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Four insights to your health from L.A.'s public MD
You think your doctor is too busy? Dr. Jonathan Fielding has about 9 million patients – which is to say, almost everyone in Los Angeles County. He heads the county’s public health department, a department bigger than that of some states. His...
Tags: Vitamin Therapy, Health Treatments, Dietary Supplements, Hospitals and Clinics, Food and Drug Administration
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Grand Canyon wildlife event to honor memory of park biologist
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. -- Eric York was obsessed with the big cats -- their health, temperaments and survival rates amid the park’s annual tourist invasion. For years, he wandered the area’s crags, gullies and woods, tracking and tagging the...
Tags: Human Interest, Pakistan, Wildlife, Pneumonic Plague, Biology
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Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD
If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...
Tags: Vaccines, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Media Industry, Gonorrhea , Disease Prevention
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Drug spending falls for first time in 6 decades
An explosion of cheap generic substitutes for widely used prescription drugs last year helped drive the first decline in pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. in nearly six decades. Drug makers often lament what they call the patent cliff, which is when...
Tags: Medical Research, Prescription Drugs, Consumers, Plavix (drug), Health Insurance
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Corey Perry ready to carry the Ducks on his back
Corey Perry was a fresh-faced second-year player and just 21 when the Ducks started their playoff run to a Stanley Cup championship in 2007. Now, the 2010-11 Hart Trophy winner is a little more than a month removed from signing an eight-year, $69-...
Tags: Luca Sbisa, Honda Center, Ice Hockey, Jonas Hiller, Bobby Ryan
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Luol Deng to miss Bulls' Game 7 against the Nets
Luol Deng will not be with the Chicago Bulls when they play Game 7 against the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday night. Deng remains hospitalized with an undisclosed illness, although earlier in the week he said he might have meningitis, and did not make the...
Tags: Meningitis, Diseases and Illnesses, Brooklyn Nets, Kirk Hinrich, Basketball
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28 solar workers sickened by valley fever in San Luis Obispo County
Epidemiologists are investigating an outbreak of valley fever that has sickened 28 workers at two large solar-power construction sites in San Luis Obispo County. Staff from the California Department of Public Health, and investigators from the...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prisons, Diseases and Illnesses, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues
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In China, rat meat is sold as lamb
BEIJING -- Feasting on strips of mutton dropped in a simmering pot is a popular dining pastime in China, but what if the meat served is actually made of rat? That may be on the minds of diners after the latest stomach-churning food scandal to hit China....Tags: Bird Flu, Kentucky Fried Chicken, China, U.S. Military
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Rat for dinner: Hundreds arrested in China, where eating is 'game of chance'
Rats disguised as mutton? Out of China comes a story of crimes against meat and man. And be warned: It will make you lose your appetite. Chinese authorities say uninspected meats, including fox, mink and rat, were disguised as beef and mutton with the...
Tags: Lamb, China, Food Industry
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Warriors advance; Nets force Game 7 in NBA playoffs
Stephen Curry scored 22 points to go with eight assists, Andrew Bogut broke out with the best performance of his injury-saddled season and the Golden State Warriors eliminated the Denver Nuggets with a 92-88 victory in Game 6 on Thursday at Oakland....
Tags: Nazr Mohammed, Brook Lopez, Joakim Noah, Ty Lawson, Brooklyn Nets
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Celtics, Rockets stay alive in series
Jeff Green scored 18 points and the Boston Celtics stayed alive in the NBA playoffs, cutting the New York Knicks' lead to 3-2 with a 92-86 victory Wednesday night at New York. The Celtics will host Game 6 on Friday night, needing two victories to become...
Tags: Russell Westbrook, J.R. Smith, New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, NBA Playoffs
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California ordered to move prisoners at risk of valley fever
SACRAMENTO — The federal official in charge of healthcare in California prisons has directed that more than 3,000 inmates be moved out of state lockups that are infected with a lethal fungus known as valley fever. The Monday directive from medical...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prisons, Diseases and Illnesses, Justice System, Judges
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