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Poring over facts about milk: cow's, goat's, soy, almond, rice and hemp
Full-fat, low-fat or skim? Used to be, there weren't many choices to make over what to pour on your cereal. But the number of alternatives to cow's milk -- soy, goat's, hemp milk, more -- has steadily grown.
Each has its fans: those who swear by goat's...Tags: Health, Consumers, Cancer, Menopause, Heart Disease
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Vioxx risks could have been identified years earlier
The significant cardiovascular risks linked to Vioxx could have been identified nearly four years before the anti-inflammatory medication was taken off the market, a new study has concluded, but consumers and physicians didn't have access to such...Tags: Heart Attack, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Consumers, Medical Research
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Four Percent of U.S. Children Have Food Alergies, Analysis Fnds
The number of children who have food allergies is not only increasing, it now encompasses 4% of all kids in the United States, according to an analysis of four large, national surveys published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
The study -- the first...Tags: Health, Medical Research, Immune System, Children, Drugs and Medicines
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Drug may limit homosexuality
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEach year in the United States, perhaps a few dozen pregnant women learn they are carrying a fetus at risk for a rare disorder known as congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The condition causes an accumulation of male hormones and can, in females, lead to...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Health, Northwestern University, Hospitals and Clinics, Hormones and Metabolism
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Living for two
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf Aly Hartman could have placed herself in a protective bubble for the duration of her recent pregnancy, she would have done so. The Marina del Rey woman, 28, cut out alcohol, sodas and caffeine. She replaced her sugary breakfast cereal with crackling...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Arable Farming, Newspaper and Magazine, Career and Workplace
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Are plastics safe?
Special to The TimesTHIRTEEN-MONTH-OLD Solange Dorsainvil plays with toys made from wood and cloth, drinks from a Swiss-made aluminum sippy cup and teethes on kale stems and celery. Her life is as plastic-free as her mother, Celina Lyons, can make it. --------------------...Tags: Consumers, Services and Shopping, Weight, Hospitals and Clinics, Hormones and Metabolism
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List Of Transplant Facilities Not Meeting Standards
To qualify for Medicare funding, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires transplant centers to perform a certain number of transplants annually and achieve a specific unadjusted survival rate for patients one year after surgery....Tags: Fort Wayne (Allen, Indiana), Hartford Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics, Standards, Surgery
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Death by Geography
Times Staff WriterIn the world of organ transplantation, location is everything. After waiting more than a decade for a liver, Jonathan Van Vlack was deteriorating. His gut swelled with fluid, and toxins accumulating in his blood made him forget his own name. Still, he...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Crime, Law and Justice, Fraud, Hospitals and Clinics, New York University
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Transplant center survival statistics: Liver
Below are transplant centers whose patient survival rates exceeded or fell short of expectations. Not listed are transplant centers that met survival expectations--which factor in the condition of patients and donated organs. SOURCE: Scientific...Tags: University of Southern California, Health, Mayo Clinic, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities
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Dr. Charles S. Lieber dies at 78; researcher demonstrated that alcohol is a liver toxin
Dr. Charles S. Lieber, who overturned conventional wisdom by demonstrating that alcohol is a toxin that can damage the liver and that alcoholism is a disease that can be treated, died March 1 at his home in Tenafly, N.J. He was 78 and had been battling...Tags: Health, Nobel Prize Awards, Hospitals and Clinics, Acetaminophen (drug), Awards and Prizes
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Adolescents' TV Watching Is Linked to Violent Behavior
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAdolescents who watch more than one hour of television a day are more likely to commit aggressive and violent acts as adults, according to a 17-year study reported today in the journal Science. The study, which tracked more than 700 adolescents into...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Teen-agers, Family
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PASSINGS
Susan Hibbert Witness to Germany's surrender Susan Hibbert, 84, who typed the English version of the German surrender document ending World War II and then messaged London to announce the accord had been signed, died Feb. 2, according to the British...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Armed Forces, Ku Klux Klan, England
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