A brave new mix: daily farmers market plus artisanal goodies -- and wine.You say you want to know more about where your food comes from and how it is prepared? At Napa's new Oxbow Public Market that opens this weekend, the butcher and the baker will do their work behind windows that will allow you to observe almost every step of the preparation. And the wine will be fermented in barrels you can reach out and touch.
A study also finds that drinking and the use of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin remained steady from 2006 to 2007.Although fewer young people are using marijuana and other illegal drugs, the percentage of teenagers abusing prescription painkillers remains alarmingly high, according to a national teen drug use survey released Tuesday at the White House.
The government is questioning if too many of the wrong people will take cholesterol-lowering Mevacor if it's sold without a prescription, days before Merck &Co. makes its third try to move the drug over the counter.
The money would be used to combat underage smoking.The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today tentatively approved a $235 annual fee on stores that sell tobacco as part of an effort to keep minors from smoking.
The agreement gives the U.S. government a larger role in the screening of exports in a bid to restore consumer confidence.In an effort to reassure American consumers about the safety of food and medicine made in China, U.S. and Chinese officials signed agreements Tuesday giving U.S. officials a stronger hand in screening Chinese exports.
Financially struggling facilities can keep operating until 2020 despite being at high risk of collapse.With three-quarters of California's acute-care hospitals at risk of collapsing in a major earthquake, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved new rules allowing many facilities to bypass the extremely costly building reinforcements the state ordered after the 1994 Northridge temblor.
In an effort to stem sales to minors, the proposal would require retailers in unincorporated areas to pay $235 annually.Merchants in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County would be required to buy a $235 annual permit to sell cigarettes and other tobacco products, under a proposal the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to act on today.
L.A.'s notorious air pollution is hardest on kids. The closer to a freeway they live, play or attend school, the more likely it is that their developing lungs' capacity will be reduced.EVERYONE is familiar with the gray-brown haze that often blankets Los Angeles, and the fact that the city consistently ranks as one of the most polluted in America.
New products help patients take charge of their health and medical history by organizing their records, but there are privacy concerns.Cathy Barnes of Bakersfield was traveling on business in Philadelphia a few years ago when she developed a terrible pain in her abdomen. Doctors at a major medical center there kept her overnight and carried out a battery of tests on her heart. The tests came up negative.
