Even after mild cases of COVID, long COVID symptoms can linger for a year or more
Mild cases of COVID-19 can cause patients to suffer long COVID symptoms, and a new study finds that some of those symptoms can linger for more than a year. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 12, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
Damar Hamlin's collapse showed the need for CPR skills. Here's where to get them
The collapse of an NFL player during Monday night's game has spurred interest in how to give life-saving aid to people in cardiac arrest. Classes abound in Southern California. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jon Healey Source Type: news
Scientists explore using psychedelics to treat alcohol, drug disorders
Psilocybin and many other psychedelics are broadly prohibited under federal law. But U.S. researchers have been legally scrutinizing their use in scores of clinical trials. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 2, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
Hepatitis C is a slow-moving killer that can be stopped. What's getting in the way?
Hepatitis C can now be cured in most cases with antiviral medication. Yet in the U.S., only a fraction of people who are found to be infected promptly start treatment. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
As fentanyl overdose deaths keep rising, efforts to reverse trend meet liability fears
As California leads the fight to reverse skyrocketing fentanyl overdose deaths, organizations that distribute overdose reversal drugs worry their increasingly bold efforts to save lives will land them in legal trouble. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 27, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Connor Sheets Source Type: news
Green lasers reveal you should close the toilet lid before you flush
Using lasers, scientists illuminated the tiny water droplets — and possibly pathogens — that are ejected into the air when a lid-less toilet is flushed. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 23, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
Dinosaurs were in their prime, not in decline, when fateful asteroid hit
Fossil records from North America indicate dinosaurs were still in their prime 66 million years ago, but the asteroid that struck Earth wiped them out anyway. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 23, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
Declining U.S. life expectancy fell further in 2021 due to COVID and drug overdoses
U.S. life expectancy, already declining since the onset of the pandemic, fell further in 2021, according to the CDC's final accounting of death certificates. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 22, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Healy Source Type: news
As L.A. County's mental health workers burn out, some weigh options
The county's Department of Mental Health says people declined or left positions for various reasons during the pandemic, including the opportunity to work full time in telehealth. But the county says it's beginning to see a rebound in interest. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 20, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Parvini Source Type: news
As NASA's Mars InSight mission comes to an end, JPL engineers say farewell to its twin
The days are numbered for NASA's InSight lander on Mars. That also spells the end for ForeSight, its doppelganger at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 20, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
P-22, L.A. celebrity mountain lion, euthanized due to severe injuries
(Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 17, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Laura J. Nelson, James Queally Source Type: news
Ken Balcomb, friend to the orcas who helped end their captivity, dies
Researcher spent five decades studying the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales and help ended their captivity at marine parks. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 16, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Gene Johnson Source Type: news
Why NASA's new mission will study Earth's water from space
A new mission from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will study water on Earth from space, ushering in a new era in the study of climate change. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 14, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill, Rosanna Xia Source Type: news
U.S. death toll tied to long COVID exceeds 3,500, CDC report says
Long COVID illnesses contributed to 4,055 deaths in the U.S. through the end of June 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 14, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Healy Source Type: news
Nuclear fusion breakthrough in California seen as milestone toward clean energy future
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory say they've produced a nuclear fusion reaction that generated more energy than it required to ignite. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 13, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
