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How a 'million-dollar patient' got off a medical merry-go-round
For more than two decades, Wanda Remo has battled one illness after another. Asthma, chronic lung disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, chronic pain, strokes. Specialists treat her lungs, her heart and her joints. Her...
Tags: Hip Replacement, Physical Therapy, Medical Procedures and Tests, Pacific Alliance Corporation, Asthma
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Age is Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s issue in Robert Guerrero bout
LAS VEGAS — A boxer needs an edge, contentment is the enemy. Consider the case of Floyd Mayweather Jr. The unbeaten world welterweight champion used to argue with any doubters that he was superior to Manny Pacquiao in the debate over who was the...
Tags: Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Manny Pacquiao, Prisons, Mexico, Diabetes
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Poll: Should doctors tell terminally ill patients they're dying?
As my colleague Melissa Healy noted Thursday, a British medical journal recently invited doctors who specialize in end-of-life care to debate whether patients should be told that they're terminally ill. Two London-based palliative care doctors argued in...
Tags: Chemotherapy, Alzheimer's Disease, Cancer, Leukemia, Palliative Care
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L.A. County to offer free meningitis vaccine to low-income residents
Responding to escalating concerns about bacterial meningitis, Los Angeles County health officials announced Wednesday that they are offering free vaccines to low-income and uninsured residents. The vaccines protect against meningococcal meningitis, a...
Tags: Preventative Medicine, Disease Prevention, Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines, Comprehensive Health
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Health officials investigate meningococcal infection in L.A. County
Public health officials are investigating a Los Angeles County case of meningococcal infection, a bacteria-caused illness that can lead to potentially deadly meningitis. Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public...Tags: Symptoms, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Organizations, Medical Procedures and Tests, The Home Depot
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West Hollywood officials warn gay men, residents of meningitis case
West Hollywood city officials and community leaders warned residents Friday about a serious case of meningococcal infection recently found in Los Angeles County, a bacteria-caused illness that can lead to potentially deadly meningitis. "We don't want to...
Tags: Symptoms, Vaccines, Headaches, Medical Procedures and Tests, Common Cold
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Meningitis scare: From 'fit as can be' to life support in one week
A 31-year-old West Hollywood resident, who was described as being extremely fit only a week or so ago, is now in a coma and on life support after being diagnosed with "full-blown meningitis," city officials said. West Hollywood City Councilman John...Tags: Symptoms, Preventative Medicine, Medical Procedures and Tests, Disease Prevention, Drugs and Medicines
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Meningococcal infection reported in L.A. County
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been alerted about a Los Angeles County case of meningococcal infection, a bacteria-caused illness that can lead to potentially deadly meningitis, according to a spokesperson. Public health officials...Tags: Symptoms, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Organizations, Medical Procedures and Tests, Disease Prevention
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Case of meningitis-related bacterial illness reported in L.A. County
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been alerted about a Los Angeles County case of meningococcal infection, a bacteria-caused illness that can lead to potentially deadly meningitis, according to a spokesperson. Public health officials...Tags: Symptoms, Vaccines, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Organizations, Headaches
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Chinese officials urge calm as seventh bird flu victim dies
The toll from China’s new strain of bird flu climbed to seven on Monday with the death of a 64-year-old retiree in Shanghai and the number of cases spread to 24, but officials expressed confidence the outbreak could be contained. The World...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, China, Health Organizations, Shanghai (China), Bird Flu
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Review: Guido van der Werve gives heart and soul in video requiem
"Number fourteen, home" is an elaborate video requiem for the dead -- specifically for the great Romantic composer Frédéric Chopin but, by implication, for the entire network of cultural relations that made his work possible. Dutch artist and composer...
Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Warsaw (Poland), Music Industry, Entertainment
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PASSINGS: Robert C. Richardson, Richard Briers, Shadow Morton, Bill Eadington
Robert C. Richardson Won Nobel Prize for physics in 1996 Robert C. Richardson, 75, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, died Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y., from complications of a heart attack,...
Tags: Science, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes, Cornell University, Kenneth Branagh
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