Health Treatments

L.A. Votes: Mount Washington turns out for mayor's race

2013-05-21 14:33:00

The mayor’s race was on the minds of voters Tuesday in Mount Washington, home to one of the most active voter precincts in Los Angeles. Kate Amend, a film editor, wanted to cast a vote to make history. “I voted for Wendy Greuel,” she...

Measure to limit medicinal pot shops in L.A. is leading

2013-05-22 00:25:00

After years of futile attempts by lawmakers to regulate the medical marijuana industry in Los Angeles, a ballot measure to sharply limit the number of pot dispensaries in the city was leading in early returns Tuesday. Proposition D would reduce the...

Staffing, pay at issue in UC medical center strike

2013-05-21 09:58:00

University of California patient care workers took to the picket line early Tuesday to begin a two-day strike for better staffing and higher pay. At Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, they wore green shirts, carried noisemakers and chanted, "All day,...

A birth control double standard

2013-05-20 00:00:00

In the uproar about making the morning-after contraceptive known as Plan B available to our daughters, there has been no similar outcry about condoms and our sons. Anyone of any age can walk into a drugstore — as well as most grocery and big-box...

Patient care workers set to start walkout at five UC hospitals

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Respiratory therapists, nursing aides, surgical technicians and other patient care workers plan to stage a walkout starting Tuesday morning at five University of California medical centers. More than 12,000 workers from the American Federation of State,...

California Senate acts to clarify legality of medical cannabis

2013-05-20 14:34:00

Medical marijuana dispensaries that abide by security rules in California would not be subject to local or state prosecution for illegal sales under a measure approved Monday by the state Senate. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento)...

Marijuana dispensary operators welcome Senate vote clarifying law

2013-05-20 16:39:00

Operators of medical marijuana dispensaries are welcoming action Monday by state lawmakers that would block prosecutions for illegal drug sales by cooperatives and collectives under certain conditions. The state Senate on Monday approved legislation...

Bill Clinton visits Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2013-05-20 11:37:00

Former President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos while visiting Cartagena, where Bogota Mayor�Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi. Then Clinton took time out to visit with Nobel...

Two-day walkout begins at five UC medical centers

2013-05-21 08:36:00

A massive walkout of University of California patient care workers that began Tuesday could cost the system's medical centers up to $20 million, officials say. The walkout is expected to last two days and involve more than 12,000 UC workers from the�...

Letters: Pot's place in medicine

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Re "The marijuana measures," Editorial, May 10 Your editorial supporting Measure D mentions medical marijuana as a treatment for glaucoma patients. In my 25 years as a glaucoma sufferer, I have never been prescribed marijuana. In fact, research...

Illinois Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana

2013-05-17 18:38:00

Illinois has come within a signature of becoming the 19th state to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. On Friday, the state Senate voted 35-21 to approve a medical marijuana measure, which now will head for Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk. The...

Hedda Bolgar dies at 103; renowned psychoanalyst

2013-05-18 14:04:00

Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...

Dr. Ijaz I. Arshad, medical director of the Cancer Institute, discusses the new cancer treatment center at Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley on Wednesday. Dr.

2013-05-15 23:38:00

Juvenile medical marijuana plants are illuminated by artificial lights in a vegetative room Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at River Rock Medical Marijuana Center in Denver.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Nicole Denis, left, and Brennan Thicke help fill medical marijuana prescriptions at the Venice Beach Care Center medical marijuana dispensary in Venice.

2013-05-14 00:00:00