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House OKs Historic Health Care Overahaul, With One GOP Vote
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, passed, medicine, humans, society, protection )

Lone
- 4 hours ago - mcclatchydc.com
WASHINGTON -- By David Lightman McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON _ The House of Representatives Saturday passed, by a vote of 220 to 215, historic health care legislation that would require virtually all Americans to obtain health
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Urge Reps to Support Health Care Reform That Includes Indian Health Care Improvement Act- Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, ethics, family, government, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, society )

Daphna
- 3 days ago - capwiz.com
Despite the promises made to Indian nations by the United States government, Indian health care remains inadequate and inaccessible. The Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA), the legislative foundation of the U.S. government's trust responsibility
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Scientists Claim Junk Food Is as Addictive as Heroin
Health & Wellness  (tags: junk, food, heroin, addiction, drugs, obesity, health, healthcare, humans, research, warning, risks, illness, science, study, medicine, prevention, interesting, disease, diet, investigation, society, government, children, nutrition, family )

Tom
- 6 days ago - grist.org
Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings."
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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
- 6 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
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Getting Enough Sleep? They Aren't in West Virginia
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, interesting, safety, study, sleeplessness, society, research )

Cal
- 8 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessnes
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H1N1 Families Face Financial Challenges
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, society, healthcare, americans, healthcare, illness, children, healthcare )

Cal
- 8 days ago - cbsnews.com
Parents of Children Who Were Seriously Sick Tackle Massive Hospital Bills and Possible Insurance Caps
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People With Disabilities Need Your Help-Take Action!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, humans, medicine, protection, society, treatment )

Tierney
- 9 days ago - socialentrepreneurship.change.org
In New York State, where I live, State funding programs for people with developmental and other disabilities are facing a 10% midyear cut. Due to the greed of many in the financial institutions, health insurance companies, fossil fuel companies and telec
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"Some Can't Go Home to Recover From Flu" --H1N1 Vaccinations in Canada
Health & Wellness  (tags: society, rights, healthcare, disease, care )

Janet
- 10 days ago - thechronicleherald.ca
The homeless, the downtrodden, the drug-addicted,& healthcare workers are the first to be vaccinated for H1N1 ['swine'] flu virus."If somebody who's homeless gets sick, where do they recover for 3 or 4 days if they don't end up in hospital?" Crowe asks .
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The Farmer-Veteran Coalition. A Modern Swords to Ploughshares
Health & Wellness  (tags: society, humans, food, health, environment, interesting, Body-Mind-Spirit, diet, exercise )

Daphna
- 17 days ago - treehugger.com
Just like this heartwarming story -- about the Farmer-Veteran Coalition -- found on the WorldWatch blog, The coalition wants to match hard working farmers with returning Iraq and Afghanistan military veterans, so that they might help each other heal both
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Top 10 Myths About the Brain
Health & Wellness  (tags: brain, study, society, protection, medicine, humans, nutrition, illness, health, food, family, environment )

Daphna
- 17 days ago - health.howstuffworks.com
The brain is one of the most amazing organs in the human body. It controls our central nervous system, keeping us walking, talking, breathing and thinking. The brain is also incredibly complex, comprising around 100 billion neurons. There's so much going
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Being a Woman Is Not a Pre-Existing Condition! Take Action! - VIDEO
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, society, reform, ethics, government, health )

Tierney
- 18 days ago - awomanisnotapreexistingcondition.com
Demand Health Care Reform Now!
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Mercury Poisoning Concealed
Health & Wellness  (tags: investigation, health, government, disease, family, safety, science, risks, society, research, humans, illness, interesting, news )

Elena
- 20 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
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Sticker Shock at the Supermarket: Food Prices Poised to Rise
Health & Wellness  (tags: nutrition, food prices, society, hunger, health )

Lone
- 23 days ago - dailyfinance.com
If there's any silver lining to a recession -- albeit a thin one -- it's that consumer prices typically go down. Make no mistake, deflation is a sign of a sick economy, but at least the net effect of cheaper prices for the basic necessities -- food,
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Should Americans Banish the Burger?
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, healthcare, health, humans, prevention, interesting, society, protection, food )

Cal
- 25 days ago - cnn.com
On Monday night's "Larry King Live," a wide range of guests joined an in-depth and spirited debate to answer this question: Should meat, and most specifically hamburgers, be a part of the American diet?
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Is Positive Thinking Destroying America?
Health & Wellness  (tags: How the Relentless Promotion, of PositiveThinking, Has Undermined America. warning, society, interesting? )

David
- 26 days ago - alternet.org
A plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis. It's believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires, by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist???
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