LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Los Angeles Police Department personnel are mobilizing to replace a 9-year-old boy's leg braces, which were stolen from his mother's vehicle in the South Los Angeles area.

"It's more than just a motto when we say 'to protect and to serve,' " Detective Michael Ventura tells PEOPLE. The Los Angeles Police Department has come to the rescue of a little boy whose leg braces ...

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The 'General Hospital' star recalled wearing leg braces after being diagnosed with a degenerative bone disease as a child Cameron Mathison/Instagram, Rodin Eckenroth/Getty General Hospital star ...

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The LAPD presented a special gift to a disabled boy on Wednesday after thieves had made off with his leg braces. The LAPD Newton division raised money over GoFundMe ...

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Getting dressed is a challenge for patients in leg-lengthening contraptions. — -- Charlotte Robinson has endured painful fractures and surgeries since she was a toddler, but when the then 13-year ...

A man says he was given orthopedic devices that were supposed to help him walk. Instead, they left him bruised and in pain, but when he asked they be replaced, there was an issue. Gerald Williams ...

This text addresses the general question of how medicine-based objects—for example, leg-braces, crutches, orthopaedic boots, and corsets—were included in the daily-life routines of so-called ...

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Police Department is working to raise money to help a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy receive new orthopedic leg braces after his old pair was stolen on June 9.