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Language bank provides live telephonic interpretation for practitioner, patient
marieg@heald-mail.comAn elderly woman heads into the emergency room with severe stomach pain. She hardly understand what’s happening, let alone how the doctors will fix it. All she knows is that it hurts, she’s alone and she doesn’t speak English. As...Tags: Hearing Impairment, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests
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SAfrican police: 23 youths die in initiation ceremonies involving circumcision, survival
Associated PressJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday. Police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in the northeastern...Tags: Culture, Nelson Mandela, Africa, Arts and Culture, Death and Dying Customs
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Pregnant girlfriend tricked into taking abortion pill; 'The baby was lost'
TAMPA - John Andrew Welden did not want to be a father, authorities say. So when his girlfriend got pregnant, prosecutors say, Welden faked a prescription for an abortion pill, switched a label so the medication appeared to be a common antibiotic, and...
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FDA approves J&J's Simponi to treat ulcerative colitis
Reuters(Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson's drug Simponi for patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory disease affecting the colon. Simponi is already approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis....Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Heart Failure, Ulcerative Colitis, Hepatitis B , Diseases and Illnesses
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For a dying patient, a prescription of silence
His wife was a patient at the clinic where I worked in my early days as a doctor. I saw her regularly for hypertension. But on one visit, she was more concerned about her husband — let's call him Pedro. He was having stomach pains and difficulty...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, General Practitioners, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Diseases and Illnesses
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Patient is out of network, out of luck
A worrisome abdominal pain drove Jalal Afshar to seek treatment last year at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente. The Pasadena resident and Kaiser member had lived for years with a rare condition known as Castleman's disease, which affects the lymph...
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Unsolved mystery of woman's poisoning stokes passions in China
BEIJING — She was a promising student at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, a talented musician who loved to swim and dreamed of studying German and computer science. But in her sophomore year, Zhu Ling began suffering acute stomach...Tags: Beijing (China), Computer Networking and Internet, National Government, Colleges and Universities, Government
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Miami Children's Hospital Urgent Care Centers
South Florida ParentingMCH Dan Marino Outpatient Center 2900 S. Commerce Parkway, Weston 954-385-6200 mch.com Miami Children’s Hospital Urgent Care Centers aren’t for emergencies, but they cover just about everything else. For patients up to 21, the Urgent...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Medical Services, Skin Rash, Head Injuries, Health
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Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com. For more information on Dr. Blythe, go to pediatricassociates.com.
April 29, 2013
Q: My 5-year-old daughter just had her adenoids and tonsils removed because of snoring...Tags: Social Sciences, Blindness (movie), Golf, Herbal Supplements, Hydrocortisone
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LAFD chief presses ahead with firefighter reassignment plan
Los Angeles Fire Chief Brian Cummings vowed Thursday to press ahead with a controversial plan to reassign dozens of city firefighters from fire engines to ambulance duty, despite an outcry from groups representing city firefighters and the department's...
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There is such a thing as too much vitamin C
You may hear each winter that vitamin C can fight off the common cold. But is it just hype or does it really help? "The findings of a large number of studies on the subject are mixed," says Dr. Bruce Bistrian, chief of clinical nutrition at Beth...
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Scientists map dengue, estimate 390 million infections per year
An international team has released new estimates of the number of dengue infections around the world, mapping out the places where risk of getting the viral illness is great and those where it's low. It estimated there are 390 million dengue...
Tags: Vaccines, Science and Technology, Viral Diseases and Infections, Symptoms, University of Oxford
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