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It was supposed to be a Sunday night celebration of two of the NFL’s storied franchises, the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs, teams that played in the first Super Bowl and each led these days by transcendent quarterbacks.

South San Diego couple turns to NBC 7 Responds for help with a refund after a medical emergency grounds their plans for a European Vacation.

Cutting-edge research is revealing new ways to potentially prevent violent acts, including mass shootings, years before the thought of violence ever crosses the minds of murderers. A study of roughly 1,000 prisoners revealed across-the-board brain abnormalities in those who committed homicide, leading researchers to believe such behavior, if identified early enough, can be quashed with therapy and medication.

Tommy Chong is a survivor. “Grey’s Anatomy” actor James Pickens Jr. is a survivor. September is Prostate cancer awareness month, and Prostate Cancer Foundation wants you to know, if it’s caught earlier enough and treated, the survival rate is almost 100 percent. Kimberly Caldwell-Harvey reports from Santa Monica at the Light It Blue Event on California Live Sept. 23, 2019.

Medical miracle baby, Abigail, had a spina bifida surgery while still in the womb, drastically changing her quality of life as seen on California Live, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019.

Pregnancy started out rough for Leslie Siu. Morning sickness and migraines had her reeling and barely able to function at a demanding New York marketing job, so like rising numbers of U.S. mothers-to-be, she turned to marijuana. “l was finally able to get out from under my work desk,” said Siu, who later started her own pot company and says...

The Kaiser Permanente study examined over 250,000 women living in California before the legalization of cannabis.

Xavier Soto has been desperately looking for answers since his 23-year-old partner, Jeimily Morales, died last June at a hospital in Puerto Rico, nine days after the pair returned from a vacation to the Dominican Republic. Soto, 27, believes Morales, the mother of a 4-year-old boy, was in good health during their trip in the neighboring Caribbean island. She had...

The son of a New York City woman who died celebrating her birthday amid a spate of reported illnesses and deaths in the Dominican Republic is blaming the Caribbean country for her death, NBC News reported. Leyla Cox, 53, an MRI technician from Staten Island, was staying at the Excellence resort in Punta Cana when she died Tuesday, just a...

This was one mistake too far for Serena Williams. Sure, the bad backhand put her behind only 15-30 at the outset of the second set of her opening match at Roland Garros on Monday. What made the miscue so bothersome? She’d already dropped the first set against 83rd-ranked Vitalia Diatchenko — and Williams’ unforced error total already was at 15...

Experience bred confidence for the Golden State Warriors, even when challenged by the upstart Portland Trail Blazers. No matter how far they were down, they’ve been through too much to ever think they’re out. “We just really understand what we’re capable of on both sides of the basketball,” Draymond Green said. “We’re never out of the fight. That’s just always...

A global helium shortage is popping a giant hole in Party City’s sales, forcing the retailer to close 45 stores across the United States. Here are some must-know facts about everyone’s favorite noble gas.

Over a dozen people gathered in Del Mar to help fundraise and celebrate the life of a young girl diagnosed with cancer.

Kelly Stafford, the wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, plans to have surgery to remove a brain tumor.

Clayton Kershaw felt more soreness in his left shoulder playing catch Monday, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says the three-time Cy Young Award winner “didn’t feel so great.”

Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis and then from fibromyalgia. “It’s really hard when people can’t see how much pain you’re in, because they...

After being diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma, doctors have given 29-year-old Fatima Ali a year to live

Abby Lee Miller has been told by doctors “there is a chance she may never walk again.” The dance instructor was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma, a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes in April. A source told E! News, “Her prognosis is bleak, but she is vowing to beat this and not only walk, but dance...

Southern California avocado lovers: You may have found the most cost-effective way to eat the magical, traditionally pricey fruit and get paid to do it. Loma Linda University is looking for people to eat avocados – in large quantities and small quantities – as part of a study, and they’re paying participants.

Lowering blood pressure more than usually recommended not only helps prevent heart problems, it also cuts the risk of mental decline that often leads to Alzheimer’s disease, a major study finds. It’s the first time a single step has been clearly shown to help prevent a dreaded condition that has had people trying crossword puzzles, diet supplements and a host...