Commentary: A candid tackle mortality and the facility of friendship
    They collect a number of occasions per week within the car parking zone of a Vons grocery store in Mar Vista, and no topic is off-limits. Not even the grim medical prognosis for 70-year-old David Mays, one of many founding members of the espresso klatch. “It’s one of our major topics of conversation,” stated Paul Morgan, 45, a klatch common. Mays is a most cancers survivor with a full bundle of maladies, together with diabetes, a faltering coronary heart and failing kidneys. However since I...
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    ‘Chaotic and deeply scary’: As soon as a worldwide gold customary, U.S. authorities well being steerage is falling aside
    Weeks after President Trump took workplace, a number of authorities webpages referencing gender and sexual orientation abruptly disappeared from the web. Many returned after a February courtroom order. However they got here with an uncommon addition: a disclaimer from the Division of Well being and Human Providers denying info offered by its personal businesses. “Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological...
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    Federal contractors improperly dumped wildfire-related asbestos waste at L.A. landfills
    Federal contractors tasked with clearing ash and particles from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires improperly despatched truckloads of asbestos-tainted waste to nonhazardous landfills, together with one the place staff weren’t carrying respiratory safety, in accordance with state and native data. From Feb. 28 to March 24, federal cleanup crews gathered up wreckage from six burned-down properties as a part of the wildfire restoration efforts led by the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers...
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    Hardcore birders and informal sparrow spotters: Science wants you
    Consideration would-be warbler watchers and pigeon peepers: Ornithologists at UCLA and the Pure Historical past Museum of Los Angeles County are recruiting volunteers for Venture Phoenix, a multiyear citizen science initiative investigating birds’ response to wildfire. The workforce is searching for volunteers in California, Oregon and Washington to gather information from July by means of November, the period of the official West Coast hearth season. Volunteers want to decide on a snug,...
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    California has seen extra measles instances this yr than all of 2024, sparking issues
    California has already reported extra measles instances this yr than in all of 2024, a worrisome growth that comes because the nation is struggling its largest outbreak of the super-infectious illness in many years. The extent of the nationwide outbreak has rocketed measles from a back-of-mind challenge — one not often, if ever, encountered by a complete era of Individuals — to a urgent public well being concern. “Measles is completely preventable,” Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, regional chief of...
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    Contributor: Kids’s Hospital Los Angeles threw trans youngsters overboard
    Kids’s Hospital Los Angeles is the preeminent middle for pediatric medication in Southern California. For 3 many years, it’s additionally been one of many world’s main locations for trans take care of minors. Don’t take my phrase for it: CHLA boasts about its file of offering “high-quality, evidence-based, medically essential care for transgender and gender-diverse youth, young adults, and their families.” Earlier this month, it abruptly ended all that, telling its workers in a gathering...
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    Contributor: These cuts to ‘overhead’ prices in analysis? They do actual harm
    As a professor at UC Santa Barbara, I analysis the consequences of and options to ocean air pollution, together with oil seeps, spills and offshore DDT. I started my profession by investigating the interplay of micro organism and hydrocarbon gases within the ocean, wanting on the uncommon propensity of microbes to eat gases that bubbled in from beneath the ocean flooring. Wanted funding got here from the best primary scientific enterprise on the earth, the Nationwide Science Basis. My...
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    In Southern California, many are skipping healthcare out of concern of ICE operations
    Missed childhood vaccinations. Skipped blood sugar checks. Drugs deserted on the pharmacy. These are among the many healthcare disruptions suppliers have observed since Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations started in Southern California earlier this month. Throughout the area, once-busy parks, retailers and companies have emptied as undocumented residents and their households gap up at house in concern. As rumors of immigration arrests have swirled round clinics and hospitals,...
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    Union presses California’s key hen flu testing lab for information
    The union representing employees at a UC Davis lab that assessments and tracks hen flu infections in livestock has sued the college, demanding that information exhibiting staffing ranges and different details about the lab’s operations be launched to the general public. Staff within the lab’s small biotechnology division had raised considerations late final yr about brief staffing and doubtlessly bungled testing procedures as circumstances of avian flu unfold by way of hundreds of...
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    Remaining evacuation order formally lifted practically six months after Palisades hearth
    Practically six months after a wildfire devastated the Pacific Palisades, the ultimate evacuation orders have been totally lifted, in line with the Los Angeles Hearth Division. A portion of the coastal Los Angeles neighborhood had remained below an evacuation order due to harmful downed wires, probably explosive lithium-ion batteries and poisonous wildfire particles, in line with Lyndsey Lantz, a spokesperson for the Hearth Division. The Military Corps of Engineers, the lead company...
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    Strangers in the course of a metropolis: The John and Jane Does of L.A. Normal Hospital
    He had a buzz reduce and brown eyes, a stubbly beard and a wrestler’s construct. He didn’t have a pockets or cellphone; he couldn’t state his identify. He arrived at Los Angeles Normal Medical Middle one cloudy day this winter simply as 1000’s of individuals do yearly: alone and unknown. Some 130,000 individuals are introduced annually to L.A. Normal’s emergency room. Many are unconscious, incapacitated or too unwell to inform employees who they’re. Practically all...
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    Former Cedars-Sinai OB/GYN surrenders license after sexual abuse complaints
    Former Cedars-Sinai Medical Middle obstetrician-gynecologist Barry J. Brock has surrendered his medical license following an accusation of negligent care from the state medical board. Brock, 75, signed an settlement late final month to surrender the license he has held since 1978, moderately than contest an accusation the Medical Board of California filed in September relating to a former affected person’s remedy. The give up took impact on Wednesday. Whereas Brock “doesn’t admit any...
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    State rescinds suspension efforts for troubled nursing house in Hollywood
    The California Public Well being Division has dropped efforts to droop the license of a Hollywood nursing house whose actions had been discovered to have led to 2 affected person deaths lately. Brier Oak on Sundown was amongst seven Los Angeles County amenities that obtained discover final month that the state was transferring to droop their licenses. On the time, the state believed all seven corporations had obtained at the very least two “AA” violations throughout the final two years, a...
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    Salton Sea is emitting foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide fuel, triggering well being issues
    On scorching days when winds blow throughout the California desert, the Salton Sea often provides off a stench of decay resembling rotten eggs. New analysis has discovered that the shrinking lake is emitting the foul-smelling fuel hydrogen sulfide extra ceaselessly and at larger ranges than beforehand measured. The findings doc how the odors from the Salton Sea add to the air high quality issues and well being issues in communities close to the lake, the place windblown mud drifts from...
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    State strikes to droop licenses of troubled L.A. nursing residence firms
    The California Division of Public Well being is transferring to droop the licenses of seven Southern California nursing services which have been repeatedly cited lately for contributing to sufferers’ deaths. The state well being division despatched letters final month to seven firms in Los Angeles County that acquired not less than two “AA” violations inside the final two years, indicating a failure that contributed considerably to the demise of a resident. The services embody Ararat...
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    Deadly algae bloom is over, however sickened marine mammals aren’t protected but
    It was one of many largest, longest and most deadly dangerous algae blooms in Southern California’s recorded historical past, claiming the lives of tons of of dolphins and sea lions between Baja California and the Central Coast. And now, lastly, it’s over. Ranges of poisonous algae species in Southern California coastal waters have declined in latest weeks beneath thresholds that pose a risk to marine wildlife, in accordance with the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, or...
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