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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: Medical Procedures and Tests, Asthma, Chemical Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Diseases and Illnesses
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Iobella offers oxygen, heat and electricity, for a price
Even the most jaded fitness aficionados (of which L.A. has plenty) would have to admit Santa Monica's exclusive new Iobella studio resembles nothing else they've seen before. With its Plexiglas heated workout pods and triple-oxygen spa cabins, it is...
Tags: Health Treatments, Personal Service, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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College binge drinking raises risk of heart disease
Step away from the beer pong table! College binge drinking may leave you with more than just embarrassing memories and excruciating hangovers. In a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found that four...
Tags: Heart Attack, Health Treatments, Diseases and Illnesses, Education, Cardiologists
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Dodgers' Andre Ethier delivers in the clutch
NEW YORK — Andre Ethier hadn't seen his splits with men in scoring position. "I feel it's not good," Ethier said. He was right. Entering Thursday, the player who used to be called Captain Clutch was two for 19. But Ethier managed to single when...
Tags: A.J. Ellis, Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Hanley Ramirez, Andre Ethier
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Husband-and-wife bombing victims describe pain, horror, recovery
BOSTON — First came the sound, loud and confusing. Then Lee Ann Yanni felt as if something had bumped into her left calf. "That's when I looked down and saw the bone sticking out and thought, 'I'm a physical therapist, and I know that's not a good...
Tags: Chicago Marathon, Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics, Grant Park, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Dodgers' Chad Billingsley has surgery; Shawn Tolleson will, too
NEW YORK -- Chad Billingsley’s reconstructive elbow surgery on Wednesday evening went as expected, the Dodgers announced. Billingsley won’t be the only Dodger spending the coming months recovering from an operation, as reliever Shawn Tolleson...
Tags: Butterfly Ballots, Health Treatments, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chad, Clayton Kershaw
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Boston's bombing victims, like the city itself, are on the mend
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- As Boston's Boylston Street edged back to normal Wednesday, the hospitals that treated the men, women and children injured during the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line announced some good news: Just 39 patients remain in...
Tags: Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Health and Medical Professionals, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Rape of 5-year-old ignites furious protest in India
NEW DELHI — Several hundred people protesting the rape and kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl descended on police headquarters Saturday, waving signs, overrunning barriers and calling for the resignation of the capital city's police commissioner. The...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Justice and Rights, New Delhi (India), Health and Medical Professionals, Kidnapping
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Kobe Bryant gets a visit from Kupchak, D'Antoni and Jim Buss
On Friday, Kobe Bryant got a visit from Lakers Vice President Jim Buss, General Manager Mitch Kupchak and Coach Mike D'Antoni. Bryant is still on crutches, recovering from April 13 surgery to repair a torn left Achilles' tendon. The Lakers All-Star...
Tags: Mitch Kupchak, Los Angeles Lakers, Steve Nash, Health Treatments, Golden State Warriors
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Angels players reflect on stadium security after Boston Marathon bombings
MINNEAPOLIS — The bombings at the Boston Marathon didn't so much heighten concern or raise fears among the Angels as much as affirm what they have felt for a while, that as professional athletes playing America's pastime they could be targets. "If...
Tags: Erick Aybar, Baseball, Jered Weaver, Health and Medical Professionals, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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A shortsighted 'cure' for prescription meds' abuse
An Orange County pain specialist already in the spotlight over deaths from prescription medications has racked up another patient overdose death. The coroner has ruled that Wayne Oviatt died in January of a mix of prescription drugs, including morphine,...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Chemical Industry, Health and Medical Professionals, Arthritis, Vicodin (drug)
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Rescued hikers won't be charged for five-day search
The two Costa Mesa hikers lost for days in Trabuco Canyon will not be billed for the intense search that led to their rescue from the south Orange County wilderness. The search, which included agencies from Orange, Ventura, Los Angeles, Riverside and...
Tags: Health Treatments, Ryan Seacrest, Easter, Health and Medical Professionals, Punishment
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