Health

Swept by the barefoot running craze, ultramarathoner Ryan Carter ditched his sneakers for footwear that mimics the experience of striding unshod.The first time he tried it two years ago, he ran a third of a mile on grass. Within three ...

School districts are fine tuning lunch menus ahead of July 1, when new federal guidelines calling for healthier fare take effect.

The tight bond between Kathryn Price and her mom, Joyce Hardison, got them through the challenges of taking over a new cabinetry business in Ventura. Jacob Corbin and his mother Bobbi's discovery of a mutual fascination for food chemistry improved ...

Citing opposition from businesses, the Simi Valley City Council on Monday night rejected completing a bicycle lane route that would have allowed cyclists to pedal directly from the city's east end to its west end.

A person rushed to an emergency room with acute appendicitis in Ventura County could rack up hospital charges of anywhere from $6,782 to $84,554, according to a new study that asserts this Grand Canyon of a gap is driven mostly ...

Ventura County residents should look out and beware — baby rattlesnakes are everywhere, experts say.

Community Memorial Health System will offer a free seminar on skin cancer May 22.

Leaders of a watchdog program designed to protect residents in Ventura County's long-term care homes say three assisted living centers are denying them information they need to do their jobs.

Some of the molasses-slow payment problems blamed on a local Medi-Cal plan are caused by billing middlemen still adapting to new claims requirements, said the plan’s claim officials.

Kimberly Schliekelman started with alcohol and marijuana, graduated to cocaine and crystal meth, overdosed twice, became a heroin addict, then got clean after two stints in rehab. All before age 18.

Christopher McDougall, author of Agoura Hills' 2012 One City, One Book choice"Born to Run," appeared at a discussion at the Agoura Hills Library on Thursday.

Local shoppers, families and kids learned about eating healthfully and locally at the Ventura Farmers' Market.

Sujatha Kattimani, a Redwood City, Calif., software engineer, drives regularly to the Cupertino Farmers Market to buy raw milk at $7.25 per half-gallon. It’s about three times as expensive as regular milk and, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Told she was too fat to be a model, Danielle Segal shed a quarter of her weight and was hospitalized twice for malnutrition. Now that a new Israeli law prohibits the employment of underweight models, the 19-year-old must gain some ...

Slow down. Sit on your hands, if you must. First, just look at the piece of chocolate before you. Consider its particular shade. An earthy umber? A glossier Hershey?