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Sybil Peacock Harmon, one of Delta Air Lines’ very first flight attendants who later served in the military during World War II, has died. She was 103 years old. “We’re saddened to learn of Sybil Peacock Harmon’s passing,” Allison Ausband, senior vice president of in-flight service, told TODAY in an emailed statement. “Sybil was a beloved member of the Delta...

Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued...

A recent study out of UC San Diego Health revealed an alarmingly higher rate of nurses die by suicide compared to other professions.

Read the headlines on any given day across America and you’ll find evidence of a crisis roiling the criminal justice system: “Suicide leading cause of death in Utah jails.” ”San Diego County inmate suicide rate ‘staggeringly’ high.” ”Attempted suicides at Cuyahoga County Jail tripled over three-year span.” Stories like Tanna Jo Fillmore’s have been told time and again, and yet...

The legalization of cannabis in California and other states has led to a huge number of products that claim to treat all types of health problems. While the research into the healing properties of cannabidiol (CBD), is inconclusive, many local companies are hoping to cash in on the craze. CBD is increasingly being marketed to athletes.

The world’s smallest surviving baby has been born in San Diego.

There’s a baby boom happening at a Maine hospital but it’s the nurses who are expecting. Nine nurses who all work in labor and delivery are pregnant at Maine Medical Center in Portland and are due between April and July. Eight of the pregnant nurses recently posed for a picture which was posted on the facility’s Facebook page. They held...

The group of white-haired folks — some pushing walkers, others using canes — arrive right on time at the gates of Laguna Woods Village, an upscale retirement community in the picturesque hills that frame this Southern California suburb a few miles from Disneyland.

A San Diego-based organization with a lifesaving mission is celebrating a major milestone. EP Save A Life has now screened more than 30,000 young adults for potentially life-threatening heart conditions. The organization was founded a decade ago by a mother whose 15-year-old son died unexpectedly from sudden cardiac arrest. Her resolve to channel her despair into an opportunity to help...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered his first State of the State address Tuesday, a day after declaring he wouldn’t participate in the Trump administration’s “political theater” over border security.

The group was created on January 13. As of Tuesday morning, it had over 60 members.

Community members in Rancho Bernardo are coming together over social media to collect donations for federal government workers.

A judge set $1 million bail for a man who allegedly exchanged gunfire with deputies at his home in Pauma Valley because of the danger his marijuana-induced paranoia presents to himself and his community.

Experts say a recent rise in stem cell clinics across San Diego County is part of a national trend and that there is little science behind some health claims being made.

When Polly Varnado’s 9-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it didn’t take long for the family to hear about insulin pumps. In September 2012, the girl picked out a purple one — her favorite color. Over the next seven months, she proceeded to be hospitalized four times in a McComb, Mississippi medical center with high blood sugar. But...

A Jewish nurse who treated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect says that he saw confusion but not evil in the man’s eyes, and that his own actions stemmed from love. “I’m sure he had no idea I was Jewish,” registered nurse Ari Mahler wrote in a Facebook post Saturday about the shooting suspect, who was taken to Allegheny General Hospital...

A police detective from Poway had a heart attack while running, and a woman stopped to save his life. NBC 7’s Liberty Zabala has more on their reunion.

U.S. Rep. Martha Roby won Alabama’s Republican runoff, fighting through lingering fallout from her years-old criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump in a midterm contest that hinged on loyalty to the GOP president. The four-term incumbent will now represent the GOP on the November ballot having defeated Bobby Bright, a former Democrat who tried to cast himself as the more authentic...

A former manager of a Collin County hospice has pleaded guilty to health care fraud, admitting her role in a $60 million scheme that involved drugging patients to “hasten their deaths,” according to court documents.