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Live updates: Krystle M. Campbell mourned as 2nd Boston bombing victim
Friends of 29-year-old Krystle M. Campbell mourned her Tuesday as the second victim of the Boston Marathon bombings. On Facebook, employees of the Summer Shack restaurant in Hingham, Mass., where she was general manager said they were devastated “by...
Tags: Road Running, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Unrest, Conflicts and War, FBI, MSNBC (tv network)
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Still no suspect in hit-and-run that led to cyclist's amputation
California Highway Patrol officials say they are nowhere closer to finding a motorist who ran down and badly injured a bicyclist near Griffith Park than they were when the hit-and-run occurred nearly two months ago. On Feb. 17, Damian Kevitt, 36, an avid...Tags: Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Broken Arm
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Afghan bomb cost Marine his legs, but not his spirit
SAN DIEGO — Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Zambon was in Afghanistan, on his fourth combat deployment as an explosive ordnance disposal technician, when he took a step and heard the ominous click. "I remember flying through the air and coming down on my...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Afghanistan, Entertainment, Mountaineering, The Hurt Locker (movie)
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Emily Rapp writes her way through grief in 'Still Point of the Turning World''
Emily Rapp is not one to sugarcoat hard truths, including the brutal diagnosis she and her husband received in January 2011 when they took their then-9-month-old son to a pediatric ophthalmologist because of concerns about developmental delays. Ronan,...
Tags: Religion and Belief, The Washington Post, NPR, Christopher Hitchens, Emily Dickinson
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20-year-old soldier who lost arm and foot refuses to quit
L.A. NOWPfc. Geoffrey Quevedo, who lost an arm and foot in Afghanistan, refuses to give up. "I don't want to be treated like a baby by American society," he says.... -
Growing body parts and improving prosthetics
Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is used to hearing his work described as science fiction. Way back in 1999, he and his team grew bladders in a lab and successfully implanted them in patients with...
Tags: Science and Technology, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Spina Bifida, University of Utah, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Inc.
From defective cars to dangerous drugs to hazardous roadways, the firm has represented thousands of clients in individual suits, class actions and mass torts over the past four decades. Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Inc. specializes in...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Yasmin (drug), Career and Workplace, Chemical Industry, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Optical illusion dampens arthritis pain
Seeing the movements of a healthy hand mirroring one's own movements plays a welcome trick on the brains of arthritis sufferers, a new study shows: It reduces the perception of pain. The observation, reported this week at the Society for Neuroscience's...Tags: Rheumatoid Arthritis, University of California, San Diego, Arthritis, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health
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VA: Combat injuries to urinary tract and genitals deserve payment
Nation NowThe Department of Veterans Affairs will now make payments to service members who have suffered injuries to the urinary tract or genitals. Foot patrols have put service members at higher risk of injuries to the urinary tract or genitals.... -
Elderly woman attacked by pit bulls dies
L.A. NOWA 76-year-old San Diego woman who underwent amputation of her left leg and right arm after being mauled in June by her neighbor’s pit bulls has died.... -
What happens after someone sets themself on fire?
World NowWe often see the headlines about people around the world setting themselves on fire. But what happens afterward? Nicole Bernal, acting director of the UC Irvine Regional Burn Center, explains.... -
Zsa Zsa Gabor's daughter Francesca Hilton seeks conservatorship
Ministry of GossipZsa Zsa Gabor's daughter Constance Francesca Hilton on Tuesday filed a petition requesting an independent conservatorship be set up to watch out for the health and money interests of her mother. Zsa Zsa Gabor's affairs have been tended to in recent...
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