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Many with hepatitis C don't get needed follow-up tests, CDC says
Half of all patients who have tested positive for hepatitis C have not had follow-up testing to see if they are still infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means many people are living with the disease and not...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hepatitis C , Medical Procedures and Tests, Disease Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses
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Larry Hagman dies at 81; TV's J.R. Ewing
Los Angeles TimesFervor for the television show “Dallas” was intense in 1980, when the Queen Mother met actor Larry Hagman and joined the worldwide chorus asking: “Who shot J.R.?” “Not even for you, ma’am,” replied Hagman, who...Tags: Television, Theater, Sidney Sheldon, Barbara Eden, Art Carney
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Frank Edward Ray dies at 91; hero in Chowchilla school bus hijacking
Frank Edward Ray, the school bus driver hailed as a hero for helping to lead 26 children to safety after a bizarre kidnapping in the San Joaquin Valley town of Chowchilla 36 years ago, has died. He was 91.
Ray died Thursday in Chowchilla of complications...Tags: Health, Heroism, Health and Safety at School, Gerald Ford, Karl Malden
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Decline on autopsies may obscure understanding of disease
Kaiser Health NewsTelevision crime shows have helped popularize autopsies, but in reality these postmortem exams are becoming rarer every year. Today, hospitals perform autopsies on only about 5 percent of patients who die, down from roughly 50 percent in the 1960s. That's...Tags: Health, Television, Politics, Symptoms, Genes and Chromosomes
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Kerouac: 'Life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda'
Jacket CopyAmong the items sold at the literary auction at Bonhams and Butterfields on Monday was a 1961 letter from Jack Kerouac to two friends, Jacques Beckwith and Lois Sorrells. Kerouac had been typing on the page, got a letter from...... -
EGYPT: Hepatitis C infection reaches alarming figures
Babylon & BeyondEgyptâs spiralling threat of hepatitis C virus â already the highest incidence rate in the world -- is alarming researchers who fear a potential epidemic of the blood-borne disease could spread across the most populous Arab country. The findings of...... -
Will 'Mad Men' cut six characters? And how should it kill them off?
Show Tracker'Mad Men' may cut six cast members. We suggest how their characters should get killed off.... -
Old HIV drug found to produce rare liver problem, FDA says
Booster ShotsDidanosine, the second drug approved for the treatment of HIV infections and one of the oldest weapons in the AIDS armamentarium, has been found to produce rare cases of potentially fatal liver disease in patients taking it for long periods,...... -
High-fructose corn syrup consumption may push fatty livers to the brink
Booster ShotsNonalcoholic fatty liver disease is one of the many consequences of obesity, as fat accumulates not only across the body and around the visceral organs, but inside the organ that helps break down fats, filter toxins from the bloodstream and...... -
Dr. Charles S. Lieber dies at 78; researcher demonstrated that alcohol is a liver toxin
Dr. Charles S. Lieber, who overturned conventional wisdom by demonstrating that alcohol is a toxin that can damage the liver and that alcoholism is a disease that can be treated, died March 1 at his home in Tenafly, N.J. He was 78 and had been battling...Tags: Health, Politics, Health and Safety at School, Nobel Prize Awards, Family
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Dock Ellis, former major league pitcher who counseled drug addicts, dies at 63
Dock Ellis, the former major league pitcher who claimed to have thrown a no-hitter while on LSD but later turned his exploits into the basis of an anti-drug crusade and counseling career, died Friday of liver disease at County-USC Medical Center. He was...Tags: Health, Tony Perez, Health and Safety at School, All Stars, Pittsburgh Pirates
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Read this over coffee
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCoffee drinkers, rejoice! The heavenly brew, once deemed harmful to health, is turning out to be, if not quite a health food, at least a low-risk drink, and in many ways a beneficial one. It could protect against diabetes, liver cancer, cirrhosis and...Tags: Health, Health and Safety at School, Vehicles, Diseases and Illnesses, Education
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