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How Pot, Cocaine, and Hunger Intersect in the Brain
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, Body-Mind-Spirit, diet, drugs, ethics, government, healthcare, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, warning )

Kit
- 159 days ago - discovermagazine.com
Researchers are studying the role that the endocannabinoid system plays in cravings, and using their findings to try to control our excesses. Just in case: http://discovermagazine.com/2011/nov/18-how-pot-co caine-hunger-intersect-in-brain
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Sebelius Overrules FDA Decision to Widen Access to Morning-After Pill
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, children, disease, drugs, family, healthcare, medicine, prevention, research, society, science, treatment )

Kit
- 170 days ago - truth-out.org
Interesting that men have virtually unlimited access to "stimulus" pills and condoms and yet women are stopped and blocked from decisions about their own bodies.
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Hot-Spotting: It's How, Not How Much
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, children, disease, dollars saved, drugs, healthcare, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, safety, society )

Kit
- 178 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Let's take a health care example. Imagine if you could identify a small number of patients who end up eating up most health care dollars. Let's say you could focus resources just on them, improve their health outcomes, while also cutting the overall-->
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Asthma for Profit?
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, children, drugs, ethics, family, government, healthcare, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, prevention, research, risks, safety, treatment, warning )

Sheldon
- 179 days ago - care2.com
... "My son was admitted into the care of Lehigh of Lehigh Valley Hospital on 11/1/11 for a severe asthma attack and was set to be release on 11/8/11 because he had a really good recovery. On November 7th, the night before his release I disagreed" ...
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America Conned: Psycho Pharma Drug Pushing Empire Under Fire
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, babies, Body-Mind-Spirit, children, death, drugs, ethics, government, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, nutrition, prevention, research, risks, study, treatment, warning )

Kenneth
- 187 days ago - naturalnews.com
Is America truly stricken with widespread mental illness? Do tens of millions need mind-altering drugs? A flurry of media articles lead readers to a realization that Big Pharma and the "mental health" industry have deceived Americans on a grand scale .
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F.D.A. Revokes Approval of Avastin as Breast Cancer Drug
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, disease, drugs, FDA, healthcare, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, warning )

Kit
- 188 days ago - nytimes.com
Fascinating look at the background intricacies of workings of the FDA and final decisions. The commissioner, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, said that the drug was not helping breast cancer patients to live longer or control their tumors, but did expose-->
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FDA Pulls Approval Of Avastin For Breast Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: Avastin, breast cancer, safety, women's health, FDA, protection, research, medicine, news, government, health, healthcare, disease, environment, drugs, treatment, study, prevention, women, news )

Cal
- 189 days ago - npr.org
After more than a year of deliberations and an unprecedented public hearing in June, the agency has revoked approval of the biotech blockbuster Avastin, a medicine that chokes off the blood supply to various cancer cells, as a treatment for metastatic bre
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Tear Drops May Rival Blood Drops in Testing Blood Sugar for Diabetes
Health & Wellness  (tags: diabetes, blood, tears, AlternativeMed, children, disease, ethics, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, news, protection, research, safety, science, study )

Lindsey
- 191 days ago - happynews.com
Scientists are reporting development and successful laboratory testing of an electrochemical sensor device that has the potential to measure blood sugar levels from tears instead of blood -- an advance that could save the world's 350 million diabetes patie
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Cure-High-Blood-Pressure-Save- Millions-Lives-Year.
Health & Wellness  (tags: HBP, health, interesting, medicine, prevention, research, treatment, study, research, protection, prevention, medicine, study, treatment )

Carrie
- 207 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A cure for high blood pressure that could save millions of lives every year appears to be just around the corner. Researchers believe they may be able to control production of an enzyme that can trigger the condition.
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Message From the Food Industry: Pesticides Are Good for You . . .
Health & Wellness  (tags: pesticides, diet, safety, nutrition, protection, medicine, healthcare )

Organic
- 216 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
An industry front group, the International Food and Information Council (IFIC), funded and manned by PepsiCo, General Mills, Kraft, Monsanto, Coca Cola and others, is hiring experts to downplay the risks of chemicals, dyes and pesticides in our foods.
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Brazil Active in Effort to Widen Global Access to Medicines
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, health, world, news, GoodNews, goodnews, health, healthcare, Body-Mind-Spirit, drugs, medicine, illness, prevention, humans )

Cal
- 218 days ago - ipsnews.net
Brazil is keen to take part in the international effort to expand access to medicines and to produce its own drugs, and will start by becoming the world supplier of medicines to treat Chagas disease.
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Grocery Stores Give Food Discounts to Customers Who Agree to Receive Flu Shot Vaccines
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, death, ethics, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, prevention, protection, children, drugs, medicine, risks, safety, warning )

Henriette
- 221 days ago - naturalnews.com
This seems to be in the USA for now! Please protect yourselves from this enticing gimmick to lure you into this false security of only trying to help! So many like the elderly are vulnerable & may fall for this! Warn any one you know on this.
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Tell the FDA to Label Genetically Modified Foods! SIGN!
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, labels, children, diet, ethics, food, health, government, medicine, warning, safety, prevention )

Lindsey
- 225 days ago - act.credoaction.com
An estimated 80% of processed foods sold in the U.S. contain genetically modified organisms.1 Yet GMO foods are totally unlabeled as such.
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74% of American Women Would Leave the US for IVF
Health & Wellness  (tags: Body-Mind-Spirit, babies, family, health, humans, interesting, medicine, news, research, science, study, women, society, healthcare, protection, prevention )

Club
- 227 days ago - clubfemina.com
A recent survey conducted by Ipsos Reid to gauge American women's attitudes towards In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) has found that 74% would travel outside the US for treatment if success rates were higher and treatment costs were lower.
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Raw Milk Demand Grows; More Florida Farms Sell It as Pet Food
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, health, diet, humans, babies, disease, ethics, healthcare, nutrition, food, family, medicine, safety, Body-Mind-Spirit, interesting )

Henriette
- 231 days ago - sun-sentinel.com
I personally do not drink milk as I do not care for the taste, but if I did, raw is the BEST! Wonderful to see more are going back to the natural consumption if they are to drink it in any form. There is also a place to vote on the site, so please do.
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