What’s for dinner? It’s a deceptively simple question, asked millions of times each day. But consider the myriad factors that go into answering it — from...
Allergist and immunologist Dr. Gideon Lack’s first inkling that some peanut allergies might be preventable came more than 20 years ago while he was giving a...
New cases of mpox in Los Angeles County rose considerably in the last two weeks, local health officials said Monday. The “concerning increase” of the disease...
America’s opioid epidemic is as bad as it has ever been. Although the sharp increase in opioid overdose deaths over the last decade is largely attributed...
Alanna Santini’s friends call her the “human weather vane.” On cloudy days, the 42-year-old advertising executive from Silver Lake invariably comes down with a bad headache....
Tener gripe, tener gripa, engriparse, agriparse, estar agripado, estar griposo, agarrar la gripe, coger la influenza. In Spanish, there are at least a dozen ways to...
Tmesipteris oblanceolata is an obscure species of fork fern found in New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific. Just 4 to 6 inches tall,...
Seventy-nine-year-old Genevieve Lane volunteered to take the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi in a clinical trial because she was forgetting words and misplacing her keys. Infusions of the...
El Dorado County cannot enforce its ban on programs that hand out clean syringes as a legal battle continues between the county and the California Department...
Before you settle in to binge the new season of “The Bear” or watch Team USA go for the gold at the Paris Olympics, think twice...
