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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: Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Physical Conditions, Barbara Bush, Ronald Reagan
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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: Diabetes, Physical Conditions, Anna Nicole Smith, Music, Colleges and Universities
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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: University of California, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Drugs and Medicines, Sickle Cell Disease, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Dr. Mahlon Hoagland dies at 87; scientist helped discover how cells build proteins
Dr. Mahlon Hoagland, who helped unravel the mystery of how cells build proteins by discovering a molecule that brings individual amino acids to growing protein chains and who spent the latter part of his career explaining biology to the public in a series...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Research, Diseases and Illnesses
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Dr. Paul Zamecnik dies at 96; scientist made two major discoveries
Most scientists are fortunate if they can make one major discovery in their lifetime. Dr. Paul Zamecnik made two, each of which should have won him a Nobel Prize.
Working with Dr. Mahlon Hoagland, he discovered transfer RNA, a crucial molecule in the...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Genes and Chromosomes, Research
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Drugs in pre-diabetics do little to slow progression to diabetes or to heart disease, study finds
Booster ShotsA combination of drugs that researchers hoped would delay progression to diabetes and/or heart disease in people with impaired glucose tolerance provided little benefit, researchers reported Sunday at an Atlanta meeting of the American College of... -
Sports is a strain on fans' hearts
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTalk about heart-stopping games. Studying medical records from the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament in Germany, researchers reported Wednesday that they found the rate of heart attacks for Munich-area residents more than doubled on days that the German...Tags: Science and Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Soccer, New England Patriots, Emergency Planning
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Moles' split personality
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWe've long been told to keep an eye on our moles lest they progress to melanoma, a form of skin cancer that's treatable if caught early, deadly if not. But not all moles are equal -- some are risky; others can be safely left alone. The biological roots of...Tags: Basal Cell Carcinoma, John Wayne, Science and Technology, Dermatologists, Squamous Cell Cancer
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Little proof of cellulite cream success
As you may have noticed from the supermarket tabloids -- admit it, you've looked -- all sorts of celebrities are still battling cellulite, that unflattering skin condition that can ruin Hollywood reputations while making big money for beach-side...Tags: Harvard Medical School, Dermatology, Boston, Drugs and Medicines, David Geffen School of Medicine
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A 'too tall' tale: girls and the drug DES
In 1964, when I was 14, a doctor suggested to my parents that I seemed likely to grow "too tall" for a woman. By that he meant that I would grow too tall to be happy, too tall to fit in, too tall to find a man. Fortunately, he said, there was...Tags: Social Issues, Drugs and Medicines, Birth Control, Family Planning, Genes and Chromosomes
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List Of Transplant Facilities Not Meeting Standards
To qualify for Medicare funding, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires transplant centers to perform a certain number of transplants annually and achieve a specific unadjusted survival rate for patients one year after surgery....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Henry Ford, Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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