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Natalie Quijado, a remarkable 4th grader from Fontana, is a real-life "Little Miss Sunshine." The 10-year-old girl helps her neighbor Marina Carrillo, who suffers from Lupus and is raising an autistic child.
<p><span class="fn">Dr. Manoj Jain</span> takes a look at the patient doctor surveys that were conducted in Memphis and gives a doctor's point of view on choosing a primary care physician.</p>
<p>Nursing homes in California have reaped $880 million in new funding from a 2004 state law designed to help them hire more caregivers and boost wages. But many homes did just the opposite.</p>
<p>Unwilling to accept a permanent ban on vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC) in Florida's birth centers, a coalition challenging the rule argues that Florida’s <a href="http://ahca.myflorida.com/PublicMeetingNotices.shtml">Agency for Health Care Administration</a> is overstepping its bounds by intervening in the activities of licensed healthcare providers and by overriding the "informed consent" standard for patients. See full story <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/04/12/challenge-florida-vbac-in…;
<p>People go to the doctor to get better, but sometimes patients get new infections when they step inside a hospital. One hospital is trying to improve health by design.</p>
<p>Southern Arizona children are suffering from adult afflictions — and doctors blame it on a troubling surge in childhood obesity.</p>
