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Tell Your Senators to Extend Unemployment Insurance Benefits NOW - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, protection, medicine, humans, illness, healthcare, health, government, ethics, abuse )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Every day, unemployment benefits are running out for thousands of jobless workers. This week, the Senate is considering a bill that would extend these vital benefits for 14 weeks in every state, and an additional 6 weeks in states with high rates of unemp
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A TALE OF HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY HORROR: I Am Not a Dog
Health & Wellness  (tags: media, healthcare, politics, abuse, crime, healthcare, health, illness, treatment, warning )

Cal
- 17 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
I am not a "dog." That's what health insurance executives called me because I have a disease. I'm also not a "trainwreck," another term they used for members like me. l
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UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Helmsley Makes $57,000 An Hour (VIDEO)   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, americans, insurance, health, prevention, protection, disease, illness, medicine, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, greed, money, society, politics, economy, consumers, business, abuse, foreclosures, usa )

Tom
- 35 days ago - youtube.com
The Health Care for America Now (HCAN) "Sick of It" anti-insurance campaign focuses on rich health insurance CEOs making millions and living in luxury while middle class families are struggling to pay medical bills, going bankrupt, and losing their homes.
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GAO Report: Millions in Fraud, Drug Abuse Clogs Medicaid
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, abuse, government, humans, news, ethics )

Cal
- 39 days ago - usatoday.com
As Congress debates the government's role in health care, a report out Wednesday finds that state and federal officials failed to detect millions of dollars in Medicaid prescription drug abuse.
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Mother's Suicide Pleas 'Ignored'
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, mental health, depression, suicide, bullying, prevention, protection, safety, abuse )

Dee
- 43 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A coroner said the deaths of a mother and daughter after years of bullying could have been prevented if the authorities had taken them seriously.
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Wendell Potter: Public Option Essential, Baucus Plan An "Absolute Gift" To Health Insurance Industry (VIDEO)
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, medicine, illness, disease, treatment, safety, protection, prevention, insurance, government, corruption, dishonesty, congress, abuse, americans, republicans, democrats, lies, cover-up, society, culture, rights, freedoms, politics )

Tom
- 53 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Whistleblower Wendell Potter warned that if Congress "fails to create a public insurance option to compete with private insurers, the bill it sends to the president might as well be called the Insurance Industry Profit Protection and Enhancement Act."
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Internet Addiction Center Opens Near Microsoft HQ
Health & Wellness  (tags: technology, computer, computers, discovery, humans, internet, safety, health, humans, prevention, protection, society, treatment, abuse, ethics )

Suzybell
- 64 days ago - kdka.com
First Out-Patient Program Of Its Kind To Open In U.S. Helps Wean Clients From Pathological Computer Use.Addicts Pay $14,000 For 45-Day Treatment To Stop Obsessive Use Of Video Games, Texting, Facebook.Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing
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NHS Apologises Over Patient Letter
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, medicine, protection, risks, safety, treatment, warning, ethics, death, environment, abuse )

Suzybell
- 69 days ago - metro.co.uk
The NHS has apologized after writing to a dead man to say sorry for leaving him to die in agony three-and-a-half-years after he died. Tom Milner, 76, was not given his prescribed pain-relieving morphine for terminal leukemia in his last two days, his fami
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Anorexia - It's Terrifying!
Health & Wellness  (tags: anorexia, diet, healthcare, health, interesting, research, humans, nutrition, risks, safety, warning, women, abuse, food )

Ivan
- 79 days ago - wtf.thebizzare.com
Excellent anti-ad for anorexia, it would be great if such ads were shown more often. Especially for young girls wishing to be extremely thin.
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Obesity Remains No. 1 Health Problem for Kids in 2009
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, Body-Mind-Spirit, diet, children, disease, exercise, family, food, health, healthcare, treatment, warning, women, research, safety, science, society, study, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, ris )

Club
- 80 days ago - healthinformer.net
Public concern about childhood obesity is on the rise and it continues to outrank all other health problems as the No. 1 concern for children in the United States.
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Dont Let Them See You Sweat This Summer
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, Body-Mind-Spirit, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, treatment, warning, women, research, safety, science, society, study, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, risks, health, healthcare, humans, exerc )

Club
- 86 days ago - healthinformer.net
For the millions of Americans suffering from hyperhidrosis, excessive sweating, the body's mechanism for cooling itself is overactive and can cause sweat production that is up to four or five times more than normal. While some people may only think about
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Obama Gives Powerful Drug Lobby a Seat at Healthcare Table
Health & Wellness  (tags: drug, lobby, republican, Billy, Tauzin, medicare, healthcare, health, disease, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, safety, risks, treatment, obama, government, politics, corruption, dishonesty, cover-up, americans, abuse, lies )

Tom
- 95 days ago - google.com
Barack Obama once lambasted drug companies and the influence they wield in Washington. The drug industry's chief lobbyist is former Republican Louisiana Congressman Billy Tauzin, who fought to prevent Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices.
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US Govt Calls for Thousands of Volunteers to Test Swine Flu Vaccine
Health & Wellness  (tags: death, abuse, disease, drugs, ethics, family, government, health, healthcare, illness, medicine, risks, safety, science, society, treatment, research )

Cowboss
- 108 days ago - chealth.canoe.ca
WASHINGTON - The race is on: The government and vaccine makers are seeking thousands of volunteers, from babies to the elderly, to roll up their sleeves for the first swine flu shots - to test whether a new vaccine really will protect against this novel v
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Lawyer: Police Seek Jackson Manslaughter Link
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, abuse, health, interesting, medicine, risks, death )

Lone
- 108 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Dozens of police and federal agents descended on the Houston clinic of Michael Jackson's doctor Wednesday in what his
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Case of 555-Pound Boy Attracts National Attention
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, food, abuse, children, prevention, risks, safety, diet )

Lone
- 108 days ago - news.aol.com
The case of a 555-pound South Carolina teenager has legal and health experts throughout the country considering whether child obesity is a form of child abuse, according to a report in USA Today.
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