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FAU QB battle will continue, with Bracewell making it a trio
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsAnd then one became two became three??? OK, spring football is in the books, and Owl Country???s biggest question, Who Will Be Starting QB? Did not get cleared up. In fact, The Voice made sure that everyone knows it......Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Health, X-rays, High School Sports, Easter
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Ron Klein-Allen West faceoff didn???t happen
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsRead more about the faceoff that never happened. Updated at 2:20 p.m. One of only a handful of joint appearances between U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, and challenger Allen West, R-Plantation, didn???t happen. The Voters Coalition, the bipartisan........Tags: Palm Beach County, Rick Scott, Republican Party, Drugs and Medicines, Medicare
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'The Bachelorette' recap:
Reality CheckHere's Kathryn on The Bachelorette, including ... well, I don't want to spoil it for you: So I finally got hip and didn't watch the 'This week, on The Bachelorette' previews. I still have suspicions on who gets one of......Tags: Eyjafjallajokull Volcano Eruption (2010), Entertainment, Anthony Bourdain, Health and Safety at School, Hotels and Accommodations
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Health care law faces court, ballot test
The Swampby Mike Memoli Noam Levey writes today on the first court victory for opponents of the health care reform law: U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson did not rule on the central issue in the lawsuit brought by Virginia Atty.......Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Twitter, Inc., Social Issues, Justice System, Politics
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Durbin has tumor removed, prognosis 'favorable'
The Swampby Mike Memoli Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) underwent surgery this morning in Chicago to remove a tumor from his stomach, his office announced. After the procedure, which took place at the University of Chicago Medical Center, doctors pronounced that "there......Tags: Dick Durbin, Health, Surgery, Washington (U.S. state), Chicago
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Solving America's runaway health care system
I doubt that many of us would prefer to be in another country if a serious, complicated or critical illness should occur in our lives. The ability to provide cutting edge medical care and technology by our American health care system is unmatched in the...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government Health Care, Health Insurance Cost, Missing Persons, Medicare
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My wife faced Angelina Jolie's dilemma 11 years ago
The revelation that actress Angelina Jolie had her breasts removed because of gene testing results may have seemed shocking and extreme to many of you. My family knew better. We've been there. My wife, a breast cancer survivor who underwent a...
Tags: Insurance, Dwayne Johnson, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Mastectomy, Diseases and Illnesses
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Vet's demand for blood test to identify heartworm not unreasonable
My Pet WorldQ: Our dog, Gimble, has been on heartworm preventative year-round since we adopted him as a puppy. He's now 6 years old. Recently, my veterinarian refused to give us more heartworm preventative unless we did the testing. She said, "What if we missed a...Tags: Toy Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Animal, Human Mishaps
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...Tags: Bankruptcy, Medicare, Hospitals and Clinics, Tylenol (drug), Insurance
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Ticked off! @ walk-in clinic
I'm ticked off at manufacturers who go out of their way to find out the things that I like so they can stop making them. I know I'm not perfect and maybe I'm a snob, but it ticks me off that there are so many morons capable of so much stupidity all...Tags: X-rays, Hospitals and Clinics, Winter Springs
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State Fires Worker Who Showed Lanza's Body To Her Husband At Morgue
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's chief medical examiner has fired a state employee who let her husband view the body of mass killer Adam Lanza in the morgue two days after the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre, The Courant has learned. The employee, Jean Henry, was...Tags: Career and Workplace, Trials, Civil and Public Service, Adam Lanza, Politics
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Legislature should pull plug on inept Medical Board of California
The time has come to put the Medical Board of California out of its misery. The board oversees the licensing of doctors and their discipline for misdeeds or incompetence. It also has jurisdiction over doctor-owned surgical clinics. Long ago the board...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Times Columnists, General Practitioners, Politics, Layoffs and Downsizing
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