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Health & Wellness News tagged with news

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
8 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.
7 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 .....
23 comments
Anti-Choice "Egg-as-Person" Initiatives Threaten the Rights Of Women
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, government, protection, healthcare, news )

Tierney
- 8 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.
16 comments
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
- 8 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.
9 comments
Swine Flu Vaccine Line: Wait, Inhale, Repeat
Health & Wellness  (tags: News, swine flu, vaccine, report )

Katie
- 9 days ago - blogs.wsj.com
The flu had been rampaging through our kids' school for weeks -- some days, their classes were less than half-full -- and we hadn't been able to find any pediatricians or pharmacies with the H1N1 vaccine in our suburban Denver community.
9 comments
Electrovestibulography - New Technique To Diagnose Mental Illness
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, illness, news, treatment, science, mental, depression )

FatJ
- 11 days ago - todaymedic.com
More great news to follow as a recent report has revealed that mental illness or problems like schizophrenia and depression could be easily diagnosed by plugging some electrode into the person's ear ......
8 comments
How Did Your Representative Vote on Health Care? Find Out and Contact Them.
Health & Wellness  (tags: family, healthcare, humans, news, medicine )

Ginger
- 12 days ago - salsa.wiredforchange.com
The House of Representatives has passed their historic health reform legislation, the first time in our country's history that a comprehensive health care bill has passed the House. How did your Representative vote on this historic day?
2 comments
"Ian's Law" Makes It To Albany
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, illness, humans, treatment, law, news, medicine )

Cal
- 14 days ago - rochesterhomepage.net
"Ian's Law" would make it illegal for insurance companies to drop entire lines of insurance as a pretext for denying coverage to individuals. The bill is named after 37-year-old Ian Pearl, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and needs around the clock car
3 comments
Federal Grant Goes to Help Brain-Injury Patients
Health & Wellness  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, healthcare, medicine, news, government )

Kat
- 15 days ago - daily-times.com
FARMINGTON -- More American Indians with traumatic brain injuries can expect assistance finding services following the announcement of a $20,000 grant to the Native American Disability Law Centers in Farmington and Gallup. The grant, announced by U.S...
11 comments
Side Effect of Plastic: Aggressive Kids
Health & Wellness  (tags: babies, children, diet, disease, family, food, government, health, humans, illness, nutrition, news, protection, research, society, warning )

Daphna
- 19 days ago - enn.com
Plastics containing Bisphenol-A have been linked to child misbehavior Yes we know, everything causes cancer, nothing is safe for our kids, a lot of paranoia, right? Sometimes these concerns are for real. A chemical of significant
4 comments
Victory: South Africa Rejects GM Potato
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs. genetically modified, potatoes, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, health, food, government, science, news, interesting, ethics, diet )

Elena
- 30 days ago - allafrica.com
New Victory for the Potato! October 2009: South Africa's GM body, the Executive Council (EC), has rejected attempts by the Agriculture Research Council (ARC) to bring GM potatoes onto the market.
7 comments
Take Action- Abortion Records Online Are None of Our Business!
Health & Wellness  (tags: petiton, women, treatment, protection, illness, interesting, healthcare, family, news, humans, ethics )

Daphna
- 31 days ago - change.org
In case you missed this story yesterday, yes it's true: Republicans in the state of Oklahoma are trying to mandate the collection and online publication of abortion medical records. Here's a list of some of the items that will be published ON
10 comments
Mercury Poisoning Concealed
Health & Wellness  (tags: investigation, health, government, disease, family, safety, science, risks, society, research, humans, illness, interesting, news )

Elena
- 32 days ago - manitobawildlands.org
A Japanese publication about methyl mercury poisoning exposes former Canada Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau blocking publication of studies about mercury problem at Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario
6 comments
AI Helps Doctors Diagnose Deadly Conditions
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, research, disease, humans, study, interesting, news )

Maria
- 38 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Two new artificial intelligence programs are helping doctors diagnose life-threatening heart infections and treat open wounds. The research could help save hospitals millions of dollars a year in needless tests and help save patients lives
2 comments
 
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