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Staffing, pay at issue in UC medical center strike
University of California patient care workers took to the picket line early Tuesday to begin a two-day strike for better staffing and higher pay. At Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, they wore green shirts, carried noisemakers and chanted, "All day,...
Tags: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Justice System, Career and Workplace, Health Treatments, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bill Clinton visits Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Former President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos while visiting Cartagena, where Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi. Then Clinton took time out to visit with Nobel...Tags: Colombia, Bill Clinton, Entertainment Events, Health Treatments, Alzheimer's Disease
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Two-day walkout begins at five UC medical centers
A massive walkout of University of California patient care workers that began Tuesday could cost the system's medical centers up to $20 million, officials say. The walkout is expected to last two days and involve more than 12,000 UC workers from the ...
Tags: Justice System, Biotechnology, Heart Problems, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice
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Patient care workers set to start walkout at five UC hospitals
Respiratory therapists, nursing aides, surgical technicians and other patient care workers plan to stage a walkout starting Tuesday morning at five University of California medical centers. More than 12,000 workers from the American Federation of State,...Tags: Justice System, Biotechnology, Heart Problems, Career and Workplace, Health Treatments
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...
Tags: New York University, Ewing's sarcoma, Arts and Culture, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Cancer
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Patient is out of network, out of luck
A worrisome abdominal pain drove Jalal Afshar to seek treatment last year at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente. The Pasadena resident and Kaiser member had lived for years with a rare condition known as Castleman's disease, which affects the lymph...
Tags: Abdominal Pain, City of Hope, Biotechnology, Health Treatments, Health and Safety at School
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Fan can't believe Matt Kemp's gesture
He had just made the final out in a city where his name is booed, his jersey is reviled, and his team had been swept. His power had disappeared, his swing was spotty, and his season was a wreck. Matt Kemp would have been excused for quickly...
Tags: Dodger Stadium, Sports, Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers, Health Treatments
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Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet
Amgen Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops medicines used in the treatment of cancer, kidney disease, arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. The Thousand Oaks company's top-selling products include arthritis medication Enbrel,...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Health Treatments, Arthritis
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As Kentucky Derby nears, these two already have won
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As the Kentucky Derby approaches, consider Dennis O'Neill and Tom Knust as Twin Spires for racehorse Goldencents. The backstretch barns at Churchill Downs were celebrity central Wednesday morning, led by the current biggest...
Tags: Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Ocala, Auction Service, Cancer, Public Storage Incorporated
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Councilman Bill Rosendahl says cancer is in remission
Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl said Thursday that his cancer is in remission, announcing on his YouTube channel that medical marijuana played a critical role in his survival. Rosendahl, who steps down June 30 after eight years in office,...
Tags: Medical Marijuana Therapy, Cancer, Health Treatments, Bill Rosendahl
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A hair-loss solution that goes beyond wigs and toupees
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIt almost goes without saying that hair is huge business in Hollywood. Healthy, beautifully coiffed and colored locks are a key calling card for those in the spotlight. Exhibit A: Jennifer Aniston's headline-generating honey-blond shag, hyped year after...Tags: Fergie (singer), Biotechnology, Health Treatments, Bananas, Dermatologists
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The second time around, 'Love Is All You Need'
Pierce Brosnan was self-assured and sexy as James Bond in four blockbusters. He warbled ABBA in the 2008 musical "Mamma Mia!" and played a former British prime minister in Roman Polanski's 2010 thriller "The Ghost Writer." But be vulnerable? Not so...
Tags: Mamma Mia! (movie), Breast Cancer, Celebrities, Health Treatments, Love Is All You Need (movie)
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