Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic

California's coronavirus emergency officially ends Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation's first statewide stay-at-home order and just days after the state reached the grim milestone of 100,000 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How to avoid illness as COVID-19 and the flu surge

A one-two punch of COVID-19 and the flu is striking California, sickening residents—some so severely they've had to go to the hospital—interrupting daily life and threatening to upend holiday plans.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

The mental health effects of living with long COVID

I go to the Strand at Hermosa Beach each week and take in the fresh air. Most weeks, I get there and the sun is setting, the sky is an orangish-purple-pink Creamsicle color and the clouds are fluffy. The predictability of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Your monkeypox questions answered as vaccine access expands

As monkeypox spreads across the United States, there are now documented cases in Los Angeles County. As of July 25, there were 162 confirmed cases in Los Angeles County and at least 3,400 cases in the United States, prompting ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Los Angeles County avoids new mask rule as COVID stabilizes

Los Angeles County dropped a plan to impose a universal indoor mask mandate this week as COVID-19 infections and rates of hospitalizations have stabilized, a top health official said Thursday.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Unhoused veterans struggle to find services

A year-long study of a group of military veterans experiencing homeless in Los Angeles found that few were able to obtain permanent housing over the course of the period, even though they lived near the region's major VA ...

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