The first over-the-counter birth control pill becomes available. Where is it sold?
Health experts say the over-the-counter birth control pill gives contraception options to people who live in rural or remote areas. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jireh Deng Source Type: news
California communities are banning syringe programs. Now the state is fighting back in court
Giving clean syringes to people who inject drugs has been found to curb the spread of disease. But syringe programs are being banned in many California communities. The state is fighting back. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
Dr. Dre says he had three strokes when hospitalized for brain aneurysm
Dr. Dre said he had three strokes after his 2021 hospitalization for a brain aneurysm: 'It's just something that you can't control.' (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nardine Saad Source Type: news
Abcarian: Flamin' Hot Cheetos and iPhones are ruining my kid and yours
I'll take all the help I can get prying the smartphone out of my 13-year-old niece's messy orange hands. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robin Abcarian Source Type: news
Dodgers renew Andrew Toles' contract again. He hasn't played since 2018 due to mental health issues
Andrew Toles last played in 2018. The Dodgers apparently renewed his contract so he could keep his insurance while dealing with mental health issues. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Chuck Schilken Source Type: news
Plants saved her life. Now she's helping others heal at her L.A. plant shop
Barbara Lawson used gardening to pull herself out of depression. Now, she's sharing the healing powers of plants with others at her South Bay plant shop. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kailyn Brown Source Type: news
The lush plant shop where people play in the dirt — and leave feeling renewed
Barbara Lawson used gardening to pull herself out of depression. Now, she's sharing the healing powers of plants with others at her South Bay plant shop. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kailyn Brown Source Type: news
Column: Hubris, thy name is Gavin
Gov. Gavin Newsom should have learned this four years ago: You don't try to sell voters on more government spending in a primary election. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: George Skelton Source Type: news
Olivia Munn has luminal B breast cancer, resulting in 4 surgeries in 10 months
Olivia Munn revealed Wednesday that she was diagnosed last year with luminal B breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. She considers herself 'lucky.' (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nardine Saad Source Type: news
Christina Applegate says she probably had MS for 7 years before diagnosis
Christina Applegate opened up about how living with multiple sclerosis has been 'kind of hell' and 'isolating' but shares how fellow actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler supports her. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nardine Saad Source Type: news
11% of high school seniors report using delta-8 THC, advertised as 'legal' form of cannabis
More than 11% of high school seniors said in a national survey that they had used delta-8 THC, a psychoactive compound that is derived from hemp, in the last year. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
Opposition concedes that Newsom likely to eke out a win on Proposition 1 in California
Despite the confidence he projected about Proposition 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom's ballot measure on California's mental health services is leading narrowly. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Taryn Luna Source Type: news
Feds won't reimburse California $300 million for homeless housing amid COVID. Congress wants answers
A letter by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) asks FEMA to reconsider and pay out the funding to cities that are already strapped for cash. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrea Castillo Source Type: news
More parents are delaying their kids' vaccines, and it's alarming pediatricians
More parents are choosing to delay childhood vaccinations, such as the MMR vaccine. Doctors worry toddlers remain vulnerable as measles spreads. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jenny Gold Source Type: news
The designer who turned her pain into a colorful crochet brand (spotted on Kendrick Lamar)
Krysta Grasso's vibrant crochet brand, Unlikely Fox, is dedicated to her late mother, who taught her how to crochet when she was 5. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kailyn Brown Source Type: news
