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Breast Cancer Awareness: Interview with Dr. Beth Y. Karlan

The pink party was established by Elyse Walker in honor of her mother, Barbara Feder, who discovered her cancer when she had Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer. She didnt have the benefit of the treatments available today, but thanks topink party, Dr. Beth Y. Karlan, MD, and the Cedars-Sinai Womens Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute have received over $6 million dollars in funding for treatment and research. We were lucky enough to get Dr. Karlan’s perspective on how helpful and inspiring the event is:

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Halloween Punch for Kids

You have the party favors, the healthy snacks, the not-so healthy snacks, and all the kids have great costumes. But how do you serve up a great Halloween Punch for the little ones that is special enough for the occasion, and isnt filled with sugar? Easy! Youll Need: 2 liters of Sprite Zero 2 cups of No-Sugar-Added Apple Juice 1 cup of Light Pomegranate Juice Plastic Glove Filtered Water Directions:

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Knocked Up: When TV Characters Get Pregnant…

When an actress gets pregnant – what happens to her character? Television shows have come up with all kinds of creative ways to deal with the problem of a main character’s obviously expanding waistline. Some use baggy clothes and shooting angles to cover it up, others write in a storyline about weight gain and many take a more direct route and decide to write pregnancy into the plot. It’s a classic case of art imitating life. Here are some of our favorite actresses whose pregnancies were intertwined with their characters on-screen lives.

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National Child Passenger Safety Week: Choose the Right Car Seat!

Did you know that car crashes are the number one killer of children under 12 in the United States? That’s a pretty scary statistic. This week is National Child Passenger Safety Week, and we want to encourage parents everywhere to make sure their little ones are safe. According to theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), “The best way to protect them in the car is to put them in the right seat, at the right time, and use it the right way.”