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Prominent Calorie Counts Don't Budge Fast-Food Choices
The availability of calorie counts on the menu appears to make little difference in the food choices of people who frequent fast-food restaurants in New York City, a recent study suggests. Previous studies have suggested the calorie listings do influence...
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Tue, Feb 15 2011 11:53 AM
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Health Hardliners To GOP: Most Americans Are 'Over-Insured'
The conservative group FreedomWorks recommends a system of vouchers to replace Medicare, Medicaid and provisions of the new health law. Read More...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 1:26 PM
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Health Hard-Liners To GOP: Most Americans Are 'Over-Insured'
The conservative group FreedomWorks recommends a system of vouchers to replace Medicare, Medicaid and provisions of the new health law. Read More...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 1:26 PM
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In Funding Hunt, FDA Looks To Fees From Generic Drugmakers
In an environment of increasingly tough budgets, the Food and Drug Administration is stepping up calls for the drug, medical device, and food industry to kick in some money. Right now, the agency is focusing on generic drug makers. Read More...
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Fri, Feb 18 2011 10:31 AM
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Pediatricians Say Teens Should Be Barred from Tanning Parlors
Artificial tanning beds greatly increase the risk of skin cancers and should be banned for teens, a leading group of pediatricians says. Most people get 25 percent of their lifetime sun exposure before age 18. Read More...
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Mon, Feb 28 2011 1:17 PM
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GOP Counts The Ways To Defund Health Law
House Republicans have come up with more than half a dozen ways to throttle spending on overhaul. Democrats in the Senate can block them, and President Obama still wields the veto pen. Read More...
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Tue, Feb 22 2011 2:05 PM
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Pop Quiz: Has Health Overhaul Law Been Repealed?
A poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that about 1 in 5 Americans believes the federal law overhauling health care has been repealed. Barely more than half of those polled answered it was till the law. Read More...
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Thu, Feb 24 2011 5:47 AM
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Abortion Clinics In Va. Face Regulation Like Hospitals
Abortion rights opponents, who pushed for the law, say it will hold clinics to higher safety standards. But advocates for abortion rights in the state warn the law will place such heavy burdens on clinics that many may be forced to close. Read More.....
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Fri, Feb 25 2011 6:38 AM
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Pediatricians Caution Parents Against 'Fever Phobia'
A leading group of pediatricians is counseling doctors and parents against going overboard in treating mildly feverish kids with over-the-counter medicines. The pediatricians say keeping children comfortable should be the goal rather than reducing their...
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Mon, Feb 28 2011 6:57 AM
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Best Route To Heart May Be Through Your Wrist
Some cardiologists are pushing for an alternate approach to snaking catheters into the arteries feeding the heart. Going through an artery in the wrist, instead of the groin, poses a lower risk of bleeding, they say. Read More...
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Tue, Feb 08 2011 6:56 AM
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Researchers Link Marijuana And Earlier Onset Of Psychosis
Australian researchers found that marijuana users who developed psychosis were 2.7 years younger than nonusers who became psychotic. Other sort of substance abuse sped up psychosis by 2 years, but alcohol alone showed no effect. Read More...
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Wed, Feb 09 2011 5:57 AM
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Mediation Could Help Remedy Medical Malpractice Mess
Mediation often lasts the better part of a day, and whatever is said is confidential and not admissible in court. Even if parties agree to mediate, they can abandon the process and take the case to trial if they're not making headway. Read More.....
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Tue, Feb 01 2011 7:57 AM
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Dogs Earn More Cred For Sniffing Out Cancer
In the last five years, dogs of different breeds and ages have shown over and over they can smell cancer on the breaht and in tissue samples from cancer patients. But scientists are still unsure about what the dogs are smelling. Read More...
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Wed, Feb 02 2011 5:52 AM
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Evidence Builds On Fatal Side Effects From Cancer Drug Avastin
Patients on the best-selling cancer drug Avastin are much more likely to suffer fatal side effects than those just getting chemotherapy, a study finds. Even so, the overall risk of fatal problems is low at less than 3 percent. Read More...
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Wed, Feb 02 2011 11:28 AM
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Women Docs Fall Further Behind On Pay
While more women are choosing medicine as a career, there's a pretty big gender gap in starting salaries, researchers have found. The explanation used to be that women entered less lucrative specialties, but that's not the case anymore. Read More...
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Thu, Feb 03 2011 12:38 PM
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