My friend Sara, eight weeks after giving birth, left me a tearful voicemail. I’m a clinical psychologist specializing in postpartum depression and psychosis, but mental health...
A parasitic fly whose maggots can infest living livestock, birds, pets and humans could threaten California soon. The New World Screwworm has rapidly spread northward from...
Fields of plastic, or fake turf, are spreading across the Golden State from San Diego to Del Norte counties. Some municipalities and school districts embrace them,...
Elliot Copen, 17, was worried the Scouting America camp he had visited dozens of times in an undeveloped canyon of the Santa Monica Mountains would feel...
A new hospital at UC Irvine opens Wednesday and it will be all-electric — only the second such medical center, and the largest, in the country...
When scores of dead and dying sea animals began washing up on L.A.-area beaches just weeks after January’s devastating fires, the timing seemed suspicious. Harmful algae...
The first cases of West Nile virus this year have been recorded in Los Angeles County, with four people hospitalized between July and August, officials said....
