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Avoid Online Auctions When Buying Alli
By Nadja Popovich If you've thought about trying the weight-loss aid Alli, you might want to skip eBay and buy the nonprescription medicine at the drugstore, even if you have to pay full price. The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers about...
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Tue, Jan 19 2010 2:20 PM
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Blogger Overcomes Sloth And Gets Swine Flu Shot
By Scott Hensley Finally, after cranking out more than 250 posts on swine flu, we got vaccinated. Yeah, we should have gotten the shot sooner. We meant to, really. We got our dose of swine flu vaccine today. (Mark Boster/Getty Images) We got a shot like...
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Wed, Jan 20 2010 1:55 PM
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Brown's Win Kindles Mixed Emotions For Health Industry
By Christopher Weaver Surprised by Republican Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate election Tuesday? Health care investors weren't. Industry stocks happily climbed on Election Day ahead of the vote in anticipation of Democrats losing...
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Thu, Jan 21 2010 11:58 AM
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National Palace In Haiti Becomes Medical Staging Center
By Sabri Ben-Achour U.S. soldiers carry an injured person to a U.S. Navy helicopter outside the collapsed National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. (Gregory Bull/AP) U.S. soldiers carry an injured person to a U.S. Navy helicopter outside...
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Fri, Jan 22 2010 8:47 AM
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Hospital Ship Rattles By The Minute With Arrival Of Haiti's Injured
By Sabri Ben-Achour Earlier I wrote about how Haiti's presidential palace had become a launch pad to shuttle critical patients to a number of ships offshore. Well, that site has all but disappeared. The Army has set up a new site at a port called...
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Fri, Jan 22 2010 5:00 PM
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GAO Finds 'Extraordinary' Price Hikes For Hundreds Of Drugs
By Scott Hensley Price hikes for prescription drugs are an unfortunate fact of life, with a recent analysis finding a 9 percent average increase in the last year. (iStockphoto.com) (iStockphoto.com) --> But then there are the drugs whose wholesale...
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Mon, Jan 11 2010 1:20 PM
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Steroids May Not Have Helped McGwire Fight Injuries
By Scott Hensley McGwire takes batting practice before the 1990 All-Star Game (left) and watches his 58th home run of the 1998 season, against the Florida Marlins. (right). (Steve Goldstein/Getty Images;Alan Diaz/AP) Now we now for sure that baseball...
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Tue, Jan 12 2010 11:40 AM
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This Health Tax Trial Balloon's Not A Hoax...
By Julie Rovner Well, maybe it is. But unlike the Heene parents, its perpetrators won't get sent to jail. The balloon we're talking about is of the test variety.The proposal now being floated would help pay for the health overhaul bill by expanding...
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Tue, Jan 12 2010 3:20 PM
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Baby Got Back, And A Healthier Heart
By Nadja Popovich Rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot didn't know how right he had it when he voiced his love for, um, robust derrieres back in 1992. A round rear is healthier than a fat gut.(iStockphoto.com) It appears that "increased gluteofemoral fat mass"...
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Wed, Jan 13 2010 1:52 PM
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Why The FDA Cares About A Fake Tiger Woods Label On Gatorade
By Scott Hensley A Colorado man just got in some very hot water with the feds for allegedly slapping his own labels on a bunch of Gatorade. It's all fun and games to put the word "unfaithful" and a picture of Tiger Woods and his estranged...
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Thu, Jan 14 2010 1:58 PM
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Johnson & Johnson Recalls Tylenol, Rolaids And Motrin Over Bad Odor
By Scott Hensley Johnson & Johnson is recalling batches and batches of some big-selling, over-the-counter medicines after customers complained about odors of mold and mildew coming from the packages. A musty odor has led Johnson & Johnson to recall...
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Fri, Jan 15 2010 8:42 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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EPA Review Of Toxic Chemicals: Slow, Often Secret
By Scott Hensley Debates rage almost daily on the health risks from common chemicals. And the government agencies that are supposed to settle those arguments can be awfully slow in doing so. What's in that beaker? (iStockphoto.com) What's in that...
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Mon, Jan 04 2010 9:56 AM
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Increase In Pyschiatric Drug Combos Prompts Safety Concerns
By Kathleen Masterson An increasing number of American adults are being prescribed two or more psychiatric medications, according to a study published Tuesday in the Archives of General Psychiatry. (iStockphoto.com) (iStockphoto.com) --> While the...
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Mon, Jan 04 2010 2:40 PM
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Hospitals Play Quality Card In Fight Over Medicare Funds
By Scott Hensley As the House and Senate start to hammer out a unified health overhaul bill, some hospitals are already shaping up as winners. The formula Medicare uses to pay hospitals would get rejiggered under language in both the House and Senate...
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Wed, Jan 06 2010 5:55 AM
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