UCLA Medical Center

L.A. County Meningitis Stats Raise More Questions -- County Only Recently Began Tracking Sexual Orientation

Updated at the bottom: Health experts say only some types of bacterial meningitis are spread person-to-person, these types are not as contagious as flu and are not sexually transmitted. The CDC says there is no increased risk among gays and no rationale for county officials to alter their approach. ... More >>

Austin Peralta's Death Was Fueled By Drugs and Alcohol, Says Coroner's Report

Twenty-two-year-old virtuoso pianist Austin Peralta died shockingly the day before Thanksgiving. Until now, details of the final hours of his life have been mostly a mystery. See also: The Life and Death of Austin Peralta His coroner's report, obtained by West Coast Sound, states that viral pneumo ... More >>

Patrick Leach: Malibu Shooting Puts Suspect Behind Bars, Victim In Hospital

Malibu is known for its mad views, movie stars and mansions more than anything, but a rare shooting took place in the city by the sea this week. A 49-year-old man was shot in the chest yesterday morning, a sheriff's official tells the Weekly. He was taken to UCLA Medical Center and was expected to ... More >>

The Meth-Gay Sex Nightmare

Daniel Robison barely escaped the deadly addiction

Andrew Breitbart Was L.A.'s Implausible Native Son

How L.A.'s liberal Westside produced a fierce conservative provocateur

Blue Shield Blasts UCLA Doctors For Alleged 17 Percent Profit Margin

Medical costs take up almost one in five dollars American's spend. And while constant increases have been tempered in recent years, you have to wonder who's pocketing all that dough. Many fingers have been pointed at health insurance companies, but this week one of the biggest ones, Blue Shield of ... More >>

Conrad Murray Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter of Michael Jackson

Conrad Murray.​With Jackson family members Joe, Katherine, La Toya and Germaine inside the courtroom and hundreds of fans outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles, a court clerk announced that jurors have concluded Dr. Conrad Murray is guilty of involu ... More >>

Basil Max Price III Killed in Ferrari Crash on PCH: Car Split in Half

A Ferrari 360.​The second Ferrari to split in half in a crash on Pacific Coast Highway in the last five years took the life of a man ID'd by cops as 23-year-old Basil Max Price III of Glendora. He was the passenger in the 1999 car that was apparently speeding and went out of control on PCH no ... More >>

M-Bone, Member of "Teach Me How to Dougie" Crew Cali Swag District, Killed in Inglewood

M-Bone is first from the left at the beginning of the video, wearing plaid shirt. Several news outlets are reporting that Montae Talbert, best known as M-Bone, member of the hip-hop crew Cali Swag District, was gunned down yesterday night in Inglewood. The SoCal crew became world-famous thanks to ... More >>

Kevin Butcher, 23-Year-Old Burbank Man on Motorcycle, Killed in I-10 Crash With Another (Allegedly Drunk) Man on Motorcycle

Facebook23-year-old Kevin Butcher​Kevin Butcher was riding his red Ducati motorcycle down the 10 East yesterday afternoon, when traffic began to slow up ahead. He was riding behind another motorcyclist on a white Honda at the time -- a 29-year-old man from North Hollywood who West L.A. CHP Of ... More >>

UCLA's Millionaire Doctor David Feinberg

How Feinberg got $1.3 million amid tuition hikes, budget cuts and a recession

Zsa Zsa Gabor Now in Hospital for OTHER Leg

Hungarian-born actress Zsa Zsa Gabor​Updated after the jump: Zsa Zsa rejects doctor's orders -- giving her "a 50/50 chance" at survival. The only thing worse than losing a leg? Also losing the other one. We're praying for Zsa Zsa Gabor this morning, who just lost her right leg in January due ... More >>

Serene Branson Grammy Trip-Up Caused by Extreme Headache, Says UCLA Doc

CBS2Serene Branson had the world's most-public headache.​That strange on-air episode of jumbled language uttered by CBS2's Serene Branson during a Grammy Awards report Sunday night wasn't a minor stroke, as some had surmised. Nope. According to her doctor, it was a case of a "complex migraine ... More >>

Stage Raw: Betty Garrett Dies at 91

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!BETTY GARRETT (1919-2011) ​L.A. Weekly's 2005 Queen of the Angels, Betty Garrett, died Saturday morning of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center following a brief i ... More >>

Dr. Keith Richman near death: respected San Fernando Valley Jewish Republican formed rare bipartisan effort to force reform in Sacramento

Los Angeles Daily NewsKeith Richman ​ UPDATED: Keith Richman died Friday night at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to an extensive obituary by Kevin Modesti in the Los Angeles Daily News. This post is updated throughout. Dr. Keith Richman, a fascinating mix of Jewish doctor, Repub ... More >>

CHP Officer Hit On 405 Dies Two Weeks Later

​A California Highway Patrol officer who was struck two weeks ago by a motorist driving on the shoulder of the 405 to avoid traffic died in a hospital Tuesday at the age of 48. Officer Phillip Ortiz was conducting a traffic stop on his motorbike shortly after 8:30 a.m. on June 9 when he was ... More >>

UC Nurses Protest Staffing Shortages At Hospitals

​Blocked from striking by a temporary restraining order, thousands of registered nurses at University of California medical centers are nonetheless holding rallies Thursday, including one at UCLA, to protest staffing shortages and patient safety issues. Beth Kean, chief negotiator for the Cali ... More >>

The Chosen One

How the labor-Latino political machine decides who serves in Sacramento

Heal Thy Patient, Heal the Planet

Lila JavanUCLA Hospital Food Today​ Looking to hitch their food carts to the popular trend of sustainability, a growing number of Southern California medical centers have done away with canned goods and processed foods in their cafeterias and are making meals from scratch from locally sourced ... More >>

Former UCLA Health Worker Pleads Guilty To Accessing Celebrities' Medical Records

UCLAUCLA Medical Center.​Fomer UCLA Healthcare System researcher Huping Zhou has pleaded guilty to violating parts of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and could be one of the first people in the country convicted under the law, federal authorities announced Friday. Afte ... More >>

South L.A.'s Hospital Of Horrors To Reopen

The UC Board of Regents on Thursday agreed to help reopen one of the most troubled medical institutions in state history, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. The move followed an offer by billionaire doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong, who put $100 million in loan guarantees on the table in an effort to ... More >>

Santa Monica Police Tear Into Local Gangs

Some find it hard to believe that Santa Monica, with a median housing price of $1.6 million, is home to two entrenched gangs. The residents of the Pico Neighborhood, near Santa Monica College, know the fact well.SMPDSanta Monica police patrol the not-so-mean Third Street.​ Preston Wayne Brumf ... More >>

Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 240, Teenager Charged in Baby Killing

A teenager is set to be arraigned today in connection with the fatal shooting of 4-month-old Andrew Garcia. ​ Victim: Andrew Garcia Alfonzo "Harms" Landa of Panorama City is charged with one count of murder, six counts of attempted murder and one count on carjacking. The counts carry gun and gang ... More >>

Insured Workers Still Often Split the Bill

Sometimes lost in the debate about health care, public option or not, is the sad fact that even people with decent insurance end up going into debt to pay for procedures that aren't covered. A recent UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found that 2.2 million Californians -- more than half t ... More >>

Michael Jackson Has Heart Attack in LA, TMZ, LA Times Reporting That the King of Pop Is Dead

Developing: Michael Jackson was rushed to the UCLA Medical Centerl after 911 received a call at 12:21 this afternoon. TMZ says: "we're told it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance." TMZ updated it: "A Jackson family member tells TMZ Michael is in "really bad shap ... More >>

Lessons From a Santa Monica Food Line

Through HOPE, the humanist impulse hits home

Goodnight Pete: An Appreciation of L.A. Weekly Co-founder Pete Kameron

Former publisher Michael Sigman remembers tough love, Zen calm and a nice assist with forming the paper's "no-hitting" policy

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Monkey Madness at UCLA

Violent radicals aim to kill Jules Stein Eye Institute researchers who test on animals

Basis of Defense

The Scourge of Skid Row

A staph infection threatens the lives of cops, firefighters and homeless people. But don’t expect any help from county health officials

Death Watch

King/Drew slips away on county supervisors’ watch

Death Race 2000

Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning

Murdered Dreams

Son of peace activist dies in party shooting

Flat Out of Skid Row

Cardboard-box condos, L.A.’s first flat-file gallery and the ultimate California f(art) joke

Letters

Dr. G’s Hard Medicine

Will L.A. County’s top public doctor be remembered as the man who resuscitated health care for the poor or left it gasping for air on the operating table?

If It Happened Here

A bioterrorism attack on Los Angeles might look a lot like this

Vanity Too Fair

Michael Ovitz ’s gay problem

Noise Ecstasy

Close Encounter: And a Spider Sat Down Beside Her

Broken Hearts Club

And You Don’t Ask a Neurosurgeon To Show You How To Cut Up Brains . . .

Uta Hagen would rather act than talk about her craft

Sterling Silver

The Hidden Epidemic

Rape continues to plague L.A. as other violent crime declines