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'Cleopatra,' a spectacle on- and off-screen
There was the spectacle, the runaway budget, the fights with the studio. But almost everyone thinks about the 1963 movie "Cleopatra" for one thing: Liz and Dick. Martin Landau remembers the day when he realized "Cleopatra" stars Elizabeth Taylor and...
Tags: Rome (Italy), Richard Burton, Kate Burton, Entertainment, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie)
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How to avoid a return to the hospital
The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...
Tags: Yale University, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Chemical Industry, Health and Medical Professionals
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Ken Venturi, 1964 U.S. Open champion, dies at 82
Ken Venturi, a San Francisco native and the 1964 U.S. Open golf champion, has died. He was 82. Matt Venturi says his father died Friday afternoon at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif., after a two-month battle with a spinal infection, pneumonia and...
Tags: U.S. Open (golf), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), PGA Tour, Indianapolis 500, NASCAR
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Ken Venturi dies at 82; golfer had dramatic win in 1964 U.S. Open
Ken Venturi, who won the 1964 U.S. Open golf championship in dramatic fashion and became a longtime television commentator, died Friday in Rancho Mirage. He was 82. Venturi, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month, died at...
Tags: U.S. Open (golf), Abraham Lincoln, Fatigue, Masters Tournament, Golf
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George Michael car crash results in cuts, bruises for singer
Singer George Michael has been involved in a car crash in England that resulted in a helicopter airlift to a hospital. The former Wham! singer, 49, was a passenger in his Range Rover on London's M1 highway Thursday when the accident occurred around 5:50...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Punishment, Air and Space Accidents, BBC, Downton Abbey (tv program)
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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: Social Media, Health Organizations, Heart Disease, Behavioral Conditions, Michael Bloomberg
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PASSINGS: Jeff Hanneman, Urban Leonard 'Ben' Drew, John Williamson
Jeff Hanneman Founding member of metal band Slayer Jeff Hanneman, 49, a guitarist and founding member of the thrash metal band Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, died Thursday of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital,...
Tags: Germany, U.S. Army
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Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show
New Medicare data reveal wildly varying charges among the nation's hospitals for 100 of the most common in-patient treatments and procedures, calling into question medical billing practices just as U.S. officials try to rein in rising costs. The...
Tags: Personal Income, Medical Procedures and Tests, Prices, Medicare, Hospitals and Clinics
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California calls for more disclosure of medical costs [video chat]
California officials are looking to build on a federal effort to disclose more healthcare pricing information to consumers. Medicare officials released new data this week that showed wildly different hospital charges across the nation for 100 of the...
Tags: Healthcare Laws, Medicare, Hospitals and Clinics, Consumers, Crime, Law and Justice
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PASSINGS: Jeanne Cooper, Mario Machado, Bryan Forbes
Jeanne Cooper Emmy winner starred in 'The Young and the Restless' Jeanne Cooper, 84, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on CBS' "The Young and the Restless," died Wednesday in her sleep,...
Tags: Corbin Bernsen, Career and Workplace, Obituaries, Entertainment, Sports
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Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show
Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, St. Joseph Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medicare
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PASSINGS: Frederic Franklin, David Morris Kern
Frederic Franklin Dancer helped popularize modern ballet in U.S. Frederic Franklin, 98, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States, died Saturday at a Manhattan, N.Y., hospital of complications from pneumonia,...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Obituaries, Entertainment, Health and Medical Professionals, Entertainment Events
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