Booster Shots
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Oct. 21, 2008
California
A baby born in Watts is more than three times as likely to die in infancy as a baby born 20 miles away in Santa Monica, and more than twice as likely to die as a baby born in the San Fernando Valley.
Jan. 27, 1985
Federally qualified health centers are mired in red tape over how they should be paid under Medicaid for each dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Oct. 11, 2021
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July 10, 1986
Business
For two weeks this summer, part of the Glendale Galleria was filled with music, cheering crowds, lights, cameras and action--transformed into the backdrop for “Born Lucky,” a television game show.
Sept. 10, 1992
Max Schneier, whose daughter’s mental problems turned him into an internationally known advocate for improved treatment and prompted him to create innovative halfway house programs in New York and Los Angeles, has died.
June 22, 2002
Los Angeles County’s vast public health system--which came within a heartbeat of collapse this fall--is an entrenched and inefficient bureaucracy whose hopes for survival are tangled in its troubled past.
Oct. 29, 1995
Opinion
Humanitarian aid groups have experience countering myths and misinformation to overcome vaccine hesitancy in low-income countries.
Oct. 17, 2021
In an unusual legal decision, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the state to pay for the private care of a 19-year-old man suffering from a rare neurological disorder that prompts violent bouts of self-mutilation.
March 23, 1988
Top of the Ticket
Aug. 8, 2011