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MDA Helps Boy Battling Debilitating Disease
LOS ANGELES (KCAL 9) — A Southland boy is battling a debilitating disease with a fighting spirit. At the age of three, Skyers Ruplinger was diagnosed with Type 2 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) after...
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Concussions End Student’s Playing Days, But Now He’s Trying To Help Others
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — One of the most life-changing risks of playing football is the potential for devastating blows to the head, and amateurs and professionals are both subjected to the dangers of...
View ArticleWoman Battles Rare, Hard To Detect Breast Cancer
LOS ANGELES – Diana reads her book of inspiration everyday. She made it the night of her diagnosis. That’s when Surgical Breast Specialist Dr. Kristi Funk of Pink Lotus Breast Center told her she had...
View ArticleBionic Hand Changing Hundreds Of Lives
LOS ANGELES – Here in the Southland, a woman’s life has drastically changed and it’s all because of what’s being called… the bionic hand. When Telisa Boston was 16, she lost her forearm due to a rare...
View ArticleHussein, 8, Fights Rare Disease Against All Odds
LOS ANGELES – Hussein Balhas is like any other 8 year old; eager to learn, so curious about everything, and loves to eat. His mom says it has not been easy for him. He has had 13 surgeries at such a...
View ArticleDo Facial-Analysis Diets Really Work?
LOS ANGELES – In her two-tone, body-hugging, gown, Oscar winner Kate Winslet glided down the red carpet. “Nervous,” Winslet admitted. Nothing to be nervous about when it came to the form-fitting dress,...
View ArticleTechnology Allows Parents To Choose Baby’s Traits
LOS ANGELES – Would you pick your baby’s features? One local doctor says he’s about to offer the service to would-be parents. The miracle of childbirth… some soon-to-be parents don’t even want to know...
View ArticleMe-Owww! ‘Buttons’ To Undergo Bilateral Mastectomy
WOODLAND HILLS (CBSLA.com) — This is how the story began three years ago when we met Noel, a man whose wife just died from ovarian cancer. For 15 years, they’d been rescuing neighborhood cats. Without...
View ArticleHot Mamas Turn To Peppers Facial For A Rosy Glow
LOS ANGELES – Madonna. Brooke Shields. Jada Pinkett Smith. Suzanne Somers. All celebrity clients of Verabella Skin Therapy Salon in Beverly Hills and all hot mamas! Now you can be one too… “The Hot...
View ArticleJuiced Up Coffee Packed With Antioxidants
LOS ANGELES – It’s coffee with more than just a little kick. One cup has more antioxidants than five cups of green tea or three glasses of pomegranate juice! Is it coffee or it tea? With so many...
View ArticleViolent Sleep Disorder Can Make Life A Nightmare
LOS ANGELES – It is a violent sleep disorder that usually affects men over 50, but that’s not always the case. And the end result is scary beyond belief. In their sleep, it’s as if the world has turned...
View ArticleCan You Really Die Of A Broken Heart?
LOS ANGELES – It’s a condition most people have never heard of: Broken Heart Syndrome, where one intense event can cause your heart to fail even if you have no heart disease or risk factors. The...
View ArticleLiposuction Becomes Popular For ‘Cankles’
LOS ANGELES – A little more up here, a little less in the thighs, and how about a little less here! Never heard of ankle liposuction? Yvette, who makes her living as a model, had it done. She feels her...
View ArticleCochlear Implants Give Child Gift Of Hearing
LOS ANGELES – Tyler de Lara seems like a typical three-year-old, extremely outgoing and playful. But this is a change for Tyler, whose world was silent, until 10 months ago – not able to hear. His...
View ArticleNorville Raises Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness
LOS ANGELES – “In my mom’s case, her level of health went down pretty quickly and we used to say at Christmas, ‘Mom, what do you want for Christmas or your birthday’ and she would say, ‘all I want is a...
View ArticleNew Procedure May Eliminate Bloodshot Eyes
LOS ANGELES – For Greg Watterworth its difficult to talk about… “It is hard to talk about and emotional,” Watterworth said. Something he’s lived with all his life… eyes that look bloodshot- redness...
View ArticleAl Pacino Honored By Arthritis Foundation
LOS ANGELES – He is an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award winner just to name a few. A legend in the world of film and stage, praised for his work over and over. But Al Pacino is now being honored for a...
View ArticleControlling Emotions May Be Key To Losing Weight
LOS ANGELES – She may have been smiling in her pictures, but Tsilah Burman felt tortured on the inside. “I was always constantly dieting and gaining weight and losing weight…” Tsilah says she would eat...
View Article‘Sniffle Buddies’ May Help Stop Spread Of Germs
LOS ANGELES – If necessity is the mother of invention, these mothers could sniff their ideas out from under their children’s noses, or off their hands and sleeves. The problem: How could best friends...
View Article‘Fit Shoes’ Promise To Put You In Shape
LOS ANGELES – Help you lose weight? Tone muscles? Improve posture? Tighten the behind? Well what’s behind these claims? Let’s call them all ‘Fit shoes.’ MBT, Reebok and Sketchers all in on the action....
View ArticleMusic Therapy Turns Young Patients Into Musicians
LOS ANGELES – With his tiny hands, 5-year-old Jaime is not a patient right now, but a musician. So is 6-year-old Jesus, both in Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. Today, treatment doesn’t come from an IV...
View ArticleFirm Offers Free Cleaning For Women With Cancer
LOS ANGELES – When someone is battling cancer it’s not easy… treatment alone can be so exhausting and day-to-day activities can seem impossible. That’s where Cleaning for a Reason comes in, offering...
View ArticleBelly Button Kidney Transplant Saves Boy’s Life
LOS ANGELES – Daniel Alvarez is like many 9 year olds. He loves his toys, baseball, fun with his family and especially his mom and dad. But for the past two years, life has not been easy for this...
View ArticleBoy, 11, Deals With Rare Brain Aneurysm
LOS ANGELES – If there’s one thing you should know about 11-year-old Tristan Gunson, it’s that he loves soccer. But, for now, he is on the sidelines. He can’t play anymore… at least not for a while....
View ArticleParents Hope Girl’s Death Sparks Marrow Donations
LOS ANGELES – Allison Zicree was a healthy baby girl who just celebrated her first birthday. Days later, her parents’ world would be turned upside down. Allison was diagnosed with a rare form of...
View ArticleMusician Documents His Own Battle With Leukemia
LOS ANGELES – In the new film “Dear Jack”, musician Andrew McMahon documents his personal battle with leukemia. As Lisa Sigell tells it, “it’s a story of courage, inspiration, and the power of love…...
View ArticleFamed Mayo Clinic Releases Diet Book
LOS ANGELES – The famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is known for superior health care… and now, for the first time ever… it’s put its name on a diet book. “The Mayo Clinic Diet” is on the New York Times...
View ArticleProgram Helps Women Battling Cancer Feel Beautiful
LOS ANGELES – It has been a while since Kim Le has spent time taking care of herself and feeling beautiful. Kim’s world was turned upside down 10 years ago when she was first diagnosed with breast...
View ArticleWoman Loses Husband To Stage 4 Melanoma
LOS ANGELES – For Anna and Brian Hogan, it was a whirlwind romance, a love that she never expected to find. It all started with a set-up from his mom. Anna agreed to meet him while he was playing pool....
View ArticleNew System Links Doctors To Patients From Anywhere
APPLE VALLEY – Lisa and Justin Rich are a very happy couple, while they’re waiting for their baby boy to enter the world. “I am ready now,” Lisa said anxiously. But little Toby is taking his time. “I’m...
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