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Amid Chaos And Casualties, U.S. Opens Clinic In Haiti
By Scott Hensley The U.S. government's first emergency medical unit to set up shop inside Port-au-Prince is finally running, a week after the massive earthquake that brought chaos to the Haitian capital. This slideshow requires version 9 or higher...
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Tue, Jan 19 2010 1:20 PM
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Democrats Lay Backup Plans For Overhaul, In Case Bay State Votes GOP
By Julie Rovner Until last week Democrats were mostly in denial that the Massachusetts Senate seat held for more than half a century by someone named Kennedy could be taken over by a Republican who has vowed to cast the 41st vote needed to block a health...
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Tue, Jan 19 2010 11:37 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 Overhaul In Peril As GOP Surges In Massachusetts Senate Race
By Scott Hensley Democrats' plans to overhaul the nation's health system are in doubt as the prospects for a Republican takeover of Edward Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts have brightened. An analysis of the latest polls by the prescient...
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Tue, Jan 19 2010 5:58 AM
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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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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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FDA Voices 'Some Concern' Over BPA Risks
By Nell Greenfieldboyce The Food and Drug Administration has finally gotten around to telling us about its current thinking on BPA, the widely used plastic additive found in many food containers, including some baby bottles and hard plastic cups. FDA's...
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Fri, Jan 15 2010 2:25 PM
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Getting Medical Aid To Haiti Takes Patience
By Joanne Silberner HHS Regional Emergency Coordinator Tom Bowman makes a last call out before wheels up in Atlanta. (John W. Poole/NPR) Here it is Friday afternoon, and I've been on my way to Haiti from Atlanta for more than 24 hours. The trip so...
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Fri, Jan 15 2010 1:05 PM
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Medicaid Costs For State Present A Snag For Overhaul Snag
By Christopher Weaver Now that labor groups and the White House have patched things up over the Cadillac tax, some folks are predicting smooth sailing for Democrats' health-overhaul legislation. But, a handful of thorny issues remain, including anxiety...
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Fri, Jan 15 2010 11:25 AM
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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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Time Runs Short As Magnitude Of Medical Problems In Haiti Grows
By Scott Hensley Morgue workers are trying to deal with the thousands of bodies piling up at the central morgue at the National Hospital in downtown of Port-au-Prince, Thursday January 14, 2010. (David Gilkey/NPR) The enormity of the challenge for medical...
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Fri, Jan 15 2010 6:20 AM
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Democrats Downsize Cadillac Tax To Cement Union Support For Overhaul
By April Fulton AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, shown at a briefing on January 11, is one of the labor leaders who got concessions from Democrats on taxes of high-end health plans. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) After spending months playing hard to get...
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Thu, Jan 14 2010 3:12 PM
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Squat, Lunge Exercises Could Save Young Knees
By Brenda Wilson Girls love playing soccer almost as much as boys do, with more than a third of soccer players in this country likely to have a pony tail or pixie cut, according to the U.S. Soccer Federation. But that popularity has come with a price...
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Thu, Jan 14 2010 3:00 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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Bacteria Found In Toll House Dough, But None Leaves Factory
By Nadja Popovich Just as last summer's contamination of Nestle Toll House cookie dough by a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria had just about faded into history, the company said there were problems with a recent batch. Some nasty bacteria showed...
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Thu, Jan 14 2010 12:24 PM
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