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Well, the plastic surgeon recommended arnica
Special to the Los Angeles TimesI never actually intended to harm anyone. Honestly. In fact, I think the waiter is to blame. I was dining at a restaurant with my sister when the waiter casually asked if I was enjoying the evening with my daughter. I tried to shrug off the comment but...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Abdominal Pain, Obstetrics, Hospitals and Clinics
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Blood pressure: potassium, fish oil and fiber
Results haven't been unanimous, but a good deal of research suggests that healthy doses of potassium can help lower your blood pressure.
A 2001 study based on data from more than 17,000 U.S. adults, for example, found that people who ate 8.5 servings a...Tags: Adults, Potassium (dietary supplement)
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How to stay healthy during old age: Keep moving
If you're an older adult wondering what you should be doing to stay healthy, the most important answer is staying active.
"Physical activity is more powerful than any medication a senior can take," says Dr. Cheryl Phillips, a San Francisco physician...Tags: Health, Geriatrics, Cancer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colon
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From the archives: Family, friends mourn 'Neda,' Iranian woman who died on video
The first word came from abroad. An aunt in the United States called her Saturday in a panic. "Don't go out into the streets, Golshad," she told her. "They're killing people."
The relative proceeded to describe a video, airing on exile television...Tags: Health, Heads of State, Crime, Law and Justice, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Riots
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UFC 113 results
The Fabulous ForumAlan Belcher d. Patrick Cote via choke in the second round First round: Belcher opens with several body kicks. Cote keeps trying to punch but can't get past the kicks. Cote takes down Belcher and works for a Kimura but...... -
Hope survived one Iraq bombing, but not the second
After I survived my first bombing, I said to myself, I won't see worse than this. Then I survived my second bombing and it changed everything.
It was a Wednesday in August, and I was sitting at my desk in the Foreign Ministry doing routine paperwork. I...Tags: Health, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, New Year's Day, Hospitals and Clinics
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Spinal decompression devices watch your back
Fitness stores sell a variety of spinal decompression/traction devices -- inversion tables and ankle boots that hang you upside down and stretch out your back -- on the promise that they help relieve back pain, enhance general back fitness, provide deep...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, High Blood Pressure, Mayo Clinic
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New Battle on the Home Front
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFayetteville, N.C. -- The vision in Vincent Worrell's left eye was blurry. The hearing in his left ear was bad. Two of his upper teeth were missing. There was a hole in his left shoulder, a surgical scar on his lip, shrapnel in his face and a metal pin in...Tags: Health, Camp Lejeune (military base), U.S. Military, Hospitals and Clinics, Family
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A triathlete and her husband share the long road back
Beth Fong paces in her wetsuit around the grassy park overlooking Tempe Town Lake, contemplating the grueling daylong race ahead.
She has trained for months to swim, bike and run the nearly 141-mile Ironman triathlon. Her father, standing behind her,...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Marriage, Triathlon, Track and Field
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Abuse begets abuse in a family's brutal legacy
"Sit down, Johnetta," Frances Hill told her 14-year-old cousin.
Hours earlier, police and a social worker had come knocking in the darkness, with news that stunned the South Los Angeles woman.
Now Hill had to tell the girl: Her little brother, the 6-...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Child Abuse, Eczema, Career and Workplace
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Sheldon J. Segal dies at 83; scientist led development of long-lasting contraceptives
Sheldon J. Segal, who led the team that developed Norplant, Jadelle, Mirena and other long-lasting contraceptive agents that are used by more than 120 million women around the world and who promoted the idea that women did not have to have monthly...Tags: Health, Social Issues, U.S. Navy, Birth Control, Obituaries
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'Brothers & Sisters' season finale: Highway to destiny
Show TrackerThe question we have all been pondering for the last five months -- exactly how Rob Lowe's character Robert McCallister was going to exit the show -- was finally answered on last night's "Brothers & Sisters" season finale. The beloved......
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