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Officials: Boston Marathon bombing suspect died at hospital
WATERTOWN, Mass. -- The first suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, who was shot in a confrontation with police early Friday, was in cardiac arrest by the time he reached Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, officials said. Doctors labored...
Tags: Shootings, Sports, Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, FBI
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FDA aims to change the way it monitors safety of defibrillators
Defibrillators are supposed to save lives by shocking a patient’s heart back into a normal rhythm, but they have malfunctioned in about 45,000 cases since 2005, according to the Food and Drug Administration. So on Friday, the FDA proposed new...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Schwarzenegger mourns Joe Weider as 'godfather of fitness,' mentor
Arnold Schwarzenegger is mourning the death of fitness impresario Joe Weider, who died Saturday at 93, calling Weider his mentor and the "godfather of fitness." "He taught us that through hard work and training we could all be champions,"...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Mike Gray dies at 77; co-wrote 'China Syndrome' screenplay
Mike Gray, an author, activist and documentarian who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "The China Syndrome," the provocative 1979 film about a cover-up at a nuclear power plant, died Tuesday of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his...
Tags: Entertainment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Science and Technology, Chicago Tribune, Movies
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Micky Moore dies at 98; director and early Hollywood actor
Micky Moore and Hollywood grew up together. He was a toddler in 1916 when he began his career as a child actor in silent films and sat on the laps of such leading ladies as Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. As a 5-year-old he worked with legendary...
Tags: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (movie), Patton (movie), Tom Mix, Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie), Cinema Industry
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PASSINGS: George A. Roberts
. George A. Roberts Helped transform Teledyne Corp. George A. Roberts, 93, who was a pioneer in the field of steel manufacturing and helped turn the Southern California-based Teledyne Corp. into a Fortune 500 firm, died Feb. 15 of heart failure at a...
Tags: Science and Technology, Technology, United States Naval Academy, Industrial Production, Metal
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Smokers are better off quitting, even though they'll gain weight
Attention smokers: Have you been putting off quitting because you’re afraid you’ll gain weight? Do you tell yourself that those extra pounds will be just as damaging to your heart as cigarettes? A new study says it’s time to get real and...
Tags: American Medical Association, Quitting Smoking, Heart Attack, Medical Research, Heart Problems
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Florabel Kinsler dies at 83; social worker aided Holocaust survivors
After World War II, social workers typically urged Holocaust survivors to forget their horrific wartime experiences and get on with their lives. That struck Florabel Kinsler as a foolish and impossible order. During a decades-long career, the Los...
Tags: Psychology, Greenwich Village, Medical Specialization, Long Island, Science and Technology
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LAFD chief wants 911 dispatch center linked to other fire agencies
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Fire Chief Brian Cummings said Wednesday his department will upgrade its 911 dispatch center to work with neighboring fire agencies and help ensure the closest available rescuers are sent to victims during life-threatening emergencies.... -
When CPR isn't the right medicine
The 911 call last month that led to an emergency dispatcher begging workers at a Bakersfield senior living facility to perform CPR on a woman captured the attention of the public. A staff worker told the dispatcher it was against the facility's policy...
Tags: General Practitioners, Ethics, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Religion and Belief, Values
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Mortuary mixes up bodies; family buries wrong woman
L.A. NOWA South Los Angeles family who held a funeral for and buried the wrong woman after a mix-up by the mortuary plans to hold another ceremony this week. Evans Davidson, 74, told employees of Simpson Family Mortuary in Inglewood on...... -
Edward Koch dies at 88; outspoken mayor led New York City comeback
In the late 1970s when Edward I. Koch won his first term as mayor of New York, the city was in shambles, its coffers and confidence sapped by financial crises and a paralyzing blackout. It needed a fighter and found one in Koch, a well-practiced pol...
Tags: Rudy Giuliani, U.S. Congress, Judaism, Political Corruption, Israel
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