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Why would Disneyland be part of an effort to defeat a bill that requires reporting of blood-lead levels high enough to produce heart disease and serious brain disorders?
California's program to help infants and toddlers with developmental delays isn't getting crucial services to kids on time. "It’s been a total nightmare," one parent said.
"My neighborhood has too many candlelight vigils for victims of police brutality or from neglect or incompetence from law enforcement who were not around enough to prevent the situations in the first place."
How a family-services program in Arkansas, known as FINS, criminalizes adolescence and entrenches children in the juvenile justice system.
Momentum is building to get emergency departments to play a bigger role in stemming the epidemic.
Over the course of a week in March, Los Angeles stand-up comic and life coach Kate Romero opened up to KPCC about the pain she feels from degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia.
From harmful dust to toxic fumes, poor oversight is blamed as school repairs make the same mistakes again and again.
Some seniors there now say they are looking for ways to take as few prescription drugs as possible. And many are turning to cannabis as an alternative.
In Los Angeles County, the rate of deadly overdoses is much lower than the national rate. Why?
