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A family's never-ending cycle

Deputy David Frost, who oversees a California county jail’s two mental health wings, said it’s not uncommon for seriously ill inmates to wait there for months, even after a judge orders them transferred to a state hospital.

Ageless Fitness

RNs accept ABC's Revolution challenge & lose, lose, lose!

Discharged to Nowhere: Wrap-Up of a Nine-Part Series

Isabelle Walker's fellowship project put the spotlight on lack of respite care for community's neediest.

End-of-Life Care: Why Don't Doctors Die Like Everyone Else?

A moving examination of how doctors choose to die, a big-money Prempro lawsuit, and FDA scrutiny of the HCG diet, plus more from our Daily Briefing.

Hospital scrubs and sandwiches should not mix

You probably have been to a restaurant near a hospital and seen a doctor, nurse or medical assistant wearing scrubs and standing in line for a sandwich. You probably didn’t give this a second thought, but Dr. David C. Martin thinks you should be alarmed.

Classroom Care: Diabetic Students in Grave Danger!

Diabetic children are in jeopardy of dying in the classroom due to a severe shortage of California registered school nurses. There are 15,000 school districts in California and less than 50 percent of those districts have a registered nurse on campus. Current law in California requires only a registered nurse to administer insulin into a diabetic child at school, and mandates it is illegal for a non-licensed person to administer insulin unless it is in writing.

To see Michael Jackson doctor's alleged slipup, look at the label

UPDATE: The Associated Press reported Monday afternoon that Dr. Conrad Murray gave Jackson propofol to help him sleep, and the dose proved to be lethal. Today, police and federal drug enforcement officials are reportedly searching Murray's Las Vegas home.

It is the most anticipated autopsy in modern history.

When Caregivers Harm: Learning from the ProPublica-Los Angeles Times Nurse Investigation

By the time you read about the case of 9-year-old Caitlin Greenwell, unable to talk because her brain was starved of oxygen during a botched birth, you are convinced: the oversight of nurses in California is abysmal.

Her story is deep inside "When Caregivers Harm," an investigative collaboration between ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times published Sunday.

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