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Instead of struggling with weekly injections, patients may soon be able to swallow a daily pill to lose weight. Both the makers of Wegovy and Mounjaro are seeking FDA approval for tablets.
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Older adults and others at high risk will soon be able to get a second shot of the COVID-19 booster that targets omicron.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to shift more money to housing severely mentally ill homeless people. Some officials at mental health organizations fear that funding will come from cuts to other services they provide.
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Patients who have digestive symptoms only after eating red meat may have developed an allergy caused by ticks. Previously, doctors looked for symptoms such as rashes, hives and breathing troubles.
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Democratic leaders in California and Oregon are becoming more open to using involuntary psychiatric commitment to combat homelessness, drug abuse and untreated mental illness.
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Jail officials and county-appointed monitors alike say current care in the jails is severely deficient. Coroners' records reviewed by LAist show a jump in suicides inside L.A. County’s downtown jail complex in 2021.
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Doctors, nurses and health care professionals have been on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 since the pandemic began three years ago. We asked six of them how their lives, jobs, and views about medicine and public health have changed since.
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Many of the girls in a recent report say social media has a positive or neutral impact on themselves and their peers.
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The decision could make the life-saving drug more accessible. But the Food and Drug Administration said it could take months before Narcan, naloxone's brand name, is available without a prescription.
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Periods affect our lives in countless, connected ways, especially as we get older. But most of us haven't learned about them since we were kids — if we learned at all.
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Pigs and goats likely catch it too. It's been found in humans' noses in the southwest— and in the air at airports and at chicken farms in Malaysia.
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“There really isn’t much literature to guide you on how to do this,” said Dr. Margaret Chaplin, a Connecticut psychiatrist who treats patients with ADHD, mental illnesses, or substance use disorders.
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Rent protections are among the emergency orders that will expire.
