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Some Southern California 'nonprofit' pot shops make big money
In the first raid, Orange County sheriff's detectives hit a Dana Point marijuana storefront, the San Clemente home of its director and a "stash house" he allegedly maintained nearby.
In the two homes, they found cash stuffed everywhere: in buckets in the...Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Firearms, U.S. Department of Justice
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez unable to write, brother says
Jacket CopyAccording to his brother, Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is suffering from dementia and is no longer able to write.... -
Fiction with a friend-not-boyfriend pales next to reality at home
There's an intimacy that passes when someone drives you from the Eastside to LAX during rush hour. The act of generosity, the panic of traffic and the fact that any wrong turn can lead to a missed flight is almost romantic. Perhaps this is what leads me...Tags: Breast Cancer, Health Treatments, Los Angeles International Airport
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Drug may be near for cancer's companion condition cachexia
Bonnie Addario didn't even know there was a word for what was happening to her. As if lung cancer weren't bad enough, the 54-year-old had lost 30 pounds off her normally 130-pound frame. Her life was limited to her husband's Barcalounger, where she had to...Tags: Testosterone, Hormones and Metabolism, Breast Cancer, Weight, Drugs and Medicines
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Puyallup Valley, Wash.: Hope blooms with daffodils
Spring had always seemed a reward for enduring winter, a solace for the survivor.
But not that spring. The start of 2003 seemed more like an emotional endurance contest I wasn't winning, and my trip to the Puyallup Valley of Washington, about 25 miles...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Health Treatments, Cancer
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Hooked on acid reflux treatment?
A welter of medications sold over the counter and by prescription can spell fast relief from the churning discomfort of acid reflux and heartburn, and the class of drugs known as proton-pump inhibitors has grown powerfully popular with Americans. But...Tags: Internists, Liver Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry
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FDA changing course on antibiotics in livestock
Only 20% of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are given to people who are sick with bacterial infections, such as ear and urinary tract infections and pneumonia. Most of the penicillin, tetracycline and other antibiotic drugs used in this country are given...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Safety at Work, American Medical Association, Staphylococcal Infection
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When death is certain, but dignity is not
Last time I wrote about my dad, he'd taken a fall in his bedroom, couldn't get up, but didn't want yet another ride in an ambulance. So my mother got down on the floor with him, pulled up a blanket and they went to sleep.
This time they went down...Tags: Breast Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Burger King, Nursing, Hospitals and Clinics
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Ovarian cancer risk increases after IVF
Women who underwent at least one vitro fertilization cycle in an effort to become pregnant were almost twice as likely to develop ovarian cancer as women who experienced infertility but did not get such treatment, say the authors of a large Dutch study...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Infertility, Medical Research, University of California, Irvine, Hospitals and Clinics
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House Proud
LA Times MagazineStyle, spirit and taste—and premier designer Jane Hallworth—define the late Laura Ziskin’s Santa Monica home... -
New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer
In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer drug Avastin for patients with metastatic breast cancer — the late-stage, incurable form of the disease. The...Tags: Breast Cancer, Virginia Commonwealth University, Genentech Inc., Heart Attack, Food and Drug Administration
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Peter M. Douglas dies at 69; California Coastal Commission chief
As a child crossing the English Channel with his family to immigrate to America, Peter M. Douglas was mesmerized by the churning seas and his first sighting of a whale, an experience that he said forged an "intangible, unbreakable, lifelong bond" with the...
Tags: Throat Cancer, Natural Resources, Crime, Law and Justice, Lung Cancer, Cancer
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