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Health Digest . Light therapy, which dermatologists use to fight facial aging by increasing blood circulation to the skin to promote muscle relaxation, collagen growth and tissue repair, apparently works. "The light therapies are easy, require little...

Eighteen California hospitals have been fined by the state for violating laws regarding quality care for patients, the state public health department announced Monday. Most of the 18 hospitals are in Southern California, said Ken August, a spokesman...

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is seeking $5 million in state funds to substantially expand the city's program to dispense buprenorphine, a medication used to treat heroin addiction. The additional money would increase the number of city addicts treated...

In an Op-Ed piece in the Dec. 5 L.A. Times, self-proclaimed "neuropsychiatrist and brain-imaging expert" Daniel G. Amen attempts to convince us that "three of the last four presidents have shown clear brain pathology." Starting with Ronald Reagan's...

Ana Puente was an infant with a liver disorder when her aunt brought her illegally to the U.S. to seek medical care. She underwent two liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center as a child in 1989 and a third in 1998, each paid for by the state. But when...

The timing was perfect. I had just asked a Yale professor why there are no mentally ill people living on the streets of Norway, where he helped design some of the most progressive mental health treatment in the world. Then a colleague mentioned she was...

On Jan. 10, 2001, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. gathered its forces in a hotel conference room here with a clear-cut mission: Win a favorable vote for a new antifungal drug from a federal advisory committee -- a victory that would position the...

A federal agency lifted a suspension of human medical research at the Johns Hopkins University yesterday but frustrated school officials by imposing severe restrictions that will likely delay full resumption of research for months. While regulators...

Anthrax has been identified as a disease in animals and humans for centuries, and its use as a biological weapon has been studied for 80 years. Still, most people know little about it. The following questions and answers were compiled from information...

The U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will begin distributing the drug Diflucan on a free basis to HIV and AIDS patients at government hospitals and clinics within the next few weeks, the health department and Pfizer said Wednesday. The department has...

A judge has reversed a state medical board ruling that revoked the license of a Westside psychiatrist for overprescribing addictive drugs to Hollywood producer Don Simpson, who died nearly eight years ago of an overdose. In a 42-page decision made public...