Child born with HIV is 'functionally cured'

For the first time, doctors are reporting that a child born with HIV and put on an unusually aggressive treatment regimen has been...

5 Questions: Charlie Lustman, not silent, not a victim

When Charlie Lustman, who ran the Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax Avenue until it closed in June 2006, was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer...

Stem cell agency not doing enough to avoid conflict of interest

Compromise, defined as the art of getting part of a loaf when the whole loaf is out of reach, comes in many forms. But surely the...

Reckless doctors go unchecked

A database that could identify prolific prescribers and prevent overdose deaths is readily available, but California officials say they lack...

Rogue pharmacists feed addiction

Some provide massive amounts of painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs to addicts and dealers, according to state records, regulators and law...

The doctor's in, on Twitter

Twitter. A popular online social network? Yes. A vital tool for medical research? Maybe.

Times investigation: Legal drugs, deadly outcomes

Prescription overdoses kill more people than heroin and cocaine. An L.A. Times review of coroners’ records finds that drugs prescribed...

U.S. investigating CVS prescription refills

The U.S. Justice Department's civil fraud division is investigating claims that CVS Caremark wrongly refilled prescriptions and billed...

Research firm reaped stem cell funds despite panel's advice

StemCells Inc. has a history not much different from those of dozens, even hundreds, of biotech companies all around California.

On the frontier of medical pot to treat boy's epilepsy

MODESTO —Topamax. Depakote. Phenobarbital. The list goes on. Before Jayden David turned 5, he had tried a dozen powerful medications...

Truvada pill urged for AIDS prevention after promising studies

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationweighs approval of a radical new method of AIDS prevention — a prescription pill taken once...

TV not always a healthy channel for advice

Your family doctor doesn't work with a teleprompter. And there wasn't a live studio audience the last time you put on a hospital gown...

Treating HIV and preventing it at the same time

Treatment drugs can do more than improve the health of people with HIV: If administered early, medications can also reduce the spread of the...

FDA approves lorcaserin, first weight-loss drug since 1999

The Food and Drug Administration has approved marketing of the weight-loss drug lorcaserin, the first prescription anti-obesity medication...

Study identifies genes linked to post-traumatic stress disorder

Just before noon on a December morning in 1988, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook over 40% of the territory of Armenia, centered in the...