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Medical device maker St. Jude Medical said Monday it received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration about manufacturing and...
By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal may be too optimistic, but California's finances still have shown dramatic...
By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
Even in the complicated world of pot politics, it's a confusing prospect: In the May municipal election, Los Angeles voters could face not...
In addition to the 3,000 deaths it causes each year, contaminated food is very expensive. The cost of food poisoning in this country comes...
By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — After five years of crippling deficits, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Thursday that the state is in the black as he proposed...
By David Lazarus
Anthem Blue Cross may be breaking California law by requiring some policyholders to buy their prescription drugs from a single mail-order...
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By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times
In an ongoing legal battle over confidential patient data, a state judge refused to grant Kaiser Permanente access to the personal computers...
By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times
California's insurance commissioner scolded Anthem Blue Cross for raising rates for small businesses while praising industry rival...
By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times
One by one, the diabetic patients reluctantly stepped on the scale in the basement of a South Los Angeles clinic. Nearby, a nurse...
By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has cleared what could be the final group of states to open their own health insurance exchanges...
By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times
Federal and state officials are investigating whether healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente violated patient privacy in its work with an...
One of the fundamental problems in the U.S. healthcare system is that the most common and straightforward payment method — paying a...
By David Lazarus
This was the year of the healthcare mandate. No other consumer story of 2012 comes close.
By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times
Amid a nationwide wave of healthcare mergers, a deal was brewing this fall to sell St. John's Health Center, a storied Santa Monica hospital...