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The Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has released its Make Our Children Healthy Again…

Blanca Lucio likes to spend her mornings tending to her zucchinis, cucumbers, watermelons and traditional Mexican herbs at a small…

In 2003, the Nobel Prize winner David Baltimore, then president of Caltech, paused to reflect on his role as one…

I lost me. You lost yourself? Yeah. Where did you go? I don’t know. I don’t have a sense of…

Like a lot of people my age, there are times when I can’t find my keys, or my sunglasses, or…

Seniors in some parts of the country say they are being denied COVID-19 vaccinations amid an ongoing spike in cases,…

A COVID wave is washing over California, with the state seeing continued increases in the number of newly confirmed cases…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s Health secretary and a longtime vaccine skeptic, struck a defiant tone Thursday as he…

This is the story of two Republican doctor-senators named Bill. One of them, as majority leader from 2003 to 2007,…

SACRAMENTO — California, Oregon and Washington are joining forces to insulate vaccine guidance and other public health recommendations from political interference, a…

For five years, I dodged every bullet. I don’t know how I managed to beat COVID-19 for so long, even…

It’s one of the most insidious diseases you’ve never heard of, but Chagas is here in California and 29 other…

The body of a woman was found by Pasadena firefighters responding to a house fire Saturday morning, officials said. Firefighters…

Large, brown cage-free eggs from a small egg farm in San Bernardino County are at the center of a salmonella…

New federal guidance surrounding COVID vaccine authorization could make it more difficult for many people to be inoculated against the…

For anyone wondering whether intense dust storms, such as the haboob that enveloped Phoenix this week, are possible in Southern…

Lodi — A battle has been waging in Sacramento over whether beverage cartons — the ones used for milk, juice, broth, wine,…

Less than eight months after the Eaton and Palisades wildfires destroyed 16,000 buildings in Los Angeles County, the U.S. Army…

Large methane leaks at oil and gas facilities across the United States not only unleash massive plumes of the potent…

Across Southern California, emergency room workers are primed for the wave of patients that pour in as heat waves like…

Iretha Warmsley was born and raised in South L.A.’s Black community, and for as long as she can remember, air…

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected…

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court said Thursday the Trump administration may cancel hundreds of health research grants that involve diversity, equity…

An herbal supplement that’s marketed as a cure-all for chronic pain and sold in gas stations and smoke shops is…

From President Trump’s first day back in office, he vowed to unravel California’s sway over the nation’s auto-emission standards by…

A South Lake Tahoe resident has tested positive for the plague — yes, the same pest-transmitted disease estimated to have…

On July 10, a church signed the deeds transferring a half-acre of land hosting a community center in the heart…

COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation — according to new data…

There are a lot of reasons why people reach out to Teen Line, a Century City-based hotline that connects young…

The latest California numbers suggest 2025 will be another record-smashing year for valley fever, the illness linked to drought and…

In a first, researchers have identified the nation’s roughly 8,700 cattle feeding operations, and the map shows California has more…

In a first, researchers have identified the nation’s roughly 8,700 cattle feeding operations, and the map shows California has more…

It’s a number thousands of Palisades and Eaton fire survivors have come to depend on: 80 milligrams of lead in…

It doesn’t take an awful lot of investigating to see that we’re swimming in an ocean of waste: There are…

Figuring out what should go into your curbside waste bins is hardly straightforward. Consider your single-use coffee cup — the…

Their medical research focuses on potentially lifesaving breakthroughs in cancer treatment, and developing tools to more easily diagnose debilitating diseases….

Any trip to the dark night skies of our Southern California deserts reveals a vista full of wonder and mystery…

Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a large scale, with some unethical researchers colluding with unethical…

State lawmakers are considering a bill meant to protect access to HIV prevention drugs for insured Californians as threats from…

After January’s wildfires reduced thousands of homes in Altadena and Pacific Palisades to heaps of ash and rubble, wildfire survivors…

When is AI not artificial intelligence? When it refers to ammonia inhalants, aka smelling salts. When are these AIs in…

By all accounts, the January firestorms that decimated thousands of homes and killed 31 people in Los Angeles County were…

Temperatures were fast approaching 116 degrees as Rubén Partida loaded his dusty Nissan Frontier truck with two coolers of water…

A study published Monday offers clarity on a more than decade-long marine mystery: What has been killing the velvety sunflower…

The Gifford fire has scorched more than 30,000 acres in less than two days in Los Padres National Forest as…

A roughly 15-foot Great White shark was captured on video last week swimming close to Santa Monica’s shores, providing a…

Grammy award-winning pop star Justin Timberlake, 44, recently took to Instagram to share his diagnosis of Lyme disease, a bacterial…

Despite California’s ban on foie gras, the pumped-up bird livers are being sold in Southern California stores. Foie gras, which…

A few months ago, Northeastern University computer scientist Annika Schoene was playing around with ChatGPT when she found a troubling…

Every fall, more than a million young Americans don helmets and padded shoulder pads to play high school football. But…

By almost any measure, living through a once-in-a-century pandemic emergency that killed 7 million people — including 1.1 million in…

Despite the dramatic reduction in L.A. drug overdose deaths in the last few years, there’s a fly in the ointment:…

When it comes to meteor showers, the Perseids pop. It’s not just about the quantity of meteors (as many as…

The federal government has paid California dairy farms more than $230 million to subsidize losses in milk production resulting from…

Serious liver disease is becoming more common among Americans who drink heavily, according to a new study from Keck Medicine…

Just before sunrise on Nov. 8, 2018, a power line fell from a wind-worn Pacific Gas & Electric transmission tower…

Los Angeles County’s health system, which is responsible for the care of the region’s poorest, is careening toward a financial…

Damage claims from the Eaton wildfire in Altadena could wipe out the $21-billion fund California created to shield utilities and…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is turning its attention to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressant drugs…

Misty Williams checks into the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from time to time for treatment of debilitating pain…

A group of university researchers at Northwestern — including a nursing mother — have come up with a way to…

LOS ANGELES — Researchers have identified a gut-genetic interaction that could trigger an overactive immune response in the colon — offering one…

Earlier this week, President Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI, after he noted mild swelling in his…

As authorities brace for a potential resurgence in bird flu cases this fall, infectious disease specialists warn that the Trump…

Bridget McCarthy believes that if her son Riley Chart had quick and easy access to a suicide prevention hotline designed…

Patrick Golling yanked the pull cord, and the Honda engine roared to life. Seconds after it began sucking water out…

For years, science fiction has promised a future filled with robots that can swim, crawl and fly like animals. In…

Redwood City — Fed up with the state’s refusal to enforce a law banning the sale of polystyrene foam cups, plates and…

WASHINGTON  — Public health advocates won a big case in the Supreme Court on the last day of this year’s term,…

The Trump administration has sued California over the state’s voter-approved animal welfare law, which protects hens, pigs and calves from…

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus caused life expectancy in California to drop significantly. It’s now been…

Amy Kane was filled with dread when she heard that the national suicide prevention lifeline would stop offering specialized crisis…

LOS ANGELES — You’ve probably heard the phrase: “Save the bees.” But new research suggests we may need to be more specific…

Over the last several months, a deep sense of unease has settled over laboratories across the United States. Researchers at…

They gather several times a week in the parking lot of a Vons supermarket in Mar Vista, and no subject…

Greg Pryor began composting yard and food waste for San Francisco in 1996, and today he oversees nine industrial-sized composting…

Weeks after President Trump took office, multiple government webpages referencing gender and sexual orientation abruptly disappeared from the internet. Many…

Federal contractors tasked with clearing ash and debris from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires improperly sent truckloads of asbestos-tainted waste…

As California’s fire season heats up, Gov. Gavin Newsom sharply criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for failing to devote adequate…

I watched my blood snake through the tube stuck into my arm as I sat under a canopy erected by…

Attention would-be warbler watchers and pigeon peepers: Ornithologists at UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are…

When it comes to vaccines, virtually nothing that comes out of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mouth is true. The man…

Hims & Hers, the high-flying telehealth company that rapidly ascended from a buzzy startup selling Viagra to a multibillion-dollar business…

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the preeminent center for pediatric medicine in Southern California. For three decades, it’s also been…

The Trump administration has lifted a freeze on federal funds for HIV prevention and surveillance programs, officials said, following an…

California has already reported more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, a worrisome development that comes as…

Malaysia will ban plastic waste imports from the U.S. starting Tuesday because of America’s failure to abide by the Basel…

Odds are, something in your pantry is colored with petroleum. Synthetic dyes — which give fruit snacks their bright colors…

The number of gray whales migrating along the California coast has plummeted again this year, dropping to levels not seen…

As a professor at UC Santa Barbara, I research the effects of and solutions to ocean pollution, including oil seeps,…

Johnny had Ed. Conan had Andy. And Gov. Gavin Newsom? A single-use plastic water bottle. In most of the YouTube…

Missed childhood vaccinations. Skipped blood sugar checks. Medications abandoned at the pharmacy. These are among the healthcare disruptions providers have…

The union representing workers at a UC Davis lab that tests and tracks bird flu infections in livestock has sued…

Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states may ban hormone treatments for transgender teens, rejecting the claim that such gender-based…

• COVID rising in wastewater in parts of California• New subvariant, ‘Nimbus,’ increasingly dominant nationally• Concerns rise about Trump’s appointees…

Nearly six months after a wildfire devastated the Pacific Palisades, the final evacuation orders have been fully lifted, according to…

He had a buzz cut and brown eyes, a stubbly beard and a wrestler’s build. He did not have a…

President Trump signed legislation Thursday seeking to rescind California’s ambitious auto emission standards, including a landmark rule that eventually would…

Former Cedars-Sinai Medical Center obstetrician-gynecologist Barry J. Brock has surrendered his medical license following an accusation of negligent care from…

The California Public Health Department has dropped efforts to suspend the license of a Hollywood nursing home whose actions were…

Elected officials in California are calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Newsom administration to pay for soil…

On scorching days when winds blow across the California desert, the Salton Sea regularly gives off a stench of decay…

On a 7-5 vote, the South Coast Air Quality Management District on Friday rejected controversial measures aimed at reducing air…

The California Department of Public Health is moving to suspend the licenses of seven Southern California nursing facilities that have…

California and three other states petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to ease its restrictions on the…

It was one of the largest, longest and most lethal harmful algae blooms in Southern California’s recorded history, claiming the…

As promised, federal health officials have dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19…

California lawmakers are taking aim at proposed rules to implement a state law aimed at curbing plastic waste, saying the…

Sacramento — Want to know what constitutes an acceptable form of recycling in California under CalRecycle’s new draft guidelines for the state’s…

A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a potential summer wave…

As hot, dry and disastrous as the last few years have been, it appears that the chaos caused by a…

In recent months, funding for biomedical research from the National Institutes of Health has been canceled, delayed and plunged into…

Firefighters made steady progress fighting a slow-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park and Mammoth Mountain on Sunday. The Inn…

WASHINGTON — Former President Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, his office said Sunday, a devastating development…

State waste officials have taken another stab at rules implementing a landmark plastic waste law, more than two months after…

Residents in the Eaton burn area and downwind can now send in soil samples from their yard to test for…

A growing coalition of HIV prevention organizations, health experts and Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm over sweeping Trump…

PALM SPRINGS — Less than a week after a targeted bomb explosion nearly destroyed his fertility clinic, Dr. Maher Abdallah stood below…

A crew of 10, many sporting bright orange National Day Laborer Organizing Network T-shirts, funneled out of a Mexican restaurant…

• Axial Seamount is the best-monitored submarine volcano in the world.• It’s the most active undersea volcano closest to California.•…

Cleanup efforts following the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires are underway, but an ongoing concern is swimming pools in the…

Are cookies and chips the new cigarettes? And soda, breakfast cereals and ice cream the new opioids? In his new…

Former President Biden’s weekend announcement that he has an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bone…

If you have been to an ER lately — or if you’ve watched the disturbingly accurate TV show “The Pitt”…

WASHINGTON — The revelation that former President Biden has advanced prostate cancer generated more questions than answers on Monday, prompting debate among…

Exercise has long been linked with stronger brains and reduced risk of dementia and other cognitive diseases. But new research…

Eleven of the 23 Pasadena Unified School District schools, where students have been back on campus since January, have contaminated…

It seems like a straightforward question: Do the tons of toxic material the Los Angeles County fires sent spewing into…

A state environmental oversight board voted unanimously to rescind a controversial proposal that would have permitted California municipal landfills to…

A group of environmental researchers is calling on the Newsom administration to step in and pay for soil testing at…

Just when it seemed that the skincare industry had exhausted itself with absurd products and cyborgian procedures, Kim Kardashian brought…

Scientists have released some of the first independent test results confirming that drinking water in fire-affected areas around Altadena and…

During an interview in late April with Dr. Phil, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reiterated his appeal to parents on vaccine…

Eric Eller likes to ride his dirt bikes through the canyons, dry riverbeds and rocky outcroppings of the Antelope Valley…

Congress is forging ahead with its budget for next year, but the most controversial program on the chopping block —…

New soil testing by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found high levels of lead and other…

More Californians are talking to their therapists through a video screen or by phone than in person, marking a profound…

Southern California Edison was hit with another lawsuit in the wake of the Eaton fire Wednesday, with lawyers claiming families…

President Trump’s choice of Dr. Casey Means, a Los Angeles holistic medicine doctor and wellness influencer, as his nominee for…

In the last year, the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation has worked to protect its cultural sites…

A battle is underway against an invasive mosquito behind a recent surge in the local spread of dengue fever in…

The annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research took place in Seattle this week. The field’s premiere scientific…

Dr. Charles DeCarli, co-director of the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Research Center, got the news in a call from a colleague…

SAN FRANCISCO — Nisha Acharya, an eye doctor and UC San Francisco professor, was at her campus clinic tending patients when a…

A long-feared monster earthquake off California, Oregon and Washington could cause some coastal areas to sink by more than 6…

Reports that the White House may propose nearly a 50% cut to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate are both mind-boggling and,…

Community colleges play a critical role in addressing California’s persistent demand for healthcare workers, preparing students to become the state’s…

Measles has been confirmed in a Los Angeles County resident who recently returned from Texas, a state that is in…

California is heading toward another record year for cases of valley fever, the disease caused by fungal spores linked to…

In December, Stanford School of Medicine colleagues Dr. Nathan Lo and Mathew Kiang got to talking. Childhood immunization rates were…

With the Trump administration slashing budgets and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status for nonprofits, some Southern California social justice organizations…

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, on Tuesday announced a plan to ban synthetic food…

Heartland Charter School in Kern County has several dream field trips on the calendar this spring, including tours of In-N-Out…

When I was a child, I visited the village in India where my father grew up. As we strolled down…

As the leader of a nonprofit that supports thousands of children and adults with developmental disabilities across Los Angeles County,…

A 3-year-old girl in Mexico died this month after getting infected with H5N1 bird flu, according to a report issued…

On Jan. 7, two residents on opposite sides of Altadena — Francois Tissot, a Caltech professor who studies the geology…

Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as…

A major initiative at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles aims to address a critical but much overlooked need: mental health care…

After months of questions in the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, the Los Angeles County Department of Public…

A dead 50-foot gray whale washed ashore in Huntington Beach on Friday, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal…

When news that scientists in Texas had succesfully reintroduced the long-extinct dire wolf to the modern world, more people than…

Three people in Mammoth Lakes died recently after contracting hantavirus, the same infection that killed Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa…

The price of electric vehicles in the U.S. will likely rise due to the Trump administration’s new tariffs, potentially jeopardizing…

As firefighters battled the catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles County in January, California’s U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla,…

Judith Joseph has spent most of her life building an impressive résumé. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, chair of the…

Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again. At least 70 whales have perished since the start of the year…

A smoldering chemical reaction brewing deep inside the recently closed Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic now threatens to consume an…

Dr. Adam Ratner has heard a lot of myths and misunderstandings about measles in his decades as a New York…

California and a coalition of other states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its plans to cut billions of dollars…

Redondo Beach — The Trump administration’s targeting of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will jeopardize efforts to save sea lions, dolphins,…

A deadly, drug-resistant fungus that preys on the sick and old is continuing to spread in hospitals and senior care…

Statements from the Trump administration that officials are considering cuts to key programs for the prevention of HIV and AIDS…

Orange County pediatrician Dr. Eric Ball still feels guilty about the Disneyland measles outbreak of 2014. At the time, his…

In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing. I stumbled upon a story about…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans Thursday to slash the Department of Health and Human Services, cutting nearly a quarter…

The immediate risks faced by the firefighters who were on the front lines battling the Palisades and Eaton fires that…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has notified the California Department of Public Health it is suspending grants it…

There is a non-zero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all….

Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The sick rise from bed…

The Tuolumne County Public Health department on Wednesday confirmed two measles cases a day after it opened an investigation into…

A new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9 has surfaced at a poultry farm in Mississippi…

Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently identified in four dairy cow herds, nearly one year…

President Trump’s new EPA administrator said Wednesday he was preparing to roll back dozens of landmark environmental rules, including those…

After every federal employee received an email asking them to list their recent accomplishments, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to…

Public health officials have confirmed the first case of measles in a Los Angeles County resident this year — the…

Officials announced Friday that Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman’s wife, had died of hantavirus — ending speculation about the circumstances surrounding…

Hundreds of scientists marched under sunny skies in front of federal offices in Los Angeles on Friday as part of…

As thick clouds of smoke rolled across Los Angeles in early January, Allison Shultz opened a freezer and took out…

An unvaccinated New Mexico man who recently died was found to be infected with measles. His death could be the…

If you want to make this country great, imagine the strength of a nation whose children have been fought for…

To hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tell it, making America healthy again means making American food healthy again. The nation’s…

They say everything old is new again. Here are a few outdated bacteria and viruses looking to trend again as…

The boat bobbed gently off Malibu’s Big Rock Beach as a trio of scientific divers wriggled into wetsuits and double-checked…

Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies — and even before the…

The chances that an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, could hit Earth in seven years have fluctuated recently, but experts…