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How a 'million-dollar patient' got off a medical merry-go-round
For more than two decades, Wanda Remo has battled one illness after another. Asthma, chronic lung disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, chronic pain, strokes. Specialists treat her lungs, her heart and her joints. Her...
Tags: Stroke, Health Treatments, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics, Respiratory Disease
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An immigrant in limbo between two Americas
Maria Gomez stood with the Class of 2011, waiting to climb the stage. The sun was bright on the UCLA campus, her fellow graduates buoyant. To reach this elite company, she'd worked baby-sitting and housecleaning jobs, scraping up tuition from quarter...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Teachers, Financial Aid, Human Interest, University of California, Santa Barbara
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High asthma rates in the Imperial Valley
FrameworkBy Anna Gorman CALEXICO—As the relentless wind stirs up piles of dust and dirt and creates a gigantic funnel of haze in the vast and sweltering Imperial Valley, children like Marco Cisneros battle to breathe. Marco wheezes and coughs and reaches... -
Flames still burning but crews contain Chevron oil refinery blaze
L.A. NOWOfficials Monday night contained a massive fire that raged out of control at a Chevron oil refinery in the Bay Area city of Richmond, according to media reports.... -
Climate change and health: How vulnerable is your city?
GreenspaceAs temperatures rise, so could the threats to your health. Climate experts predict average temperatures in California could rise between 4.7 to 10.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, potentially worsening illnesses related to extreme heat and... -
With children and food allergy diagnoses, thoroughness is key
More and more kids these days seem to have food allergies, and peanut-free classrooms are becoming the norm in many elementary schools.
In trying to characterize the apparent increase, scientists have identified two distinct trends. The first is that...Tags: Abdominal Pain, Pediatrics, Children, Epinephrine, Breastfeeding
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Take a deep breath -- more bad news on air pollution
It's easy to see how air pollution would affect respiratory disease: You breathe in smog-filled miasma all day and the ozone, other noxious gases and small particulate matter therein can make you wheeze and cough. Pollutants can trigger asthma attacks and...Tags: Children, Health and Safety at School, Science and Technology, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities
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Hey, parents, be on the alert for signs -- early signs -- of an asthma attack
Booster ShotsParents can hope all they'd like. But they can't assume that their children's early asthma-attack symptoms will simply go away. Of course, first they have to learn to recognize the symptoms as such -- and then they have to learn...... -
Matt Weinstock, April 13, 1960
The Daily MirrorSweden and Chessman David Stone, instructor at John Adams Junior High School, plans a trip to Europe this summer with another teacher. Not long ago he wrote a friendly letter to a newspaper in Sweden giving the date they would be there and expressing... -
For a psychic, bad news is big business
ALEX PALERMO
Psychic
On the sixth floor of the Paddock Building downtown, a line of people milled restlessly along the hushed hallway.
They paced in front of a wooden door, which looked more like the entrance to a broom closet than the law offices...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Health, Building Material, Health and Medical Professionals, Coffee
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A room -- with nothing to sneeze about
Special to the Chicago TribuneSlowly, ever so slowly, hotels are recognizing that travelers who suffer from severe asthma and allergies triggered by dust mites, mold, smoke, pollen, chemicals and animal dander might like to stay in hypoallergenic rooms -- for a price. With as many as...Tags: Annapolis, Northwestern University, Denver, Dallas, Trips and Vacations
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Wily in the pursuit of coyotes
Jimmie Rizzo puts a lump of chaw in his lip and picks his way into a ravine below a home in Redlands. Through a wrought-iron fence, a French bulldog named Phoebe yips, snorts and wheezes in her rhinestone collar. Rizzo tells her to shut up. He's here to...Tags: Children, Natural Resources, Wildlife, Family, Trips and Vacations
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