L.A. County sues pharmacy benefit firms, alleging they helped fuel opioid crisis
L.A. County has sued pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts and OptumRx, alleging that they helped fuel the nation's deadly opioid crisis. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - September 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Rebecca Ellis Source Type: news
Birth can be dismal for Black women. What this hospital is doing to stop that
MLK Community Hospital employs midwives to try to improve births for Black women, a practice that hospital officials fear could be difficult to sustain. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - September 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
The hunt for bones and closure in Maui's burn fields
California's bone hunters, forensic experts who are veterans of disaster, sift through Maui's burnfields for the missing dead. 'We owe it to the families.' (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 31, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jenny Jarvie Source Type: news
Opinion: We're retracting two papers from Stanford's outgoing president. That's part of how science should work
Retractions of papers from Marc Tessier-Lavigne and others, in journals like Science, should illustrate the importance of transparency in our field. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 31, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Holden Thorp Source Type: news
She competed in Tough Mudder; a pustular rash was her prize. Hundreds got ill — and angry
Hundreds of people who rolled in the mud at the Tough Mudder obstacle course in Sonoma County fell ill from a bacterial infection. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 31, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeremy Childs Source Type: news
Just off California, octopuses are converging by the thousands. Here's why
Marine scientists discovered what they dubbed an 'octopus garden' nearly two miles below sea level. 'We were just absolutely floored.' (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 30, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Faith E. Pinho Source Type: news
A big, gleaming 'super blue moon' will rise Wednesday night. Here's how to see it
A super moon is rare, and a blue moon is rarer; a combination of the two is the rarest of them all. Here's your chance to see one Wednesday night. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 29, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeremy Childs Source Type: news
Column: COVID lockdowns saved millions of lives — so of course Ron DeSantis is angry about them
A new study shows that, contrary to GOP mythmaking, lockdowns reduced the spread of COVID, saving millions of lives worldwide. Ron DeSantis calls that "a mistake." (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 29, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Michael Hiltzik Source Type: news
Column: COVID lockdowns saved millions of lives — so of course Ron DeSantis is mad about them
A new study shows that, contrary to GOP mythmaking, lockdowns reduced the spread of COVID, saving millions of lives worldwide. Ron DeSantis calls that "a mistake." (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 29, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Michael Hiltzik Source Type: news
Column: Scientists used to love Twitter. Thanks to Elon Musk, they're giving up on it
Scientists came to see Twitter as an indispensable tool for communicating with each other and the public. As X, it's turned into a source of scientific misinformation and lies. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 25, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Michael Hiltzik Source Type: news
Record sea ice melt in Antarctica doomed thousands of penguin chicks to a watery grave
An unprecedented loss of Antarctic sea ice prevented four colonies of emperor penguins from seeing any chicks survive in 2022, scientists report in a new study. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
How might JPL look for life on watery worlds? With the help of this slithering robot
The people who designed rovers to explore Mars are developing a slithering robot to search for signs of life in watery environments, such as the moon Enceladus. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Gina Errico Source Type: news
Granderson: We have the tools to stop the spread of HIV. So why haven't we?
Beyoncé and her family are using their platform to revive a conversation we still need: how to stop new infections, especially among women of color. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: LZ Granderson Source Type: news
Opinion: The abortion pill faces its most disturbing attack yet
Judge James Ho of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals claimed mifepristone inflicts 'aesthetic injury' on doctors looking inside women's bodies. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Rhonda Garelick Source Type: news
How climate scientists feel about seeing their dire predictions come true
Wildfires in Canada and Hawaii. Hurricane Hilary set to strike California. Scientists have warned about worse storms and more frequent fires for years. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
