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Menlo Park (CA) Program Serves Women Veterans Who'Ve Suffered Trama
Health & Wellness  (tags: women vets, military sexual trauma, combat PTSD )

Larry
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- 14 hours ago - care2.com
Women come to the program from all ages and walks of life. Most arrive on the brink of emotional disaster and must share with each other secrets many of them held inside for decades. Women are treated for both combat PTSD and military sexual trauma.
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Gates, Bloomberg Pool Riches to Fight Smoking
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, activists, culture, smoking, society, sadness, safety, abuse, health, healthcare, interesting, research, study, warning )

Linda
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- 23 hours ago - hosted.ap.org
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.The billionaire philanthropists, who have a combined worth of more than $70 billion, said Wednesda
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PETITION: Birth Control Pills Are Not Abortion (Attn: HHS Sec. Leavitt)
Health & Wellness  (tags: society, culture, warning, women, safety, risks, research, protection, prevention, humans, medicine, news, healthcare, health, illness, children, death, ethics, Body-Mind-Spirit, abuse, abuse, bushadministration, bush, Govtfearmongering, government, u.s., u )

Kozure
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- 1 day ago - secure2.convio.net
Just when we think we've seen it all, the Bush Administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has drafted regulations that would undermine women's access to birth control.
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Women on Antidepressants May Benefit From Viagra
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, research, treatment, study, women, investigation, medicine, interesting, drugs )

Linda
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- 1 day ago - hosted.ap.org
Viagra's effect in women has been disappointing, but a new small study finds those on antidepressants may benefit from taking the little blue pills. The research involving 98 premenopausal women found Viagra helped with orgasm. But the benefits did not
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Vitamin D Helps Lungs
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, medicine, illness, cancer, vitamin D, helps stop, growth of cancer cells, lungs )

Kathy
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- 1 day ago - keloland.com
It's a tedious hobby, but David Rose doesn't mind. Building miniature ships keeps his hands occupied - something cigarettes did for the last 40 years. Between his 3-Pack a day habit and his job working with asbestos, Rose was living a risky life.
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Local Family Sues Beaver County Power Plant------VIDEO
Health & Wellness  (tags: habitatdestruction, pollution, protection, destruction, health, children, disease, illness, investigation, risks, safety, society, treatment )

Linda
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- 1 day ago - kdka.com
First Energy is being sued by a local family. Michael and Jessica Hartle say pollution from the company's coal-fired Bruce Mansfield power plant in Beaver County caused their daughter's hair loss and other health problems.
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Ex-Youth Worker Sentenced for Sex Act With Teen
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, justice )

Hurrikayn
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- 1 day ago - chicagotribune.com
"She was paid to do the opposite of what she did," Busch said. "It's particularly troubling when people interested in protecting other people instead harm them." Manzo pleaded guilty in May to a felony count of sexual misconduct by a service provider.
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States Lag in Push to Curb Smoking
Health & Wellness  (tags: corporate, debt, ethics, humans, safety, risks, warning )

Phyllis
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- 2 days ago - inrich.com
Only a small amount of settlement money has gone to such efforts
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Have Scientists Discovered a Cure for Alzheimer's?
Health & Wellness  (tags: Alzheimer disease, drug, therapy, dementia, humans )

Eduardo
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- 2 days ago - independent.co.uk
A single 20mg pill of the drug, called Dimebon, taken three times a day, appears to be twice as effective in improving cognitive performance and preventing deterioration in memory as existing drugs.
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A 540-Calorie Big Mac? NY Chains Post Calorie Info
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, safety, study, warning, risks, health, food, humans, environment )

Linda
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- 2 days ago - www2.tbo.com
Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow - like 1,130 calories for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium soda.After months of resistance, the
 
 
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