Community Memorial rising: $350M hospital in Ventura takes shape
The $350 million, 350,000-square-foot Community Memorial Hospital construction project in Ventura is on budget and on track, scheduled to open in the second half of 2015.
USC affiliation lends clout to new Marian residency program
The Family Medicine Residency Program at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria is gearing up for its first class of primary-care residents to come on board this summer.
Athena Cosmetics launches national push after court ruling
A federal appeals court has upheld an order banning Ventura-based Athena Cosmetics from selling its eyelash-boosting products in California but ruled that the firm can resume selling them in the rest of the nation.
Amgen reports positive trial results for high-cholesterol treatment
The portion of Amgen’s Phase 3 trial of evolocumab that evaluated patients with high cholesterol who cannot tolerate statins has met goals related to percent reduction of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
Seeing red tape: Individual policyholders forced out of insurance plans
While many people now have insurance for the first time, another group of policyholders is cursing the new health care law: the self-employed and other individual policyholders.
