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Dodgers' Kenley Jansen has a healthy outlook
addCustomPlayer('8cqmm3yooufw16fbocvnmn2rk', '', '', 600, 418, 'perf8cqmm3yooufw16fbocvnmn2rk', 'eplayer15'); SAN DIEGO — Kenley Jansen should be able to attend his newborn daughter's graduation and wedding ceremonies. No longer does the Dodgers'...
Tags: Heart Failure, Sports, Stroke, Spring Training, Chemical Industry
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Beijing's polluted air provides Jerry Brown a political opportunity
BEIJING -- The local media have given it a name: "Beijing Ke," or the Beijing Cough, defined by the China Daily as "a bout of persistent dry cough or throat tickle because of Beijing's poor air quality." Earlier this year, the local air-quality...
Tags: Government, Beijing (China), Politics, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Lil Wayne seizure puts spotlight on rappers' use of 'sizzurp'
The powerful narcotic popped up on the cultural grid around the turn of the millennium. A Texas producer-remixer named DJ Screw paid homage to its woozy, heavy-lidded high by dramatically slowing down beats and vocals to replicate the drug's sleepwalker...
Tags: Politics, Justin Bieber, University of Texas at Austin, Interior Policy, Heroin
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Persistent strain of TB claims victims on L.A.'s skid row
Public health officials have launched a new, coordinated attack to contain a persistent outbreak of tuberculosis on downtown Los Angeles' skid row, including a search for more than 4,500 people who may have been exposed to the disease. The Centers for...
Tags: Social Issues, Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV, Health and Safety at Work
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Bill restricting bullet sales clears first committee
One of the most far-reaching gun-control measures proposed this year in California cleared its first hurdle Tuesday after its author said it is needed to address an "epidemic of gun violence’’ in the United States. The legislation by...
Tags: Nancy Skinner, Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
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'American Idol' recap: Devin Velez heads home
Poor Devin Velez. He didn't deserve to get kicked off "American Idol" just yet – certainly not before that cheesy amateur Lazaro Arbos -- but that's what the "Idol" voters did Thursday night. And the judges, who can't use their one save of the...
Tags: Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson, Music, Colton Dixon, Katharine McPhee
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Doctor explains sizzurp's powerful high -- and deadly side effects
Sizzurp, purple drank, lean -- that cough-syrup-laced concoction of many names -- has been gaining popularity in hip hop culture and notoriety as more celebrities fall prey to its effects. Rapper Lil Wayne was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai last week,...
Tags: Promethazine (drug), Lil Wayne, Antihistamines, Morphine (drug), Flu
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Lil Wayne reportedly leaves hospital after nearly weeklong stay
Lil Wayne was reportedly released from an L.A. hospital Monday after a nearly weeklong stay that set off a social media frenzy regarding the rapper's health. Mack Maine, president of Lil Wayne's record label, wrote late Monday on Twitter that the rapper...
Tags: Social Media, Lil Wayne, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Music, Twitter, Inc.
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TB outbreak is not just a skid row problem
There's a $200-million hotel on the drawing board for downtown Los Angeles, so tourists from around the globe can kick up their heels at LA Live. And a few miles away on downtown's skid row, there's a TB outbreak brewing in a stew of Third World-style...
Tags: Mental Health, Symptoms, Medical Procedures and Tests, Tuberculosis, Diseases and Illnesses
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Downtown L.A. tuberculosis outbreak prompts CDC response
L.A. NOWThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dispatching scientists to Los Angeles to mount a new attack on an outbreak of tuberculosis on skid row. Health workers have identified about 4,650 people who were probably exposed and are trying...... -
Tuberculosis outbreak in downtown L.A. sparks federal effort
L.A. NOWPublic health officials have launched a new, coordinated effort to contain a persistent outbreak of tuberculosis in downtown L.A.’s skid row, including searching for more than 4,500 people who may have been exposed to the disease. The Centers for... -
Caregiver accused of stealing more than $150,000 from elderly woman
L.A. NOWA court hearing is scheduled next month for a caregiver accused of defrauding her 90-year-old client of more than $150,000. The caregiver, Ma Marquez, 49, is charged with one felony count of theft from an elder by a caretaker and......
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