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Good dogs: The list
They're more than man's best friends: They're friends with benefits. Here are a few ways dogs are helping to make our lives healthier, safer and longer.
Search and rescue: When disaster strikes, search-and-rescue dogs are never far behind. After the...Tags: Health, Research, Natural Disasters, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Cancer
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Kim Hill dies at 44; woman's childhood cancer battle inspired creation of Ronald McDonald House
Kim Hill, whose childhood battle with leukemia was the catalyst for the creation of the first Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia in 1974, has died. She was 44.
Hill died Saturday at UCI Medical Center in Orange, said her father, Fred Hill. Radiation...Tags: Health, Human Interest, Brain, Corporate Officers, McDonald's
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Radiation exposure and the effects on human health
As engineers have fought to avert a meltdown at the earthquake- and tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant, nuclear authorities have reported that spikes of radiation have escaped from the facility at levels that can be dangerous to...Tags: Health, X-rays, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Fatigue, Cancer
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Cellphones, kids and cancer: Don't worry, be happy?
The first-ever study comparing brain cancer incidence in kids who use cellphones with those who do not has found no difference, suggesting that children's long-feared vulnerability to brain cancer with early cellphone use does not exist.
In a four-...Tags: Health, Cancer, Brain, Human Body, Medical Research
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Baruj Benacerraf dies at 90; Nobelist made key discoveries about immune system
Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering work explaining why some people are able to fight off infections and tumors while others are not, died Tuesday at his Boston home. He was 90.
The cause was...Tags: Health, University of Paris, Queens (New York City), Genes and Chromosomes, Asthma
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Hanoi's famous Hoan Kiem turtle is captured to receive veterinary care
L.A. UnleashedHANOI, Vietnam — Veterinarians examined a rare giant turtle considered sacred by many Vietnamese at a makeshift hospital in Hanoi on Monday to check mysterious lesions afflicting one of the last four known members of its species. The giant soft-... -
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Many men with low-risk prostate cancer overtreated, study finds
About three-quarters of men with low-risk prostate tumors that can safely be ignored for months or years receive aggressive treatment, despite the risk of complications, researchers reported Monday. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal...Tags: Health, Prostate Cancer, Cancer, Physical Therapists, Radiation Therapy
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Technology expands breast cancer screening options
Special to the Los Angeles TimesBreast-cancer-screening isn't like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's harder. It's like looking for needles in a big field of haystacks, where some of the haystacks have needles, while most don't, but you don't know which are which, so you have to...Tags: Health, X-rays, Radiology, Education, Trials
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Pregnant breast cancer patients more likely to survive
Pregnant breast cancer patients more likely to surviveThere may be few pregnancy nightmares worse than finding a lump in one’s breast, given the dueling fears that if it’s cancer, treatment could harm the developing fetus, while delay and pregnancy hormones could fuel a tumor’s growth....Tags: Houston, Health, Cancer, Plastic Surgeons, Health and Medical Professionals
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Test linked to fewer colorectal cancer deaths
A single sigmoidoscopy between ages 55 and 64 can reduce deaths from colorectal cancer by at least 43%, British researchers reported Tuesday. The results from the first large randomized trial of sigmoidoscopy show that it is a more effective tool than...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Colon, Health, Cancer, Health Organizations
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'The Emperor of All Maladies' by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Scribner: 572 pp., $30 Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies," a remarkable history of the 4,000-year-old war on cancer, shines a focused beam of light on a disease...Tags: Health, Demographics, Health and Medical Professionals, Genes and Chromosomes, Happiness (state of mind)
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