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    Mar 23, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Medical breakthroughs sprang from one woman’s cells

    Sixty years after Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer, her cells live on in laboratories around the globe. Collected by Johns Hopkins researchers as she was being treated, the cells grew incessantly — and they've since helped scientists make blockbuster medical advances, including cancer treatments and the polio vaccine.
    Sixty years after Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer, her cells live on in laboratories around the globe. Collected by Johns Hopkins researchers as she was being treated, the cells grew incessantly — and they've since helped scientists make...

    Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Social Issues, Drugs and Medicines, Science and Technology, Science

    2. Nov 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Astral Weeks: A 'guide' that perplexes

    The late Douglas Adams' unstoppably popular 1979 novel, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (HG2G), is about, among other things, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "one of the most remarkable books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor," an idiosyncratic interstellar how-to for those interested in hitching rides on spaceships and generally surviving on 30 Altairian dollars a day. What does it mean when a book about an extraordinary book itself becomes an extraordinary book?
    The late Douglas Adams' unstoppably popular 1979 novel, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (HG2G), is about, among other things, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "one of the most remarkable books ever to come out of the great publishing...

    Tags: Entertainment, Douglas Adams, Science and Technology, Dining and Drinking, BBC

    3. Feb 3, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  3. 'The Biggest Loser': Guess who's back, walking to Puerto Rico, some disco and more

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    I can't believe I fell for it. I spent much of the weigh-in doing a "Melissa's gonna get hers!" dance. I was gleefully convinced that it was all going to come crashing down around her ankles -- the gameplaying, the......
    4. Feb 25, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. 'Lost' Wednesdays: 'I just lied to a samurai'

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    Despite everything, "Lighthouse" has ended up being a pretty divisive episode of "Lost." Some of the show's fans and critics loved the episode for tossing out some big picture kind of stuff. Some of the others, though, thought the episode......
    5. Mar 24, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Harry Houdini, Hollywood action hero? A look back at the escape artist's films

    The Hero Complex
    Harry Houdini was born 136 years ago today. To mark the day, Susan King goes back to look at a life that included a somewhat-forgotten stint as a movie star. He was born Ehrich Weiss on March 24, 1874, to......
    6. Dec 19, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Navy comes to aid of girl in distress on cruise ship

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    SAN DIEGO -- Fourteen-year-old Laura Montero was aboard a cruise ship off Baja California late last week when her appendix ruptured, causing her agonizing pain. The Dawn Princess was out at sea. The ship doctor lacked the anesthesia for an appendectomy....

    Tags: Ronald Reagan, Appendectomy, Defense, Surgery, Armed Forces

    7. Mar 25, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. For British opera 'idol' Paul Potts, it all started with a coin toss.

    VANCOUVER, CANADA -- Paul Potts -- the British cellphone salesman turned singing sensation and YouTube phenom after dazzling skeptical judges with the operatic aria "Nessun Dorma" on "Britain's Got Talent" -- steps onstage at the Vancouver Centre for...

    Tags: Bear (animal), Flowers, Theater, Opera (genre), Transportation Accidents

    8. Dec 7, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. OTHER DOCTORS FAULTED

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    Dr. Jonathan Heard A full-time surgeon at King/Drew, Heard was faulted in the 1992 death of Sheriff's Deputy Nelson Yamamoto. The deputy had a better than even chance of surviving his gunshot wounds, but Heard administered a lethal combination of heart...

    Tags: Surgery, Crimes, Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Heart Attack

    9. Dec 5, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. A diagnosis botched

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    BY 9 p.m. on March 24, 1999, Petra Lamas had spent nearly a day at King/Drew with her ailing 11-year-old daughter, Patricia Arellano. Patricia had been taken to the hospital with abdominal pain, and doctors had removed her appendix early that morning...

    Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Services, Malpractice, Lawyers, Crimes

    10. Dec 9, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Why supervisors let deadly problems slide

    On the sultry evening of Aug. 11,<strong> </strong>1965,<strong> </strong>a 21-year-old black man named Marquette Frye was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol at 116th Street and Avalon Boulevard for driving drunk.
    Times Staff Writer
    On the sultry evening of Aug. 11, 1965, a 21-year-old black man named Marquette Frye was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol at 116th Street and Avalon Boulevard for driving drunk. A crowd gathered. Frye resisted arrest. A patrolman struck him...

    Tags: Gloria Molina, Newspaper and Magazine, Don Knabe, Appendicitis, Migration

    11. Jul 18, 2012 |Story| KCPQ-LTV

  11. Man says Puyallup hospital failed to detect son's appendicitis

    Rudy King is upset with Puyallup&rsquo;s Good Samaritan Hospital because, he says, his 12-year-old son has a dangerous medical condition that could have been avoided if he had been given a CT scan.
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    Rudy King is upset with Puyallup’s Good Samaritan Hospital because, he says, his 12-year-old son has a dangerous medical condition that could have been avoided if he had been given a CT scan. King, an emergency room nurse, said Wednesday that...

    Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Appendicitis, Hospitals and Clinics

    12. Mar 21, 2012 |Story| Baltimoresun.com

  12. Bonus Brady: Did Brady Anderson really refuse an appendectomy?

    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It&rsquo;s not just an urban Orioles legend. In the middle of his 50-homer season in 1996, Brady Anderson doubled over with terrible abdominal&nbsp; pain and had to be taken to a hospital in Boston for tests.
         It’s not just an urban Orioles legend. In the middle of his 50-homer season in 1996, Brady Anderson doubled over with terrible abdominal  pain and had to be taken to a hospital in Boston for tests.      The diagnosis was appendicitis and he...

    Tags: Human Body, Medical Procedures and Tests, India, Appendectomy, Cal Ripken

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