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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), Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Richard Burton, Kate Burton
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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: Health Insurance, Diabetes, Environmental Issues, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Abraham Lincoln, Golf, U.S. Open (golf), Fatigue, Masters Tournament
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Heart Disease, Flu, Disease Prevention, Lung Cancer
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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: PGA Tour, Human Interest, U.S. Open (golf), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), NASCAR
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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: Punishment, Transportation Accidents, Downton Abbey (tv program), George Michael, Air and Space Accidents
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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: Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance, Medicare, Prices, Health Insurance Cost
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Longtime L.A. news anchor Mario Machado dead
Mario Machado, a longtime Los Angeles television news anchor and reporter who also played a newsman in a number of films and television shows, has died at a West Hills convalescent facility, said his daughter Michelle. He was 78. Machado, who worked...
Tags: Entertainment, Television
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Medicare, Healthcare Policies, Hospitals and Clinics, Consumers
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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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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: Obituaries, Corbin Bernsen, Entertainment, Soccer, Television
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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: Gallbladder Removal, Medical Procedures and Tests, St. John's Health Center, St. Joseph Medical Center, Medicare
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