USC Professor: 'Great Depression' Behind Longer Life Spans For Seniors
Tougher times and healthier lifestyles are just a couple of factors behind an increase in the number of Americans living well into their "golden years".
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Tougher times and healthier lifestyles are just a couple of factors behind an increase in the number of Americans living well into their "golden years".
Swimming with sharks. Sticking your hand through the bars of the polar bear cage at the zoo. Coming out of the ATM late at night and announcing you just got paid! All pretty dangerous stuff. But to hear some doctors tell it, those things have nothing on something we do all day. For much of the day.
A baby boy was delivered at 11:11 a.m. on Friday, 11/11/11, in room 1111 at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, the hospital said in a statement.
CBS2 Investigative Reporter David Goldstein talks to a father whose 23-year-old son was killed in a car accident. Dennis Carrico claims he only gave permission to a non profit organization -- One Legacy -- to donate some of his son's tissues, but later found out they took his entire heart -- and much more.
CBS2 and KCAL9 Health Reporter Lisa Sigell finds the hottest thing in the battle against pain is cryotherapy -- the use of cold temperatures to shock the body into better health. She even stepped inside a cryo-chamber to give it a try.
Wednesday marked a historic day in medical history with the first person on the West Coast going home from a hospital with a Total Artificial Heart.
A new study finds search engines are the third-most consulted source for new physicians after professional journals and colleagues.
Childhood obesity rates in California fell slightly from 2005-2010 in a sign that the state might be starting to get a handle of the childhood obesity epidemic, according to a study released Wednesday by UCLA and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.
Women have long preferred the natural way to give birth but an increasing number of expectant mothers are requesting Caesarian sections.
CBS2's Lisa Sigell stepped into The Detox Market, a Venice shop that carries toxin-free and hard to find health and beauty products from across the world. Best of all, a trip through the aisles won't break the bank.
U.S. customs agents have caught some bad bugs in Southern California.
Tired? Moody? Hot flashes? It sounds like menopause but doctors say men can experience their own version of hormonal change which some are calling "man-opause".
Free testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases will be available Monday at the Earvin "MAGIC" Johnson Recreation Area.
Los Angeles residents handed over more than 8 tons of medication during the Drug Enforcement Administration's third annual Drug Take-Back event, DEA agents announced Sunday.
UCLA's system of hospitals and clinics warned more than 16,000 patients that their personal information was on a computer hard drive stolen in the burglary of a doctor's home, officials said Friday.
