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Does Your Medicare Plan Offer Your Neighbor a Better Deal?
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, Medicare, health care plans, Florida, nonprescription drugs, universsal health care programs )

Kactus
- 2 days ago - bulletin.aarp.org
companies don't offer the same benefits in his hometown of Delray Beach, a Palm Beach County community, as they do in Miami, only about 50 miles away. He is furious. Read on....!!
Aspirin, Ibuprofen May Cut Your BREAST CANCER Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, breast cancer, breast cancer studies, aspirin, Ibuprofen, cancer risks, cancer preventions, NSAIDs, heart disease, heart problems, USA, UK )

Kactus
- 1 day ago - cnn.com
Women taking aspirin had 13% lower risk of breast cancer, study finds..ibuprofen had 21% lower risk. Study: 2.7 mil women in 38 separate studies. BUT...NSAIDs have been linked to risk of heart problems. More studies in the UK on this issue.
Can't Afford to Eat Healthy Anymore? Join the Rest of Us!
Health & Wellness  (tags: Economy, food prices, eating healthy, cheaper processed food, credit crunch, eating habits )

Kactus
- 1 day ago - haverhillecho.co.uk
Haverhill debt counselling charity has revealed that people's diets are suffering as they turn to cheaper processed foods in their bid to cope with the credit crunch; people's eating habits have changed because of the current financial problems...
U.S. Girls Percentage Getting HPV & Meningitis Vaccines
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, vaccines, young girls, HPV vaccine, Meningitis vaccine, genital warts, cervical cancer risks, teenage girls, at risk age-groups )

Kactus
- 1 day ago - reuters.com
Girls aged 13-17, rec'd. Gardasil vaccine last year to protect against the human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer & genital warts in young women and girls aged 9-26; 1/3 got meningitis vaccine, too.
ACORN Helps Launch $40 Million Health Care Campaign Nationwide
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, humans, protection, safety, society, treatment, children, drugs, family )

Susiebell
- 93 days ago - acorn.org
Washington, D.C. -- On Tuesday, July 8, 2008, ACORN, in partnership with Health Care for America Now, launched a new $40 million campaign to push for quality, affordable healthcare for every American.
Eggzactly What Does All That Stuff on the Carton Mean?
Health & Wellness  (tags: eggs, chickens, egg production, healthy eggs, egg cartons, product labeling, food )

Ombretta
- 22 days ago - nytimes.com
Eggs unscrambled: sizes, weights, marketing, and what kind should you buy? Become an informed consumer.
Fooling With Food: Does Adding Nutrients Really Help?
Health & Wellness  (tags: neutraceuticals, food engineering, health benefits, fortified food, nutritional supplements )

Ombretta
- 23 days ago - nytimes.com
Boosting food with extra and often unrelated nutrients is the big thing now. Fish oil in orange juice, powdered vegetables in chocolate - will we actually reap health benefits from foods into which manufacturers are adding neutraceuticals?
Find Out What Drugs the FDA Is Investigating
Health & Wellness  (tags: FDA, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical industry, Food & Drug Administrations, prescription drugs, drug investigation )

Ombretta
- 34 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The FDA is initiating quarterly listings of pharmaceuticals it's investigating. There will be a list every three months on the FDA website. Of course, it will give us only partial info so as not to tick off Big Pharma, but it's probably worth checking.
Neem to Indians, the Divine Tree or Nature's Drugstore, Natural Treatment for Their
Health & Wellness  (tags: )

Scott
- 35 days ago - hubpages.com
Natural treatment for "SKIN CARE" complaints,the most effective forms of dental care in traditional medicines,treat infected eyes,Anticancer effects of ethanolic neem leaf extract on prostate cancer,ETC. So the FDA, will want to ban it, for your own good
Long-Term Medical Consequences Tied to Food-Borne Pathogens
Health & Wellness  (tags: food poisoning, e.coli, salmonella, medical research, food safety, disease )

Ombretta
- 36 days ago - washingtonpost.com
E. coli, campylobacter, salmonella & other pathogens cause misery in their acute stages, but medical research is now linking food-borne pathogens to long-term afflictions with serious consequences that surface long after the acute stage has subsided.
 
 
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