Lab Tests

Her decision to give $500 bonuses to 155 employees for their work in combating the H1N1 flu virus has state Health Secretary Doneen Hollingsworth under scrutiny from the Legislature’s auditors. Members of the Legislature’s government...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- The trial of Dr. Conrad Murray will be delayed until at least Wednesday to give the defense time to study new lab test results the prosecution contends show Michael Jackson did not ingest a fatal overdose of sedatives. The...

Tobacco sales compliance The health department's Learn to Live program offers to retailers a tobacco sales compliance kit. The kit includes a training guide that explains Maryland's tobacco laws. It's illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- Federal prosecutors charged a Westlake man Wednesday, claiming he tried to smuggle nearly 40,000 phony erectile dysfunction pills into LAX in his golf bag and luggage. Kil Jung Lee, 71, is charged with trafficking...

After waiting two hours in a crowded New York City clinic with a broken collarbone, Kerri-Ann Jennings expected more from the doctor who saw her. Although she was in tears from pain — she had broken the bone the previous day on vacation and the...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- You've likely heard the term lab rat, but what about lab dog? Approximately 70,000 dogs are tested on yearly in the United States. The dogs are routinely used in experimental surgical procedures and toxicology tests for cosmetics....

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- After a long delay, testimony resumed Wednesday in the involuntary manslaughter trial against Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. Dr. Steven Shafter, who is likely the prosecution's last witness, took the...

My boyfriend and I are in college and doing the long-distance thing until June 2013. Over the years, he's granted me increasing amounts of freedom to be intimate with women — I'm female, and date women while we're apart — but I still don't...

Dan Rodricks' article, "MPT's flawed decision on flawed film" (June 19) is on the button. Mr. Rodricks' article may have been about MPT, but it highlights what is wrong with our heath care system. The MPT film, "Under our Skin: A health Care nightmare"...

Food allergies affect about one in 13 U.S. children, double the latest government estimate, a new study suggests.   The researchers say about 40 percent of them have severe reactions — a finding they hope will erase misconceptions that food...

 BERLIN (AP) — German vegetable sprouts caused the E. coli outbreak that has killed 31 people and sickened more than 3,000, investigators announced Friday after tracking the bacteria from patients in hospital beds to restaurants and then farm...

(AP) - The bacterium that has killed more than a dozen Europeans, sickened nearly 2,000 more and raised international alarms would be legal if it were found on meat or poultry in the United States. If the bacterium were to contaminate fruits or...