Last month’s departure of Ray Jankowski as chief executive of Community Hospital of Long Beach accelerated what may be the inevitable consolidation in the South Bay city’s hospital community. Following the departure, Community Hospital’s board agreed to have the owner of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center take over management of Community while ongoing merger negotiations [...]

Safety, as much as effectiveness, will be a key marketing message this month for Amgen Inc. as it launches Prolia, a much anticipated osteoporosis drug. That’s no surprise, given the trauma that the Thousand Oaks biotech suffered a few years ago after serious safety concerns dampened sales of its blockbuster anemia drug Aranesp. The U.S. [...]

OSI Systems Inc., a leading maker of airport body scanners, has seen its business surge since the 2009 Christmas Day bombing attempt of a Northwest Airlines flight. That’s despite assertions the X-ray scanners violate privacy by peering through clothing to produce graphic body images. But now the Hawthorne company finds itself in the midst of [...]

When Andy Hayes and Adam Fried started a sports nutrition distribution company named University Supplements, they had $48 between them. Now, thanks to winning a USC business school competition, they have $10,000. The juniors at the Marshall School of Business won the top undergraduate prize in the New Venture Seed Competition sponsored by USC’s Lloyd [...]

West Hills Hospital and Medical Center has taken another step in its transformation from community hospital to regional medical center with the opening of a $60 million emergency department and critical care unit that will be the largest such facility in the San Fernando Valley. The hospital’s capabilities will grow even more when the Grossman [...]

U.S. HealthWorks said that it had acquired both Technimed Occupational Medicine healthcare centers, located in Vernon and Commerce. The Valencia operator of occupational healthcare centers said the centers, founded by Dr. David B. Landers, expand the number of U.S. HealthWorks facilities to 66 in California and 134 nationwide. “We are continuing our expansion in the [...]