Friday, February 3, 2012
Komen backs down on Planned Parenthood
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure has backed down from its decision not to fund Planned Parenthood.Susan G. Komen for the Cure has backed down from its. . .
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Hernias difficult to diagnose in women
by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie
Martine Ehrenclou, 51, first noticed her lower abdomen pain in January 2010. She experienced severe discomfort if she sat at her desk for even 15. . .
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Komen foundation cuts funding to Planned Parenthood
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The Susan B. Komen for the Cure foundation cut funding for Planned Parenthood breast cancer testing.. . .
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Boston doctor finds treating transgender youth a transforming experience
by Penny Schwartz, JTA
In a family of prominent Jewish educators, Norman Spack could be called the rebel. He became a doctor. “I'm the only one who didn't go into Jewish. . .
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Latching on to a healthy solution
By Ryan E. Smith
As a third-year pediatric resident at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles who works an average of 80 hours per week, Dr. Jonathan Goldfinger could use. . .
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Kosher coaching fuses spirituality, nutrition
By Judy Gruen
Do women and food always have to be locked in a complicated, co-dependent relationship? Not if Shimona Tzukernik and Miriam Wiener have anything to. . .
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Palestinian conjoined twins separated at Hadassah hospital
Surgeons at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem separated conjoined twins in utero.. . .
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Exercise your options
by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie
As the holidays roll around, so, too, do days spent cooped up indoors with kids and relatives, braving rainy weather (or even snow, for those who. . .
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Expert in Jewish law, women’s health offers intimate help
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Recently, a young woman who had suffered a miscarriage called Shoshana Samuels, who is a yoetzet halacha, a trained adviser in the Jewish laws of. . .
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
When prostate cancer scare hits close to home
by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie, Contributing Writer
When Rabbi John Rosove of Temple Israel of Hollywood was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009, he was devastated. Given a dire prognosis by his. . .
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Powerlifting: She started late, but it was worth the wait
by Jonathan Maseng, Contributing Writer
Ellen Stein is 58 years old but says she doesn’t feel like it. Indeed, Stein is a woman who seems to defy age — a competitive powerlifter who. . .
Monday, October 17, 2011
Author, psychiatrist Judith Orloff on the power of emotional freedom
By Orit Arfa
Dr. Judith Orloff’s adolescence reads like a Jewish version of “Girl, Interrupted,” the 1999 film starring Wynona Ryder as teenage social. . .
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Following her heart: A Yom Kippur story
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
This is what Ava Kaufman was wearing when she negotiated with God while in a seven-week coma following a heart transplant: a white turtleneck leotard. . .
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Opinion: Fighting to preserve Obamacare
By Susan Freudenheim
I broke a bone in my foot several weeks ago, and I’ve been limping around in an expensive, ugly boot and shlepping to doctors ever since. A simple. . .
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Discourage male circumcision, Dutch doctors urge
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A Dutch medical association has called on politicians and human rights groups to discourage male circumcision.. . .
Friday, September 16, 2011
The skin game
by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie
Most of us have one body part that we’d like to change, be it our double chin, our tuchis or our belly.. . .
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Doctors in Israel end strike amid economic protests
Reuters
Doctors in Israel ended a strike on Thursday that had hamstrung the public health sector for nearly half a year, relieving some pressure from Prime. . .
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Dramatic progress in in-vitro detection spurs new push for Ashkenazi Jews to do genetic disease test
By Hillel Kuttler, JTA
Susan and Brad Stillman grew concerned following their son Benjamin’s birth in September 1998. He was fussy and congested, had difficulty. . .
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Baby’s parents looking for hope, help and a miracle
by Pierce Courchaine, Contributing Writer
Baby Leah tenses and contorts in her crib at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. A visit to her in the room requires suiting up in a gown, gloves and. . .
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Meshugah for Zumba
by Deborah Hirsch, JTA
At age 54, Esther Goldberg has danced in front of 46,000 people at a sold-out Phillies game and behind a casino bar wearing little more than a. . .
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Anti-circumcision: Is this equal to anti-Semitism?
By Norman Lavin, M.D, PhD., UCLA Medical School
Believe it or not, an American city, San Francisco, is voting to proscribe one of the central rituals of an entire religious community, the Jewish. . .
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Classes bring a bit of shul to yoga
by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie, Contributing Writer
In a dimly lit room overlooking Santa Monica’s bustling Third Street Promenade, prayers set to electronic music float between bodies in motion.. . .
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Mind, body and sole
By Orit Arfa
The Grinberg Method, named for its Israeli founder, Avi Grinberg, is described as “a structured way of teaching through the body.” But a better. . .
Monday, June 27, 2011
Jewish camps review safety measures in wake of Ramah tragedy
by Sue Fishkoff, JTA
It's the nightmare of every parent -- and every teacher, youth leader and camp director.. . .
