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The Unreal World: 'Web Therapy' plot has some issues
"Web Therapy"
11 p.m. Sept. 13, Showtime
Episode: "Whistling While I Work"
The premise: Fiona Wallice (Lisa Kudrow) is a therapist with unspecified credentials who begins seeing clients in three-minute sessions conducted online via video chat. In...Tags: Fraud, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Psychiatry, Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics
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Adele: Surgery successful, prognosis good, her doc says
Ministry of GossipAdele's surgery: Singer Adele had surgery on her vocal cords and is expected to make a full recovery. The doctor who did Adele's surgery had Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler as a patient in 2006.... -
The right place to deliver: home or hospital?
All three of my children were delivered in a hospital under an obstetrician's care. Fetal monitors tracked the babies' heart rates, and an EKG machine measured mine. When it came to discomfort, I opted out and embraced every pain-relieving intervention...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Provider, Obstetrics, Brain
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Validity of hospital rankings
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEven if you're the kind who never reads a review before heading to the car lot or the movie theater, you probably want to know how your hospital stacks up before you walk through the door. You definitely wouldn't want to find out after the fact that...Tags: Heart Attack, Heart and Circulatory System, Heart Disease, Health, Surgery
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Diabetes: A battle for control
Simply put, diabetes is a contest between people and their blood. For people whose bodies don't produce enough insulin to manage their blood sugar, the goal is a normal blood score, achieved through a balancing act of lifestyle and medication....Tags: Drugs and Medicines, University of Southern California, Diets and Dieting, Overweight, Kidney
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Stanley Cup finals Game 3: Bruins' Horton moving extremities at hospital after ugly hit by Aaron Rome
The Fabulous ForumA late and vicious hit by Vancouver defenseman Aaron Rome to the head of Boston winger Nathan Horton dominated the scoreless opening period at TD Garden. The only question after the severity of Horton's injuries is how severe Rome’s punishment...... -
Stanley Cup finals: Boston destroys Vancouver, 8-1, in Game 3
The Fabulous ForumThe Stanley Cup finals took a turn toward ugly with a detour through frightening in Game 3 on Monday, as a vicious hit by Vancouver defenseman Aaron Rome sent Boston winger Nathan Horton to the hospital on a stretcher and...... -
Science tackles your tan
Brand XBreaking news for fake-bakers! Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have recently isolated the enzyme that keeps pasty people pasty, and are developing a cream that would block the enzyme which blocks melanin production. This breakthrough can... -
Geraldine Ferraro dies at 75; shattered political barrier for women as vice presidential nominee in 1984
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the savvy New York Democrat who was embraced as a symbol of women's equality in 1984 when she became the first woman nominated for vice president by a major party, died Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She was...Tags: Bella Abzug, Primaries, Sicilian Mafia, Nancy Pelosi, Gambino Crime Family
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PASSINGS: Mel McDaniel, Lou Gorman, Harley Allen
Mel McDaniel
Country music singer-songwriter
Mel McDaniel, 68, a husky-voiced country music singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit with "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On," died of lung cancer Thursday at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn., the Grand Ole...Tags: Seattle Mariners, Ritchie Valens, Linda Ronstadt, Celebrities and Health Issues, American League
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Lifestyle changes may be the best way to delay diabetes
Booster ShotsLifestyle changes are the best way to stave off development of Type 2 diabetes, according to a 10-year followup of an innovative trial to prevent the disease in high-risk groups. The results are important because diabetes is a rapidly spreading...... -
Gene therapy makes major stride in 'Lorenzo's Oil' disease
In the third gene-therapy success of recent weeks, French researchers have arrested the progression of the rare and fatal degenerative disorder adrenoleukodystrophy, which was at the heart of the popular movie "Lorenzo's Oil." The disease has stabilized...Tags: AIDS, Drugs and Medicines, Health Treatments, Science, Hospitals and Clinics
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