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New Treatment Helps Ease Sleep Apnea, Snoring

A new treatment is offering relief to people suffering from sleep apnea and snoring.

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Senator: ‘Powerful’ Hospital Lobby Killed Effort For Billing Transparency

A state senator from Torrance is blaming powerful lobbyists for the hospital industry for the defeat of proposed consumer...

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Vernon Meat Plant Files For Bankruptcy Following ‘Pink Slime’ Backlash

A Vernon meat processing plant is shutting down in the wake of nationwide backlash against a sterilizing meat filler known as...

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Check Out The CBS HealthWatch Colorectal Webcast

Watch Dr. Travis Stork from The Doctors and a panel of renowned medical experts discuss colorectal cancer and digestive health.

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Ballot Initiative Would Hold Health Insurance Premiums Down

Leaders of Consumer Watchdog Campaign along with patients and the state’s Insurance Commissioner delivered to the Los Angeles County Registrar’s office in Norwalk hundreds of thousands of petition signatures in support of a health insurance rate justification ballot initiative.

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Cal State Fullerton Approves Campus-Wide Smoking Ban

Smoking has been banned at Cal State Fullerton.

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Mad Cow Quarantines Lifted At 2 Central Calif. Dairies

Quarantines were lifted on two Central California dairies associated with a case of mad cow disease after investigators found no link between the illness and food the diseased bovine might have consumed, federal officials said Friday.

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Cal State Fullerton Becomes First CSU School To Ban Smoking On Campus

Cal State Fullerton has become the first California State University system school to adopt a campus-wide smoking ban.

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Businesses, Landowners Will Pay $6.6M To Fund Toxic Cleanup In South El Monte

Eleven companies and landowners blamed for polluting Southern California water supplies will pay about $6.6 million to clean up the contamination.

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Appellate Court Rules Man Can Sue Hospital Over ‘Excruciating’ Catheter Mishap

An appellate panel reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed against South Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach by a man who claimed he suffered “excruciating pain and trauma” when a worker tripped on a hose, yanking a catheter from his penis.

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Life Plan Promises Better Health, Weight Loss With 30 Simple Habits

Losing weight and getting healthy is not about counting calories, it is a way of life that one fitness expert says starts with adding 30 simple habits one day at a time.

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Time Magazine’s Breastfeeding Cover Sparks Controversy

Time Magazine’s new cover features a picture of Jamie Lynn Grumet, a 26-year-old Southland mom, breastfeeding her child.

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Imagine A Pounding Headache That Lasts A Year … Or More

Imagine having a pounding headache that refuses to go away.

Beauty On A Budget

Pamper Yourself For Less

Keeping up a beauty regimen can get costly at the high-end spas. But CBS2’s Sibila Vargas found some affordable beauty deals through the Southland that allow for indulgence without breaking the bank.

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