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Hospital fees vary for same treatment, U.S. data show
Centegra Hospital in McHenry charged $36,000 for implanting a permanent pacemaker. Less than 30 miles away, Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan charged more than $165,000 for the same procedure. To treat a case of simple pneumonia, meanwhile, John H....
Tags: Medicare, Barack Obama, Asthma, Government Health Care, Hospitals and Clinics
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PASSINGS: Jeanne Cooper, Mario Machado, Bryan Forbes
Jeanne Cooper Emmy winner starred in 'The Young and the Restless' Jeanne Cooper, 84, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on CBS' "The Young and the Restless," died Wednesday in her sleep,...
Tags: Obituaries, Career and Workplace, Movies, Television, Corbin Bernsen
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Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show
Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...
Tags: Medicare, Healthcare Policies, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, St. Joseph Medical Center, St. John's Health Center
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Austerity is hurting our health, say researchers
ReutersBy Kate Kelland LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - Austerity is having a devastating effect on health in Europe and North America, driving suicide, depression and infectious diseases and reducing access to medicines and care, researchers said on Monday....Tags: University of Oxford, Suicide, Substance Abuse, Marketing, AIDS
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PASSINGS: Jeff Hanneman, Urban Leonard 'Ben' Drew, John Williamson
Jeff Hanneman Founding member of metal band Slayer Jeff Hanneman, 49, a guitarist and founding member of the thrash metal band Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, died Thursday of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital,...Tags: U.S. Army, Germany
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PASSINGS: Frederic Franklin, David Morris Kern
Frederic Franklin Dancer helped popularize modern ballet in U.S. Frederic Franklin, 98, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States, died Saturday at a Manhattan, N.Y., hospital of complications from pneumonia,...
Tags: Obituaries, Norwich, Brooklyn (New York City), Career and Workplace, Lincoln Center
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Longtime L.A. news anchor Mario Machado dead
Mario Machado, a longtime Los Angeles television news anchor and reporter who also played a newsman in a number of films and television shows, has died at a West Hills convalescent facility, said his daughter Michelle. He was 78. Machado, who worked...
Tags: Entertainment, Television
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Emmy-Winning L.A. Newsman Mario Machado Dies at 78
ReutersMay 06 (TheWrap.com) - Mario Machado, an eight-time Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles news reporter and anchor who also played reporters in "Rocky III" and "RoboCop," died Saturday in a West Hills convalescent facility, a spokesperson told TheWrap. He was...Tags: Journalism, Parkinson's Disease
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Frederick Pfeiffer: Young lawyers knew they would learn from longtime judge
Frederick Pfeiffer served as a circuit judge for Orange and Osceola County for 20 years, chief circuit judge for a term and presided as a senior judge for an additional 10 years until his retirement in 2003. And he did it all without practicing law....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, St. Cloud, Orlando, Colleges and Universities, Judges
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Nature Is Best Viewed From The Deck
The Hartford CourantUnless they're asking for spare change, people are willing to engage in conversations with folks they haven't met before for one reason: Perfect strangers are far more likely to be charmed by our adorable eccentricities than are our loved ones. Their...Tags: New York City, Coney Island
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Saber-rattling fits the family Stone
The four Stone kids always were a competitive bunch, especially the three youngest siblings who were separated by three school grades while being home-schooled together. "They worked very hard to keep up with each other — and beat each other," said...
Tags: UIC Flames, Philosophy, Columbia University, University of Illinois at Chicago, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Sol Kramer, wholesale hobby business owner
Sol Kramer, who turned a Depression-era 15-cent balsa toy airplane business into a leading wholesale hobby empire, died of pneumonia April 24 at Hospice by the Sea in Pompano Beach, Fla. The former Pikesville resident was 96. Born in Baltimore, he was...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Hampden, Toy Industry, Toys, Camp Lejeune (military base)
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