A year ago a plastic surgeon in Orange County agreed to surrender his medical license after he was accused of coming onto one patient in for breast implants and having sex with a tummy tuck patient—while her husband and children waited outside. more ›

A doctor in Loma Linda has been charged with sexually assaulting two of his patients during exams — and detectives believe there may be more victims. The charges started with one complaint against the doctor Ramon Fawzi Fakhoury, 35, of Norco, reports The San Bernardino Sun. A 32-year-old woman claims that she was sexually assaulted in July during a medical exam, when she went into an urgent care center complaining of chest pain. more ›

Documents filed in court reveal the approach defense attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray, accused of administering a fatal dose of a surgical anesthetic to pop legend Michael Jackson, will take in the trial. The tactic is to paint Jackson as a "desperate drug addict," says the L.A. Times, and to indicate the music icon was always "on the hunt" for his next fix of propofol. more ›

83-year-old Marie Kolstad from Orange County has that "age ain't nothing but a number" attitude when it comes to her recent breast augmentation surgery, and the headlines she's made when her story went public this month. "I never dreamt that what I did was going to make such a big splash," the woman with 13 grandkids and 12 great-grandkids told a reporter from CBS2. more ›

The wife of a Glendale man who tried unsuccessfully to perform his own hernia removal operation with a butter knife says their lack of insurance is at the root of their troubles, according to the Glendale News-Press. more ›

A Glendale man who was "tired of waiting" for an operation went ahead and took at stab at it himself using a butter knife Sunday night. The 63-year-old was using the kitchen tool to try to "remove a protruding hernia from his stomach" explains KTLA. The DIY operation was curtailed when the man's wife called authorities to their home. more ›

A Tarzana doctor shot and killed his wife and then turned gun on himself in the driveway of their Sherman Oaks home on Wednesday. “It is being investigated as a murder-suicide,” said Officer Bruce Borihanh, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, according to the L.A. Times. more ›

Well, we all saw this coming. Octomom's doctor -- Doctomom, for our purposes -- has had his medical license revoked, effective July 1. KABC reports that Dr. Michael Kamrava, the Beverly Hills physician that implanted 12 embryos into Nadya Suleman via in vitro treatments, was investigated shortly after Suleman gave birth to her eight babies in 2009. The babies were born in addition to six that she already had. more ›

It's a story straight out of a great B-movie: a 61-year-old Orange County doctor was found in a Mercedes doing "large amounts of cocaine" and having sex with a 29-year-old physician's assistant, according to KTLA. Security guards saw Alan O. Marcus and Amanda J. Aguirre sitting in the car in a parking structure near Saddleback Memorial Medical Center at around 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday. more ›

While on the stand to give testimony in his medical license hearing today, Dr. Michael Kamrava says that Nadya Suleman, aka OctoMom was "implanted with 12 embryos as part of a human study on fertility methods," reports KTLA. Kamrava claims that Suleman heard about the study, and volunteered to take part, and that she "signed a consent form listing the risks involved." more ›

Dr. Michael Kamrava, a Beverly Hills fertility expert, is on trial in Los Angeles for allegedly violating the terms of his state Medical Board license by implanting multiple embryos in patients, including "OctoMom" Nadya Sulemn. Today his lawyer said Kamrava "told the octuplets' mother about the dangers of bearing multiple babies," according to an AP report (via Daily News). Kamrava's lawyer cites Suleman's records as evidence of her consultations with the doc; an expert for the Medical Board, however, "says Kamrava's scribbled notes are indecipherable and it's unclear what consultations transpired before Suleman went on to have octuplets in 2009." more ›

A plastic surgeon known for his work on high-profile celeb clients has died in an automobile crash on Pacific Coast Highway, reports KTLA. Dr. Frank Ryan, 50, was in his Jeep Wrangler when the vehicle "went off PCH at Deer Creek Rd. in Ventura County around 4:30 p.m. Monday and landed on a rocky embankment." more ›

Already under investigation by the Medical Board of California for his handling of Octomom Nadya Suleman's in-vitro fertilization, Beverly Hills' Dr. Michael Kamrava is now under fire for implanting "too many embryos in another patient, causing the death of a fetus," according to cbs2. more ›

The Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the largest events of its kind, drew almost 200,000 attendees over two days and boasted five stages for performers and a rave atmosphere in the Los Angeles Coliseum and at the adjoining Exposition Park. more ›

Now that Conrad Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, Michael Jackson's autopsy report has been released, listing “acute propofol intoxication” administered by another person as the cause of death, according to the report via the LA Times. The amount of propofol used was equivalent to a major surgery, it said. more ›

As expected, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has formally filed charges in Superior Court against 56-year-old Conrad Murray, the doctor who administered a fatal dose of propofol to popstar Michael Jackson last summer, reports LA Now. The complaint implicates Murray for acting “without due caution and circumspection," thereby playing a key role in the singer's death. The charges are the result of a 7-month homicide investigation that focused intently on the role the Nevada and Texas-based cardiologist with financial woes played in Jackson's care and ultimate demise. Murray, who turned himself in as pre-arranged this morning, was spotted by TMZ photographers leisurely reading the morning paper in an L.A. cafe prior to his arrest. more ›

Michael Jackson's physician, Conrad Murray, is expected to be charged today in L.A. in a criminal case in conjunction with the music star's sudden death last summer, according to LA Now. Initially speculation indicated Murray, 56, would be arrested and charged late last week, however the specifics of how the action would play out were uncertain. more ›

That's what journalist Charles Feldman is saying the Huffington Post. After going undercover for a documentary on how easy it is to obtain approval from a doctor, he feels that city and county officials have misplaced focus. more ›

Today's LA Times offers "a cautionary tale" about the sin of gluttony and the perils of indigestion. In a chapter easily culled from the teachings of "When a Word to the Wise Isn't Always Sufficient," tomorrow's likely feasting can be the cause of great intestinal woes, and the bread-and-butter of area emergency rooms. more ›

LA Times columnist Steve Lopez teased us Monday about his adventure of getting recommendation approved for medical marijuana by a gynecologist and today his experience was told in full. An excerpt: I stood to show him where my back hurts. He asked me to bend down, and I demonstrated that I couldn't touch my toes, but I don't think he could see that. He hadn't moved from his seat. I pointed again to my lower back and asked if there were a disc that low. more ›

The July search warrant affidavit that officials used to raid the Houston offices of Michael Jackson's personal doctor was unsealed today, offering up what has been speculated for weeks: "lethal levels" of anesthetic propofol killed the pop star. more ›

TMZ got their hands on the audio from the 911 call yesterday from Michael Jackson's rental home in Holmby Hills. They never identify the 50-year-old man who is not breathing as Jackson, but do say that a doctor is there present with him: more ›

Seeing a pattern here? Fertility doctor Michael Kamrava apparently has another patient--this time a 49-year-old woman five months into her pregnancy--who is at USC Medical Center with her unborn quadruplets. "Several sources told The Times that Dr. Michael Kamrava transferred at least seven embryos made from younger donor eggs," the LA Times found. more ›

During her Today Show interview aired this morning, Nadya Suleman revealed that she used Dr. Michael Kamrava's West Coast IVF Clinic for all of her pregnancies. The Beverly Hills clinic, whose website boasts they are "leading innovators" in "bringing together high technology, low cost, and effective treatment of infertility," offers multiple financing options for women seeking help in having babies. Kamrava's bio indicates he has been working in the field of infertility for over 25 years. Last week, the Medical Board of California said they were investigating the then-unnamed doctor who treated Suleman to see if the standard of care was violated; it is not common practice to implant 6 embryos in a woman as young as the 33-year-old Suleman. more ›