be honored with the 2010 County Alcohol and Drug Treatment /Recovery Award by the Program Administrators Associati ... More >>

Will U2 Cancel Anaheim Tour Dates?

Andrew YoussefU2 at the Rose Bowl, October 25, 2009.​Speaking of cancellations, U2 just canceled their June 3 concert in Salt Lake due to Bono's emergency back surgery. Can the Anaheim dates for Sunday and Monday, June 6 and 7 be far behind?

The Art of Imagine

Susi Q Center

Boobs or Bust

Jay Brockman​You want a brand spanking new set of breasts to replace your old implants, with a little liposuction on the side, but you don't have the $12,000 to pay for the surgeries. What do you do?

20th Annual High Tea and Fashion Show

Balboa Bay Club

Anaheim Hills Urologist Goes From Being Botched Penile Enlargement Surgery Expert to Botched Penile Enlargement Surgery Defendant

Dr. Gary Rheinschild​For "Long and Short of It," Salon.com's Aug. 2, 1999, story on botched penile enlargement surgeries and the, ahem, lengths patients must go to if they safely want to increase the size of their members, reporter Michael Easterbrook turned to an Anaheim Hills urologist for exper ... More >>

Barbara Coe Adds Another Jewel to Her Crown of Conspiracies

​It would take me a while to list all the vile things and views California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe believes, but a short list includes: Reconquista, Sikhs and Muslims deserve deportation, Obama wasn't born in the United States, Sonny Bono was murdered because he knew too ... More >>

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Empire Theatre

Stop the Dying of African American Women from Breast Cancer

Faith Deliverance Apostolic Church

Merle Haggard Show at the Grove Canceled

Merle Haggard's concert at the Grove of Anaheim, scheduled for Dec. 4, has been canceled. Refunds are available at the point of purchase. The official line is the show was scrapped due to "health issues;" the beloved country legend had surgery this Monday to remove a cancerous growth from his right ... More >>

Fewer OC Hospitals Are Allowing Midwife-Assisted Births, And Moms-to-Be Aren't Taking It Lying Down

John McCain Is Older Than The Chocolate Chip Cookie

... and the shopping cart, the Polio Vaccine and the Golden Gate Bridge. Should the Republican take office, he would be the oldest U.S. president ever elected. The Weekly would never promote ageism or anything ridiculous like that, but check out this website for more fun facts about the elder stat ... More >>

REG-O-METER© -- WEEK ENDING MAY 17

THURSDAY, MAY 15 ●Unusually slow week in Reggieville. The best action is online—nothing like a gay marriage legalization to send the Reggie’s Nutjob Nation a-spewin’. But there’s plenty of gold in today’s print ish, starting with the front-page list of the rag’s “must-read” storie ... More >>

A Little Help?

A Benefit for Alex

Hello friends: Bill Cosby at the Cerritos Center on 01/13

Bill Cosby raging about his colonoscopies and Viagra took me by surprise. Well known for his conservative, family-friendly stand up, Cosby has tweaked his act since the 1980s. But don’t get me wrong, this was no raunchy comedy. It was refreshing to hear Cosby sing the Viagra Tune "Doot doot d ... More >>

Summer Smart Growth

Make sure those D cups runneth over

!Ask a Mexican!

'Why do young Chicanos keeps imitating blacks?'

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

Diary of a Mad County

Not Not Guilty

Dr. K quietly settles suits involving faked AIDS drugs

A Prayer for the Dying

Modern Medicine

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