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Hundreds of thousands of L.A. County residents are expected to lose Medicaid coverage under federal changes.
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Two of the three troubled California hospitals are especially vital to their communities because they’re the only emergency providers in their rural counties. Health care chains could keep them afloat.
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The FDA has approved Leqembi, the first disease-modifying treatment for early-stage Alzheimer’s and a precursor condition, mild cognitive impairment.
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Individual health care facilities may maintain a masking policy.
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California law requires Medi-Cal and all other state-regulated health plans to cover gender-affirming care that is deemed medically necessary. But therein lies the rub.
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More than 1 in 10 adults who had COVID have had symptoms for at least a year.
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Researchers find that many common strategies for increasing happiness may not be supported by strong evidence.
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The monoclonal antibody drug prevents the lung infection that puts 58,000 to 80,000 young children in the hospital each year.Listen 2:54
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L.A. sees "slight increase" in ER visits
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The flea-borne disease is on the rise in L.A.
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Thanks to the James Webb telescope, we can now see the nebula with more clarity. As one expert says, "We always knew planetary nebulae were pretty. What we see now is spectacular."
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Frustration runs deep among medical cannabis patients and advocates who say the commercial market created by Proposition 64 in 2016 isn’t meeting their needs.
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Social and economic pressures have long compelled Black girls and women to straighten their hair to conform to Eurocentric beauty standards. But chemical straighteners are stinky and costly and sometimes cause painful scalp burns. Mounting evidence now shows they could be a health hazard.
