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<p>Studies have shown that breastfeeding significantly reduces health risks for babies and their mothers. So how many Californians are breastfeeding their babies? Not enough. See our interactive charts and sort the data by ethnicity, income and gender.
Visit Health Dialogues to view the graph:
http://www.kqed.org/assets/graph/breastfeeding/index.jsp</p>
<p>Jennifer Bihm reports on how diabetes and a lack of care are affecting those living with the disease in South Los Angeles.</p>
Melissa Evans examines the extent of Southern California's hospital backup and emergency room overcrowding.
<p>Family counselor Jorge Ruiz Chacón follows an ancient path to healing. At Western Washington University, he learned the same techniques in college psychology courses that his grandmother taught him. He just learned them in a different way.</p>
<p>The Laotian teenager was hearing voices saying that he needed to die. He wasn't sleeping or eating. He was losing weight. And he was convinced some force was trying to push him from a second-story window.</p>
<p>Part 4 of Alone Among Us</p>
