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Doctor linked to 1-800-GET-THIN faces medical board action
One of the brothers behind the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign for weight-loss surgery faces the possible revocation of his medical license in a misconduct case filed by state regulators. The Medical Board of California accused Michael Omidi of "repeated...
Tags: Breast Surgery, Justice System, Food and Drug Administration, Lawyers, Breast Reduction
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Hoag Hospital to stop performing elective abortions
In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach has announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital. The letter said the decision is based of the low number of procedures done annually at...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Christianity, Social Issues, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief
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Hoag Hospital will stop performing elective abortions
In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital because of the low number of procedures done annually. The decision was based on a review of...Tags: Planned Parenthood, Social Issues, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief
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A wife's Alzheimer's, a husband's obsession
Ken Chiate is a born problem-solver, and in the summer of 1961, when he was on break from college, his problem was a head-turning blond named Jeannette. He was head lifeguard at a public pool in Phoenix, where his father owned a liquor store. She worked...
Tags: Enbrel (drug), Hospitals and Clinics, Genetic Engineering, Medical Research, Health and Medical Professionals
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Class action: Law school grads claim misleading reports of success
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dozens of law graduates across the nation have joined class-action lawsuits alleging that law schools lured them in with misleading reports of their graduates' success. Instead of working in the law, some of the graduates were toiling...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Laws, Justice System, Legal Service, Separation of Church and State
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Peggy Hesketh talks about 'Telling the Bees' and the weird old O.C.
Peggy Hesketh is no stranger to facing her fears. For her debut novel, “Telling the Bees” (Putnam, $27), Hesketh comprehensively researched and observed the world of beehives and bees—an insect to which she is highly allergic. It is this...
Tags: Authors, Allergies
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Poor women who delay breast cancer treatment less likely to survive
It stands to reason that the longer a woman waits to start breast cancer treatment, the worse her prognosis. A new study of California women puts some hard numbers on the cost of delaying treatment – and finds that Latinas, African Americans and...
Tags: Health Insurance, University of Utah, Medical Research, Health Treatments, Science and Technology
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Man accused of killing Newport Beach doctor pleads not guilty
A man accused of killing a Newport Beach doctor pleaded not guilty to murder Friday in Orange County Superior Court. Stanwood Elkus, 75, of Lake Elsinore, pressed against the third floor courtroom's cage to listen to his public defender, Jennifer...Tags: Halloween, Trials
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has rights
On Monday morning, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. According to a transcript of that proceeding, a magistrate at Tsarnaev's hospital bedside read him the Miranda warning, informing him of his...
Tags: Terry Nichols, Safety of Citizens, Government, Military Justice, Politics
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Letter: Why Gitmo may be here to stay
Re "Obama renews call to close prison," May 1 The slogan "Close Guantanamo" obscures as much as it illuminates. To be sure, the prison there must close, for as President Obama said this week, it is an affront to American values, our global standing...
Tags: Prisons, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Judaism, U.S. Department of State, Religion and Belief
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Supreme Court debates Prop. 8, DOMA: Ask the experts [Video chat]
As the U.S. Supreme Court hears a second day of historic arguments on gay marriage, The Times will host a live video chat at 10 a.m. Wednesday with two leading legal experts and legal affairs reporter Maura Dolan. Those experts are John Eastman, a...Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), John G. Roberts, Jr., Defense of Marriage Act, Justice System, Same-Sex Marriage
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Gun control laws from the Wild West (yes, they had them!) to now
Early on in the Sunday morning panel about "Guns in America," author and UCLA constitutional law professor Adam Winkler held up his new book, "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America," and opened it to an 1879 photograph of Dodge City,...
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