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Health & Wellness News tagged with US

First Daughters Get H1N1 Shots as Supplies Increase
Health & Wellness  (tags: medicine, prevention, H1N1, vaccination, US, 1st daughter )

Katie
- 28 days ago - cnn.com
The first daughters have gotten it along with other children, and more residents around the nation may soon be able to get the H1N1 flu vaccine as health officials say more is on its way.
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Are Cutbacks on Surgeons Risking Patients' Lives?
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, surgeons, hospital, surgeon cutbacks, operations, surgical teams, surgical techs, assistant surgeon, teaching hospitals )

ON VACATI
- 29 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Do you know how many people are at the table with gloves on, when you have an operation? There's the surgeon and a scrub nurse, of course. A surgical tech may be there too, suctioning up those queasy fluids, holding the arm or leg we're working on....
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US Employees Face 'Shockingly Higher' Health Costs - Enrollment Time!
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, Healthcare, healthcare insurance, healthcare reform, high costs, insurance, illness, employers, employees, heathcare benefits, heath, insruance, healthcare enrollment time )

ON VACATI
- 36 days ago - money.cnn.com:80
As employees nationwide peruse their benefit options, experts say prepare for 'shockingly' higher costs. Starting in 2010, your employer is making sure that when it comes to paying for your health care, you're going to be sharing much more of the burden
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Resort Near Sedona Had Previous Sweat Lodge Incident
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, Arizona, Sedona, sweat lodge, Angel Valley Spiritual Retreat Center, James Arthur Ray, deaths, spiritual experiences, death risks, World Wealth Summit, San Diego, homicide investigation, coma, no permit, dehydration, kidney failure, sauna )

ON VACATI
- 40 days ago - google.com
The scene that unfolded outside a sweat lodge at a remote compound near Sedona was not the first time paramedics responded to one of James Arthur Ray's seminars at the Angel Valley Spiritual Retreat Center. 42 yr.old man in 2005!
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Top 10 Myths About Socialized Medicine
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, Healthcare, Socialized Medicine, Treatment )

Sophie
- 89 days ago - nursepractitionerschools.org
American healthcare is far greater than any government-run system, while others preach that our healthcare is the World's best. Here are look at some of the common myths Americans routinely tell each other about socialized medicine.
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Ted Kennedy's Real Legacy on Women's Health
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, Teddy Kennedy, senator Kennedy, legacy on Women's health, women's health, Natiional Institutes, of Health, biomedical research, women, minorities )

ON VACATI
- 90 days ago - politicsdaily.com
Kennedy also pushed for funds to be directed to the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research in 1993 and again in 2003. A provision in the 1993 NIH bill he co-authored was that women and minorities could not be excluded from that medical...
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Healthcare and Women's Equality Day Proclamation
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, Healthcare, Women's Equality Day, women's health, women's healthcare, benefits, insurance, women's rights, women's equality, equal access to medical resources )

ON VACATI
- 90 days ago - empowher.com
this special day reminds us that our work in securing equality is not yet finished. The decisions we make today about legislation on health reform will impact generations for years to come.
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Poet/Farmer Wendell Berry Tells USDA He's Willing to Go to Jail Over NAIS
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, NAIS, rights, civil liberties, US )

Karen
- 154 days ago - thebovine.wordpress.com
Here's evidence that Ontario raw milk crusader Michael Schmidt is not the only farmer willing to go to jail in support of people's right of access to healthy food. As I'm sure you've heard by now, the USDA has been holding listening sessions...
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Australia Braces for Possible 'Global Flu Epidemic'
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, flu, epidemic, global health, Australia, Mexico, US, world, diseases )

Past
- 211 days ago - abc.net.au
Health officials in Australia say they are on standby to implement procedures at the nation's borders if needed, to help guard against any outbreak of a new strain of swine flu.
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Mexican Swine Flu Deaths Raise Epidemic Fears; 8 Ill in U.S.
Health & Wellness  (tags: Mexico, US, Swine Flue, Outbreak, warning, illness, death, disease, protection, health )

Dee
- 214 days ago - usatoday.com
People in Mexico City wear surgical masks as they walk toward the entrance to the General Hospital there. Authorities are looking into whether an illness there that has sickened hundreds is the swine flu.
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Turn Off The Lights...The Party's Over!   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: cfl bulbs, incandescent light bulbs, US, congress, energy bill, mercury, landfill, hazardous, EPA, made in China )

Marion
- 408 days ago - youtube.com
Rep. Ted Poe speaks before Congress about the dangers of CFL bulbs, how expensive they are and how Anti-American it is to push this hazardous product onto the public. The facts are shocking!!
29 comments
America's Five Fattest (and Getting Fatter) States
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, health, us )

Liono
- 412 days ago - divinecaroline.com
The obesity epidemic in America has gotten worse in the last year, despite the many public service campaigns promoting physical activity and warning about the health risks posed by being overweight, according to a new study.
3 comments
2,000 Women Raped In US Military Last Year, Does Anyone Care?
Health & Wellness  (tags: raped, military, women, US )

Road
- 478 days ago - therealnews.com
Women are more likely to be raped by their own comrades in arms than to be killed by an enemy.. The military is doing nothing about it, at least as far as I can see. If your company had this deplorable record, it would be shut down today..
5 comments
A Blurry Outlook for LASIK?
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, . LASIK, eye surgery, top elective surgery, blurry vision, eye problems, eye procedures, Good Morning America, eyes, healthcare, risks, safety, warning )

ON VACATI
- 580 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Watch Good Morning America on Wednesday morning for the full report. No one has received full informed consent for LASIK," Burch said. "If anyone knew what this procedure really does to their eyes, they wouldn't have it."
7 comments
Drugs and Doctors May Be the Leading Cause of Death in U.S.   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: doctor, gun, alameda, ca, accident, police, crime, death, statistics, us, citizen, sales, medical, no, sex, cctv, video, shock )

Gregory
- 584 days ago - youtube.com
Doctors or guns? Which cause more accidental deaths? The answer is doctors! Statistics in 2007 do not seem to indicate it is getting any better either.
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