Map shows test orders placed through UCLA Health only.   The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has confirmed 25 new deaths and 425 new cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Over the last 48 hours, there have been 1,045 new cases. Sixteen people who died were over the age of 65...

A showcase for prescription medication can be seen on television daily promoting benefits, yet side effects are reserved at the end with barely audible voiceover warnings and unreadable fine print. New drugs known as interleukin inhibitors are used for rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis,...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced Thursday more than $6 billion will be distributed immediately to colleges and universities to provide direct emergency cash grants to college students whose lives and educations have been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak. The funding...

By Amanda Pampuro (CN) — For the second week in a row, 6.6 million Americans filed initial claims for unemployment benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday, showing a sliver of the economic fallout from the continuing coronavirus pandemic. About 261,000 fewer people filed claims during...

Stardate: 2120 Location: U.S. Pluto outpost   “Charon, take this pill to your brother. He’ll feel better.” “What’s it for, Dad?” “He has a tiaravirus detected through the 100-vital-sign sensors surveilling all of us living at this outpost. A virus was detected in the blood, analyzed,...

While we take action to lessen the immediate impacts of COVID-19 on our communities and our health care systems, it is also important to keep stress management in mind. Widespread stress and anxiety regarding COVID-19, compounded by the economic distress due to lost wages, employment and financial assets;...

Map shows test orders placed through UCLA Health only. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has confirmed 29 new deaths and 620 new cases of 2019 novel coronavirus COVID-19 in the county on Wednesday, with a minimum of 153 cases to date in the Santa Clarita Valley. Twenty-two of the people...

The head of the World Health Organization or WHO on Wednesday called on global leaders to “quarantine politicizing COVID” in a passionate and personal retort to U.S. President Donald Trump’s allegations that his agency was unduly influenced by China and botched the initial response to the coronavirus...

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday said the state has secured a deal for 200 million N95 medical masks and surgical masks per month until the COVID-19 crisis subsides. Despite emerging indications efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus are working, Newsom said the state will...

By Matthew Renda and Nathan Solis SACRAMENTO – (CN) California is at the center of a new wave of optimism regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic, as data coming out of the first state to issue a comprehensive stay-at-home order show a flattening curve in infections and hospitalizations. “There...