Joanne Faryon
Los Angeles Times
New York, NY, United States
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As coronavirus rages, nursing homes have ventilators that hospitals desperately need
Coronavirus: Should doctors take people off life support in order to save COVID-19 patients who might recover? → Read More
He'd been kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?
Finding out his name turned out to be the easy part. The tough part was navigating the blurred lines that separate consciousness from unconsciousness — and figuring out whether his smile was really a smile. → Read More
Research Uses Music To Reach People With Traumatic Brain Injuries
Steven Nelson had decided he wanted to be a nurse. He had spent his teens in trouble and his early 20s in prison. Finally, in his mid-30s, with a steady job as a receptionist in an urgent care and five kids to support, he believed he had found his calling. → Read More
More Families Hope Man On Life Support For 15 Years Is Their Lost Loved One
Sixty-Six Garage, the random name he was given when he arrived at the UCSD Trauma Center in San Diego in 1999, is a John Doe who has been kept alive with machines since the vehicle he was traveling in crashed near the U.S.-Mexico border. → Read More
ICE Under Fire For Detaining Too Few Immigrants
Texas Rep. John Culberson, a Republican, says the federal government is required to hold 34,000 immigrant detainees a day, but the Obama administration disagrees with that interpretation of the law. → Read More
U.S. Government Holding Fewer Immigrants In Detention
Federal authorities are holding fewer immigrants in detention, a reversal in a decade-long upward trend of locking people up who are in the deportation process. The detainees are facing deportation for various reasons, including committing a crime or being in the U.S. illegally. → Read More
Exemptions From Vaccines Up Slightly In California Since 1980s
The reasons parents in California are choosing not to immunize their kids today is partly due to what they find on the Internet, including a study that incorrectly linked vaccines to autism. → Read More
Man On Life Support For 15 Years In Coronado Dubbed Sixty-Six Garage
The name apparently comes from the garage where a van he was in was taken after it crashed near the Mexican border about 100 miles east of San Diego in June 1999. → Read More
Wiping Out Diseases With Vaccines Makes Their Horrors A Distant Memory
Nearly 51,000 California kindergarteners — in both public and private schools— began the 2014-2015 school year lacking one or more recommended vaccinations against diseases. → Read More
More Teens Getting Whooping Cough Since Vaccine Change
A change in the whooping cough vaccine may be contributing to more teens getting the illness. → Read More
Could Man Missing For 14 Years Be In Coronado Nursing Home?
For Yolanda Ibarra Lara, the possibility that her brother, Gilberto Ceron Lara, is alive is a godsend — even if he's being kept alive by life support. → Read More
Whistleblower Nurse Awarded Damages In San Diego Hospice Suit
A registered nurse who was fired from the San Diego Hospice in 2011 alleges staff were encouraged to find creative ways to admit people into care who weren’t eligible. → Read More
Secret Summit: 24 Hours With The Koch Brothers
Last weekend and into today, the billionaire Koch brothers and supporters converged on the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point. → Read More
Immunized People Getting Whooping Cough
Most of the people who got whooping cough in San Diego County so far this year were up to date with their immunizations, according to county data. → Read More
City Auditor Wants Mello-Roos Tax Bills Checked For Accuracy
A San Diego audit found problems with the way square footage is recorded on some building permits which could potentially impact tax bills. → Read More
Neighborhood Kids Can’t Go To New Poway Unified School, But Teachers’ Kids Can
Some parents in the Poway Unified School District are questioning why the district is allowing teachers’ kids to attend its newest school, while turning away neighborhood children. → Read More
The Truth About Nathan Fletcher: Mayoral Candidate Reveals Abusive Childhood (Video)
In an exclusive interview with our media partner inewsource, mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher talked about a “living hell” with his biological father. Fletcher says he made the revelations hoping to set the record straight after questions about his past began surfacing in the campaign. → Read More