Companies and Corporations

FDA accuses 1-800-GET-THIN of using misleading Lap-Band ads

2011-12-14 00:00:00

The Food and Drug Administration has accused the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company of using misleading advertising in its promotion of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery, saying the billboard, radio and television ads underplay serious risks to patients. The...

Clinics halt Lap-Band surgeries

2012-02-08 00:00:00

Two clinics tied to 1-800-GET-THIN have temporarily halted Lap-Band weight-loss surgeries after the device's maker said it would no longer sell to companies affiliated with the massive advertising campaign. The two brothers identified in lawsuits as...

Majoring in chic at L.A.'s fashion schools

2012-01-08 00:00:00

In a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design &...

1-800-GET-THIN is sued by former workers

2012-01-17 16:18:00

Workers at weight-loss surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign persuaded patients to have medically unnecessary surgeries and billed insurance companies for procedures that were never performed, a new lawsuit alleges. Two women who...

Allergan halts Lap-Band sales to 1-800-GET-THIN clinics

2012-02-02 18:26:00

The maker of the Lap-Band will no longer sell its product to clinics affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company — a blow to Southern California surgery centers that have built an empire implanting the weight-loss devices in people...

Salad industry on hunt for solution to tainted greens

2012-01-30 00:00:00

For millions of Americans, bagged salads are a miracle food, the perfect mix of health and convenience. Time-pressed cooks can rip open a bag and pour the leaves right into the bowl, reassured by the "triple-washed" label that some wondrous process has...

Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the "power tower" emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a multistage rocket. Clustered nearby are hangar-sized assembly buildings, looming berms of sand...

Tribune agrees to pay $675,000 to ex-chief Randy Michaels

2011-11-23 00:00:00

Tribune Co. agreed to pay former chief executive Randy Michaels $675,000 in a settlement stemming from his abrupt resignation from the company Oct. 22, 2010. The company, which owns the Los Angeles Times, KTLA-TV Channel 5, the Chicago Tribune and...

Patt Morrison Asks: Two from the 'typosphere'

2011-12-31 00:00:00

There'll be a pair of Pasadena institutions along Colorado Boulevard for New Year's -- the Rose Parade, and a company marking 100 years in business. Anderson Business Technology, nee Anderson Typewriter Co., has bucked two trends: It's been a one-family...

A closer look at Mitt Romney's job creation record

2011-12-03 19:23:00

� Shortly after Mitt Romney resigned from Bain Capital in 1999 to run the Olympics in Salt Lake City, potential investors received a prospectus touting the extraordinary profits earned by the private equity firm that Romney controlled for 15 years....

Tracing the L.A. Coliseum's fiscal decay

2011-12-30 19:14:00

Month after month, the financial forecasts for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum seemed as sunny as could be. General Manager Patrick Lynch would tell his bosses on the Coliseum Commission that the box office from rave concerts was brisk and a...

Limbaugh freaks as Romney lays claim to Obama's bailout

2012-01-12 17:42:00

Rush Limbaugh is freaked out by Mitt Romney giving backhanded praise to President Obama for saving the American auto industry. This week, in an interview on CBS, Romney defended himself against critics of his work at Bain Capital by equating what he...

U.S. Rep. Mark Critz commends Somerset native Eileen Melvin, president of UMF Medical, on the company's expansion into Saudi Arabia. The Johnstown company makes high-grade steel hospital equipment.

2012-02-06 20:34:51

finally buried the hatchet on their 30-year-old beef, reuniting on Somers' "Breaking Through" Web show. DeWitt thanked Somers for "creating this opportunity." Somers was "overwhelmed with emotion.

2012-02-03 07:40:27

's contract situation gets contentious, and if it leads to a holdout if the Ravens use a franchise tag on him. No position in the NFL has been more devalued by general managers in recent years than franchise running back.

2012-02-02 06:12:30