More on Medicine
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...
Lisa Girion and Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times
A database that could identify prolific prescribers and prevent overdose deaths is readily available, but California officials say they lack...
By Scott Glover, Lisa Girion and Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times
Some provide massive amounts of painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs to addicts and dealers, according to state records, regulators and law...
By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times
Biotech giant Amgen Inc. pleaded guilty in federal court to improper marketing of its anemia drug Aranesp and has agreed to pay $762 million...
By Karen Ravn
Twitter. A popular online social network? Yes. A vital tool for medical research? Maybe.
The Medical Board of California is often slow to act when investigating doctors suspected of abusing their prescription pads - even when...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
The board of California's stem cell funding agency is rife with conflicts of interest and should be restructured to improve the integrity of...
By Scott Glover and Lisa Girion
Prescription overdoses kill more people than heroin and cocaine. An L.A. Times review of coroners’ records finds that drugs prescribed...
By David Lazarus
The U.S. Justice Department's civil fraud division is investigating claims that CVS Caremark wrongly refilled prescriptions and billed...
By Michael Hiltzik
StemCells Inc. has a history not much different from those of dozens, even hundreds, of biotech companies all around California.
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times
MODESTO —Topamax. Depakote. Phenobarbital. The list goes on. Before Jayden David turned 5, he had tried a dozen powerful medications...
By David Sack
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, the culmination of years of controversy over...
By Daniel Halperin
This week, tens of thousands of delegates are meeting in Washington for the biennial International AIDS Conference, striving to advance an...
By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationweighs approval of a radical new method of AIDS prevention — a prescription pill taken once...
By Chris Woolston, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Your family doctor doesn't work with a teleprompter. And there wasn't a live studio audience the last time you put on a hospital gown...
By Erin Loury, Los Angeles Times
Treatment drugs can do more than improve the health of people with HIV: If administered early, medications can also reduce the spread of the...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
The Food and Drug Administration has approved marketing of the weight-loss drug lorcaserin, the first prescription anti-obesity medication...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Just before noon on a December morning in 1988, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook over 40% of the territory of Armenia, centered in the...