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The state has enacted new laws to toughen oversight on medical practitioners. The Bradley Bills are named for Dr. Earl Bradley, a pediatrician charged with sexually abusing more than 100 patients in a Delaware beach town. The new rules require that a chaperon be present during exams and that doctors be fingerprinted.

Oceanside school students got low marks on a state-mandated physical fitness test. The findings are included in a state report about how active students are in California. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis

She's best known for singing arias on opera stages the world over, but Norman's new CD finds her in front of a live audience, singing jazz and spirituals. Hear the celebrated soprano talk about her first new solo record in more than 10 years.

According to the U.N., one in five Iraqi refugees has been tortured or has suffered from other violence. They can heal from the physical wounds, but the long-term psychological damage can be profound.

Over the past few decades, hospice care has become a more common choice for people who have a terminal illness. These patients forgo life-prolonging treatments and instead get help to make their final days as comfortable and pain-free as possible.

For the first time, scientists have found water ice on an asteroid. The giant space rock out between Mars and Jupiter appears to have a fine layer of frost on its surface. Scientists think that our own oceans may have come from water-bearing asteroids that smashed into our planet.

A new forecast predicts San Diego County will need more than 200,000 nurses, aides and other allied health workers by 2030. The California Wellness Foundation report says the region doesn't have the capacity to train that many people.

KEVIN BACON: "Its good that you refer to it as a revenge movie because its not vigilantism, which is a totally different thing. In the original Death Wish film, he takes the law into his own hands and puts himself into situations where the bad guys are going to attack him so that he can attack them back. This is about a very specific guy going after this gang that harmed his family."

Culture Lust contributor Randy Dotinga is an avid reader who's made the switch from hardcovers to reading entire books on his phone. Dotinga makes the case for reading on a tiny, hand-held screen.