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18 min ago | McClatchy DC

$29,000 for 5 minutes in the ER raises health care questions

For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Cal State Sacramento, Nursing, California

12 hrs ago | The Oregonian

Leave the food safety issues to the experts

Oregon Sen. Jackie Dingfelder of Portland and Maye Thompson of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, in a recent opinion piece on The Stump argued for state legislation to prohibit the chemical bisphenol-A in food packages sold in Oregon.

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Related Topix: Oregon, Oregon Government, Food Science, Oregon State University, Food and Drug Administration, Opinion

Sat Nov 07, 2009

RedOrbit

Study Reveals How Plants And Bacteria 'Talk' To Thwart Disease

When it comes to plants' innate immunity, like many of the dances of life, it takes two to tango.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Living Here - Sacramento Living - Sac...

Suspect in CSUS beating made bizarre statements, police say

Disturbing new evidence has been filed in the case of last month's beating death of a student at California State University, Sacramento, with a detailed description of the vicious attack and bizarre statements by the suspect.

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Related Topix: Cal State Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Metro

MediLexicon

RNs File Department Of Public Health Complaints Against UC Davis Medical Center

Nurses Charge Public Endangered as Hospital Management Unlawfully Rations Nursing Care to Patients Registered Nurses at multiple units within the University of California Davis Hospital have filed a series of Department of Public Health charges against the facility, alerting the state to what risk of public endangerment.

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Related Topix: Nursing, Health

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Just convicted in Sacramento court, killer spouts gang venom at victim's family

A just-convicted murderer swore epithets at his victim's family and shouted out gang invocations Thursday after a Sacramento jury found him guilty in a 2005 drive-by shooting death of a man who had just bought his wife a pair of boots for Christmas.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Metro, Life, Holidays, Christmas

WOIO

Complete Horse Genome Sequence Revealed

The genome of the domestic horse has been sequenced, an accomplishment that will improve the breeding of horses and may help studies of human health, according to an international team of researchers.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Raw Story

Hospital sends parents bill after son is murdered

Shortly after the funeral of California student Scott Hawkins, who was beaten to death by his college roommate on October 23, his parents received a second shock.

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WBAY

Diet Detective's Eleven Tips For Leaner Abs and a Leaner Life

By Charles Stuart Platkin Can you really trim belly fat from your body? Not exactly.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dieting, Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Fruits, Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin, Medication, Nutrition

Science Blog

TV bombards children with commercials for high-fat and high-sugar foods

St. Louis, MO, November 4, 2009 -- Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Nutrition, Family, Kids

Chico Enterprise Record

Oroville man injured in accident on Highway 70

An Oroville man suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol suffered major injuries Wednesday in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 70.

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Related Topix: Oroville, CA

Wed Nov 04, 2009

KLEW-TV Lewiston

Parents of student beaten to death on campus billed for resuscitation efforts

The parents of a California State University, Sacramento student who was beaten to death by a dorm mate were still reeling with shock when they received another jolt.

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Related Topix: Cal State Sacramento

Tue Nov 03, 2009

R & D

Tags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the...

The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such a consistent pattern of migration that over tens of thousands of years the white sharks in the northeastern Pacific Ocean have separated themselves into a population ...

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Related Topix: Stanford University, California

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

UC Davis gets $2 million to boost entrepreneurship studies

A $2 million gift to boost entrepreneurship studies at UC Davis was announced this week by the university's Graduate School of Management, part of its continuing efforts to propel innovative ideas out of the classroom and into the business world.

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Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Hospital bill stuns slain student's parents

On Saturday, 10 days after Scott Hawkins was beaten to death inside his dormitory at California State University, Sacramento, his parents got a letter in the mail.

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Related Topix: Cal State Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Metro

Science Daily

Cucumber Genome Published: Guide To Pumpkin, Melon And Plant Vascular System

The annotated genome is published online Nov. 1 by the journal Nature Genetics .

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Genetics, Biology, Science, Plant Biology

Mon Nov 02, 2009

GroundReport.com

Can vegetable juices lower your blood pressure and help you lose weight?

October 26, Davis, CA - Can drinking vegetable juice lower your blood pressure and help you lose weight? If so, how much? Researchers at the University of California-Davis conducted a 12-week study among adults ages 40-65 years.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Vegetables, Nutrition

Sun Nov 01, 2009

ABC News Nightline

Front Lines of H1N1: ICU, Emergency Rooms Bustling

The flu season is barely under way, but a sharp rise in the number of H1N1 swine flu cases is already stretching scarce resources at many hospitals.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza

Sat Oct 31, 2009

LENNDEVOURS

Q&A: Hans Walter-Peterson, Viticulture Extension Specialist, Finger...

With these weekly Q&A posts, we typically talk to a winery owner, winemaker, vineyard manager or someone else employed by an individual winery.

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Related Topix: Wine, Drink, Cornell University, Agriculture, Science, Northfield, MN, Saint Olaf College

Fri Oct 30, 2009

The Daily Democrat

Federal stimulus funds to UCD will bring 250 jobs

Federal stimulus grants to UC Davis will put some 250 people to work on earthquake safety, new sources of clean energy and West Nile virus control, among dozens of other research projects.

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Related Topix: West Nile Virus, Health

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