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By David Sack
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, the culmination of years of controversy over...
By Daniel Halperin
This week, tens of thousands of delegates are meeting in Washington for the biennial International AIDS Conference, striving to advance an...
By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationweighs approval of a radical new method of AIDS prevention — a prescription pill taken once...
By Jamie Goldberg
WASHINGTON — Shortly after his partner died in 1986, Cornelius Baker found out he was HIV-positive. While AIDStook the lives of...
By Chris Woolston, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Your family doctor doesn't work with a teleprompter. And there wasn't a live studio audience the last time you put on a hospital gown...
By Erin Loury, Los Angeles Times
Treatment drugs can do more than improve the health of people with HIV: If administered early, medications can also reduce the spread of the...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
The Food and Drug Administration has approved marketing of the weight-loss drug lorcaserin, the first prescription anti-obesity medication...
By Thomas H. Maugh II
The Austrian company AFFiRiS A.G. of Vienna said this week it has begun the first-ever clinical trials of a vaccine to treat Parkinson'...
By Thomas H. Maugh II
A widely used antioxidant supplement can reduce some of the symptoms of autism in children, a pilot study has found. The supplement -- N-...
By Thomas H. Maugh II
An inexpensive arthritis drug called auranofin has been shown in lab and animal tests to kill the parasites that cause amoebic dysentery and...
At any one time, hundreds of clinical trials are underway in the U.S. to test simpler and more effective ways to treat and prevent HIV...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Just before noon on a December morning in 1988, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook over 40% of the territory of Armenia, centered in the...