Health

With more than 10 million residents, Los Angeles County is the most-populous county in the United States. It is a world of extremes, with multimillion-dollar mansions at one end and cramped apartments housing multiple generations of the same family at the other. As the coronavirus once again tightened its grip …

A lot of foods exist on a spectrum of suitability, from “really bad” wheat to “not so terrible” rice. Well, what about the rest of them? Since I get a lot of email asking whether oats and oatmeal are good for you, I figured I would dig into that question …

When Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine won emergency use authorization on Saturday from the Food and Drug Administration, the move augmented the nation’s vaccination effort with a third major tool — one that differs markedly from the first two authorized vaccines, made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Most notably, it is administered …

The more people who become immune to the virus, the less this scourge will be able to mutate and evade the vaccines already available. Had I been polled last fall, I would have registered as a Covid vaccine skeptic. I told anyone who asked that I was going to wait …

It’s a cold Friday morning in late January. The snow has been falling all night. With two friends, Curtis Eichenberger and Brian McElroy, I’m heading northwest from the town of Collingwood, Ontario, to the shores of Lake Huron in Bruce Country. It’s a two-hour drive, and we’re hoping the ice …

California’s Medical Board started an investigation after Dr. Scott Green reported for the hearing on Zoom while in scrubs and with a patient on the operating table. The Medical Board of California said it was investigating a plastic surgeon who attended a video traffic court hearing from an operating room …

A third effective weapon was added to America’s arsenal against the coronavirus on Saturday when the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for a vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson. The company said it would start shipping millions of doses early this week, and would provide the United …

Online tutorials for TikTok and music-video routines can help prove you wrong. The “WAP” dance is within your reach. In the early days of the pandemic, a strutting, hip-shaking dance trend took over social media: the J. Lo TikTok Challenge, a roughly 30-second piece of choreography from Jennifer Lopez’s Super …

Tea might be the perfect drink for the pandemic winter malaise. Here’s how to start your own ritual. The consumption of tea around the world is second only to water, and it seems to have grown during these crisis-ridden times. TeaTime magazine in Birmingham, Ala., had a 30 percent increase …