Breaking News
California
Long Beach’s health department has confirmed the city’s first case of St. Louis encephalitis, a mosquito-born illness, since 1984.
Nov. 10, 2023
Business
About 80 claims workers are being offered transfers to Salt Lake City in a consolidation of Alta Health Strategies Inc., a medical insurance claims processor that will close its Orange County claims office.
Oct. 28, 1992
Basic health services, including first aid, educational programs, health assessment, counseling and referrals, will be offered to Pierce College students for the first time in more than a decade beginning next semester.
Nov. 14, 1992
World & Nation
Africa’s top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea.
Dec. 1, 2022
Los Angeles County has confirmed its first flu death of the season, and with the bulk of the season still ahead, health officials are reminding residents to get vaccinated.
Nov. 15, 2023
“Indicators of influenza activity in Los Angeles County are currently low but have been rising in recent weeks,” public health officials said.
Nov. 10, 2021
A middle-aged patient with underlying health conditions is the first person to die of influenza in L.A. County this season, health officials report.
Oct. 22, 2019
Business Announcements
Pacific Dental Services (PDS), one of the leading dental and medical support organizations in the U.S., has announced the grand opening of its first co- located dental-medical practice in partnership with MemorialCare, a distinguished Southern California healthcare system.
Dec. 12, 2023
Science & Medicine
An elderly man in Alaska has become the country’s first person confirmed to have died of Alaskapox. Here’s what you should know about the disease.
Feb. 13, 2024
Politics
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton resumed her campaign for health care reform Monday, but even this far from Washington, the First Lady could not escape jarring reminders of the Whitewater controversy.
March 15, 1994