This past winter, the mortality rate for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 was 35% higher than for patients hospitalized with the flu.

U.S. deaths due to drug overdoses fell last year, the first decrease in five years, according to new estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Kelly Clarkson gets candid about her weight loss, revealing she's on a medication that 'aids and breaks down the sugar' in her body a and it's not Ozempic.

Want to live longer? Longevity is surprisingly different for women and men. Here are some easy tips to get started.

Newsom announced that the state will make $3.3 billion in funding available by July to begin building mental health treatment centers.

Zinc products promising cold relief have been on the market for decades. A new analysis finds research on their efficacy to be inconclusive.

Fake versions of Botox have popped up in California, raising alarm among officials who warn that counterfeit product can lead to slurred speech and breathing issues.

The L.A. Times is looking to speak with Southern California residents who are in intergenerational, or age-gap, friendships.

In a nationwide survey of parents, 57% said they struggled with stress, exhaustion and feeling overwhelmed. When parents suffer burnout, children may suffer too.

A new Grass Valley venue functions as an art gallery, an educational non-profit and as a third space for the local community a especially those who dabble in psychedelics.

King Charles III returned to public-facing royal duties last week amid cancer treatment. A busy schedule means he can't see Prince Harry in the U.K. this week.

Diane Shader Smith's daughter, Mallory Smith, died at age 25 after fighting an antibiotic-resistant lung infection for 12 years. A new book of her daughter's diary entries and a website are aimed at finding solutions.

Republicans and Democrats alike are demanding data about how billions have been spent to help get Californians off the streets.

Do you sleep on a waterbed? Are you based in California? The L.A. Times would like to interview you for a upcoming story.

Ernesto LondoA+-o's memoir 'Trippy' explores psychiatry's renewed flirtation with drugs such as LSD. He's a believer but not a zealot.

Bruce Willis is great amid dementia battle, Rumer Willis says. 'My dad is so beloved, and that's been so evident in the transparency with which we've been sharing.'

Long Beach Health officials declared a public health emergency after one person died due to a tuberculosis outbreak. The spread was contained to one single-room occupancy hotel.

Kim Krans' bestselling "The Wild Unknown" has pushed her to the top of the booming industry of tarot and divination.

Prince William said that his wife Catherine and their children are 'all doing well' months after the princess revealed that she has an undisclosed form of cancer.

Anne Hathaway put alcohol (and hangovers) on a shelf more than five years ago. Now, she's expressing gratitude for the gifts and opportunities she's been given.

New recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force say breast cancer screening should begin at 40 and continue every other year through age 74.

Don't dismiss these horrifying acts as 'crazy,' because they're rarely so simple. There was a cultural context when my mother did it in 1971, just as there is today.

Ashley Judd and Aloe Blacc promote a White House suicide prevention strategy, speaking candidly about the deaths of musicians Naomi Judd and Avicii.

A Los Angeles County initiative called Reaching the 95% aims to engage with more people than the fraction of Angelenos already getting addiction treatment.

Delta Burke explains why she moved back to Florida decades after being fired from 'Designing Women': The business was killing her and she 'didn't want to die in L.A.'

Taylor Swift's new 'The Tortured Poets Department' album draws inspiration from her own breakups. What attracts us to songs about failed relationships?

The call to ramp up accountability is the latest example of Newsom pointing at local governments for the failure to lessen homelessness, which has only worsened in his tenure.

'Confessions of a Shopaholic' scribe Sophie Kinsella reveals she was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2022. Since then she's had surgery, radiation and chemo.

Kate Beckinsale wore a T-shirt emblazoned with 'Tummy Troubles Survivor,' an apparent reference to the mystery medical issue that hospitalized her in March.

When bereavement books didn't help Warren Kozak, he decided to write his own. Only after he was done did he realize that his book about loss was really a book about love.