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BBB looks to regain trust with relaunch of Southland branch
The Better Business Bureau wants you to know that it's cleaned up its act in Los Angeles. The organization reached out to me this week to say that a new operation is up and running after the old BBB of the Southland was expelled in March after years...
Tags: Travel, Restaurants, Allianz AG Holding, Hamas, Insurance
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Lazarus: A roadblock to collecting travel insurance benefits
Barbara Butkus bought an airline ticket in November to fly from Palm Springs to Washington, D.C., a month later for a family reunion. Just to be on the safe side, Butkus, 80, also bought travel insurance while booking her flight through Orbitz, the...
Tags: Heart Attack, Shortness of Breath, Drugs and Medicines, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Does a low-fat diet increase triglycerides?
It’s easy to assume that a low-fat diet is the healthy way to go, especially since a diet low in saturated and trans fat was recommended by government agencies back in the 1980s. But in Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune story, which looked at the...
Tags: Internists, Low Fat Diet, Nutrition, Diets and Dieting, Chicago Tribune
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Patients lose when hospitals take over doctors
When a big hospital chain buys an independent doctor's office, we often hear the move will "enhance care," "integrate care" or "improve health-care efficiency." Spare us the euphemisms. Patients are the losers in these deals. We pay higher costs. We...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Cigna Corporation, Google Inc., Florida Hospital, Health Insurance Cost
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Office workers trained in CPR make life-or-death difference
On the morning of July 10, attorney Jerald Gale was reading an e-mail in his office on the 20th floor of a Koreatown high-rise. That's the last thing the 58-year-old husband, father and avid cyclist remembers before losing consciousness. Gale's heart...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, AIDS, Heart Failure, Prostate Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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Study: Heart Attacks increase this time of year
The holidays are a wonderful time of the year for many of us, but the stress and overindulgence could catch up with you if don’t watch out. Studies indicate heart attacks increase during the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s more than...
Tags: Heart Attack, Movies, Chest, Medical Research, Holidays
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Another surgery — while knee-deep in the insurance swamp
Andrew Fabella, are you out there? Please report to post-op at Keck Hospital of USC early Monday morning. I'm coming back to have the other knee done. That's right, folks, I'm kicking off the new year by getting a partial right knee replacement...
Tags: Physical Therapy, Dining and Drinking, Health Treatments, Restaurants, Arts and Culture
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Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck dead at age 91
Dave Brubeck, a jazz musician who attained pop-star acclaim with recordings such as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk," died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital, in Norwalk, Conn., said his longtime manager-producer-conductor Russell Gloyd....
Tags: Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Dave Brubeck, Jazz (genre), Music Industry, Entertainment
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Dave Brubeck: A jazz icon who reached a massive audience
Dave Brubeck changed the sound of jazz in profound ways, unexpectedly becoming something of a pop star in the process. Starting in the mid-1950s, in fact, he emerged as a symbol of jazz in America, and well beyond, gracing the cover of Time magazine...
Tags: Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Colleges and Universities, Waterbury, Justice and Rights, Mikhail S Gorbachev
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Student thanks teacher, nurses for saving his life
An IU freshman is visiting his old high school to thank his classmates for saving his life ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Andrew Robinson wanted to thank the people who saved his life. Luckily for Robinson, he was in class when he just slumped...
Tags: Heart Failure, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Medical Specialization, Holidays, Nursing
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Organ donation truly is the gift of life
My son has cadaver valves. Not like a collection of them in an egg carton or in his dresser drawer. He has them in his heart. Those, along with some bovine or "cow" tissues, and a synthetic conduit. Tyler's got it all going on. A man of many tissues,...Tags: Charity, Human Interest, The Herald-Mail
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Study: Women more likely to die from heart attacks
A new study out of Florida finds women are less likely to get immediate treatment for heart attacks and are more likely to die in the hospital than men.
The Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Florida tracked 1.1 million patients. Women had a 15 percent...Tags: Heart Attack, Chest, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics
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