Health

By SoCal Connected Staff
March 11, 2010

Laughing, even in the face of death. How some people coping with serious disease are finding laughter really IS the best medicine.

By SoCal Connected Staff
March 11, 2010

When Jovan Rodriguez was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, he had no insurance and no savings. So he made a video. See highlights from his last day of chemotherapy.

By Steve Proffitt
March 11, 2010

Young people make up the largest group of Americans without health insurance. See the chart that says it all.

By SoCal Connected Staff
March 11, 2010

Most young people are health. But many don't have health insurance. Things can go very wrong if they get sick. What that means for all of us.

By Veronica De La Cruz
March 11, 2010

Young, uninsured, and now gone. One woman's battle for health care reform, based on her personal experience - the death of her brother.

By David Lazarus
March 10, 2010

Our story about a man fighting for his life against a fatal form of cancer - and with his insurance company over treatment - has gotten some attention. From some high-placed officials.

By Steve Proffitt
March 4, 2010

The first experiments in in Vitro fertilization (IVF) began over 100 years ago. Scroll through a time line of the milestones in reproductive technology.

By Producer Christal Smith
February 25, 2010

Whenever his health insurance company faced a PR crisis, it was Wendell Potter's job to minimize the damage. Now Potter is speaking out against the practices he once defended.

By SoCal Connected Staff
February 25, 2010

Commentator Patt Morrison recently had surgery. She has the scars to prove it. Not just from the scalpel—from having to deal with her health care insurance provider.

By SoCal Connected Staff
February 25, 2010

A look at this seemingly normal American family. Normal except for the fact that Dad is dying from cancer.

By SoCal Connected Staff
February 25, 2010

Bob Iritano has a deadly form of cancer. He's fighting for his life. But as David Lazarus reports, he's also having to fight his health insurance company.

By David Lazarus
February 22, 2010

Bob Iritano and his wife Karen talk with David Lazarus about the hoops they've had to jump through to get the the cancer treatment he needs.

By SoCal Connected Staff
December 17, 2009

Couples desperate to have children. Young women who need cash. A look at the business of egg donation.

By Mary Donkersloot, RD
December 3, 2009

We're having an epidemic of childhood obesity. Get some practical advice from a local expert in child nutrition.

By Callie Schweitzer
November 9, 2009

Death certificates acquired by our friends at Neon Tommy tell the story of an unpredictably vicious virus and a dubious response from public health officials.

By SoCal Connected Staff
October 22, 2009

When funny man Robert Schimmel got sick, really sick, he turned to his old friend Humor to cope. Listen to him read an excerpt from his book, "Cancer on $5 a Day."

By Steve Proffitt
October 21, 2009

KCET has obtained a new draft ordinance that would clamp down on LA's marijuana clinics. Some on the Council want passed quickly.

By Correspondent John Larson
October 19, 2009

How illegal marijuana growers ripped off Red Skelton (well, his widow, anyway). And why there's nothing quite as valuable as water to off-the-grid pot farmers.

By Brian Frank
October 19, 2009

Moratorium on moratorium. Judge rules LA's ban on issuing new permits for marijuana clinics invalid. Back to square one?