Topic Archive: Health
Marketplace has a story on the newly launched L.A.-based print magazine for nurses and the people who love them. The website includes a blog by Rebekah Child, a USC and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 13, 2009 1:16 PM
West Hollywood City Councilmember Jeff Prang announced the death of his former deputy this morning. Karen Ocamb has more.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 11, 2009 10:28 PM
Last night on KCRW's Which Way, L.A.?, Warren Olney noted that Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, declined to take questions directly from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 11, 2009 10:24 PM
The Lakers' special coach and former great for the Lakers and UCLA made the media rounds Monday announcing that he is being treated for a rare form of leukemia. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2009 9:35 AM
The students at USC's Neon Tommy looked into the Los Angeles County deaths attributed to the H1N1 flu and mapped the cases — 57 since April, when it was known... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 5, 2009 9:25 PM
Amy Wallace, the editor-at-large for Los Angeles magazine, wrote recently at Wired about the controversy over the safety of vaccines. She frames it as more akin to hysteria on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2009 12:59 PM
The most-viewed article in the UK's Guardian the past 24 hours has been a weekend piece from Los Angeles asking if California will become America's first failed state. For what... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 7, 2009 12:10 AM
The AP reports out of Thailand that "For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 24, 2009 7:31 AM
© Steve Greenberg. May not be reused without permission of the artist News item: the county Board of Supervisors moved forward with a plan to ask the University of California... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2009 6:43 PM
With local media obsessing a bit this week on the 50th anniversary of the partial meltdown of an experimental nuclear reactor above Chatsworth, here's the first comprehensive news story on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 14, 2009 4:56 PM
Info released today by county public health officials indicates there have been 22 positive HIV tests of porn performers since a scare shut down the adult video biz for a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2009 10:38 PM
A SoCal newspaper editor passed along this fable, saying it came from a friend at the Denver Post. But I don't actually know who wrote it. (Update below.) One could... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 29, 2009 11:59 PM
Los Angeles journalist Daniel Hernandez, in Mexico the past year or so writing a book, has left the federal district for Puebla to get a break from the "toxic urbanism... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 28, 2009 4:10 PM
Move sets up additional help for public health officials if needed. LAT, DN * Update to earlier story: Coroner no longer thinks those two L.A. County deaths are related to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 28, 2009 12:33 PM
Symptoms resemble swine flu closely enough that more testing is being done, the Times reports at L.A. Now. Bellflower Medical Center reported the death of a 33-year Long Beach man... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 28, 2009 9:30 AM
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning tonight advising against non-essential travel to Mexico, citing the swine flu outbreak there.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2009 5:32 PM
Investigators are looking at two Los Angeles County clusters of influenza, but chances are they're the usual seasonal flus, county public health officials are saying on a televised press conference... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2009 3:13 PM
L.A. Times writer Thomas Curwen's and photographer Allen J. Schaben's series on Ana Rodarte, 3½ years in the making, has award contender all over it: "Ana Rodarte had given... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 5, 2009 11:28 PM
The Whittier Daily News says that the police were called last night to get attorney Gloria Allred to leave the home before two of Nadya Suleman's babies arrived. La Habra... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2009 1:23 PM
Greetings from the new home of octomom Nadya Suleman, her babies and half the TV news crews in Southern California. "It's pandemonium out here," emails longtime reader Thomas Naccarato,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2009 8:54 PM
A tentative agreement between the county and UC would reopen the emergency room and other inpatient services at Martin Luther King-Harbor Medical Center near Watts by 2012. The hospital would... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2009 5:15 PM
Since I mentioned her last week on the blog, and on Friday in my KCRW commentary, let's note for the record that Joann Killeen and her partner have stepped aside... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2009 9:57 PM
Steve Mikulan gets off a couple of good lines in his L.A. Daily post that "as a press representative for Union Pacific Railroad, Joann Killeen has plenty of experience with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 11, 2009 2:05 PM
Tamiflu, the most commonly used influenza antiviral drug and the key to the government's emergency stockpile, no longer works on the flu strain that is emerging as the most dominant... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 3, 2009 10:31 PM
Six boys and two girls were born to a mother at the Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower — only the second live octuplets on record in the U.S. The babies,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2009 7:58 PM
A woman who lives in the Country Club Park area of Mid-City has come down with the first human case of bubonic plague in Los Angeles County since 1984. Health... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2006 3:34 PM