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Diet Sodas May Hurt Kidneys - NPR Health Blog : NPRBy Scott Hensley You might want to think twice before gulping down that second diet soda today. Cans of Coca-Cola. Researchers analyzing the health habits of thousands of nurses found that women who drank two or more diet sodas daily had a two-fold increase in the risk of a significantly ...
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A Peek at How Forest Laboratories Pushed Lexapro - NYTimes.comDocument Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug The pharmaceutical industry has developed thousands of medicines that have saved millions of lives, but it has also used its marketing muscle to successfully peddle expensive pills that are no more effective than older drugs sold at a fraction of ...
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Officials Find Flu Disproportionately Hits Minorities : NPROfficials Find Flu Disproportionately Hits Minorities A A August 19, 2009 Young people are more at risk of getting swine flu, and pregnant women, among others, have a higher chance of hospitalization from the new flu. Now public health officials are discovering that blacks and Latinos ...
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Massachusetts Adjusts a Cut, Providing Some Health Care for 30,000 Immigrants - NYTimes.comMassachusetts Adjusts a Cut, Providing Some Health Care for 30,000 Immigrants BOSTON — Massachusetts trimmed its ambitious plan to provide health care for virtually all its residents on Wednesday when the legislature failed to restore enough money to the budget to provide full benefits for ...
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National Briefing - Washington - Dozens Arrested in Health Care Scam Sweep - NYTimes.comDozens Arrested in Health Care Scam Sweep Federal authorities arrested more than 30 people, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major health care fraud investigation in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston. More than 200 agents worked on the $16 million case, which included 12 ...
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Dozens arrested in health care fraud case - Crime & courts- msnbc.comFederal authorities arrested 32 people, including doctors, in a major health care fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston, targeting scams such as "arthritis kits" — expensive braces that many patients never used. It's the third major sweep since Attorney General Eric ...
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Mystery of the 1918 "Spanish Flu" Pandemic: Solved!MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans during the 1918 pandemic outbreak that killed at least 50 million people -believed more than that taken by the Black Death, and higher than the number killed in World War I. ...
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t r u t h o u t | A Moment for Real ReformNow is not the time to compromise on health care. The latest buzz on President Obama's health-care plan is that the White House is in über-pragmatic mode. Their favorite cliché is that we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Something, we're told, is better than nothing. ...
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AMNews: April 20, 2009. Making sure your patients know what you're saying ... American Medical NewsThe Americans with Disabilities Act and similar state laws generally prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. They require physician offices to provide reasonable public accommodations to ensure effective communication. The Rehabilitation Act bars discrimination by anyone who receives ...
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Brown Fat Identified as Heat-Yielding Cells in Humans - NYTimes.comCalorie-Burning Fat? Studies Say You Have It For more than 30 years, scientists have been intrigued by brown fat, a cell that acts like a furnace, consuming calories and generating heat. Rodents, unable to shiver effectively to keep warm, use brown fat instead. So do human infants, who do ...
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