| Candidates' Abortion Views Not So Simple |
| The narrative of the presidential campaign appeared to be set on the issue of abortion: Sen. Barack Obama was the abortion-rights candidate who was reaching out to foes, seeking common ground and making inroads. Sen. John McCain was the abortion opponent whose reticence about faith and whose batt...
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| Lack of Insurance, High Medical Costs Put More in a Bind |
| Americans are struggling to pay medical bills and are accumulating medical debt at an increasing rate, according to a survey released today.
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| Many Think God's Intervention Can Revive the Dying |
| CHICAGO -- When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans.
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| Watch Your Mouth |
| The way to a person's heart is through his stomach, the adage goes. But researchers now think the way to a healthy heart might be through your gums and teeth.
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| Stress Wasn't The Problem |
| Karima Hijane could not believe what she was hearing: The obstetrician who for two years had insisted that her mystifying constellation of symptoms was the result of stress had discovered the real cause, imparting devastating news that would alter Hijane's plans for her future.
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| Meet the Tiger, a Bug With Extra Bite |
| When Sydney Williams moved last year from a condo to a house in the Pimmit Hills section of Falls Church, she relished the opportunity to hone her gardening skills in a yard of butterfly bushes, hydrangeas and perennials.
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| Germs No Match For Montgomery's Nurse Detectives |
| Summer in the suburbs. For the innocent, that means cookouts, swimming, fresh produce, maybe a trip to the beach. But sunny fun has its dark side, and that means suspect potato salad, tainted pool water, toxic weeds, maybe a trip to the doctor because of "something I ate."
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| Va. DNA Project Is In Uncharted Territory |
| After Eva King Jones, 88, was raped and killed in her small-town Virginia home, a local man was accused and convicted. Now, 33 years later, police say newly discovered DNA evidence has led to the arrest of someone else.
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| Marathon Men |
| Research continues to demonstrate the benefits of exercise, no matter your age. But the Tatum brothers, who for nearly 90 years have swum, skied, bowled, played football and worked in the yard, have never needed convincing.
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| FDA Draft Report: No Risk From BPA In Food Containers |
| A controversial chemical commonly found in can linings, baby bottles and other household products does not pose a health hazard when used in food containers, according to a draft assessment released by the Food and Drug Administration yesterday.
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| A Social Network for Your Doctor, Pharmacist and Insurer |
| Imagine a virtual health clinic: Your lung doctor and heart specialist can pull up your online medical profile and chat, via instant messenger, about your medications. You schedule checkups online, create a wellness journal or even rate your general practitioner.
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| Airborne Coughs Up Millions to Settle Suit |
| Over the past decade, millions of consumers, including Oprah, have come to swear by Airborne -- fizzy orange tablets containing vitamins, herbs and minerals that its makers for years said keeps cold germs at bay.
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| Stress, Anxiety Worsen Response to Allergens |
| THURSDAY, Aug. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Even a little stress and anxiety can greatly worsen and extend a person's reaction to common allergens, a new study says.
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| Infant Transplant Procedure Ignites Debate |
| Surgeons in Denver are publishing their first account of a procedure in which they remove the hearts of severely brain-damaged newborns less than two minutes after the babies are disconnected from life support, and their hearts stop beating, so the organs can be transplanted into infants who would...
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| Faces of an Epidemic |
| Michael Manganiello, 50 , prepares his evening routine in the warm glow of his fifth-floor Logan Circle apartment. He's been through it once already: one, two, three . . . the pop of a bottle, then the rattle of pills, as he counts them out . . . 11, 12, 13. · He ponders the number: "Thirteen -- ...
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| Herbs and Spices Do More Than Taste Good |
| Q : What is the difference between an herb and a spice?
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| Tragedy Can Be Averted |
| It had all the hallmarks of a catastrophe in the making: a stash of guns and explosives; a map of Camp David marked with a presidential motorcade route; a list of home addresses for teachers at St. John's College High School, from which Collin McKenzie-Gude had just graduated.
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| Medicaid Transport Firm Trims Drivers |
| The company that oversees the transport of more than 50,000 Medicaid patients in the District has downsized its pool of contract drivers, leaving some clients to complain that the service is too unreliable to get them to important health-care appointments.
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| Teens Cite Ease of Access To Drugs |
| A growing number of teenagers say it's easier to illegally obtain prescription drugs than to buy beer, according to a survey published today.
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| Half of Overweight Adults May Be Heart-Healthy |
| CHICAGO -- You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy. A new study suggests that a surprising number of overweight people _ about half _ have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, while an equally st...
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| Drugs as good as stents for many heart patients |
| -- People with chronic chest pain who are not in big danger of a heart attack now may have even less reason to rush into an artery-opening angioplasty: There's more evidence drugs should be tried first and often are just as effective.
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| Mad Cow Rules Hit Sperm Banks' Patrons |
| When Julie Peterson decided to have a baby on her own two years ago, she picked a tall, blond, blue-eyed Danish engineer as a sperm donor to match her own Scandinavian heritage. But when she went back to the sperm bank to use the same donor to have another child, she was stunned to discover that the...
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| Doctors debate when to declare organ donors dead |
| NEW YORK -- A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?
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| Biotech Campaigns for Easier Access to Generic Drug Market |
| Geoffrey Allan has been giving Congress a lesson in biotechnology.
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| Faces of an Epidemic |
| According to the D.C. Department of Health, women accounted for a third of all newly reported HIV/AIDS cases between 2001 and 2006, with African American women being d...
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| Learning From Olympians |
| It was probably no surprise to the Limas household in Chicago that daughter Arlene grew up to be a fighter.
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| Filling In the Blanks, at Long Last |
| "It wasn't the lowest of times. I was somewhere below that," recalls Don Gold, 62, who was living in Little Rock and slouching toward Medicareland with an empty heart. His first marriage had ended after seven years; his second marriage, after 25. Both relationships turned out to be very painful. ...
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| Is It Really Smart to Teach Old Brains New Tricks? |
| Throw all the money you like at computer brainteasers. Just don't bet the popular games will protect your gray matter any better than a host of other activities, many of them free.
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| An Age-Appropriate Update Can Add to Independence |
| It's a common refrain: Most people don't want to leave their houses as they get older; they'd like to stay put. Two weeks ago, a retirement community in McLean unveiled a suite that has been adapted and equipped to make that goal more possible.
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| At Any Age, It Makes Sense to Keep Yourself in Balance |
| There are times in your life when feeling a little off-balance may actually be a good thing. Take it from the experts.
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| DHS, Rejecting Advice, Puts Mississippi on Shortlist for Facility |
| The Department of Homeland Security swept aside evaluations by government experts and named Mississippi -- home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency -- as a potential location for a $451 million national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, acc...
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| Parents Pen a 'Survival Guide' to Leukemia |
| Shaken and ready, the can in Dani Greene's hand draws the attention of the apron-clad 4- and 5-year-olds sitting at the table in front of her.
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| A Welcome Home |
| When Leila McDowell-Head thought about the future of her mentally disabled daughter, Layla, she kept coming up with unsavory scenarios. She and her husband, Tony, were both in their 50s and knew their ability to care for Layla, 24, would wane in coming years. Who would be there for her? There were...
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| Whole Foods Recalls Beef Processed At Plant Long at Odds With USDA |
| Whole Foods Market pulled fresh ground beef from all of its stores Friday, becoming the latest retailer affected by an E. coli outbreak traced to Nebraska Beef, one of the nation's largest meatpackers. It's the second outbreak linked to the processor in as many months.
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| Boomers Drive Hospital Growth |
| Holy Cross Hospital's announcement last week that it hopes to build a hospital in Germantown is just the latest example of a baby boomer-fueled building frenzy sweeping the health-care industry in Montgomery County and other parts of the country.
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| After Anthrax Scientist's Threats, Counselor Faced a Hard Choice |
| On the morning of July 10, Jean C. Duley decided she had a phone call to make. She had agonized all night. Her counseling client, Bruce E. Ivins, had announced in a group therapy session the evening before that he was a suspect in the 2001 anthrax investigation and had a plan to kill his co-workers.
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| D.C.'s Medicaid Rules Criticized |
| District officials are enforcing new guidelines for prescription drugs for thousands of Medicaid patients, leaving many doctors complaining that it is more difficult for sick people to receive some medicines and that some people's health is being endangered.
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| Birth Control Fears Addressed |
| Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has denied that a controversial draft regulation would redefine common birth control methods as abortion and protect the rights of doctors and other health-care workers who refuse to provide them.
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| In the Time of AIDS, A Nonstop Crusader |
| MEXICO CITY She drags colleagues out of bed for 5 a.m. runs in Hanoi and Bangkok. She touches down in Jamaica just long enough to deliver a wedding toast after stops in Washington and Atlanta. Once, she even quick-changed into a ball gown in the bathroom on the same day that she had flown from...
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| Meat Tied To Camp Outbreak Recalled |
| A California company is voluntarily recalling 153,630 pounds of frozen ground beef, some of which has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli bacteria that shut down a Boy Scout camp in Goshen, Va., this week, federal officials said.
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| Antibodies May Lead to Protection Against HIV |
| Some long-term survivors of HIV infection produce rare and extremely potent antibodies that keep the disease from progressing to AIDS, and might point to a way to protect uninfected people from the virus, researchers reported yesterday in the closing hours of the 17th International AIDS Conferenc...
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| Trial by (Simulated) Fire |
| FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- After four years of medical school and 700 hours of military training, the final two weeks for students at Bethesda's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences come down to this:
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| The checkup |
| Sunscreen: Still in the Dark For decades, sunscreens' SPF ratings have given us a sense of how well the products are likely to ward off sunburn-causing UVB damage. But there's no parallel system to provide info about protection against UVA rays, which can do long-term damage to the skin.
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| FBI: LA hospitals used homeless in medical fraud |
| LOS ANGELES -- For hundreds of homeless people, posing as phony hospital patients provided them a clean bed and cash. For the hospitals that processed them, it meant a full patient-load and a paycheck from the government.
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| U.S. Panel Questions Prostate Screening |
| The blood test that millions of men undergo each year to check for prostate cancer leads to so much unnecessary anxiety, surgery and complications that doctors should stop testing elderly men, and it remains unclear whether the screening is worthwhile for younger men, a federal task force conclud...
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| Early Lessons Forgotten, AIDS Conference Told |
| MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6 -- Twenty-five years after AIDS was branded the "gay plague," the virus is again exacting a disproportionate toll on men who have sex with men, not only in the United States but also in countries where the epidemic is just emerging.
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| Tests Point To Beef In Camp Outbreak |
| E. Coli found in ground beef at a Boy Scout camp in Goshen, Va., matches bacteria found in samples taken from some sick campers, lab tests have confirmed, and a state health official called beef the "prime suspect" in the outbreak that shut down the camp this week.
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| Government Asserts Ivins Acted Alone |
| Government officials asserted yesterday that a troubled bioweapons scientist acted alone to perpetrate a terrorism scheme that killed five people, a case that centered on a near-perfect match of anthrax spores in his custody and a record of his late-night laboratory work just before the toxic let...
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| Clinton: Widen AIDS Effort in U.S. |
| MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4 -- Fresh off a whirlwind tour of AIDS programs across Africa, former president Bill Clinton said Monday that new U.S. figures highlight the need for fresh attention to the disease at home, particularly among African Americans.
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| HIV Screening: It's Not So Easy |
| In the controlled chaos of emergency departments across the country, doctors are working to curb the HIV epidemic, one swab of the gums at a time. The effort stems from guidelines published in 2006 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to extend HIV testing to teens and adults in any ...
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| Adopting America's Bad Habits |
| Armed with an array of plastic eggs, grapes, broccoli and a nasty looking cross-section of an artery clogged with cholesterol, Carlos Garcia was demonstrating the hidden dangers of American cooking and eating for a group of young Hispanic mothers in Silver Spring.
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| Tales of Addiction, Anxiety, Ranting |
| Late last fall, Bruce E. Ivins was drinking a liter of vodka some nights, taking large doses of sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs, and typing out rambling e-mails into the early morning hours, according to a fellow scientist who helped him through this period.
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| For Younger Women, Clinton Is No Martyr |
| I recently met with a group of high school and college women who had come to D.C. for a leadership conference. I wondered whether they felt -- as many women in my generation do -- that Hillary Clinton suffered in the Democratic presidential primary from rank bias against women. So I asked them: D...
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| Learning From Olympians |
| Dominique Dawes has three Olympic medals, one of the best nicknames in sports ("Awesome Dawesome") and the ability to sit in a split for hours on end. So what doesn't the legendary gymnast have? Weights.
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| Stigma Remains an Obstacle to Treatment |
| Many patients still duck around the corner and wait for Metrobuses to pass so they can run unseen into one of the Whitman-Walker clinics -- the area's largest nongovernmental providers of HIV/AIDS services, according to Justin Goforth, director of Whitman-Walker's medical adherence unit.
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| Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers |
| Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health "credit report" drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.
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| Unrelenting Grief May Be Sign of Distinct Syndrome |
| After Janice Van Wagner's mother died of breast cancer two years ago, her sense of loss was overwhelming.
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| Man Sues Wal-Mart Over Tainted Peppers |
| A Colorado man is suing Wal-Mart and an unnamed supplier, saying that he fell ill after eating jalapeño peppers bought from the company tainted with the same strain of salmonella that has infected more than 1,300 people over the past three months.
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| Modest Gains Against Ever-Present Bioterrorism Threat |
| In the past seven years, the federal government has spent more than $57 billion to shore up the nation's bioterrorism defenses, stockpiling drugs, ringing more than 30 American cities in a network of detectors and boosting preparedness at hospitals.
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| AIDS Prevention Having an Effect |
| Updated federal estimates of the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States, released yesterday, reveal that although the AIDS epidemic here is worse than previously thought, prevention efforts appear to be having some effect.
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| More Cases Of E. Coli Linked to Va. Camp |
| Health officials said yesterday that they had not identified what made people sick at a Scout camp in Goshen, Va., last week, but that the number of people who contracted the E. coli infection has grown to at least 18, with two boys in the most serious condition.
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| Despite Additive Ban, Some Parents Voice Worry |
| Samantha Rosenberg eyed the toy plastic cellphone that her 9-month-old daughter has chewed so much, the color is fading. She wondered if the shiny plaything, and others that fill her home, are endangering Addison's health.
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| AIDS Infection Rate in U.S. Higher Than Previously Estimated |
| Updated federal estimates of the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States, released today, reveal that while the AIDS epidemic here is worse than previously thought, prevention efforts appear to be having some effect.
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| Tijuana's AIDS Epidemic Is a Binational Threat |
| TIJUANA, Mexico -- Half a dozen prostitutes swarm Angel Cabrera's car as he inches along the traffic-choked streets of downtown Tijuana on a balmy Friday evening.
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| 13 Scouts Get E. Coli While at Va. Camp |
| Health officials have confirmed that at least 13 boys, all but one from Northern Virginia, contracted E. coli bacterial infections while attending a popular Scout camp in Goshen, Va., last week, officials said yesterday.
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| Workers' Religious Freedom vs. Patients' Rights |
| A Bush administration proposal aimed at protecting health-care workers who object to abortion, and to birth-control methods they consider tantamount to abortion, has escalated a bitter debate over the balance between religious freedom and patients' rights.
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| Health Officials Seek Answers In Mosquito Trap Vandalism |
| The odd-looking, multicolored contraptions the Fairfax County Health Department sets each summer to lure mosquitoes have recently attracted other nuisances: vandals and thieves.
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| Efforts Against AIDS Among Black Americans Criticized |
| A prominent AIDS organization accused the federal government yesterday of doing too little to fight AIDS among black Americans, in whom the size and scope of the epidemic resembles that seen in many African nations.
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| 21st-Century Mission |
| The waiting room at La Clinica del Pueblo is a busy but intimate scene where doctors greet patients with a hug, new mothers drop by to show off their infants, and Spanish-speaking seniors come for help translating their mail. No one minds if you miss an appointment or try a home remedy for your a...
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| As Plain as The Rash On His Feet |
| Even before he entered the examining room to meet his new patient, dermatologist Howard Luber was confident he knew what was wrong with the man.
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| As the Club Turns 7, We Look Back And Look Ahead |
| Happy Birthday, Lean Plate Club members! Today marks the column's seventh anniversary. Since we can't blow out the candles together, I'm sending you a gift: a brief roundup of some nutrition tenets and a look ahead at what's likely to be on your plate in the future.
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| Simple Advice From a Star: Make Your Workout as Productive as Possible |
| From poolside, Kate Ziegler looks like just another kid, bobbing in the water and staring up at coach Ray Benecki along with other members of the Fish, the McLean team she has trained with since early in her swimming career.
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| A Look Back -- And Ahead |
| Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Lean Plate Club column and Web chat. As a gift to you, I've included some nutrition tenets in today's column plus a look ahead at what's likely to be hot news in the nutrition world in upcoming months and years.
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| Bike Safety Hits Close to Home |
| I am waiting for my husband to ask me quietly whether I might reconsider biking to work, something I have been doing for about three years. After the July 8 death of a 22-year-old cyclist in our Dupont Circle neighborhood, I wonder when his "Be careful getting to work this morning" will turn into...
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| One-Stop Spot for Health-Care Needs |
| Prince George's County is considering a novel way to deal with limited access to health care: converting empty stores in old shopping centers, even entire malls, into medical facilities.
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| Read More...(Source: - Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| Sounding Alarm About Disease |
| The preacher's words took flight in a small Pentecostal sanctuary in Southern Maryland, where men are dying needlessly of a treatable disease.
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| Online, a Community Gathers to Concoct A Neighborhood Eatery |
| When Sharon Greenspan went on a cross-country trip last year, she made sure to take photos of the restaurants she liked and to keep the menus. It was the easiest way to remember that "lasagna" of zucchini, spinach and pine nuts she ate in Asheville and the creamy coconut shake she tasted in Sedona....
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| AIDS Funding Binds Longevity of Millions to U.S. |
| President Bush plans to sign a bill next week that commits the United States to spending about $40 billion over the next five years to fight AIDS overseas, a major expansion of what many consider his most successful foreign policy initiative.
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| Calif. Becomes 1st State To Enact Trans Fat Ban |
| California became the first state in the country to ban artery-clogging trans fats yesterday when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a measure to phase them out in restaurants beginning in 2010 and from baked goods by 2011.
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| Capitol Hill Gets Exercised |
| Congress, its support at 14 percent in the latest Gallup poll, is having some self-esteem issues. Yesterday, lawmakers happened upon a novel solution.
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| In Surprise Move, EPA Bans Carbofuran Residue on Food |
| The Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that it will no longer allow residue of the toxic pesticide carbofuran on domestic or imported food, a decision that would effectively remove the chemical from the U.S. market.
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| EPA E-Mail Concluded Global Warming Endangers Public Health, Senator Says |
| Under a subpoena threat from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Environmental Protection Agency late Wednesday sent the panel a copy of its Dec. 5 proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act -- as a brief loan.
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| How Well Do You Know Your Massage Therapist? |
| Whereas physicians practicing traditional Western medicine must be trained and licensed and are subject to oversight by state medical boards, practitioners in many fields of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can pretty much just hang out a shingle and start working with patients. In...
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| One Way to Handle Grief: Just Get Over It |
| The day after Eleanor Clift's husband died of kidney cancer in March 2005, "The McLaughlin Group" host John McLaughlin phoned. Would Clift, a Newsweek contributing editor, be in the television studio the next day, he wanted to know, for the customary Friday taping of the show?
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| Patients Turn to Advocates to Navigate Health-Care System |
| After three surgeries, Judy Sherer still had chronic pain in her left shoulder. She'd lost faith in her doctors and in despair tried a new health benefit offered by her employer.
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| About That Clean, Fresh Scent . . . |
| The fumes that waft from top-selling air fresheners and laundry products contain dozens of chemicals, including several classified as toxic or hazardous, according to a recent University of Washington study.
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| FDA Officials Narrow Salmonella Warning To Mexican Peppers |
| Federal health officials are one step closer to finding the cause of a three-month-old salmonella outbreak and are now warning consumers to avoid only Mexican-grown raw jalapeño and Serrano peppers.
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| Read More...(Source: - Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| $500 Million Is Offered in Fight Against Tobacco |
| New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said yesterday that they will together provide $500 million to fight tobacco use around the world, especially in developing countries where smoking rates are rising.
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| Read More...(Source: - Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| Cafeteria Menus Get Failing Grades |
| A District-based nonprofit organization, affiliated with a group that promotes a vegan diet, issued a report card today on school lunches that gives two local school systems failing grades for the amount of processed meat they serve to students.
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| Read More...(Source: - Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| How Well Do You Know Your Massage Therapist? |
| Besides the obvious horrors the recent arrest of Radovan Karadzic dredged up, it was really freaky to find out that the Butcher of Bosnia, murderer of a reported 8,000 men and boys, has apparently for years been practicing complementary medicine in Belgrade under the pseudonym Dragan Dabic. Among...
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| Read More...(Source: - Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:41:01 EDT) |
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| Medicine Gears Up for a Code Green |
| Tossing out everything from plastic bandages and cotton swabs to hospital robes after a single use, the U.S. medical industry generates more than 2 million tons of waste per year, environmental advocates say. Some of that waste makes its way to incinerators and, when burned, releases dioxin, merc...
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| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| Violence Is Common Among The Young |
| Almost half of undergraduates say they have experienced emotional, physical or sexual violence stemming from personal relationships before or during college, according to a new study.
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| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| Which Diet's Best? That's Your Choice. |
| Is there one diet that's best for losing weight? That's the debate that simmers in weight-loss circles and occasionally boils into a full diet fad. Just recall how the low-carbohydrate craze swept the nation a few years ago.
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| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| Salmonella-Tainted Jalapeño Found in Texas |
| Federal officials investigating a three-month-old salmonella outbreak have isolated the bacteria in a jalapeño pepper from a small distribution facility in McAllen, Tex., and yesterday warned consumers nationwide to avoid eating raw jalapeños or products that contain them until more is known.
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| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| Which Is Right? |
| I can't tell right from left. It hasn't been a serious problem. Except that night on a freeway heading into San Francisco when, befuddled by an "Exit Left" sign, I hit the brakes and got totaled by a really fast sports car. Or the day I directed a footsore family of tourists 180 degrees away from...
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| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
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| Diets Aren't One Way Fits All |
| Low-fat, low-carb or Mediterranean? Learn in today's Lean Plate Club column how the most popular diets stack up in a new Harvard study and why women and men may find success with different weight loss approaches.
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| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:42:58 EDT) |
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