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Grand Junction healthcare is a model of low cost and high quality
GRAND JUNCTION - This Western Colorado city of just over 53,000 delivers some of the best healthcare in the nation, at the lowest cost. And nearly everyone has health coverage.
Getting results like this across the nation could solve much of the nation'...Tags: Television, Soccer, Government, Social Issues, Medicaid
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Replicating the healthcare model of Grand Junction
Can other communities copy the Grand Junction model of low-cost, high-quality, near-universal healthcare?
Some doctors in this Colorado city of just over 53,000 say yes, others no. But clearly, some parts could be replicated elsewhere.
The House of...Tags: Cinderella (fictional character), Social Issues, Landforms, Mountains, Family
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Using CT scans to see plaque in coronary arteries
It seems like the pinnacle of medical science: For just a few hundred dollars, you can walk into just about any hospital in Southern California and ask a doctor to check your arteries for buildup of heart-attack-inducing calcium plaque. Most of the time,...Tags: Mammogram, Social Issues, Family, Healthcare Provider, Hospitals and Clinics
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Fix your aching back, rebuild your shrinking brain
Chronic pain can bring on depression, problems of memory and concentration, and general brain fog-- a fact well known to many of the 50 million American adults who live with pain that has settled in for a long stay. But a study published Wednesday finds...Tags: Brain, Pain, Medical Research, Health, Back Pain
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Junipero Serra needs just one more miracle
In a basement at Old Mission Santa Barbara, a filing cabinet is thick with claims of miracles that didn't make the grade.
A man falls off his horse and, thanks to Junipero Serra, he gets up unscathed. A woman visits Serra's tomb in Carmel and something...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Sheila E., Vatican City, The Pope, Christianity
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Getting to the facts in the debate on mammograms
It's such an appealing idea -- catch breast cancer early, treat accordingly and your patients will live.
So perhaps it's no wonder the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force -- a panel of primary care physicians -- caught major flak when it revised its...Tags: Cure (music group), The, Mammogram, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Organizations, Arts and Culture
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In treating breast cancer's harbinger, choice of surgeon matters
Surgeons make different choices in how they excise abnormal cells that are an early precursor to a breast cancer called ductal carcinoma, or DCIS. And surgeons make a wide range of recommendations on whether a woman diagnosed with DCIS should receive...
Tags: Radiation Therapy, Medical Research, Cancer, General Practitioners, Mastectomy
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War injury leads to advances at home
A world away from the roadside bombs and combat injuries of Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans are suffering the same type of brain injury seen in troops coming home from those war-torn countries. On American roads, at workplaces and on playing fields,...Tags: Brain, Gaming, Armed Forces, Neurosurgery, Defense
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Movie review: Ip returns in 'Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster'
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Ip Man" told the fact-based origins of how a man named, yes, Ip Man learned the ways of Wing Chun kung fu, and the sequel "Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster" moves forward to 1940s Hong Kong under British colonial occupation. With director Wilson Yip,...Tags: Human Interest, Hands, Folklore and Mythology, Arts and Culture, Celebrities and Health Issues
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PASSINGS: Gil Clancy, Zoogz Rift, Carl Bunch, David E. Davis Jr., James Pritchett, James M. Roberts, Pat Rowe
Gil Clancy
Boxing trainer
Gil Clancy, 88, a boxing trainer who helped lead Emile Griffith to welterweight and middleweight titles, died Thursday at an assisted-living facility on Long Island, N.Y., his family said.
Born in Rockaway Beach, N.Y., in...Tags: Long Island, Entertainment, Wrestling, Diabetes, Golf
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What now for weight loss?
The country is down to onededicated, prescription obesity medication -- the not-too-pleasantXenical -- since Friday's announcement that Meridiawill be removed from the market due to an increased risk ofheart problems among people with cardiovascular...Tags: Heart Problems, Chiropractors, Weight Loss Surgery, Obesity, Social Issues
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A Critical Choice
Steve Garelick of West Hills needed surgery to fix his leaking heart valve — and right away. It was already late February and the 54-year-old certified public accountant knew he couldn’t wait until after tax season, the busiest time of year...Tags: Stroke, Medical Procedures and Tests, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Cardiologists, University of California, Los Angeles
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