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Time-restricted eating, a form of intermittent fasting, appears to benefit people with metabolic syndrome, who are at a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
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A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The benefit was clear.
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Pregnant black women had babies born prematurely and with smaller birth weights if they lived near the site of a police shooting of an unarmed black person, research shows.
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NASA’s sun-skimming spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, is surprising scientists with its unprecedented close views of our star.
Climate models been frequently attacked by climate change deniers, but guess what? They did a remarkably good job of predicting what actually happened.
The weather phenomenon accounted for $42.6 billion in flood damage in 11 Western states over 40 years, with most of the destruction in California.
It’s a climate change milestone: The amount of carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels will hit 37 billion tons this year, setting another record high. A climate researcher discusses the latest findings.
Kevin Ellison was known for hard hits while playing for USC and the Chargers. Did that lead to increasingly bizarre behavior before his death?
Health
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New health data confirm a 3-year drop in Americans’ life expectancy, bucking a trend of rising longevity in other wealthy nations.
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The U.S. government says states can’t use federal dollars to fund medical marijuana treatments for patients with opioid addiction.
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A California company has come under fire for its aborted plan to recruit inmates to test a novel program to battle opioid addiction.
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Time-restricted eating, a form of intermittent fasting, appears to benefit people with metabolic syndrome, who are at a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
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About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police. That risk is 2.5 times higher than for white men, new research shows.
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Pregnant black women had babies born prematurely and with smaller birth weights if they lived near the site of a police shooting of an unarmed black person, research shows.
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Who is to blame for the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic? That’s the question at the heart of MDL 2804, largest civil action in U.S. history.
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Men vastly outnumber women as perpetrators of mass shootings. Toxic masculinity is part of the reason why, experts say.
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The Marshall Islands’ capital city is flooded by storm waves, dengue fever and flu are rampant, and its president pleads for help from the global community.
Storms caused by atmospheric rivers cause about $1 billion damage each year, a new study shows, with more damage in California than any state studied.
Throw out romaine lettuce if it came from California’s Salinas Valley, the Food and Drug Administration advises as an E. coli outbreak grows.
The state Assembly’s Select Committee on Sea Level Rise and the California Economy convened Tuesday for the first time in five years.
The U.N. weather agency says that the current decade is likely to set a new 10-year temperature record, adding further evidence that the world is getting hotter.
Ratepayer advocates say California’s investor-owned utilities would do just fine making less money.
California should take over utilities that have failed to prevent their equipment from causing huge wildfires, says former top regulator Loretta Lynch.
The Makah tribe wants to resume hunting gray whales, allowed under a U.S. treaty. But marine law forbids it, and even advocates of Native American rights question the ethics.
Biologists are questioning if ‘hazing’ — deploying loud noises or projectiles — keeps coyotes away from urban areas, as animal rights advocates claim.
Medicine
Novel drugs — some old, some new — may offer fresh ways to reduce heart risks beyond the usual medicines to lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
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State policies that treat pregnant women like criminals if they use illicit substances are linked with higher rates of babies being born with opioid withdrawal.
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Children are growing up in a warmer world that will hit them with more and different health problems than their parents experienced, doctors say.
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Deaths resulting from infections with drug-resistant “superbugs” appear to be falling in the U.S., though infections continue to rise, according to the CDC.
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After controversial guidelines were introduced, cholesterol levels are inching down and more Americans are taking much-needed statin drugs.
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New advice from pediatric experts says there isn’t enough solid research to answer some of the most burning questions about kids, sports and concussions.
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USGS scientist Margaret Mangan, who is retiring soon, has drawn attention to California’s more overlooked natural threats: a dozen restive volcanoes.
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A Thanksgiving Day storm hit Southern California, bringing heavy rain that could result in mudflows in recent wildfire burn areas.
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A former information security manager alleged he was retaliated against for complaining that sensitive BioWatch data were vulnerable to hackers.
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A critically endangered Puerto Rican toad was for the first time born via in vitro fertilization as U.S. scientists attempt to save it from extinction.
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Researchers have devised a new framework for designing machine learning algorithms that helps prevent intelligent machines from being biased.
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A disease that destroys citrus has been detected in San Bernardino County, expanding an already large quarantine area aimed at keeping the malady from hitting groves in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
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Nearly 1,500 species have been protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and only 11 have gone extinct. When laws are enforced, species can be saved.
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Documents reviewed by The Times reveal that the chemical formula that makes Juul so palatable and addictive dates back more than four decades — to Reynolds’ tobacco laboratories.
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Sierra Nevada forests are vital for California’s water supply and wildlife, but are under siege from drought, beetles and climate change. Can scientists use drought-surviving trees to build more resilient forests?
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New satellite measurements of NOx air pollutants above major North American cities show that Los Angeles had the highest emissions but also the steepest declines.
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Unprecedented visualizations have allowed scientists to dig deeper into the details of major earthquakes.
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