Women's Health

Speed Rack Nationals: Wild Card Voting

Talented women shaking up classic cocktails at obscene speeds is already fun, but throw breast cancer fundraising into the mix, and you've reached another level of intoxicatingly good karma. While San Antonio bartender Karah Carmack won Miss Speed Rack Texas this past January, it's not too late to ... More >>

Consumption For A Cause: Does It Really Help?

In high school and in college, I consistently volunteered my time at hospitals, food banks, shelters, and, one summer, even overseas teaching English to 6-year-olds in northern India. Yes, my motivation stemmed in part from the fact that such activities looked good on medical school applications, b ... More >>

Coogs for the Cure: Great Sports, Great Cause this Weekend

The University of Houston Athletics Department's Coogs for the Cure is giving you a chance to have fun while raising money in the battle against breast cancer this weekend. Come cheer your favorite team, whichever one it may be, when UH takes on Rice in volleyball and soccer, and then takes on the U ... More >>

Angela Buchanan: Posing As Gynecologist, She Tricks Woman Into Months of Sex and a Civil Union

We've heard some strange cases of online impersonation, but this one, as the Brits say, takes the biscuit. Last night Jessica Cooley of the Lufkin Daily News broke the story of Angela Buchanan, a 30-year-old woman evidently smitten with a 51-year-old lady. Buchanan and the woman had been messaging ... More >>

Dr. Khaled Jabboury: Incredible Story of a Proven Cancer Doctor Getting Steamrolled by the Insurance Giants

It's a Thursday afternoon and Dr. Khaled Jabboury greets a patient in the waiting room of his office at the West Houston Medical Center. The woman, though it's not immediately noticeable, is facing the toughest challenge of her life. As Dr. Jabboury has proven, she has come to the right place. For ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Menopause The Musical, Oscar in the Box, See Rock City & Other Destinations, The Tempest

Susan G. Komen Backs Out of Its Planned Parenthood Fiasco (UPDATED)

The ribbon's been a bit charred this week.​New Coke, you have a new rival for corporate ineptness. In a statement on its Web site, the Texas-based Susan G. Komen breast-cancer organization has reversed its fiasco of a decision to cut off funds to Planned Parenthood. We want to apologize to t ... More >>

Iron Men: Five Rock 'n' Roll Cancer Survivors

Sad news emerged today that heavy metal godfather Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma. It was a big shock for Black Sabbath fans, as the group's original lineup have a new album and a world tour planned for 2012. Though already counted among rock and roll's ultimate sur ... More >>

CVS: No Birth Control

Won't sell morning-after pill

CVS: No Birth Control

Won't sell morning-after pill to man.

CVS Refused To Sell Man A Morning-After Pregnancy Pill

No Plan B for you, dude​If you keep a Plan B morning-after pill around for emergencies, sometimes it's going to get used, which means you're going to have to go get a new one, right? And if you're a chivalrous dude, you'll offer to do the chore yourself. That's what Isaac Kurtz set out to do ... More >>

Planned Parenthood: Punched in the Uterus by Misguided Texas Senate

More bad news for women who rely on Planned Parenthood.​A Texas Senate subcommittee wrangled the vulvas of Texas women into a chokehold yesterday with its latest assault on Planned Parenthood. Republican Senator Robert Deuell, who is a physician, introduced a bill to a three-member subcommitte ... More >>

Ingredient of the Week: Ground Flaxseed Meal

​What is it? First, let's start with flaxseeds. They're tiny little seeds that are just the slightest bit larger than sesame seeds. They come in a range of colors - from light to dark-brown - depending on the variety. These seeds can be used for crunch in things like cereal, breads and grano ... More >>

Sex Please, We’re Sixty

Pleasantly Plump: One-Third of Overweight Women in Denial

Oh, the ironyGood news for chubby-chasers in Texas: a new study out of the University of Texas Medical Branch claims that "37 percent of overweight women and 10.5 percent of obese women were of the notion that their weight was normal or too low."Published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, ... More >>

Dynamo Fight Revolution, Breast Cancer This Weekend

The Revolution are coming! The Revolution are coming!​The Houston Dynamo have teamed up with Methodist Cancer Center to bring awareness for Breast Cancer. The Dynamo will have a special $20 ticket package for this Sunday's home match against the New England Revolution. The package will include a t ... More >>

Dynamo's Boswell Learns About Boobies

From SBHouston comes word of this video, put up by the Houston Dynamo's Bobby Boswell, of his efforts to film a puvlic-service announcement for Breast Cancer Awareness night.We're not sure how many of these "bloopers" are planned -- especially since the finished product at the end is recorded with ... More >>

Bald in the Land of Big Hair

A Texas woman's follicle envy

Menopause, the Musical

Hot flashes and cold sweats - yeah, that sounds like fodder for a Broadway show

Pee Your Pants at the Hobby Center

Change of life, change of roles​In an odd, yet somehow appropriate exhortation given the context, actress Megan Cavanagh, who stars as Earth Mother in Menopause the Musical coming to the Hobby Center next week, says audiences should see the show because: "It'll make you laugh so hard you'll pee yo ... More >>

What's Your Bra Color? Nah, You Can Do Better

Unless you're one of these ladies, we probably don't care about your bra color.​Black. Beige. Nude. Purple. Fuchsia. What do these colors have in common? Perhaps they resemble the spectrum of brilliance you projectile puked after a particularly steep, single-handed tab at Shot Bar. Good gues ... More >>

Truth and Consequences on the Mexico-United States Border: Protecting the Rights of All Border Residents

Home births draw American-born Latinos directly into the immigration issue

R.I.P. Former Ale House and Stag's Head Manager Angela Mullan Jenkins

​A wake will be held from 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Stag's Head Pub for Angela Mullan Jenkins, who passed away Thursday from breast cancer complications. Jenkins came to Houston from Northern Ireland over 30 years ago and worked briefly for a division of Baker-Hughes before beginning her career ... More >>

The Search For A Lonely Houston Web Phenom

This is the story of an overweight, lonely, possibly lesbian, cheating, married, Christian and, at the moment, anonymous Houston woman. She was one of 650,000 AOL users whose Internet queries were publicly posted by the company for three days in 2006. By the time AOL removed the data, it was too lat ... More >>

Hispanics Delivered by Border Midwives Are Having Trouble Getting U.S. Passports: Location, Location

Midwives further north say business is much better than for their counterparts to the south

Hispanics Delivered by Border Midwives Are Having Trouble Getting U.S. Passports

Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

Houston Women Will Test What Everyone But Doctors Call Female Viagra

Rick Perry's HPV Vaccine Has A New Market: Immigrants

Getting Off On Fighting Crime

The Immigration Cops Hate Midwives

Elizabeth Edwards

The politician’s wife discusses her life — the good and the bad

This Just In: Hard Rock Hosting Melissa Etheridge Listening Party

Abort Mission

No, Thanks. We'll Take Cancer.

Re: Behind the Scenes of a Conference Call

Behind the Scenes of a Conference Call

In the Pink

Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

All's Mel

Doctor Nice

Steven Hotze uses a warm, easygoing manner to peddle natural hormones to women, at thousands of dollars a pop. So who cares about credentials or documented results?

Step Up

It's cardio for a cause at this weekend's Race for the Cure

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Boob Tube

Houston ladies get the chance to be Girls Gone Wild

Calories for a Cause

Help fight breast cancer with a sugary snack

Best Dancer/Choreographer/Social Advocate

Jane Weiner

Lucky Charms

Artists contribute their time and effort to find a cure for breast cancer

Support without Brassieres

Celebrating mammaries and their many euphemisms

Best Tofu/Soy Products

Whole Foods Market

Hot Flash

Seeking the Cure

Night & Day

October 1 - 7, 1998