State Senate panel passes bill to ban people under 18 from using tanning beds

California's beleaguered indoor tanning industry, after being hit with a new federal tax, is fighting to hold on to a sizable piece of its...

UCLA will catalog a noted conservationist's collection

When Ellen Stern Harris died of cancer five years ago at age 76, the pugnacious conservationist left a vast and chaotic collection of...

New Medicare payment strategy to reward hospitals for high-quality care

The Obama administration issued a final regulation to reward hospitals that provide high-quality care, the first in a series of steps that...

Messing with genes to wipe out malaria

Malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquito bites, has resisted insecticides, mosquito netting and other eradication efforts....

Mystery of floating fire ants solved

The mystery behind the remarkable ability of fire ants to turn themselves into a living, crawling life raft has been unlocked by scientists:...

Stem cell research can continue to get federal funding, appeals court rules

WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court cleared the way Friday for continued federal funding of research using human embryonic stem cells, a...

Tornado destruction shocks even weather experts

Veteran tornado watchers saw Wednesday's mega-twisters coming.

Allergan ordered to pay $212 million in Botox brain-injury lawsuit

Botox-maker Allergan Inc. was ordered by a federal court jury to pay $212 million to a Virginia man who alleged that use of the drug left...

Food safety problems reemerge in China

Three years after China was rocked by a scandal over deadly tainted milk, the country is once again grappling with concerns over food...

Old crab traps removed from Chesapeake Bay area by the thousands

In 2008, the federal government gave Virginia $15 million to help restore the Chesapeake Bay crab population, which had plummeted to...

Armadillos pass leprosy to humans, study finds

They're cute. They're often roadkill. Some gourmands say they're tasty, whether baked or barbecued.

President Obama seeks to extend Clean Water Act protections

More of the West's small streams and wetlands would be protected by the Clean Water Act under an Obama administration proposal announced...

L.A., Bakersfield remain among U.S.'s most polluted cities, report says

Smog and soot levels have dropped significantly in Southern California over the last decade, but the Los Angeles region ...

Remnants of oil spill linger in Montebello tributary

The gooey remnants of an oil spill lurked Tuesday in a tributary of the Rio Hondo River in Montebello, near where 40 gallons of crude oil...

Justices weigh privacy and drug marketing

Government lawyers defending limits on the marketing of new drugs ran into sharply skeptical questions Tuesday at the Supreme Court from...