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Miami Visitor Dies After Hotel Filters Chlorine From Water
Health & Wellness  (tags: death, disease, environment, safety, science )

Melva
- 7 days ago - mcclatchydc.com
A foreign visitor has died and at least two other people have become sick after staying at a downtown Miami luxury hotel, and health officials are blaming an unusual type of pneumonia called Legionnaire's Disease.
'World Ready For Women, Men To Legally Buy Sex'
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, humans, healthcare, health, medicine, prevention, protection, risks, safety, treatment, warning, women, illness )

Kim
- 11 days ago - sefermpost.com
Brothel owner to hire first legal male prostitutes within a month, especially that health officials have approved a way to test men for infectious diseases
Blood Pressure Drug Helps Relieve Veterans' Nightmares
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, medicine, treatment, war damage )

Melva
- 11 days ago - mcclatchydc.com
Thousands of veterans who fought in conflicts ranging from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan are taking prazosin for trauma-related nightmares. Its nighttime use started at the Seattle VA hospital and has spread across the country.
US Kids Represent Psychiatric Drug Goldmine
Health & Wellness  (tags: culture, society, mental illnes drugs, treatment )

Melva
- 12 days ago - truthout.org
Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs.
NIH Authorizes Use of First Human Embryonic Stem Cells Under New Policy
Health & Wellness  (tags: obama, healthcare, disease, research, science, cures )

Melva
- 23 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists under a new policy designed to dramatically expand government support for one of the most promising but also most contentiou
Insurance Price-Fixing
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, politics, bribery, self-serving & corporate lies )

Melva
- 31 days ago - smirkingchimp.com
If any senator threatens to kill the healthcare bill unless the public option is removed, whatever that senator was given for voting to consider the healthcare bill should be removed from the bill. Meanwhile, the proposal to repeal the antitrust should be
Federal Task Force Makes Radical Change in Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, prevention, protection, safety, warning )

Melva
- 39 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Women in their 40s should stop routinely getting annual mammograms, and older women should cut back to one scheduled exam every other year, an influential federal task force has concluded, challenging the use of one of the most common medical tests.
40,000 Contract Serious Virus in Ukraine, Kills 30
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, death )

Melva
- 55 days ago - digitaljournal.com
As the world enters the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic season, another possible virus emerges as 30 people in the Eastern European country of Ukraine have died from this latest flu.
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act-Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, medicine, safety, risks, protection, study, food )

Tierney
- 64 days ago - actionnetwork.org
Most doctors commonly warn their patients never to take antibiotics if they are not actually sick. Yet that is exactly what is happening on industrial farms where food animals often are given low doses of antibiotics over long
Unemployed Family Man Joins the Army to Cover His Wife's Ovarian Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, healthcare, prevention, death, diet )

Melva
- 64 days ago - crooksandliars.com
I get tired of asking this question, but I'll ask it anyway: Should this happen in America? Should you have to tear yourself away from your family when they need you most - just to get necessary health care?
 
 
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