Tattoos, Jews and swine shots too

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 17, 2008

The blood they gave lasted less than a day

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 4, 2008

UCLA’s new hospital takes technology to new frontiers

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on June 26, 2008

During a procedure, surgeons can use a touch-screen panel or voice commands to display and control images, adjust room lighting, or phone a colleague. They can access patient histories, X-rays and lab results, and use their fingers on the console to draw -- just like a football commentator -- on images displayed on a screen.

A doctor’s visit

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on May 29, 2008

A visit with Dr. Eugene Gettelman, who celebrates his 100th birthday on June 17, shows how much medicine has gained and lost in the last half century

Psychiatrists are the least religious of all physicians

By JewishJournal.com
Published on September 3, 2007

Winning Nobel Prizes seems to run in one family’s chemistry—and biology

By Joe Eskenazi
Published on October 12, 2006

You've heard of the nuclear family. But how about the deoxyribonucleic family? Thirty-seven years after Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel Prize in medicine, his eldest son, Roger, took home this year's prize in chemistry.

There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on over Power Plate

By Debbe Geiger
Published on October 5, 2006

The Power Plate features a vibrating platform that oscillates 30 to 50 times per second. Each time, it stimulates the nervous system and creates a reflex in the body that causes the muscles to contract. The Power Plate Web site lists dozens of college and professional sports teams as using vibration training in their regimens.

Dr. Freud at 150

By Dr. Frank Heynick
Published on May 4, 2006

Freud famously called dreams "the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious." And his own dreams and their analysis revealed to him a whirl of conflicts around his Jewish identity.

The Circuit

By Norma Zager
Published on February 23, 2006

Long time L.A. drycleaner Barry Gershenson was named one of four national spokespersons for the FabriCare Foundation. Gershenson, a third-generation dry cleaning veteran has more than 40 years experience as owner of Sterling Fine Cleaning in Los Angeles. As a spokesperson for the FabriCare Foundation, Gershenson's role will be to educate consumers on the definition of a "professional" drycleaner, as well as the overall benefits of dry cleaning.