California IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : El Toro Doctor Has License Revoked

State medical officials said they have revoked the license of an El Toro physician accused of administering a hormonal treatment that posed a public danger and caused harmful side-effects in at least 18 women. Dr. Norman King Beals Jr., 55, who hosted a call-in radio talk show in Orange County and advertised heavily in local newspapers, admitted that the California Medical Board’s allegations were true and declined to contest the charges at an evidentiary hearing, according to documents filed last week by the state attorney general’s office. Beals had touted “hormonal replacement therapy” as a cure-all for a host of female-oriented afflictions--including breast cancer, menopausal hot flashes and premenstrual syndrome.