Participating restaurants will stop using the artery-clogging substance in a voluntary effort the county hopes will catch on.Los Angeles County today rolled out a program in which local restaurants that agree to stop using heart-damaging trans fats in their cooking will get a decal to display in their windows.
The $4.85-billion settlement offered last week by pharmaceutical giant Merck &Co. to patients stricken by heart attacks and strokes after taking the company's painkiller Vioxx could mean the end to one of the most unpleasant and costliest chapters in the pharmaceutical industry's history.
A state facility meant for sexually violent predators gets low marks after two years.One in a series of occasional articles on California's troubled mental health system.
A state agency, responding to a complaint by housekeepers, says the hotel has run afoul of repetitive-motion rules.In what may be the first action of its kind, California workplace safety regulators have charged that the duties performed by housekeepers at a hotel -- scrubbing, bed making, vacuuming -- violate the state's repetitive-motion rules.
In the wake of allegations that financial donations influenced admissions decisions to an elite residency program, the UCLA School of Dentistry on Wednesday released details of new rules that are supposed to eliminate even the appearance of impropriety.
Advocates, announcing survey results today, say the total should increase because of benefits to mothers and children.The new mother was determined to nurse her son, despite her discomfort after a cesarean section. But a nurse, without asking, fed the infant formula while he was in the hospital nursery. That was upsetting enough, but then, when given the chance to nurse her baby, the young woman couldn't get her newborn to latch onto her breast.
Cheating on licensing exams is probed, and a highly competitive program is accused of giving preferential treatment in admissions.The UCLA School of Dentistry was hit by separate scandals Tuesday involving allegations of favoritism toward relatives of deep-pocket donors and student cheating on licensing examinations, university authorities acknowledged.
For many, depression, stress and relationship trouble don't show up until months after soldiers return, a study shows. The finding may help prevent the problems suffered by many Vietnam vets.The stress and depression caused by combat in Iraq often don't appear until a few months after a soldier has returned home, researchers reported today.
A federal report shows that new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis rose for the second year in a row.The number of newly diagnosed cases of the three most common sexually transmitted diseases rose for the second year in a row in the U.S., driven in part by an increase in risky sexual behavior, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.
