Medicine

Marriott Boycotted Over Porn

The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand ... More >>

Trutanich Pushes New Pot Shop Ordinance for L.A.

On Monday, local medical marijuana advocates were buzzing about President Barack Obama's new, federal rules for not busting legitimate medical pot dispensaries and an L.A. Superior Court judge's decision to invalidate the Los Angeles City Council's moratorium on pot shops in this city, which never s ... More >>

California Nurses' Strike Threat: Is It Really About Swine Flu?

California nurses have threatened a major walk-out on Oct. 30. Judging by the headlines in the press -- "Nurses Plan Strike Over Swine Flu Conditions at Hospitals," says the L.A. Times -- you'd almost believe that 16,000 nurses' biggest concern is that they might be infected with H1N1.Score one for ... More >>

'Valley-wide Outbreak' Of H1N1 Happening Now

Hospitals in the San Fernando Valley are experiencing a spike in patients reporting H1N1 "swine" flu symptoms, leading one administrator to call it a "Valley-wide outbreak" of the virus. Three Providence hospitals in the valley -- Holy Cross, Tarzana and Saint Joseph -- are reporting a 10 percent i ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Intoxicating Salaries The high wages earned by administrators of the publicly funded Tarzana Treatment Center are raising eyebrows. L.A. TimesProp Company Clears the Set The second-largest film and TV prop company is folding, a victim of production slowdowns due to Industry strike fears. L.A. Daily ... More >>

Swine Flu Notes: State's Top Doc Reports

Responding to media questions about the swine flu epidemic, Dr. Mark Horton, the director of the California Department of Public Health, made several statements at a just-concluded teleconference. Shortly before Horton's Q&A, CDPH deputy director Dr. Gil Chavez announced that as of this afternoo ... More >>

Swine Flu: One U.S. Death, One Attempt to Change Flu's Name

As of 8 a.m. this morning one U.S. death, in Texas, has been attributed to the swine flu outbreak. The fatality was a Mexican toddler whose family was visiting the state. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 14 Californians are confirmed as being stricken by SF, while New York City lea ... More >>

When Pigs Fly or Swine Flu: L.A. Remains Safe

From L.A. Observed's observation deck, Kevin Roderick says there's no need for Angelenos to panic about a certain pandemic that may be migrating from south of the border. He notes that doctors are monitoring two local flu clusters that don't seem to be part of anything other than the usual seasonal ... More >>

Closing Martin Luther King Hospital

After Monday’s postmortem, why are so many crucial questions unanswered?

Cliffhanger at MLK

Will Juan Ponce’s brain-tumor nightmare be the last straw at “Killer King”?

Escaping With His Life

MLK-Harbor’s got a new name, the nightmare sounds the same

Smoked Out

Joint interviews with a medical-pot pharmacist and a neighbor who says, Not in My Schoolyard.

Nasdijj's Blog

In Our Misery

The right to die faces a big test in Congress

The Bush Theocracy

Righteous homophobe Claude Allen brings his agenda to the White House

Patriot Act

"Forged in fire" fighting for gay rights in O.C., WeHo mayor John Duran isn't afraid to speak out

Code Red

King-Drew supporters wonder if this is the beginning of the end

Letters

Plastic Pie

The Hallucinogenic Way of Dying

Can psilocybin reduce death anxiety in end-stage cancer patients?

Tough Roe to Hoe

Who will fight the next battle for choice?

Our Bodies, Their Solutions

The rise and fall of one more fad diet

Saving Face

When good drugs have disfiguring consequences

Crimson Came Schechner

Drug War Index

Living With AIDS

Helping people is never quite as easy as it seems

The First Step Back

Yes, needle exchanges can save lives. But they can do even more

Out of Order

Orange County judge wants to know HIV status of players in his courtroom

Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg?

The Peculiar Practice of Dr. John Ronald Brown

Public Health

Spare Parts

A new play about the ethics of organ transplant

Task Force M

State officials set to green-light medical marijuana

What's Next?

The Gay Movement at the Crossroads

What a Piece of Work Is Woman

Natalie Angier’s girl science

Pain and Punishment

Legal logic keeps AIDS patient in jail, off his medicine

Crash and Burn

Tobacconists report rise in heists to match price hikes

Very Good Vibrations

Electricity was the best revenge

The Amazon Bites Back

A Matter of Life and Death

The age, and new age, of AIDS

91 Timeline

Silence of the Mares

Nobel Savage

A search for HIV's missing link

My Body

my nose

AIDS activists fight to keep HIV reports confidential

Ask, But Don't Tell

Cannabis Connection

Clinton's campaign against California's California's medical-marijuana movement

The Virus Fights Back

Pot War P.O.W.

Judge revokes bond, denies THC to medical- marijuana activist

Room at the Top

County fails to respond to AIDS leadership crisis

Keeping Up Appearances

Two perspectives on how we look and what it means

AIDS Panic at the County

Race politics threaten major federal research grant