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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, Africa, Arts and Culture, Nelson Mandela, 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...
Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Defendants
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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: University of California, Los Angeles, High Blood Pressure, Diseases and Illnesses, David Geffen School of Medicine, Hospitals and Clinics
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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...
Tags: Breach of Contract, Oncology, Health Treatments, City of Hope, Corporate Crime
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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: National Government, Politics, Computer Networking and Internet, Government, China
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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: Hospitals and Clinics, Tylenol (drug), Recreational Substance Use, H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, Peanut Allergy
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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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Feds: Man ended up on death's door after ingesting 87 or so coke pellets during cruise
FloriDUHMost 65-year-olds are downing vitamin supplements by the handful. Not this senior. Federal prosecutors say 65-year-ol Norman Mosch downed 2-pounds and 2-ounces of cocaine-filled pellets -- that's about 87 or so pellets -- during a cruise stop in...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Cocaine, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Boynton Beach
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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, Symptoms, Viral Diseases and Infections, University of Oxford, Science and Technology
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Letter to parents at Harford schools where recalled food product was served
The following is the text of a letter to parents, dated Friday, April 5, that was sent home with students attending 14 Harford County public schools where a recalled food product, Pepperoni Pizzatas by Rich Products Corp., was served to students earlier...Tags: Food Industry, Public Schools, Harford County, Symptoms, Product Recalls
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Judy Ramer of Funkstown is in need of liver transplant
marieg@herald-mail.comHer strength and energy have diminished and her symptoms have become more pronounced. But that hasn't stopped Judy Kinzer Ramer from hanging tough in the biggest fight of her life. She needs a new liver. There is no whining, no complaining, no self-...Tags: Liver Transplants, Heart Disease, Liver Disease, High Blood Pressure, University of Maryland Medical Center
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