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Subway rider, allegedly pushed, can't scramble off tracks in time
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.It’s a subway rider’s worst nightmare: being pushed onto the tracks. On Monday, it happened in midtown Manhattan where, according to witnesses, one man shoved another in front of an oncoming train, which crushed the victim to death before...Tags: Chemical Industry, Mental Illness, Prosecution, Witnesses, Criminal Laws
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Hope amid frustration as World AIDS Day approaches
Thirty-four million people live with HIV today, and 1.7 million became newly infected in 2011. But on the eve of World AIDS Day, many experts see room for some optimism. Studies now show that identifying -- and effectively treating -- people who are...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Diseases and Illnesses, Allergies, Hillary Clinton, AIDS
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Beyond 7 billion: Bending the population curve
Hunger. Environmental degradation. Political instability. These were among the consequences of rapid global population growth documented in a five-part series in The Times in July. Now, Opinion has invited leading scholars to consider what, if anything,...
Tags: Kenya, Philippines, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Media Industry, PATH
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Dislodging Obamacare
Republicans believed a Mitt Romney win would seal Obamacare's fate. Democrats — or rather, the lonely two-fifths of Americans who support the president's beleaguered healthcare law — believed an Obama win would secure its future. Both sides...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Cato Corporation, Primaries, Tax Credits
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Lazarus: Patients' choices narrower, yet cost of insurance rises
It's hard enough having a serious condition like cancer or kidney failure. It's even worse, some might think, when your health insurer says you have to buy your medicine from the pharmacy of its choice — or pay the full amount for expensive life-...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Chemical Industry, Health Insurance Cost, Insurance, Drugs and Medicines
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Grapefruit doesn't mix well with some drugs, researchers remind
Los Angeles TimesIt’s been known for a long time that eating grapefruit and taking certain prescription oral medications — including the cholesterol drugs atorvastatin, lovastatin and simvastatin as well as some cancer and heart drugs — don’t mix. ...Tags: Simvastatin (drug), Lovastatin (drug), Chemical Industry, Statins (drugs), Prescription Drugs
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Letters: Emergency contraception, over the counter
Re "New policy urged on Plan B for teens," Nov. 26 As a physician and former high school teacher, I agree with the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendation of giving teens advance prescriptions for emergency contraception. I've had too many...Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Chemical Industry, Plan B (drug), Health Treatments, Family Planning
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Diabetes is a stubborn adversary
One by one, the diabetic patients reluctantly stepped on the scale in the basement of a South Los Angeles clinic. Nearby, a nurse scribbled numbers on a chart. Camara January, 31, her round face framed by a sparkly headband, held her breath. The number...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Weight, Diabetes, Chemical Industry, Health Insurance Cost
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Anthem's mail-order policy may have crossed a legal line
Anthem Blue Cross may be breaking California law by requiring some policyholders to buy their prescription drugs from a single mail-order pharmacy, according to the state attorney general's office. Anthem, the state's largest for-profit health insurer,...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Diabetes, Lawyers, Chemical Industry, Healthcare Policies
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Bernie Kosar says he is being treated for brain trauma
Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar says treatments he got from a Florida doctor have helped reverse the effects of brain trauma he suffered during his 13-year NFL career. “When I heard some of the things he was capable of doing I was...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Cleveland Browns, Roger Goodell, Sports, National Football League
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Matthew Nezhad, esq.
Matthew Nezhad has dedicated his entire legal career to protecting the rights of injured victims and helping them get the maximum compensation possible for their injuries. Matthew Nezhad has been recognized as a Super Lawyer, an exemplary...
Tags: Lawyers, Chemical Industry, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Girardi | Keese
Firm Makes an Art of Joining Forces for Major Impact“It’s critical that consumers be allowed to band together to take on rich, powerful corporations.” —Graham LippSmith Some of the most important tools a lawyer has to help injured people are class and mass actions. Such lawsuits...Tags: Osteoporosis, Diabetes, Consumers, Chemical Industry, Actos (drug)
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