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Health & Wellness News tagged with healthcare

MYTHBUSTERS: Cold Weather Won't Make You Sick
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, EDUCATION, research, humans, disease, investigation, family, protection, news, study, prevention )

Cal
- 1 day 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
- 1 day 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
- 2 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
- 2 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
- 3 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
- 3 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
- 3 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
- 3 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
- 4 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
2 comments
NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH: Taking Preventive Measures
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Amreican health, native americans, healthcare, health, prevention, diet, news )

Cal
- 4 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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WHO Report Highlights Gender Disparities, Cites AIDS as Leading Cause of Women's Deaths
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, disease, health, risks, WHO, HIV, healthcare )

Tierney
- 5 days ago - nationalpartnership.org
November 11, 2009 -- Women around the world are "denied a chance to develop their full human potential" because of a lack of essential health care throughout their lives, according to a World Health Organization report released Monday, Reuters report
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Did These Democrats Forget What Happens When Women Are Denied Access to Abortion?Please Take Action!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, safety, risks, healthcare, health, government )

Tierney
- 5 days ago - act.credoaction.com
Sign this petition and send a coat hanger to the 20 formerly pro-choice Democrats -- all men -- who voted to pass the Stupak Amendment.
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Give Victims of Childhood Cancer and Leukemia Hope This Holiday Season - The Petition Site
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, Leukemia, disease, research, treatment, pediatric cancer, St. Jude, acute myeloid leukemia, children, protection, safety, health, healthcare )

Kelli
- 5 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
As the 2009 holiday season approaches, pledge to give the greatest gift of all - hope for children like Braden with cancer and other deadly diseases! Pledge to participate in the sixth annual Thanks and Giving® campaign and to share this pledge
10 comments
New Cancer Treatment Breakthrough Protect Healthy Cells From Radiotherapy
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, cancer, radiotherapy, illness, disease, research, science, news )

FatJ
- 7 days ago - todaymedic.com
Researchers are working on a new form of cancer treatment that will most likely become available within 5 years. The treatment works on healthy cells by modifying the function of gene to make the cells immune from huge dose of radiation .....
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Anti-Choice "Egg-as-Person" Initiatives Threaten the Rights Of Women
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, government, protection, healthcare, news )

Tierney
- 7 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
Eight months pregnant, confused and suffering psychological disorders, Jessica Clyburn jumped from a fifth story window in South Carolina. According to the media, she had attempted unsuccessfully to commit suicide.
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