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Local Rescuer in the Fight of His Life
Offbeat  (tags: rescuer, health, healthcare, donations, animals, kidney transplants )

Natalie
- 165 days ago - examiner.com
Kenny Waymire, a longtime animal rescuer and resident of Spring, Texas, has a difficult road ahead of him. In 1997 it was discovered that Kenny had Membranous glomerulonephritis, a disorder of the kidney. With treatment,
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Add Your Comment to This Debate: Should Health Insurance Be Mandatory?
Offbeat  (tags: health care, healthcare, Health Care Reform, health insurance, mandates, New York Times )

Claudia
- 186 days ago - roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com
Is a broad mandate that Americans have medical insurance a workable way to begin health care reform? Would taking a bolder step be more efficient or more disruptive? The NYT is asking for your input.
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6 Old Wives' Tales Busted!--Wise Answers to Old Wives' Tales
Offbeat  (tags: safety, society, study, treatment, prevention, women, research, interesting, healthcare, health, environment, ethics, food, Body-Mind-Spirit, culture, unusual, off-beat, bizarre, odd, culture )

Suzybell
- 233 days ago - prevention.com
Can cracking your knuckles cause arthritis? Does reading in low light hurt your eyes? When you drop food on the floor, can you eat it if you follow the "5-second rule?" We asked the experts to give us the facts behind the most popular (and persistent) he
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Bill Maher Takes Aim at the Economic Meltdown [Intelligent Comedian]
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, americans, bushadministration, cheney, congress, constitution, corruption, cover-up, crime, democrats, dishonesty, economy, ethics, government, healthcare, housing, iraq, lies, media, news, obama, politics, republicans, military, socialsecurity, us )

Kathleen
- 283 days ago - rollingstone.com
After teeing off on George W. Bush (a man Bill Maher calls "a thundering doofus") for the past eight years, the host of Real Time With Bill Maher needs a new comic foil. He tells us in our new issue that he'll manage to mine comedy from Barack Obama...
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Do You Snake After Every Meal?
Offbeat  (tags: odd, off-beat, bizarre, food, NOT ME, culture, design, unusual, interesting, health, society, healthcare, prevention, risks, treatment, AlternativeMed )

Suzybell
- 302 days ago - blogs.reuters.com
I know you're an expert on oral hygiene. I brush during every meal, floss all day at my desk and eat only carrots, but I still get cavities. What can I do?How often to you snake?I beg your pardon?I'm asking how often you put a live snake in your mouth to
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Patient's Insurance Canceled Hours Before Life-Saving Brain Operation
Offbeat  (tags: healthcare, health, ethics, unusual )

Marty
- 510 days ago - tampabays10.com
Her insurance company, Aetna. They approved the operation 15 minutes too late. Caitlin lost the operating room to another patient and had to be rescheduled. Then, the company came back with an even bigger shocker, they would not cover her brain surgery
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Cuba to Provide Free Sex-Change
Offbeat  (tags: gayrights, healthcare, ethics, treatment, science, interesting )

Marty
- 549 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Cuba has authorised sex-change operations and will offer them free to qualifying citizens, officials say.
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Beware of Lemons Slices in Your Drinks When Dining Out!
Offbeat  (tags: americans, healthcare, news, business, consumers, environment, humans, society, safety, environment, pets, protection, death, diet, disease, food, health, illness, medicine, nutrition, prevention, research, safety, science, treatment, warning, investigati )

Susan
- 640 days ago - articles.mercola.com
Two out of every three restaurant lemon wedges in a study were covered in disease-causing bacteria -- incl. fecal bacteria. A tot. of 25 dif,potentially dangerous, microorganisms were discovered.FYI, used to be a cert. restaur.inspector,but 2/3 ratio...!
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Chronic Pain Harms The Brain
Offbeat  (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, disease, illness, humans, healthcare, health, medicine, research, science, treatment, discovery, interesting, health, science, off-beat )

Susan
- 672 days ago - sciencedaily.com
People with unrelenting pain are often depressed, anxious and have difficulty making simple decisions. Here's the reason why.
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Pick a Crisis,Disaster Earthquake, Human Rights Problems This Map Shows All
Offbeat  (tags: destruction, habitat, Sustainabililty, trees, wildlife, world, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', terrorism, unitednations, women, habitat, humans, healthcare, government, interesting )

Michael
- 715 days ago - alertnet.org
The map is an interactive map of crisis events occurring thoughou the world. Worth looking at and interaacting with. Like a G_____Map on steriods.
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Cannabis Coffee Shop
Offbeat  (tags: bush, business, ecosystems, government, greenhousegases, politics, americans, bush, bushadministration, cover-up, dishonesty, healthcare, healthcare, lies, democrats, republicans, 2008, business, commercial, consumers, corporation, dishonesty, economy, fa )

Lars
- 797 days ago - en.wikipedia.org
I think the U.S. could benefit from doing this, think of the taxes collected! A coffeeshop in the Netherlands is a place where the sale of cannabis (marijuana) for personal consumption by the public is tolerated by the local authorities.
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Vaccines, Chronic Disease, Autism and Biological Warfare.
Offbeat  (tags: vaccinations, vaccines, measles, complications, doctors, diseasealert, children, babies, death, disease, family, health, healthcare, illness, medicine, protection, risk, risks, safety, toxins, cancer )

Alf
- 809 days ago - healthwisdom.org
Its all here, indisputable truth that vaccination is a fraud, is dangerous, is causing a host of health problems and deaths and is only promoted because it is the pharmaceuticals biggest money spinner.
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How Popular Movements Can Confront Corporate Power and Win
Offbeat  (tags: conservation, habitatdestruction, pollution, Sustainabililty, corruption, ethics, corporation, greenbuilding, SustainableDevelopment, Sustainabililty, activists, habitat, protection, healthcare, environment )

Abbe
- 827 days ago - alternet.org
This overview explains how to put the conscience back in corporations and save the world. At the end is a link for a free download with more specifics. Our hearts are in the right place. Let's join hands and do it.
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Pa. Inmate Sues County Prison, Saying She Was Forced to Have Baby Alone in Her Cell
Offbeat  (tags: ethics, government, healthcare, abuse, babies, child, ethics, health, illness, law, safety, women, woman, bizarre, children, crime, ethics, health, law )

Echo
- 865 days ago - courttv.com
Pennsylvania inmate Shakira Staten says she was left alone screaming in her cell for four hours while she went into labor and gave birth to her daughter.
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