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Studies: Fighting Global Warming Reduces Diseases
Health & Wellness  (tags: Studies, global warming pollution, changes in every day life, immediate benefits, lifestyle )

Maria
- 2 days ago - google.com
Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, newly released studies say.
Stem Cells Could Create New Skin to Help Burns Victims
Health & Wellness  (tags: human embryonic stem cells, Artificial Skin, Research, Health )

Alisa
- 21 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
French researchers say they have found a way of using human embryonic stem cells to create new skin which could help serious burns victims.
Scanning Invisible Damage of PTSD, Brain Blasts
Health & Wellness  (tags: brain, ptsd, concussion, brain injury, veterans )

Michelle
- 31 days ago - my.earthlink.net
WASHINGTON - Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in American veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Obama Lifts a Ban on Entry Into U.S. By H.I.V.-Positive People
Health & Wellness  (tags: GoodNews, crime, ethics, government, Govtfearmongering, freedoms, healthcare, lies, media, news, obama, politics, usa, children, disease, environment, exercise, ethics, government, health, humans, illness, news, research, safety )

Wolfweeps
- 42 days ago - nytimes.com
President Obama on Friday announced the end of a 22-year ban on travel to the United States by people who had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, fulfilling a promise he made to gay advocates and acting to eliminate a restriction he said was
Woman's Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws
Health & Wellness  (tags: beef, hamburger, E. coli, grocers, contamination, slaughterhouses, FDA, cows, meat, Angus, Beef, Patties, risks, health, disease, food, humans, illness, warning, government, dishonesty, cover-up, investigation )

Tom
- 66 days ago - nytimes.com
Many big slaughterhouses will sell only to grinders who agree not to test their shipments for E. coli. Tens of thousands of people are still sickened annually by this pathogen, federal health officials estimate, with hamburger being the biggest culprit.
A World First: Vaccine Helps Prevent HIV Infection
Health & Wellness  (tags: AIDS HIV vaccine )

Michelle
- 78 days ago - my.earthlink.net
BANGKOK - For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.
HIV Vaccine: Five Damaging Aids Myths
Health & Wellness  (tags: HIV vaccine, healthcare, false information, virus )

Sophie
- 78 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The HIV vaccine has been hailed as a "milestone" in the fight against Aids, after decades during which scientists have struggled to counter false information about the virus.
Video: Will Ferrell Stands Up for the Real Health Care Victims
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, humans, medicine, protection, government, Insurance companies, health care, Civil Liberties )

Tinkie
- 78 days ago - pol.moveon.org
A MUST SEE!!!! Especially for the Americans who don't support the Health Care Reforms. :-)
NY Man's Next Blood Donation Will Be Gallon No. 40
Health & Wellness  (tags: blood donation, citizenship )

Michelle
- 94 days ago - my.earthlink.net
A New York man is donating his 320th pint (half-a-liter) of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons.
Propaganda Against Canadian Health Care Is Inaccurate! Canucks, Please Sign!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, humans, medicine, Canada Health Care, lobbying, legislation, support, Obama )

Just
- 113 days ago - avaaz.org
We need a huge popular outcry to show the truth -- how proud and grateful we are in Canada to have a public healthcare system that works. Sign on to the message to America and forward this email -- if enough of us sign, we'll cause a stir in US media!
 
 
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