Thomas Curwen

The path to developing ECMO included stops at a Boston animal shelter and a Santa Barbara hospital.

Coronavirus deaths and cases continue in L.A. County, but the daily numbers are way down from a few months ago.

2021 was going to be about rebuilding, restoring, recovering… Then the Omicron variant arrived.

A poll found that most Angelenos really seem to like living here, even with the city’s flaws.

The life of a 31-year-old living with schizophrenia illustrates the toll of illness and the challenge of getting severely mentally ill people off the streets.

La violencia armada se ha convertido en el tamborileo de nuestros días. Decimos que estamos conmocionados, pero en realidad no lo estamos. Decimos que estamos incrédulos, pero en realidad no lo estamos.

Not far from the red-tile roofs and stucco subdivisions of eastern Orange County, Cook’s Corner is an anachronism, a throwback to when the county was known mostly for its eponymous trees and its ranches and orchards stretching to the sea. A hamburger stand-turned-roadhouse up against rolling hills, it belongs to plein-air reveries of old California but with dozens of Harley-Davidsons parked out front, glinting in the sun. That idyll ended abruptly Wednesday when a gunman fired upon a crowd that…

Nan Ibarra knows what psychosis looks like and wonders whether politicians do. Not long after her older son became convinced that she was Satan, he took a baseball bat to their Laguna Hills home, smashing windows, framed pictures and a curio cabinet. Then his brother began taking spoonfuls of sugar into the backyard because ants told him they were hungry. Having watched the effect of schizoaffective disorder on her two sons, Ibarra knows how unpredictable its symptoms are. In the last 3½ years,…

Earlier this year, when Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out the agenda for his second term, he made clear his ambition to reform the state’s behavioral health system. By signing into law on Tuesday an expansion of conservatorship criteria, and then approving a ballot measure on Thursday to increase funding for housing and health services, he has come closer to achieving his goal. “Today marks a powerful and important milestone,” Newsom said at a signing ceremony at Los Angeles General Medical Center for…

The boat sits at the dock waiting to sail. Gleaming under a fresh coat of white paint, black trim and mist-green highlights, it tugs on lines that creak from the marina’s gentle surge. The captain stands on the flying bridge as the crew casts off. The owner, coffee in hand, watches from the stern railing. With a straight prow, stolid cabin top, broad aft deck and crow’s nest, the boat, the Western Flyer, is a throwback to the last century — more reminiscent of a child’s toy bobbing in a bathtub’…