Women's Health

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 >>

Tropicool

Detroit Bar

TONIGHT: Bootlegger's Brewery Hosts 'Beer For Boobs' Charity Event--With Pink(ish) Beer!

We love boobs. We love beer. Hey, look at this. Bootlegger's Brewery is promoting both tonight with a cool charity event. To celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Fullerton brewery hosts a "Beer For Boobs" night, where they'll be releasing a blond ale brewed with hibiscus flowers created ... More >>

Race for the Cure

Fashion Island

Attention, Expectant Mothers: Local Doctors, Nurses Want Your Baby's Umbilical Cord Blood

It was a no-brainer decision for Buena Park resident Stephanie Vinson that come delivery time, she would donate her baby's valuable umbilical cord blood. The hospital where she worked and delivered, Long Beach Memorial Center, offered a public collection program, meaning a mother can donate her cord ... More >>

'Hot Coffee'

Huntington Beach Library

Carrie

Bay Theater

[UPDATED with Stellar Author, Contributors:] Kids of Stressed-Out Moms Age Faster: UCI Research

​UPDATE, AUG. 2, 5:24 P.M.: Dr. Pathik D. Wadhwa (pictured here) was lead author of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper describing UCI's research into stressed-out moms and their faster-aging children. It's a wonder Wadhwa has time to write anything given all he specializes i ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Nicki Minaj and Komen for the Cure Turn Black Friday Pink

​Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the breast cancer awareness organization responsible for the all-pink-everything "Passionately Pink for the Cure" campaign, might have found their newest spokesperson in Nicki Minaj. It only makes sense--the break-out femcee has an unrelenting obsession with the color ... More >>

Orange County Interwebs Double Entendre

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The Cupcake Showdown People's Next Shindig: Eat Drink Pink!

​No one, not even the people who organized the recent Cupcake Showdown OC in a Fountain Valley warehouse anticipated the response it got. By showtime, block-long lines had formed for two food trucks and a bake-sale-cum-rave that brought together cupcakeries and amateur bakers sampling their wares. ... More >>

[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 >>

Sheryl Crow to Hold Free Concert on Nov. 16 for Breast Cancer Awareness

sherylcrow.com​Well, kind of free, anyway. Sheryl Crow is performing a free concert at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, Nov. 16 in support of breast cancer awareness in exchange for a Yoplait yogurt lid.  All you have to do is bring the Yoplait yogurt lid ... More >>

Funniest Housewives of Orange County

Irvine Improv

Menopause the Musical

Center Theater

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 >>

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.

Rep. John Campbell to Get Christmas Visit From the Ghost of Pharmaceutical Plunder Present

Rep. John Campbell to host carolers.​Like Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future, Rep. John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) is about to host some seasonal visitors.Singing traditional Christmas carols set to new lyrics, members of UC Irvine's chapter of Universities Allied for E ... 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 >>

Menopause the Musical

Laguna Playhouse

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

Try on a Bra, Fight Breast Cancer

You--not you, sir--can help fight breast cancer while receiving a complimentary bra fitting at various local locations over the next few weeks.For every woman who tries on a Wacoal or b.tempt'd bra with a fit specialist and signs up to receive monthly reminders to do self-breast exams, Wacoal will d ... More >>

Knit One Cure Two

Have A Baby, Have An Orgasm? What The?

The makers of a new documentary called "Orgasmic Birth" promise that such a thing is possible when you give birth without drugs, wheelchairs and stirrups. The enigmatic (and not immediately obvious) sensual secrets of childbirth will be revealed at a screening of the film tonight in Laguna Niguel. ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Babies, Porn Stars and Mixed-Martial Artists

New York Post Page 6 columnist Richard Johnson reports today that retired porn star Jenna Jameson is having “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz's love child. Well, at least we think it's Tito's. Pity the fool who is the father if it is not. By the by, our image of Ortiz was shot by former W ... More >>

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

Under Wraps

Many of Dr. Brian West's patients didn't know he was in the state medical board's substance-abuse-diversion program. At least six of them claim they're paying the price

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 >>

Boozers, Users and Losers

OnDVD: Strangers With Candy: The Complete Series

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

'I Am the Epitome of Reality'

Dr. Laura Schlessinger comes to town. Irvine, actually

FDA FUs Plan B

Plan Your Unplanned Sex Accordingly

EIGHT DAYS

Theres Got to Be a Morning After

Emergency contraception may go over-the-counter

Not So Little Plays

The 9 Most interesting theatrical productions coming your way over the next few months

Time for a Plan B

Do you have your morning-after pill?

Staying Alive

The Red 7s are cancer-killers

Menopausal, Bitter, Old, Deranged

Ladies and gentlemen, Roseanne! Just Roseanne!

Bad Dirt!

Are we inventing our own demise?