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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, HIV, Preventative Medicine, Gonorrhea , Listeria Outbreak (2011)
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Florida fights stucco-eating African snails
An epic battle is raging in South Florida: man against snail. The state is struggling to contain an invasion of the giant African land snail, a species that thrives in hot and wet tropical climates. These gooey and destructive mollusks grow up to 8.5...
Tags: Africa, Building Material
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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: Basketball, Diseases and Illnesses, Chicago Bulls, Sports, Kirk Hinrich
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Man lost for a week in Northern California survived on pine nuts
A Davis man lost for a week in the Lake County wilderness after a car accident apparently survived by eating pine nuts, according to reports. Daniel Brian Thompson, 25, had set out on a solo camping trip when he lost control of his rented Zipcar in a...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport
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New charges filed in L.A. County assessor scandal
The corruption probe into the Los Angeles County assessor’s office broadened Tuesday with prosecutors filing dozens of new charges against embattled assessor John Noguez, one of his former top aides and a tax consultant. The new allegations are in...
Tags: Justice System, Los Angeles International Airport, Trials, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Men sentenced in naked-photo plot against pro poker players
Two Silicon Valley men were sentenced Monday for a "sextortion" plot in which they tried to extort professional poker players with threats of publicizing naked photographs and other private information stolen from email accounts. Tyler Schrier, 23, of...Tags: Organized Crime, Punishment, Email, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice
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County supervisors to vote on NBCUniversal park expansion
Los Angeles County Supervisors are scheduled to vote Tuesday on zoning regulations that would allow NBCUniversal to expand its Hollywood theme park and add more movie and television production facilities. The company has proposed spending nearly $1.6...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Amusement and Theme Parks, Theme Park Vacations, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Zev Yaroslavsky
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Officials find no meningitis link between L.A. and New York cases
In an effort to quash any fears of a patterned outbreak, Los Angeles County health officials said a fatal case of meningitis found this month is not connected to any others across the country. "Public Health has not identified any other cases of...
Tags: Vaccines, Preventative Medicine, Symptoms, AIDS, Common Cold
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Garcetti, Greuel debate who can best lead Los Angeles as mayor
Eric Garcetti talked about how he has led on pension reform and would like to bring “geek chic” to L.A., so engineers educated in the city would stay to build tech jobs. Wendy Greuel touted her recent endorsement from President Clinton and...Tags: Media Industry, Alternative Energy, Eric Garcetti, Politics, Elections
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Jackson doctor files appeal, alleging unfair trial
Dr. Conrad Murray’s trial was “fundamentally unfair” because of the publicity surrounding his manslaughter case and the fame of his patient, Michael Jackson, the physician’s attorney wrote in papers filed Monday asking an appellate...
Tags: Justice System, Punishment, Trials, Judges, Health and Medical Professionals
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LAX flight status boards hacked, telling passengers to exit terminal
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.Authorities were searching the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday night for someone who hacked into multiple flight status boards to write: "Emergency Leave the Terminal," law enforcement authorities told The...Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Travel Alerts
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UCLA stops smoking on Earth Day
Heija Yan took a drag from his cigarette as he approached Powell Library on the UCLA campus Monday, not noticing that the ashtrays were empty and askew. The electrical engineering graduate student had no idea that the university had enacted its...
Tags: Science and Technology, Education, University of California, Los Angeles, Electronics, Earth Day
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