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Newport Beach, CA - November 27: The Brain Treatment Center, in Newport Beach, CA, uses the Magventure TMS device, with the B65 coil, to administer magnetic resonance therapy, or MeRT, from the company Wave Neuro, photographed Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. The MeRT therapy is finding greater application in treating autism and patience come to the Brain Treatment Center to receive it. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Key takeaways from our investigation into the science behind an alternative autism therapy

Here are the key takeways from The Times’ yearlong investigation into the science behind magnetic resonance therapy, or MERT, as a therapy for autism.

Oct. 24, 2024
MIAMI, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 17: A customer shops in the ready to eat meals aisle of a grocery store on October 17, 2024 in Miami, Florida. Products tested by the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) came back positive for Listeria monocytogenes bacteria which initiated a recall of nearly 12 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and chicken product items sold at major stores nationwide, including Publix, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, 7-Eleven and Kroger. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A wave of major listeria recalls shows food safety will ‘never be perfect’

Oct. 24, 2024
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir (photo credit Harper)

Two extraordinary memoirs chronicle the ways mental illness carves chasms in a life

Oct. 24, 2024
PUEBLO, CO - JULY 16 : McDonald's, 1007 Bonforte Blvd., in Pueblo, Colorado on Tuesday, July 13, 2024. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, CDC says

Oct. 22, 2024
FILE - The toes of a baby peek out of a blanket at a hospital in McAllen, Texas. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the increase of U.S. infant mortality rate to 3% in 2022 — a rare increase in a death statistic that has been generally been falling for decades. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Infant mortality in the U.S. worsened after Supreme Court limited abortion access

Oct. 21, 2024

Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But little support is available

Oct. 17, 2024

Opinion: Menopausal women have a lot at stake in this election

Oct. 17, 2024

Kids are sucking down baby food pouches at record rates. ‘We’re going to pay for it,’ experts say

Oct. 17, 2024

Ananda Lewis, former MTV VJ, chronicles her harrowing Stage 4 breast cancer journey

Oct. 16, 2024
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HOLLYWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 18, 2024: Mary Serritella, 71, performs in front of a live audience during the Comedy Pole Show at the Bourbon Room on September 18, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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This 71-year-old pole dancer defies expectations — and gravity — in age-obsessed L.A.

Mary Serritella started pole dancing at 57. Fourteen years later she’s inspiring others who are decades her junior.

Oct. 14, 2024

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