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Two-day walkout begins at five UC medical centers
A massive walkout of University of California patient care workers that began Tuesday could cost the system's medical centers up to $20 million, officials say. The walkout is expected to last two days and involve more than 12,000 UC workers from the ...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Chemotherapy, AFSCME, Justice System, Career and Workplace
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Patient care workers set to start walkout at five UC hospitals
Respiratory therapists, nursing aides, surgical technicians and other patient care workers plan to stage a walkout starting Tuesday morning at five University of California medical centers. More than 12,000 workers from the American Federation of State,...Tags: Labor Legislation, Interior Policy, Chemotherapy, Pension and Welfare, AFSCME
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Court limits number who can strike at UC medical centers
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that about 450 employees cannot participate in this week's planned walkout at the University of California medical centers. The unions must maintain a minimum level of staffing among certain units,...Tags: Nursing, Strikes, Judges, AFSCME, Justice System
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Jackson trial: AEG missed the warning signs
Michael Jackson’s doctor showed warning signs that should have led concert promoter AEG to raise serious questions before letting him sign on as the singer’s physician for an anticipated comeback tour, a cardiologist testified Tuesday. ...
Tags: Witnesses, Conrad Murray, Substance Abuse, Prosecution, Rentals
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Champions League losses give Spain pause
If there are lessons to be learned from last week's Champions League semifinals they may not be fully understood until next summer's World Cup. But Vicente del Bosque, consider yourself warned. Because while the losses of Barcelona and Real Madrid to...
Tags: Sports, FIFA World Cup, Soccer
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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: Arbitration, Trials, Food and Drug Administration, Medical Research, Heart Disease
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Wichita State's Carl Hall is at heart of Shockers' surge
From passed out on a floor to the Final Four — it has been a pulse-rate ride for Carl Hall. "Oh man, it's been a long journey for me," Hall said. Wichita State's senior forward, who overcame a heart condition that sidelined him for two years,...
Tags: College Basketball, Pharmaceuticals, Staples Center, High School Sports, Deshaun Thomas
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Missing Olympic diving champ Sammy Lee was in Studio City
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Sammy Lee, who suffers from dementia and was reported missing after leaving his Huntington Beach home, was in Studio City on Tuesday evening to gas his Mercedes after traveling earlier in the day to Mojave, authorities...
Tags: Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, High School Sports, Alzheimer's Disease
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Olympic gold medalist Sammy Lee found in Pico Rivera
Two-time Olympic diving champion Sammy Lee, who had been missing after leaving his Huntington Beach home, was found in Pico Rivera Tuesday night, police said. The 92-year-old Lee, who suffers from dementia, drove from Huntington Beach to Mojave to...
Tags: Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, High School Sports, Alzheimer's Disease
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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: Health Treatments, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Quitting Smoking, Diabetes, Diseases and Illnesses
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PASSINGS: Peter Meyerson, Fran Warren, Max Jakobson
Peter Meyerson TV writer, producer worked on 'The Monkees' and 'Welcome Back, Kotter' Peter Meyerson, 81, a TV writer and producer who co-wrote the debut episodes of sitcom classics "The Monkees" and "Welcome Back, Kotter," died March 11 at Hoag...
Tags: United Nations, Brookfield (Fairfield, Connecticut), Ron Palillo, The Partridge Family (tv program), The Bob Newhart Show (tv program)
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Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary dies during Cambodia trial
Ieng Sary, who co-founded Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to be put on trial for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, died Thursday morning. He was 87....
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Trials, Government
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