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For a dying patient, a prescription of silence
His wife was a patient at the clinic where I worked in my early days as a doctor. I saw her regularly for hypertension. But on one visit, she was more concerned about her husband — let's call him Pedro. He was having stomach pains and difficulty...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, General Practitioners, High Blood Pressure, Esophageal cancer
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Patient is out of network, out of luck
A worrisome abdominal pain drove Jalal Afshar to seek treatment last year at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente. The Pasadena resident and Kaiser member had lived for years with a rare condition known as Castleman's disease, which affects the lymph...
Tags: General Practitioners, Symptoms, Insurance, Health Treatments, Breach of Contract
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Unsolved mystery of woman's poisoning stokes passions in China
BEIJING — She was a promising student at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, a talented musician who loved to swim and dreamed of studying German and computer science. But in her sophomore year, Zhu Ling began suffering acute stomach...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, National Government, Politics, Lab Tests, Crime, Law and Justice
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LAFD chief presses ahead with firefighter reassignment plan
Los Angeles Fire Chief Brian Cummings vowed Thursday to press ahead with a controversial plan to reassign dozens of city firefighters from fire engines to ambulance duty, despite an outcry from groups representing city firefighters and the department's...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Fires
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Scientists map dengue, estimate 390 million infections per year
An international team has released new estimates of the number of dengue infections around the world, mapping out the places where risk of getting the viral illness is great and those where it's low. It estimated there are 390 million dengue...
Tags: Vaccines, Viral Diseases and Infections, Symptoms, University of Oxford, Science and Technology
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Magnet swallowing a potentially deadly threat to children, study says
A new breed of powerful magnets found in toys and jewelry poses a growing and potentially deadly risk to small children who swallow them, according to a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Assn. Journal. Neodymium-iron-boron magnets are...
Tags: Symptoms, Iron (dietary supplement)
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$1,079.28 worth of reasons to celebrate Obamacare
I recently got a medical bill that reminded me just how much I’m looking forward to when all of Obamacare’s provisions kick in. In December, I found myself suddenly doubled over with abdominal pain. My physician couldn’t see me right...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Healthcare Provider, Politics, Viral Diseases and Infections, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Report on Burbank police: Deficiencies in use-of-force investigations
L.A. NOWA report on the Burbank Police Department's use-of-force investigations found deficiencies in timeliness, evidence gathering and problem spotting.... -
Wheat for people allergic to gluten: Possible?
Can scientists create gluten-free wheat plants to make bread with? Writing in the journal PNAS, a team of scientists concludes that it’s quite possible. People with serious gluten allergies such as celiac disease now have only one tried-and-...
Tags: WebMD Corporation, Diseases and Illnesses, Allergies, Breads, Celiac Disease
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Yosemite cabins cleaned, inspected after second hantavirus death
L.A. NOWYosemite officials are continuing to clean and inspect cabins in the park's popular Curry Village, where four recent visitors were believed to have contracted hantavirus, a rare rodent-borne disease that has killed about one-third of those exposed... -
Yosemite hantavirus outbreak "unprecedented,"officials say
L.A. NOWYosemite officials are scrambling to understand what caused the hantavirus that has killed two people and sickened at least one other in an outbreak of the rare rodent-borne disease described as "unprecedented."... -
Hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite considered 'unprecedented'
L.A. NOWHealth officials described the outbreak of hantavirus at Yosemite National Park as rare as the park took steps to warm the public. Jana McCabe, a Yosemite park ranger, called the hantavirus outbreak "unprecedented." "We take this extremely seriously," she...
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