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Are plastics safe?
Special to The TimesTHIRTEEN-MONTH-OLD Solange Dorsainvil plays with toys made from wood and cloth, drinks from a Swiss-made aluminum sippy cup and teethes on kale stems and celery. Her life is as plastic-free as her mother, Celina Lyons, can make it. --------------------...Tags: Biology, Mount Sinai, Food and Drug Administration, Family, Pharmaceuticals
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Starved for normality
Bryan Bixler is dying.
He feels it in his bones a little more each day, as if passing the mirror in his Laguna Beach apartment and glancing at himself isn't evidence enough. Here's what greets him: sunken eyes, paper-thin arms and legs that hang like a...Tags: Lettuce, Egypt, Rentals, University of Georgia, Weight Loss
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Bringing Back the Wounded With Heart, Soul and Surgery
Times Staff WriterVincent Worrell lay shivering on a trauma bay. He felt something in his mouth. He sat up and spat fragments of his front teeth into a bedpan. They were mixed with blood and tissue torn from inside his mouth. He heard someone say: "Significant...Tags: Bombings, Assault, Building Material, Transportation Accidents, Anesthesiology
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Woman Implicated Armstrong
Times Staff WriterNearly 10 years ago, in an Indiana hospital, a few days after he had cancer surgery, his life at stake and his racing future suddenly very secondary, cyclist Lance Armstrong was allegedly asked by doctors if he had ever taken performance-enhancing...Tags: Track and Field, Charity, Social Issues, Steroids, Companies and Corporations
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The Journey Through Trauma
Times Staff WriterAs Lance Cpl. Ryan Buchter lay bleeding in the Iraqi desert, his fate hinged on the efficiency of a medical lifeline that stretches halfway around the world. From that moment forward, hundreds of strangers would work to save him. Buchter's platoon was in...Tags: Bombings, Gaming, Building Material, Transportation Accidents, X-rays
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Cyclist blames 'flawed' test
Times Staff WriterTo anti-doping officials, the case against Olympic and Tour de France cyclist Tyler Hamilton for an illicit blood transfusion ranks among their greatest victories — a sanction for "intentional cheating at its most sophisticated," in the words of...Tags: Biology, Trials, Cycling Trial, Harvard Medical School, Awards and Prizes
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Today's daily briefing
Keep up-to-date with the latest health headlines. Every day, you'll find links to the newest articles on medicine, health and wellness -- the information you need to stay informed. -------------------- KFC Starts Frying With Less Harmful Oil, People...Tags: Bloomberg L.P., GlaxoSmithKline PLC, KFC Corp., Hepatitis, Drugs and Medicines
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Step by surgical step, a life is transformed
When the nurses wheeled Ana Rodarte into the operating room at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, she was already dopey from the sedative she'd been given in pre-op.
A heart monitor began to capture her drowsy rhythms. The anesthesiologist covered...Tags: David Lynch, Assault, Neck, Petroleum Industry, Family
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He was bleeding green. Honest.
Medical reports (especially of Aunt Milly or Uncle Milton's digestive tract issues) are often dull. But there's something alluring about one published this week in the Lancet: It describes a patient who began oozing green blood. The case, described in...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Hospitals and Clinics, Hemorrhaging, Health
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Hugo Moser, 82; neurologist's portrayal in `Lorenzo's Oil' belied his real character
Times Staff WriterDr. Hugo Moser, the prominent neurologist who was vilified in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil" but who was known as a compassionate and energetic researcher by the parents of hundreds of children with the rare neurological disease known as adrenoleukodystrophy,...Tags: Columbia University, Diseases and Illnesses, Family, Medical Research, Movies
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Dr. Robert Winslow dies at 67; UC San Diego artificial blood pioneer
Dr. Robert Winslow, a UC San Diego researcher who was one of the pioneers in the development of artificial blood, died at his home Feb. 2 after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 67.
Winslow also had climbed Mt. Everest and worked briefly at a...Tags: Medical Research, Science, Obituaries, Odenton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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FDA Warns of Celebrex Heart Risk
Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday warned physicians to consider alternatives to the popular arthritis drug Celebrex because of new evidence that, like the similar drug Vioxx, removed from the market in September, it doubles the...Tags: NYSE Euronext, Inc., Stock Market, Vioxx (drug), Food and Drug Administration, Pharmaceuticals
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