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Health & Wellness News tagged with Healthcare

Medical Marijuana Usage From Ancient Egypt to Obama's Medical Marijuana Statements
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, treatment, study, science, society, health, humans, disease, drugs, ethics, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, cancer, research, healthcare, interesting, government )

Faith
- 17 hours ago - examiner.com
First recorded use of marijuana for medical purposes was in ancient Egypt. It was used to treat inflammation of the eye and used for some ailments of the uterus. In India medical marijuana was used as far back as 800 B.C. for congestion
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SHARE OUR STRENGTH'S OPERATION FRONTLINE---Helping Low-Income Families Eat Healthy on a Budget
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, humans, society, Body-Mind-Spirit, food, exercise, children, healthcare, protection )

Cal
- 17 hours ago - denverpost.com
Since 1994, this nonprofit has held more than 500 courses and taught more than 6,000 low-income families how to live healthy. The organization is one of many applying for funds from this year's Season to Share program. SEE http://strength.org/
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Patients Face Bitter Choice: Pay Up or Lose Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, medicine, humans, government )

Cal
- 20 hours ago - msnbc.msn.com
Premium-pay medical practices grow as doctors seek more control, cash
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The Cost of Dying - Watch 60 Minutes This Sunday - VIDEO
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, humans, medicine, disease, drugs, AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit )

Tierney
- 4 days ago - cbsnews.com
(CBS) One of the biggest problems in health care is that many Americans are "dying badly," says Dr. Ira Byock. He says many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, relying on uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives
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TAKE ACTION: Senate Vote Tomorrow Health Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, health, senate, prevention, government )

Tierney
- 4 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
The Senate is scheduled to vote on whether to open debate on its healthcare reform bill tomorrow night. Unlike the House, the Senate's bill protects the status quo for reproductive healthcare coverage for women. Not a single Republican is anticipate
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MYTHBUSTERS: Cold Weather Won't Make You Sick
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, EDUCATION, research, humans, disease, investigation, family, protection, news, study, prevention )

Cal
- 5 days ago - aarpmagazine.org
Fresh studies of scientific research are busting all those health myths you grew up with
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Sebelius on Mammograms: Don't Change What You're Doing
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Health and Human Services Secretary, healthcare, mammograms, prevention, research, protection, safety, women )

Dee
- 6 days ago - prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday afternoon issued a strong statement intended to put distance between federal policy and an influential panel's recommendations that most women..
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YouTube - Announcing the Winner of the Health Reform Video Challenge   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, babies, health, healthcare, illness, Health Reform Video Challenge, Health Reform )

Kelli
- 6 days ago - youtube.com
Help put the final ad on the air:After nearly 1,000 submissions, 20 amazing finalists, and more than 3 million views, Organizing for America supporters and a panel of experts have picked the winner of the OFA Health Reform Video Challenge.
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The Stupak-Pitts Controversy Is Based On--and Masks--A Deepset Fear of Women's Agency
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, health, government, abortion, stupak-pitts )

Tierney
- 7 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House bill for health care reform grabbed most of the headlines after the health care reform vote. It makes sense---the media and socially conservative politicians love to bang the drum about abortion
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The Health Care America Refuses To Provide
Health & Wellness  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, healthcare, health, medicine, government, humans, politics, culture, society )

Kat
- 7 days ago - dissidentvoice.org
As you're reading this I'm sure your eyes are beginning to roll, indicating how peeved you're probably getting over yet another tirade on the subject of health-care-overhaul. Fear not. To prevent this article from joining the all-embracing tautology of...
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No Ban on Abortion Coverage-Please Take Action!!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, protection, healthcare, safety, prevention, government )

Tierney
- 7 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
When you need medical care, your insurance should pay for it. Yet some in Congress are trying to use healthcare reform to ban insurance coverage for abortion services, coverage that millions of women already have.
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Heart Patients Lacking Vitamin D More Likely to Be Depressed
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, illness, research )

Cal
- 7 days ago - cnn.com
People with heart disease and similar conditions who don't have enough vitamin D are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin," according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American H
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Titanium Rib Plates Save Life of Blackfoot Woman
Health & Wellness  (tags: titanium plates, women, ribs, interesting, healthcare )

Lone
- 8 days ago - localnews8.com
POCATELLO & BLACKFOOT - A woman in Blackfoot is saying a surgeon at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, along with some help from up above, saved her life. It's all thanks to a new procedure
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Rx: Cranberries
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 8 days ago - lime.com
Maybe we should add cranberries to the long list of things to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. Cranberries -- a staple food source with settlers and Native Americans in the northeast -- were valued for their thick skins, allowing them to surv
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NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH: Taking Preventive Measures
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Amreican health, native americans, healthcare, health, prevention, diet, news )

Cal
- 8 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Employees of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota learned ways to prevent suicide during training sessions, following the deaths of 27 teens and young adults and the attempted suicides of more than 400 tribal members over the past few years.
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