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Health Overhaul Could Ding Married Couples
By Christopher Weaver If you're searching for an upside to being single, look no further than Congress's health overhaul proposals. Married couples could end up paying thousands of dollars more each year for health insurance than singles with...
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Thu, Jan 07 2010 5:44 AM
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Diabetes Risk Rises Temporarily For Smokers Who Quit
By Richard Knox Among the many bad things that smoking causes is diabetes. Smokers have up to a 44 higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Watch your blood sugar, when you kick the habit. (iStockphoto.com) (iStockphoto.com) --> So smokers who quit...
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Mon, Jan 04 2010 2:16 PM
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Expert Panel Recommends Screening Kids For Obesity
By Nadja Popovich Fresh from the folks who brought you last year's controversial recommendation that women wait on routine mammograms until they hit 50 comes advice that kids be screened for obesity. Kids line up for a game of kickball during a program...
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Wed, Jan 20 2010 11:34 AM
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New York City Puts Salt On The Chopping Block
By Nadja Popovich The Big Apple isn't messing around when it comes to healthful eating. First, public health officials required chain restaurants to publish calorie counts on menus. Then, in 2008, the city banned artificial trans-fats from restaurants...
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Mon, Jan 11 2010 2:57 PM
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Haitian Woman Agrees To Care On Navy Hospital Ship
By Joanne Silberner On Thursday's Morning Edition I reported about Denise Bazile, who suffered two badly broken legs when a wall fell on her during the Haiti earthquake last week. Doctors from a U.S. government field hospital in Port-au-Prince gave...
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Thu, Jan 21 2010 2:05 PM
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Radiation Meant To Help Cancer Patients Can Sometimes Harm
By Scott Hensley Paracelsus, Renaissance alchemist and medical pioneer said, more or less, that everything is poisonous, including medicine. Only the dose determines whether a substance does harm--or maybe some good. (iStockphoto.com) (iStockphoto.com...
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Mon, Jan 25 2010 5:57 AM
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Health Spending Outstrips Economic Growth
By Scott Hensley The deepest recession in generations took a big bite out of spending on health care, slowing the growth to 4.4 percent in 2008, the federal government says. So what? Health spending in the U.S. is still out of whack, growing faster than...
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Tue, Jan 05 2010 5:58 AM
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Simple Does It For Infection Prevention
By Christopher Weaver Keep it simple, Doc. That's one lesson to draw from two studies published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, which offer simple ways to prevent infections and save lives, like bathing patients and swabbing their noses...
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Thu, Jan 07 2010 9:30 AM
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Care Outside Insurer's Network Proves Costly, Despite Approval
By Jordan Rau Here's a form letter for the ages. "We're sorry to learn you need hospitalization," Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield wrote to Joshua Lemacks, a patient needing heart surgery. "We know that when you need to be in the hospital...
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Tue, Jan 19 2010 9:52 AM
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Health Care Jobs Grew As Other Sectors Withered
By Christopher Weaver Over the past two years the health care industry has stood up to a deep economic recession, rising numbers of uninsured patients, a decline in doctors' visits, and an uncertain future obscured by Congress's ongoing overhaul...
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Fri, Jan 08 2010 2:25 PM
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Catching Depression In Teens May Break Lifelong Cycle
By Allison Aubrey Middle-school is just the warm-up for the emotional struggles that teens can face in high school. By the time teens reach their 18th birthday, one in five will have had at least one diagnosable bout of clinical depression. Gathering...
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Mon, Jan 18 2010 8:13 AM
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C-SPAN Wants All-Access Pass To Health Negotiations
By Scott Hensley You can't blame C-SPAN for trying. Click image to read letter. (C-SPAN) The wall-to-wall coverer of all things political would like to take you inside the smoke-filled rooms where a compromise on Senate and House health overhaul bills...
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Tue, Jan 05 2010 7:58 AM
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Turning To Haiti's Longer-Term Health Needs
By Kevin Whitelaw In one small piece of good news coming out of Haiti, World Health Organization officials say there is no sign yet of any epidemics emerging in the wake of the massive earthquake. "We've seen no reports of outbreaks of diseases...
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Mon, Jan 25 2010 9:15 AM
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As Demand Wanes For Swine Flu Vaccine, Questions Rise On Unfilled Orders
By Richard Knox A syringe and vials of swine flu vaccine at a hospital in Essen, Germany, last year. (Martin Meissner/AP) In Europe the backlash against what critics call "the false pandemic" is in full cry. The World Health Organization is...
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Wed, Jan 13 2010 5:55 AM
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Floating Hospital Heads For Haiti
By Nadja Popovich Saturday morning, one of the U.S.'s largest trauma centers ships out to Haiti. James Ware, commanding officer of Comfort's hospital, said that this is one of the Comfort's biggest missions.(Nadja Popovich, NPR) James Ware...
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Fri, Jan 15 2010 2:57 PM
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