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Video games are one of today’s most popular forms of entertainment. But what is less obvious is their increasing importance in other areas of society.

We sat down with Dr. John Swartzberg, head of the Wellness Letter Editorial Board, to find whether or not our bodies care if we eat organic.

At the Polytrauma Unit of the VA medical center in Palo Alto, we follow four soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury who are working to rehabilitate their bodies and their minds.

We continue our discussion of ‘open source’ with Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos.

We continue our discussion with Assemblyman Keith Richman on the rising costs of healthcare, the increasing numbers of uninsured, support for low income subsidizing, and other issues concerning healthcare in California.

Los Angeles Times reporter Duke Helfand takes a closer look at the state’s controversial dropout rate by following the diverging paths of 15 high school students from Birmingham High School.

California’s Central Valley is the country’s heartland but it also has a poverty rate nearly double that of the rest of the state. In this final installment in our Kids For Real series, 10 year-old Ramiro gives us a first-hand look at how his family copes with hunger.

Nearly one million children in California are without health insurance. Each has a family and a story. This one is Alex’s.

In hospitals and doctors’ offices across the state, children are often asked to translate complex and sometimes embarrassing medical information to their parents or family members. Two siblings, ages 10 and 12, describe their experience interpreting for their mother.