Charles M. Hair, MD * George Sarka, MD * Peggy J. Fritzsche, MD

While the U.S. Congress scrambles to fix Medicare's strategic growth rate-related cutbacks, the drug component's premiums have risen by as much as 16 percent in the past year for new enrollees in its ten most popular prescription plans.

On May 8, the Los Angeles County Medical Association hosted a reception for Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes.

Find out how to present workplace rules, requirements and rights at the Aug. 6 Employee Handbook Workshop presented by the California Employers Association, the Los Angeles County Medical Association and Valley Presbyterian Hospital.

Los Angeles' House of Medicine is already making big political strides in 2008. LACPAC, the political action committee affiliated with the Los Angeles County Medical Association, donated money or otherwise lent its support to six state-level candidates facing primary battles, and on June 3, all six won.