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Smith: It's a patient's job to be informed too
Concurrent with my duties as a weekly columnist for the Daily Pilot, I provide business development guidance to physicians and dentists. Since 1998, this work has taken me behind the scenes at countless medical and dental offices, clinics and hospitals....Tags: Health Organizations, Internists, General Practitioners, Health and Medical Professionals, Cell Phones
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Coroner: Tony Scott Had No Serious Medical Condition
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- The death of British filmmaker Tony Scott has been formally ruled a suicide. The coroner's report cites the cause of death as multiple blunt force injuries and evidence of drowning after jumping from the Vincent Thomas...Tags: Denzel Washington, Christian Bale, Cancer, Action (genre), Tony Scott
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HERO OF HOPE: Survivor refuses to let cancer define her
kpeek@amnews.comWhen Liz Burchett discovered she had a brain tumor, she determined to fight it. “It became my personal fight, I didn’t want cancer to define me,” she said. The baseball-sized tumor was discovered in 2010. Burchett had been...Tags: Health Organizations, American Cancer Society, Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Cancer
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Arlen Specter, longtime GOP Senate moderate, dies
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82. Specter, who announced...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Politics, Heart Surgery, Arlen Specter
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Connecting the social and the spatial
Amy Lynne Shelton has a closet full of toys at the Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychology lab: Wooden human figures with movable joints, Lego and model train buildings, toy cameras and wooden triangular blocks — some with eyes, some without....Tags: Religion and Belief, LEGO Group, Science, Science and Technology, Behavioral Conditions
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Health officials set 'low threshold' for treatment to battle meningitis outbreak
Hundreds of Marylanders may need spinal taps as public health leaders seek to rein in a fungal meningitis outbreak that continues to expand as more is learned about the unusual cases.
Health officials said Wednesday that they still are working to contact...Tags: Bones and Joints, Diseases and Illnesses, University of Maryland, College Park, Medical Procedures and Tests, Arthritis
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Szasz turned psychiatry on its head
Thomas Stephen Szasz, arguably the world's foremost psychiatrist, died Sept. 8. 2012. Former psychiatrist and current columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote that "Szasz is the kind of author no one reads but everyone knows about." That's unfortunate. Too...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Mental Illness, Freedom of the Press, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions
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PASSINGS: Lois Smith, John Tchicai
Lois Smith Longtime celebrity publicist Lois Smith, 85, a longtime New York City publicist who worked with celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford and Martin Scorsese, died Sunday from a brain hemorrhage after taking a fall during a trip to...
Tags: Warren Beatty, John Coltrane, New York City, Marilyn Monroe, Whitney Houston
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Parents Refuse To Take Young Banker Off Life Support, Despite Her Pleas
pix11.com | @murphypixA 28-year old woman dying from terminal brain cancer was still locked in a legal battle Thursday with her religious, Korean immigrant parents--because Grace Lee wants her ventilator and feeding tube removed, so she can die in peace. "Grace says...Tags: Nassau County, Death, Health Treatments, New York City, Long Island
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Paralyzed, with Brain Tumor, Young Banker Fights Parents
pix11.com | @murphypixA 28-year old woman dying from terminal brain cancer was still locked in a legal battle Thursday with her religious, Korean immigrant parents—because Grace Lee wants her ventilator and feeding tube removed, so she can die in peace. “Grace...Tags: Nassau County, Death, Health Treatments, New York City, Long Island
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HIV drug causes memory loss
A drug commonly used by patients with HIV may be damaging nerve cells and causing memory loss, Johns Hopkins researchers have found. Doctors have long thought the brain damage and memory loss longterm survivors of HIV suffer was caused by the disease....Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Drugs and Medicines, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research
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BBQ & yard sale on Saturday will help Salem boy fighting cancer
ReporterPeople in Salem are hoping to raise a lot of money on Saturday. It's all going to the Leffler family whose 13-year-old son is battling cancer. A.J. Leffler's story began last February when he was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. In the last...Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Cancer
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