Women's Health

David Lynch Film Premieres at Palm Beach International Film Festival

Five Great Food Events This Weekend: German Beer, Korean Dancing, and More

It's getting close. The workweek is almost over. What on earth can you do with all of that free time? Well, fret not, friends. This weekend brings along a number of food-related events to keep you out of trouble. Or not. Check out the special events featuring Oktoberfest, beauty queens, Korean danci ... More >>

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

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 >>

Why South Florida Is Pretty Healthy and the Panhandle Is Going to Drop Dead

The University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute released its third-annual county health rankings earlier this week, offering a huge pile of statistics on more than 3,000 U.S. counties that reveal, among other things, that fewer car crashes happen in the Northeast and teen pregnancy is high ... 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 >>

Sexiest Lips Contest Through Oct. 27 at M Bar in Fort Lauderdale

Tania Saiz via Flickr Creative CommonsThink you've got a sexy set? ​Think you've got a sexy set? Of lips, that is - mind out of the gutter, people. While some bars pull in the crowds with hot body or wet T-shirt contests, M Bar's take on the quintessential South Florida sexy showdown leaves a bit ... More >>

Pink -- It's Not Even a Question

What's on the Boob Tube?

Vaginal Rejuvenation: Controversial Cosmetic Surgery Offered At Strax

​For women who want their junk to look like Barbie's, the world of plastic surgery offers a plethora of options.Any intimate part can be enlarged, removed, enhanced, or reduced. According to an article in this month's Atlantic magazine, cosmetic vaginal surgery is a growing trend, increasingly off ... More >>

Deaths at One of South Florida's Most Popular Plastic Surgery Centers Raise Questions About the Safety of Cheaper Nips and Tucks

Allen West "Offended" by Planned Parenthood in Black Neighborhoods

Allen West doesn't want women to get prenatal vitamins, either.​U.S. Rep. Allen West managed to sound relatively sane for the first hour of his town hall meeting in Palm Beach last night. He used lots of pie charts and graphs to outline bedrock GOP talking points about slashing spending and cuttin ... 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 >>

Gaybies: Gay Couples in Florida Turn to Foreign Surrogacy

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 >>

"Sex and the City 2" Ages Disgracefully

Experience the Change

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 >>

Sweet Dreams for Your Sweet Tooth

​Holiday shopping may be a bit of a nightmare, but Seminole Casino Coconut Creek wants guests to have Sweet Dreams this season... or at least Thursdays through Saturdays when they host their third annual dessert affair, starring three foodie icons: Chef Todd English tonight, Chef Rocco DiSpirito o ... More >>

Lake Worth's Roy Foster One of CNN's Top 10 Heroes Worldwide

Foster: Proving South Florida still has a few good men​What are the odds? Of 10 extraordinary people chosen from around the globe as the finalists for CNN's Heroes of 2009,  two of them are doing their good deeds based in South Florida. And until this Thursday the 19th, you can click here to ... More >>

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

Relax for Charity

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 on Hardball

West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared this evening on Hardball, the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC. She was a Matthews favorite even before she revealed this weekend that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer more than a year ago and underwent a double mastectomy as well as an ... 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

In Cord Blood

Turning the miracle of birth into the banking of cold, hard cash.

Take This Job and Shove It

Hot, Bothered

A Good Egg

Best Boobs

Cinderella Wig and Breast Prosthetic Salon

Letters for April 1, 2004

Criminals: We Love 'em

Cuts You Up

As the number of cesarean section deliveries in South Florida soars, some women use midwives to learn to trust their bodies and give birth naturally

East Meets West

Add MoCA for a cultural treat

Change, Change, Change

Sing it loud, sing it proud, girls; it happens to the best of us

Canary in a Coal Mine

The drug that could help Shelley Rozolsky is too experimental for her county-sponsored health plan

Smear Campaign

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

R U Down Wit' Granny Rapp?

When Shirley got older, she sure got bolder. The hip-hop nation must be aging.

The Straight Dope