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Humans' love for robots may be hard-wired in the brain, studies say
Have you loved R2-D2 and C-3PO since you were a kid? Do you have a soft spot in your in your heart for WALL-E? Did you used to play with Furbies and care for a Tamagotchi digital pet? Can the sight of a Roomba roaming your living room bring a tender smile...
Tags: Nursing, Medical Research, Science and Technology, Long Term Care, Nursing Homes
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Planning a home birth? Here's some advice from pediatricians
The nation’s pediatricians have some advice for expectant parents who are considering giving birth to their child at home: Don’t. Home birth is not very common in the United States – fewer than 1% of babies are born outside of a...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Diseases and Illnesses, Pediatrics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Academy of Pediatrics
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Jana Winter: Facing jail time for doing her job
Jana Winter, an investigative reporter for Fox News, faces the prospect of serious jail time for being a good journalist. Seriously. Most of the accounts you may read won't describe her predicament quite that way. But make no mistake: A state judge...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Health and Medical Professionals, James Holmes, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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L.A. County hospitals, clinics conduct disaster drill
Less than two weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings, several Los Angeles County hospitals and clinics conducted a disaster drill to test whether healthcare officials are prepared for such an emergency. At Providence Little Company of Mary Medical...Tags: Nursing, University of California, Irvine, Medical Procedures and Tests, Broken Bones, Hospitals and Clinics
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Allan Arbus, wise psychiatrist on TV's 'MASH,' dies at 95
Allan Arbus, an actor best known for his recurring role as the wise, caring psychiatrist who ministered to shellshocked surgeons and troops on the hit television series "MASH," died Friday at his home in Los Angeles, his family said. He was 95. The...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatrists, MASH (tv program), Heart Failure, Chicago Fire (tv program)
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Placentas provide clues about autism risk at birth, study says
Researchers believe they have come up with a way to tell whether a newborn infant has a higher-than-normal risk of developing autism -- by looking for abnormalities in the placenta shortly after birth. The abnormalities in question are called...
Tags: University of California, Davis, Obstetrics, Medical Research, Science and Technology, American School for the Deaf
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Letters: Doctors and nurses -- who will take care of us?
Re "Can't a nurse do that?," Editorial, April 21 To combat the impending physician shortage all across California, and the crisis already facing rural areas, state law absolutely must change to allow greater independence for non-physician medical...Tags: Nursing, Health and Medical Professionals, Health Care Reform (2009), Internal Medicine, General Practitioners
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Allan Arbus dies at 95; played psychiatrist on 'MASH'
As the wise, dryly humorous psychiatrist caring for shellshocked surgeons and troops in the hit television series "MASH," actor Allan Arbus was so convincing that at least one colleague assumed he had expertise in the medical specialty. In 1973, the...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Robert Downey Jr., MASH (tv program), Celebrities, Heart Failure
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How long it takes to get insurance OK to admit psychiatric patients
Psychiatrists spent an estimated 1 million hours on the phone getting insurance authorizations to admit people to hospitals – time the lead author of a study on the matter says could be better spent helping patients. And perhaps time the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Boston, Psychiatry
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Army sergeant pleads guilty, describes killing 5 fellow servicemen
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of five fellow service members and the attempted murder of another in Iraq in 2009 after the government agreed not to...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Trials, Iraq
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Errors cited in Lap-Band operation
A surgeon cut an Orange County woman's aorta during Lap-Band weight-loss surgery in 2011 and an anesthesiologist failed to detect her hemorrhaging, events that led to her death, according to a Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report. The report...
Tags: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Los Angeles Police Department, Diseases and Illnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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What California should learn from the 1-800-GET-THIN saga
Today, 19 months after her death, we may finally have a good idea of what killed Paula Rojeski. According to a lawsuit and public autopsy records, the causes included her doing business with the 1-800-GET-THIN folks and the slicing of her aorta during...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Laws, Allergan Inc., Health Organizations
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