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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: Ewing's sarcoma, Genetics, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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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, Oncology, General Practitioners, Insurance, Biotechnology
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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: Hair Loss, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Business, Biotechnology, Personal Service
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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: Baseball, Health Treatments, Los Angeles Dodgers, Matt Kemp, Arizona Diamondbacks
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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: Arthritis, Diseases and Illnesses, Biotechnology Industry, Biotechnology, Technology
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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: Triple Crown, Churchill Downs, Breeders' Cup, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Kentucky Derby
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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: Health Treatments, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Cancer, Bill Rosendahl
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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), Ovarian Cancer, Health Treatments, Breast Cancer, Entertainment
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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: Respiratory Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Health Treatments, Diseases and Illnesses, Cancer
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Teemu Selanne, a comeback kid and a promise happily kept
Bobby Heravi did not want his son, Faryan, to hear the doctor's verdict and so made sure the boy's head was turned away when he asked about his son's chances of surviving an aggressive form of lymphoma. "With my mouth expression I said, 'What percent?'...
Tags: Honda Center, Health Treatments, Cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Lymphoma
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Watch a 7-year-old boy's long touchdown run in Nebraska scrimmage
Jack Hoffman had only one thing on his mind as he ran down the field during Nebraska's football scrimmage on Saturday. "Scoring a touchdown," he said. And that is just what the 7-year-old, who has won the hearts of everyone involved with Nebraska...
Tags: WrestleMania, MRI (imaging), Health Treatments, Women's National Basketball Association, Johnny Unitas
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Food as medicine? What to make of the claims.
What's a healthful food and what's a healing food? Is there a difference? At least since the mid-19th century, when the Battle Creek Sanitarium opened its doors and people flocked there to follow John Harvey Kellogg's regime of whole grains, nuts and...
Tags: Vegan Diet, Coconut, Drugs and Medicines, Health Treatments, Spirulina (dietary supplement)
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