Women's Health

Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes

2013-05-14 16:17:00

Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...

Judge temporarily delays 12-week abortion law in Arkansas

2013-05-17 14:27:00

An Arkansas law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Friday. In a ruling from the bench, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright in Little Rock granted a preliminary injunction...

Hoag Hospital to stop performing elective abortions

2013-05-05 17:32:00

In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach has announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital. The letter said the decision is based of the low number of procedures done annually at...

Hoag Hospital will stop performing elective abortions

2013-05-06 08:22:00

In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital because of the low number of procedures done annually. The decision was based on a review of...

Uncovered: Ritual public drunkenness and sex in ancient Egypt

2013-04-29 16:37:00

I'll bet you that archaeologist Betsy Bryan's perspective on reality-show behavior is a little longer than most. Since 2001, Bryan has led the excavation of the temple complex of the Egyptian goddess Mut in modern-day Luxor, the site of the city of Thebes...

Who should own DNA? All of us

2013-04-12 00:00:00

Most court cases involving patent law are corporate battles, with one company suing another for infringing on its intellectual property rights and, therefore, profits. Big companies fighting over big money can seem painfully irrelevant, especially when so...

Texas parents agree to let pregnant teen keep her baby

2013-02-19 14:30:00

HOUSTON -- Attorneys for a pregnant Texas girl who sued her parents after alleging that they tried to force her to have an abortion have negotiated an agreement allowing her to keep the baby. “This is a tremendous victory and another life has been...

Susan Love, doctor/patient

2013-02-13 00:00:00

And now, she is the patient. For decades, as a surgeon, researcher, professor and medical celebrity of sorts, Susan Love has led the charge against breast cancer and for women's health. She served on President Clinton's cancer advisory board. She set up a...

Amid controversy, Israel issues new birth-control guidelines

2013-01-28 06:59:00

JERUSALEM -- Rocked by a scandal involving birth-control treatments for Ethiopian Jews, Israel's health ministry issued new guidelines on the use of the injections known commercially as Depo-Provera. In a recent letter to the country's four HMOs...

Ho ho healthful holiday gifts

2012-12-01 00:00:00

It's tricky, deciding to give someone a present to improve them in some way, but here are some for accomplished or budding yogis, serious exercisers or for those who just need a little emotional or physical pampering. CHIEF JOSEPH TERRY JACQUARD...

McManus: Wielding wedge issues

2012-11-11 00:00:00

Once upon a time in American politics, there were things called "wedge issues," and they generally terrified Democrats. They were mostly social and cultural issues: abortion, feminism, gay rights, illegal immigration and race. Conservatives wielded them...

Daum: Obama and the single girl

2012-11-08 00:00:00

As if it weren't enough that Lena Dunham, the 26-year-old writing/directing/acting phenom who started a revolution this year with her HBO series "Girls," scored a $3.5-million book deal and has been granted the unofficial but unimpeachable title of "voice...

Carbs Control, Dining Out Guide by Jenny Craig, Fooducate, Slim Down Shopping List by Women's Health: Numerous calorie counting and nutrition apps are available; these are a few of Fradkin and Massey's favorites. Carbs Control is especially helpful for people new to counting carbs.

2013-05-15 11:00:00

Women's Health

2013-05-01 13:40:00

South Wind Women's Center is a women's health clinic in Wichita, Kan., that recently opened on the site of Dr. George Tiller's office. Tiller was slain by an antiabortion activist in 2009.

2013-04-04 00:00:00