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Health & Wellness News tagged with Medicine

WORLD AIDS DAY: Children Still Falling Through the Cracks
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, AIDS, healthcare, humans, illness, children, protection, disease, medicine, news )

Cal
- 8 hours ago - ipsnews.net
December 1 is World Aids Day.While most HIV-positive people in the Western world can gain decades of good health thanks to increasingly effective drug regimens, in the developing world, nearly a third of children born with HIV are still dying before their
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The Cancer Lounge
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, cancer, illness, disease, fear, distraction, medicine, treatment, prevention )

Dee
- 1 day ago - nytimes.com
Memorial Sloan-Kettering. - The cancer patient racked them up and broke. Clackety-clack. Seven ball in the corner pocket. Five ball in the side.
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Ask Your Senator to Include the Indian Health Care Improvement Act in the Current Senate Health Care Reform Bill
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, healthcare, medicine, politics and government, Indigenous Peoples )

Tierney
- 3 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
Indian Country needs your immediate support of and action on the reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2009 (IHCIA of 2009), S. 1790. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, introduced the b
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Malaria Shows Signs of Resisting Best Drug Used to Fight It
Health & Wellness  (tags: malaria, drug resistance, traveler's, health, environment, medicine, artemisinin )

Nancy
- 3 days ago - sciencenews.org
Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome finding poses a risk that travelers could carry this strain of the malaria parasite to other parts
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Cup of Mint Tea Is An Effective Painkiller
Health & Wellness  (tags: Mint tea, Painkiller, Health, Medicine )

Alisa
- 4 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A cup of Brazilian mint tea has pain relieving qualities to match those of commercially available analgesics, a study suggests.
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Special Holiday For Cancer Patient | Ohio News Now
Health & Wellness  (tags: Sam Bish, cancer, child, osteosarcoma, treatment, medicine, disease )

Kelli
- 4 days ago - 10tv.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Third grader Sam Bish is a spunky and smart 8-year-old from Reynoldsburg who is fighting an adult disease.
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Heart Attack Risk 'Raised By Suppressing Anger'
Health & Wellness  (tags: Anger, Health, Heart Attack, Medicine, Research )

Alisa
- 5 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Men who do not openly express their anger if they are unfairly treated at work double their risk of a heart attack, Swedish research suggests.
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Patients Face Bitter Choice: Pay Up or Lose Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, medicine, humans, government )

Cal
- 6 days 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
- 9 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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The Health Care America Refuses To Provide
Health & Wellness  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, healthcare, health, medicine, government, humans, politics, culture, society )

Kat
- 13 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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Vaccines on Horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, Herpes
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, vaccines, disease, illness, humans, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety )

Dee
- 13 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MARIETTA, Pa. - Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
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Rx: Cranberries
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 14 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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Sign the Petition, Send a Coat Hanger
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, treatment, protection, medicine, humans, illness, health, family, death, children, babies, prevention )

Daphna
- 15 days ago - act.credoaction.com
"We know what happens when women are denied access to reproductive health care including abortion. And we can't go back to an era of coat hangers and back alley abortions. Reconsider your vote on the Stupak Amendment. Tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
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CDC: 4,000 U.S. Deaths By Swine Flu
Health & Wellness  (tags: swine flu, swine flu vaccine, healthcare, health, death, disease, humans, medicine, nutrition, news )

Cal
- 18 days ago - bradenton.com
Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu -- about four times the estimate they've been using.
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12-Year-Old Sneezes 12,000 Times a Day
Health & Wellness  (tags: sneezing, girl, interesting, medicine, unknown )

Lone
- 19 days ago - fox43tv.com
CHESAPEAKE, Va. - At first glance Lauren Johnson is your typical 12-year-old. She loves animals, especially her dog, Bo, but sit with Lauren for more than two seconds and you quickly learn she's unique
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