One of
USC’s top track athletes, who set state records as a high school sprinter in Long Beach, is in the hospital after being shot three times in the legs a few blocks from the school, police said.
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Warm, moist air from the central Pacific Ocean pushed in showers and thunderstorms across Southern California on Saturday, leaving parts of Ventura County with more than an inch of rain and downtown Los Angeles with just a fraction of an inch.
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Service Employees International Union members struck today at St.
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The number of patients whose hospital records were improperly accessed by employees at the
UCLA Hospital System has topped 1,000, state officials said Wednesday.
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Thirteen people trapped by smoke and fire on the second story of an apartment building in South Los Angeles were screaming for help through windows this morning before they were rescued by firefighters, officials said.
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Since county officials shuttered Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center’s trauma unit three years ago, rising numbers of severely injured patients have been transported to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a 10-mile drive away.
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For months, officials at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center have been buzzing with excitement about the anticipated opening of their new home.
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Earlier this week, the dean at
USC’s Keck School of Medicine warned of an “impending patient safety crisis” at the new County-USC Medical Center set to open next month, telling Los Angeles County supervisors in a letter that he was concerned that the hospital “will not be able to operate safely with the current staffing available.”
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On Monday, the first patients will walk into a gleaming new building in Boyle Heights, the new home of one of nation’s largest public hospitals.
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Federal officials on Thursday warned consumers to avoid buying any infant formula imported from China, citing reports of dozens of babies in that country who fell ill with kidney stones after drinking a brand called Sanlu, resulting in at least one death.The warning was aimed at Chinese American communities across the United States, including Southern California, home to one of the largest ethnic-Chinese populations in the nation.
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