Addiction
For opiate addiction, study finds drug-assisted treatment is more effective than detox
Say you're a publicly insured Californian with an addiction to heroin, fentanyl or prescription narcotics, and you want to quit.
Nov 23, 2017
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Health
Prescriptions for fruits and vegetables can improve the health of people with diabetes and other ailments
The health of people with diabetes, hypertension and obesity improved when they could get free fruits and vegetables with a prescription from their doctors and other health professionals.
Aug 30, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Deadly dust: Engineered stone is making California workers sick
Workers making artificial-stone slabs for the most popular type of countertops sold in the United States are developing a potentially deadly, irreversible lung disease from tiny particles of toxic dust, researchers from UC ...
Jul 24, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
California's LGBTQ community feeling ignored, angry, confused as monkeypox cases rise
Antonio Palacios recovered from COVID-19 in early June just in time for back-to-back weekends at Southern California's largest Pride celebrations—in West Hollywood and Los Angeles—where he immersed himself in a community ...
Jul 25, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The pain of chronic loneliness can be detrimental to your health
The changes came so gradually that, for a long time, Paula Dutton didn't realize she was in trouble. This was just modern life, after all—the cross-country distance from her close-knit family in Philadelphia, the end of ...
Dec 22, 2016
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Medical research
How the heart turns into bone
Connective tissue cells in the heart turn into bone-producing cells in response to injury, University of California, Los Angeles scientists report November 17 in Cell Stem Cell. The discovery helps explain why some people ...
Nov 17, 2016
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Neuroscience
For 'This is Us' actor, stroke survivor is more than a role—it's reality
For actor Timothy Omundson, art imitates life.
Jul 13, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Officials advise wearing masks in Vegas as COVID cases rise
Masks are back in Las Vegas, after regional health officials on Friday cited a rising number of coronavirus cases and advised everyone—vaccinated or not—to wear facial coverings in crowds and indoor places.
Jul 16, 2021
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Vaccination
California pushes 1st US vaccine mandate for schoolchildren
California is poised to impose the nation's first coronavirus vaccine mandate for schoolchildren, a move announced Friday that could push other states to follow as many did after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the first statewide ...
Oct 2, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Palbociclib efficacious in metastatic breast cancer
(HealthDay)—Palbociclib can help slow the progression of advanced breast cancer, according to a study published in the Nov. 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Nov 17, 2016
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