More on Medicine
By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Obama sought to tamp down fears Tuesday that his landmark healthcare law would raise insurance costs and...
By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times
Citing recent evidence that HIV infections are best managed when treated early, an influential panel of medical experts has finalized its...
By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times
Reacting to the death of a young West Hollywood lawyer over the weekend and growing concerns about the possible spread of bacterial...
A little red key chain attachment could mean life or death if someone is suffering a heart attack. The plastic container, called At Heart,...
By Jessica P. Ogilvie
When Charlie Lustman, who ran the Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax Avenue until it closed in June 2006, was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer...
By Michael Hiltzik
Compromise, defined as the art of getting part of a loaf when the whole loaf is out of reach, comes in many forms. But surely the...
Lisa Girion and Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times
A database that could identify prolific prescribers and prevent overdose deaths is readily available, but California officials say they lack...
By Scott Glover, Lisa Girion and Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times
Some provide massive amounts of painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs to addicts and dealers, according to state records, regulators and law...
By Karen Ravn
Twitter. A popular online social network? Yes. A vital tool for medical research? Maybe.
The Medical Board of California is often slow to act when investigating doctors suspected of abusing their prescription pads - even when...
By Scott Glover and Lisa Girion
Prescription overdoses kill more people than heroin and cocaine. An L.A. Times review of coroners’ records finds that drugs prescribed...
By David Lazarus
The U.S. Justice Department's civil fraud division is investigating claims that CVS Caremark wrongly refilled prescriptions and billed...
By Michael Hiltzik
StemCells Inc. has a history not much different from those of dozens, even hundreds, of biotech companies all around California.
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times
MODESTO —Topamax. Depakote. Phenobarbital. The list goes on. Before Jayden David turned 5, he had tried a dozen powerful medications...
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 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 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...