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By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Ron-Gong Lin II
Emergency room doctors and on-call specialists treating poor, uninsured patients at private hospitals in Los Angeles County saw their...
By Chris Woolston
How could respectable scientists armed with the same data on electromagnetic fields end up on opposite sides of the spectrum? The studies...
By Chris Woolston
It's probably a good thing that the human eye can see only a small slice of the energy spectrum. If we could see microwaves, radio waves and...
By Chris Woolston
The explosive spread of electromagnetic fields across the world has undeniably spawned at least one disorder: electrosensitivity syndrome....
By Brendan Borrell
Should the government force everyone to purchase health insurance? Few topics in the healthcare debate are more controversial than the so-...
By Danielle Ofri
Yuzuro Yamamoto (not his real name) was a quiet Japanese man who knew only a handful of words in English, despite 30 years in America. He...
By Joe Graedon, Teresa Graedon
Q: If I feel a canker sore coming on, I put a wad of chopped sauerkraut on the area, hold it there for a minute, then chew and swallow. I...
By Tammy Worth
Ever had a claim denied by your insurer because of something like a RAD Code 0022? If so, you're not alone.
By Francesca Lunzer Kritz
People with health insurance who get a medical bill this early in the new year may also get some sticker shock. Few will have satisfied...
By Julie Deardorff
A calorie is . . .
This is a safe and effective way to train your abdominal muscles to stay flat and firm when you stand. Don't try to touch your feet to the...
Gordon, who was profiled in The Times last fall, had entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in September weighing 701 pounds and lugging around...
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will work with doctors and manufacturers to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from...
By Tina Susman and Geraldine Baum and Thomas H. Maugh II
Former President Clinton, who underwent major surgery to clear blocked arteries six years ago, suffered chest discomfort Thursday and was...
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Three years after the U.S. blood-banking industry recommended against transfusing plasma from female donors because of a potentially life-...
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Government researchers have discovered the first genes linked to stuttering -- a complex of three mutated genes that may be responsible...
By Shari Roan
After years of research, professional infighting and maneuvering from various interest groups, the nation's psychiatrists Tuesday...
By Jessica Pauline Ogilvie
Leave it to science to take all the fun out of something as cosmically pure as love.
By Marc Siegel
'Extraordinary Measures'
By Elena Conis
These days, it's not difficult to consume 600% of your daily recommended value of B vitamins or 2,000% of the recommended amount of...