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Girardi | Keese: Hard-Hitting Lawyer Tackles NFL Over Player Safety
Tom Girardi had a busy day ahead him as he made his way to the office on May 2, 2012. He had a trial to prepare for and, that evening, he was bestowing a new chair in advocacy at his alma mater, Loyola Law School. And then news broke around noon that...
Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Washington Redskins, Sports, Dave Duerson, Substance Abuse
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Chris Erskine: Tough break for the L.A. Galaxy, now do-or-die
As with any great opera, the tenor dies in the end, falling upon his own scimitar as the teary-eyed vixen sings her heart out. And the fat lady is nowhere to be found. That's because the L.A. Galaxy still has a chance at resurrection Wednesday night...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Doris Day, PG Rated Movies, Movies
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A wake-up call following knee replacement
As I begin this column, it is Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 22. I have been alive 20,873 days, if my math is correct, and I hope to add to the tally. But the knees I was born with will not be joining me for the rest of the trip. The clock ticks. The surgeon...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Knee Replacement, Obesity, Health and Medical Professionals
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Caught in the current of reverse migration
CUATRO MILPAS, MEXICO— In this hardscrabble farming village, an American teenager like Luis Martinez was bound to stand out. Raised on Little Caesars pizzas and Big Gulps, Luis, 13, was portly. The village kids, subsisting on bowls of chicken...
Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Migration, Organized Crime, Prisons, Tomatoes
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HELPED OR HOOKED?
Los Angeles TimesFourteen of Doanh Nguyen's patients have died of prescription drug overdoses since 2005, coroner's records show. But he's not to blame for any of them, he said. His practice in Orange County's Little Saigon caters to pain sufferers of all kinds....Tags: Personal Service, Botox (drug), Hospitals and Clinics, Pain, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Designer antibodies, nanoparticles, bacteria
When you pop a pill in the future, don't expect old-fashioned results. Thanks to new advances in the lab and a deeper understanding of the human body, drugs are becoming highly personalized and precisely targeted. And the hope is they'll also be more...
Tags: Trials, Food and Drug Administration, Conservation, Biotechnology, Science and Technology
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Sports doctor answers: 'Would I let my son play football?'
Varsity Times InsiderA sports doctor tells us why he would allow his son to play football.... -
Optical illusion dampens arthritis pain
Seeing the movements of a healthy hand mirroring one's own movements plays a welcome trick on the brains of arthritis sufferers, a new study shows: It reduces the perception of pain. The observation, reported this week at the Society for Neuroscience's...Tags: Human Body, Health, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hands, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Chronic conditions' toll tallied
The sunny fact that Americans are living longer, more productive lives has a dark side: More of us than ever live with chronic illnesses that are not only a drag on sufferers' time and energy, but on the nation's pocketbook. The Institute of Medicine on...Tags: Health, Drugs and Medicines, Heart Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Schizophrenia
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Music keeps minds active and memories alive
My name is Bob, and I know what it's like to be flat on your back for more than two months.
My first encounter was for a form of arthritis called Reiter's syndrome — a three-month stay in a Veterans Affairs hospital marked by boredom and...Tags: Music, Health, Insomnia, Entertainment, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Letters: Many views of 'alternative' treatment
![The recent series of articles by Trine Tsouderos in the Los Angeles Times misrepresents the scientific contributions and future research agenda of the National Institutes of Health and its National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ["New Age Cures Put to the Test," Jan. 23].](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67687605-27172233.jpg "The recent series of articles by Trine Tsouderos in the Los Angeles Times misrepresents the scientific contributions and future research agenda of the National Institutes of Health and its National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [\"New Age Cures Put to the Test,\" Jan. 23].")
The recent series of articles by Trine Tsouderos in the Los Angeles Times misrepresents the scientific contributions and future research agenda of the National Institutes of Health and its National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ["New...Tags: Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Medical Research, Health and Medical Professionals, Government
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