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- Botox alternative: Freeze away your wrinkles
- A Bay Area company believes it may be able to achieve the same results as Botox, not with drugs, but by freezing.
- Surgery-free solution to a skin tight face
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- Clock ticking with new plan to fight Alzheimer's
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- South Bay doctor faces two dozen felony charges
- SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. - A South Bay doctor is facing roughly two dozen felony charges for allegedly being a pill mill.
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- A hugely popular weight loss business in Southern California is being investigated after the deaths of five patients.
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- Device gives hope to victims of spinal cord injuries
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- Calif. crackdown on junk food in schools paying off
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