La-Jolla News

While society has an increasing interest in appearance and physique, cosmetic procedures are becoming more and more common.

Charles A. Moss, M.D., nationally acclaimed pioneer of integrative medicine, lecturer and author, announces the release of his new book, The Adaptation Diet: A Three-Step Approach to Control Cortisol, Lose Weight, and Prevent Chronic Disease .

Made of rice paper, edible QR codes help diners learn about the fish they eat at San Diego's Harney Sushi.

Cathe Bjorklund shows off the "outrageously feminine" clothes she sells at her store, Up Your Alley, in Temecula.

Discovery of circadian clock in mice hair reveals period of time when damage from radiotherapy can be quickly repaired, keeping hair intact LA JOLLA, CA---Discovering that mouse hair has a circadian clock - a 24-hour cycle of growth followed by restorative repair - researchers suspect that hair loss in humans from toxic cancer radiotherapy and ... (more)

The Arroyo Grande High boys tennis team will face No. 4-seeded La Jolla in the first round of the CIF Southern Regional Championships after the draws were announced Saturday.

It will be a day filled with Championship matches at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis club as the singles finals of the Women's 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s Divisions will all be played on Friday at the USTA National Senior Women's Hard Court Tennis Championships.

Robert Singer, MD, a plastic surgeon in private practice in La Jolla, CA was recently honored for his work as an educator, mentor and contributor to the specialty at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery .

To understand a disease and to help discover novel therapeutic approaches, we have to reveal the molecular mechanisms underlying signal transduction and use that information to design targeted perturbations.

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Three students from La Jolla High School , two students from La Jolla Country Day School and one from The Bishop's School are among approximately 2,500 high school seniors who have won National Merit Scholarship awards, the organization announced last week.

A pregnant woman and her 2-year-old son were trapped in an elevator in La Jolla on Monday around 6 p.m. Maurice Luque with San Diego Fire-Rescue said the two were inside the elevator in a residential property at 7585 Eads Avenue near Silver Street for more than 20 minutes before firefighters arrived on scene.

A UCSD spokeswoman said Monday that the University of California is still in the process of seeking a restraining order against patient care and service employees set to strike at UC medical centers May 21-22. "Further detail is not available," said Jacqueline Carr for UCSD Health Sciences in La Jolla.

When Scott Wright's doctor suggested he take up drawing as a way to de-stress, he figured it would just be another hobby.

Travel around the world in just one event. Attend Cusp Dining & Drinks' World Cocktail Day Dinner.

By Debra Auerbach for CareerBuilder Have you ever had an itch to quit your job and instead do work that makes a real difference in the world? We've compiled a list of seven jobs that help people live a better life - from the buildings they work and live in, to the energy that fuels their homes, to the air they breathe.

Lucy Allbritton, 4, from Pacific Beach, waits in line for her soup with her new bowl at the La Jolla United Methodist Church's "empty bowls" fundraiser Saturday where people purchase hand-made bowls and later are served soup and bread.

San Diego Lifeguard Lt. Nick Lerma said the incident happened at 12:51 p.m. near Spindrift Drive in La Jolla Shores .

A scuba diver was brought unconscious to the beach at La Jolla Shores Saturday afternoon, and lifeguards performed CPR on the stricken diver before he was taken to a hospital in critical condition, according to a lifeguard official.

For the first time in his 30-year career Orlando Agudelo-Botero pays homage to his Latino American heritage.