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On the frontier of medical pot to treat boy's epilepsy
MODESTO —Topamax. Depakote. Phenobarbital. The list goes on. Before Jayden David turned 5, he had tried a dozen powerful medications to tame a rare form of epilepsy. The side effects were devastating. There were grand mal seizures that lasted...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Stanford University, Topamax (drug), Depakote (drug), Cancer
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Crucial test for an outpost of healthcare in South L.A.
Nurse practitioner Matt Tomlin steps into a small patient exam room, logs on to a computer and pulls up a formidable list of ailments for the 57-year-old woman sitting in front of him. Hypertension. Diabetes. Congestive heart failure. Obesity. Anxiety...
Tags: Lobbying, Allergies, Corporate Officers, Diseases and Illnesses, Stanford University
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The hunt for the perfect mattress
This post has been corrected as indicated belowWhen I can't sleep, I blame red wine, lack of exercise, caffeine after noon or being stressed out. My mind never goes to my mattress. Still, it is an alluring fantasy to believe that with the right mattress it wouldn't matter how much wine I drank, how...Tags: Back Pain, Acupuncture, Allergies
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For some Californians, a difficult transition into managed care
PolitiCalCalifornia is looking to save hundreds of millions of dollars this year by transferring certain Medi-Cal patients into a managed-care healthcare system. However, similar transitions have been fraught with difficulty.... -
Optical illusion dampens arthritis pain
Seeing the movements of a healthy hand mirroring one's own movements plays a welcome trick on the brains of arthritis sufferers, a new study shows: It reduces the perception of pain. The observation, reported this week at the Society for Neuroscience's...Tags: Arthritis, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hands, University of California, San Diego, Human Body
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Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82.
The cause was...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Columbia University, Poetry, Justice and Rights, W.H. Auden
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George B. Rathmann dies at 84; co-founder of biotech giant Amgen
George B. Rathmann, a far-sighted entrepreneur whose small team of talented scientists created two blockbuster drugs that helped turn his upstart Thousand Oaks firm, Amgen Inc., into the world's most successful biotech company, died Sundayat his Palo Alto...Tags: Dialysis, Science, Corporate Officers, Bill Gates, Food and Drug Administration
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Poet Adrienne Rich, 82, has died
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To soothe the body
If you want to live longer -- avoid heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and cancer -- then pick and choose your foods with care to quiet down parts of your immune system.
That's the principle promoted by the founders and followers of anti-inflammatory...Tags: Diets and Dieting, Science, Diseases and Illnesses, Philosophy, Physiology
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Flu vaccine doesn't work in arthritis patients treated with rituximab
Booster ShotsArthritis patients being treated with the drug rituximab should be given flu vaccinations immediately before treatment begins or several months later, but not in the first two months after treatment, Dutch researchers have found. The vaccine is not... -
What's in store for those aging feet? Bigger shoes
Special to The TimesONE thing that doesn't shrink when people get older are feet: They enlarge. More specifically, they flatten. The feet's tendons and ligaments lose some of their elasticity and don't hold the bones and joints together as tidily. When combined with...Tags: Osteoporosis, Interior Policy, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Medical Professionals, Education
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