Cancer

Blue Scorpion Venom: Cuba's Miracle Drug

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You Care, You Cure, You Run

"SOUPer Bowl" at Panera Bread Benefits the Paps Corps

South Florida may not be hosting the Super Bowl anytime in the near future, but at least we have the chance to host another kind "bowl" this year.Panera Bread and The Pap Corps are teaming up for a second-run with a food-focused fundraiser, a promo event that aimed at raising awareness and funds for ... More >>

Pembroke Pines Resolution About Cell Phones and Cancer Is Moronic

City commissioners in Pembroke Pines clearly have too much time on their hands. This week, the city passed a resolution to warn residents about a potential link between cell phones and cancer and recommend that residents keep their mobile devices at least an inch from their bodies. Several news ... More >>

Making Strides

Brunch for Boobs: Salsa Fiesta to Host Breast Cancer Awareness Brunch This Sunday

Salsa Fiesta, the Broward and Miami-Dade-based fast and casual Mexican concept of South Florida that originated in Venezuela, is getting geared up to fight breast cancer this month. Since opening its first location in Miami in 2009, the restaurant's new location in Pembroke Pines will be hosting the ... More >>

These Heels Were Made For Walking

Livelong Benefiting Livestrong Walk, Run, Ride

Who Doesn't Love a Bikini Parade?

Under the Streetlamp at Parker Playhouse on May 20

Forbes' Gardasil Story Sheds Light on Why Florida's Well-Meaning HPV Legislation Failed

Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State's official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The e ... More >>

Florida Anti-Vaccine Group Ignores Facts, Says It's Not Anti-Vaccine

​The Health Regulation Committee on Wednesday voted seven to zip in favor of SB 1116, a proposal to give parents of sixth-graders information on the human papillomavirus vaccine, which helps protect females from cervical cancer. As discussed yesterday, the original version of the bi ... More >>

Florida HPV Vaccine Bill Gets Watered Down Before Going to Committee; Anti-Vaccine Group Still Not Pleased

​Rick Perry tried making it mandatory. Michele Bachmann insinuated that it causes mental retardation. One of the world's top bioethicists bet Bachmann $10,000 to prove this claim. The human papillomavirus vaccine -- which helps protect women from certain strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer - ... More >>

Pink -- It's Not Even a Question

What's on the Boob Tube?

Cancer Memoir Meets Seth Rogen Comedy in the Slightly Uncomfortable "50/50"

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley Says He Has Prostate Cancer

gpoaccess.govMark Foley​Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley -- a Republican from West Palm Beach who represented Florida's 16th congressional district for more than a decade -- announced he has prostate cancer, according to Newsmax.Foley, 56, told the news outlet he's scheduled for surgery in an Orlando-a ... More >>

Pro-Life, Anti-Honesty: Mandatory Sonograms For Women Seeking Abortions

Ten weeks. Not a person.​As I write this, Floridian women in the second and third trimesters of a pregnancy must submit to a sonogram before procuring an abortion. In Tallahassee on April 20th, Rep. Liz Porter, of Lake City, stumped for a bill that would extend the requirement to women in the firs ... More >>

Taste for Women's Wellness Wine & Chocolate Tasting

Carla Golembe House of Cats and Miracles ​Since red wine and dark chocolate have been proven to have health benefits, do something good for both your body and your soul by attending the Taste For Women's Wellness Wine & Chocolate Tasting this Friday, February 4th from 7-9pm at The ... More >>

Laugh for a Cure

Look Kids! Mammograms!

RA Sushi's Onehope and Pink Roll Special Benefits Breast Cancer Research

Keep hope alve.​I've gotta give props to RA Sushi. The chain does a whole lot for charity. It annually gives to Nicky's Week charities to benefit childhood cancer research, and now it's doing the same for the Connie J. Goodale Breast Cancer Foundation.RA Sushi is doing it with its new Onehope Char ... More >>

Think Pink Rocks Brings Huge Hip-Hop Lineup to Mizner Park

Battle of the Big Hair

Wasserman Schultz Town Hall an Ugly Night for Democracy

I can't imagine a single person who was present at last night's town hall meeting by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who would say the event was productive or worthwhile. The opponents of health-care reform and the Democratic Congress showed no interest in a dialogue; they just wanted to scre ... More >>

The Skinny Dip: A Concert to Benefit Melanoma Research and Awareness

If You Moustache

Titillating Charity

Broward Republicans: Still Crazier Than Broward Democrats

Would you elect this man?​With an ethics scandal rocking the Democratic powers of Broward County -- and just a few days after a Democratic mayoral candidate for one Broward city was arrested for pulling a gun on his daughter, the Democratic mayor of Broward County -- the Republican Party may have ... More >>

World's Largest Cupcake to Trounce Mizner Park at Think Pink Rocks

Who you calling a cupcake, cupcake?​Tomorrow night's Think Pink Rocks concert at the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater in Mizner Park should be full of cupcakes screaming groupie-style at hip-hop artists AKON and Shontelle. But one cupcake in particular will tower over all the rest: the 1500-pound pin ... More >>

Code Pink

Safe!! Or... Unsafe? Wasserman Schultz Breaks Leg Sliding Into Second Base

Photo by C. StilesWasserman SchultzWest Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her personal battle against breast cancer, and in the war against the disease, she just won a purple heart. Last night in Washington, D.C., during a softball game whose proceeds went to breast cancer, Wasserma ... More >>

Boobs and Benefits

Wasserman Schultz Pummeled in Press

C. StilesDebbie Wasserman SchultzThis time of year, the nation's college football teams stage spring practices, and in a measure to spare quarterbacks from risk of injury, teams dress that player in a red or yellow jersey -- a visual reminder to linebackers that this one player is untouchable. When ... More >>

Wasserman Schultz Beats Breast Cancer

C. StilesWasserman SchultzAround this time one year ago, I was researching an in-depth article on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the fast-rising Democratic congresswoman who represents the West Broward suburbs and still manages to be a minivan-driving soccer mom for her Weston family. I had no idea until ... More >>

Booze for the Boobies

The more you drink, the more RA Sushi donates.

Hell on Heels

We All Wear The Ribbon

99-plus Luft Balloons

Running Man (or Woman)

Former Hollywood Chief Diagnosed With Lung Cancer

Far From Benign

Is South Florida's most notorious pimp peddling a fake cancer cure?

Best Boobs

Cinderella Wig and Breast Prosthetic Salon

The Ball Barons

The Cattle Barons' Ball

Smear Campaign

Decades after the death of a great doctor, a pair of jet setters claims his legacy

The Best Shot at a Cure For Cancer

Cancer vaccines are the hottest thing in oncology. Dr. Howard Abel is bringing the experimental treatment to South Florida.

A Touch of Glass

Stripper and adult-film star Leslie Glass is battling cancer in the same way she's conducted her career: with compassion and guts

Miracle Baby

Seven years ago Bill Wetzel got testicular cancer and became sterile. Luckily he had already made a deposit at the sperm bank.

Weird Science

The Life Extension Foundation claims it'll add years to your life with pills and cancer profiles. As long as you have the money.