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Organized Crime's New Target: Medicare and Medicaid
Society & Culture  (tags: crime, health, society, violence, culture, ethics )

Cal
- 15 days ago - cnn.com
Experienced in running drug, prostitution and gambling rings, crime groups of various ethnicities and nationalities are learning it's safer and potentially more profitable to file fraudulent claims with the federal Medicare program and state-run Medicaid
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We Cannot Leave People to Freeze
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, culture, death, family, ethics, environment, humans, health, usa, sadness, society, safety, news )

Gorilly
- 22 days ago - nativeprogress.org
Guys we really need some real help on this one... Indian tribesmen are having to burn clothes to stay warm!!!!!!!!!!
22 comments
What Airlines Don't Want You to Know
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, society, culture, ethics, interesting, news, health, travel, world )

Cal
- 51 days ago - news.com.au
Flight attendants reveal airline secrets
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Bringing Movie Magic to Hospitalized Children
Society & Culture  (tags: children, culture, humans, GoodNews, health )

MADARTIST
- 52 days ago - lollipoptheater.org
Fifty hospitals, nationwide, show new movies to ill children while they are being hospitalized. What an inspiring thing to do. Please read the history and about us links for more information...
29 comments
Tabitha Mullings Her Lost Hands, Legs to Illness, Then Lost Prostheses to Thief
Society & Culture  (tags: sicko, stolen, hands, women, health, crime, sadness )

Lone
- 55 days ago - nydailynews.com
It's been a long, hard year for Tabitha Mullings: She lost her hands - and then she lost them again.
14 comments
Sick for Profit
Society & Culture  (tags: corruption, death, ethics, humans, health, politics, religion )

Robert
- 64 days ago - sickforprofit.com
Stephen J. Hemsley CEO, United Health Care - Total Value of Unexercised Stock Options (Forbes) $744,232,068
19 comments
Help Fight World Hunger ! TAKE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, health, hunger, world, children, protection, environment )

Cher
- 76 days ago - animalrights.change.org
I often wonder how many people are 'genuinely' concerned about world hunger. One only needs to turn on the television, pick up a newspaper or magazine to stumble across a plea to contribute money to non-profit or religious-affiliated organizations
9 comments
Sign the Healthy School Lunch Petition ! TAKE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: kids, school, healthy, lunches, environment, protection, health )

Cher
- 77 days ago - change.org
Parents and other concerned adults, now is your chance to tell Congress that students across the country deserve healthy foods--more vegetables, fruits, vegetarian foods, and healthful nondairy beverages. Sign the petition below and join the healthy
8 comments
When a Parent Goes to War, Military Kids Grow Up Fa
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, children, military, society, culture, family, world, usa, health, child, americans )

Cal
- 78 days ago - cnn.com
Children of parents deployed to wars overseas assume adult responsibilities Deployments cause stress but also force teens to become more
1 comment
OHSU's R. Dale Walker Honored as 2009 Indian Physician of the Year
Society & Culture  (tags: culture, Native American, doctor, award, GoodNews, health )

Lone
- 80 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
PORTLAND, Ore. - R. Dale Walker, M.D., director of the One Sky Center and Center for American Indian Health Education and Research at Oregon Health & Science University, has been named the 2009 Indian Physician of the Year.
2 comments
Urge Your Representative To Co-Sponsor H.R. 2835: The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act ! TAKE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: medical marijuana, protection act, humans, environment, government, society, health )

Cher
- 81 days ago - change.org
Why is the Justice Department still using Bush-era tactics to go after medical marijuana providers when, as a presidential candidate, Obama declared medical marijuana raids a waste of federal resources? Are you as outraged as I am? Ask Congress to end
11 comments
Kowtowing to Monsanto Still Leaves a Nasty Aftertaste
Society & Culture  (tags: activists, children, crime, dishonesty, ethics, government, health, humans, rights, sadness, society, gmos )

Cowboss
- 82 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Eat GM: "Better than starving to death!" It is not the most persuasive slogan in the history of food advertising. Nor, with this as his pitch, is Hilary Benn, the environment minister, ever likely to compete, as a twinkly salesman of repulsive treats, wit
15 comments
FACT Petitions to End Poultry Litter as Cattle Feed
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, corruption, crime, culture, death, dishonesty, education, ethics, government, humans, health, law, media, safety, society, feces, poultry, livestock )

Cowboss
- 84 days ago - thedairysite.com
Animal welfare organisation, Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT), is petitioning the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to ban the use of poultry litter as a cattle feed because of the health risks. To curb the serious health risks caused by the pr
23 comments
Second Ashland Death From Rare Brain Disease Gains Attention
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, americans, corruption, death, crime, education, dishonesty, ethics, family, government, health, humans, obituary, politics, sadness, society )

Cowboss
- 88 days ago - dailytidings.com
A second Ashland musician has died of Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare degenerative brain disorder that affects one in 1 million people per year worldwide. Jazz pianist Robin Lawson, 70, died Sunday, seven weeks after the disease claimed choir leader D
39 comments
Sex Bans in Nursing Homes
Society & Culture  (tags: sex, kissing, petting, bans, privacy, society, culture, americans, adults, elderly, old, people, nursing, homes, rights, freedoms, health, investigation, abuse, well-being )

Tom
- 96 days ago - latimes.com
A 2007 University of Chicago survey, "A Study of Sexuality and Health Among Older Adults in the United States," concluded that old people are as likely to be sexually active as the young, and well into their 70s and 80s. But not in nursing homes.
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