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Ten Ways to Sane in an Insane World

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Manic, Mult-Tasking, Maze, Mth Binge, Adrenaline, Anxious, Hyperlink, Coffee, Sanity, Illness, Death, Happiness, Cyberspace, Scattered, Mcdonalds, Depressed, Talk Radio, Crackberry, Insanity, Multi-Lacking, Disease, Anti-Depressants, Candyland, Viagra, Nervous, Rats, Cell Phones, Hallucinogens, Computer, Text-Messaging, Faecbook, Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

7. Take the time to look people in the eye, say hello, goodbye, ask "How are you" ; listen to their answer and ask a question. Remember how to communicate with people again on a human face-to-face basis.

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Who Will Take Care of Me?

Rose Winters | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Death of a Parent, Children, Sisterhood, Illness, Orphans, Death, Living News
Rose Winters

There is a funny thing about life. With time and with experience, our perspectives change. What we once held on to so tightly, can hold little or no importance today.

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Where is the Outrage Over Our Current Health Care System?

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Debt, Politicians, Vigil, Health Care Reform, Outrage, Moveon, Foreclosure, Illness, Injustice, Politics News
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.

Why are Republicans and Blue Dogs playing political tricks just to defend insurance companies and peddling a perverted version of an America where the government aiding its citizens is treated like an act of treason?

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Stopping Swine Flu is Up to You

webmd.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Cdc, Swine Flu Vaccine, Health, Swine Flu, Hhs, Illness, Living News

Aug. 26, 2009 -- Who's on the front line of this fall's flu fight? You are, say HHS and CDC officials. Until Thanksgiving, at the earliest, it's go...

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Why Health Care Reform Will Fail: Part I -- The Business of Disease: We Pay For What Doesn't Work

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Mark Hyman MD, Healthcare, Health, Cronic Disease, Medicine, Illness, Health Action, Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

The health care debate has been hijacked by fears about cost and how we will pay for universal coverage. Will it cost $1.6 trillion or $900 billion o...

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Senator Byrd Returns To Senate

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: F-22, Senate, Senator Byrd, Byrd, Illness, Rober Byrd, Robert Byrd Sick, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Robert Byrd, the longest serving senator in history, returned to the chamber Tuesday after being absent for more than two months du...

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The Sounds and Sleeplessness in the ICU--Part I

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Health, Hospitals, Sleep Deprivation, Medicine, Icu, Illness, Sound, Sleep, Noise, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

Being in the ICU is hard enough to endure. Throw in sleeplessness caused by noise pollution and just about everything worsens.

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Swine Flu: Remain Vigilant!

Scott P. Layne | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Swine Flu Outbreak, Health, Illness, Disease, Swine Flu Mexico, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Living News
Scott P. Layne

The good news is that Swine flu appears to have relatively low virulence outside Mexico. The bad news is that Swine flu is constantly rolling its genetic dice, so virulence could vary over time.

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Standing up for Abused and Neglected Children Takes on New Meaning

Brad Hunt | Posted 05.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Dogsledding, Children, Multiple Sclerosis, American Red Cross, Animals, Neglected Children, Injury, Abused Children, Illness, Dogs, Court Appointed Special Advocate, Paralysis, Casa, Living News
Brad Hunt

We're all capable of being volunteers even if only in some small way. Think of what we could accomplish in this country if we all gave back to others some of the good we've received.

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Thalidomide: Curse or Cure?

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Morning Sickness, Birth Defects, Cancer, Thalidomide, Medicine, Illness, Hydrocephaly, Living News
Stephanie Gertler

Lynette is what the doctors call a "thalidomide baby." There were other thalidomide babies on the floor, all around 10 years old, mostly limbless or with limbs that were profoundly deformed.

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Diagnosing Hypochondria

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Hypochondria, Hypochondria Disorder, Hypochondriacs, Illness, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

When does an occasional tendency towards being hypochondriacal become a problem that needs attention?

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Try Catching a Few ZZZ's to Stop Catching Colds

Anne Dunev | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Driving, Sleeplessness, Cold Remedies, Mothers, Illness, Traffic Accidents, Kgb, Carnegie Mellon, How to Sleep Better, Alcohol, Romans-Empire, Sleeping, Science of Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Russia KGB, Torture, Sleep, Living News
Anne Dunev

Getting less than seven hours of sleep each night can make you three times more likely to catch a cold. And if you sleep restlessly, that makes you five times more susceptible.

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One Foot in a High Heel and One Foot in a Sneaker: A Daughter Nearly Lost

Kyrina McCormick | Posted 03.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Doctos, Seizures, Medical Conditions, Children, Disease, Illness, Daughters, Mothers and Daughters, Family, Living News
Kyrina McCormick

This is not a world for the disabled. My daughter is mentally challenged. She is at the mercy of a number of poorly constructed or outdated programs, but I've become a fierce advocate for her.

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Thank-You-Verah-Musshhh.

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Polyester, Three Wise Men, Natural Resources, Self-Destruction, Wedding Chapels, Illness, Elvis Presley, Las Vegas, Inconvenient Truth, Starvation, Hyper-Consumerism, Modern World, Environment, Feast of the Epiphany, Bling-Bling, Ailing Planet, Self-Abuse, Style News
Michael DeJong

For me, on a cosmic level, the King's kitschy, tacky jumpsuits stand as a metaphor for the glitz and bling of today's hyper-consumerism

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Bodymind: How Your Thoughts Affect You Physically

Deb Shapiro | Posted 10.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Personal Health, Illness, Living News
Deb Shapiro

Did you ever wonder how the power of your thoughts can affect your body? Dr. Bernie Siegel, the author of Love, Medicine and Miracles, was giving a ta...

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The Friend I Never Met

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Female Friendships, Virtual Friends, Illness, Lori Hall Steele, Freelance Success, Lyme Disease, Charitable, Health, Freelance, Friendship Circles, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Living, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Als, Asja, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

I feel very proud to be part of a writing community that has circled around a woman that many have only met once or twice, or like myself, only know virtually.

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Mental Recession: Like Manna From Heaven

Liz Spikol | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Seasonal Depression, Big Pharma, Psychiatry, Depression, Phil Gramm, Gramm Recession Is Mental, Light Therapy, Suicide, Epilepsy, Psychology, Spikol, Illness, Recession, Controversial Remarks, Fda, Health, Electroshock Therapy, Gramm Whiner, Denials, John McCain and Phil Gramm, Philadelphia, Mental, Phil Gramm Nation of Whiners, Headline News, Mental Recession, John McCain, Sad, Politics News
Liz Spikol

As a mental health journalist and someone who suffers with bipolar disorder, if there's one thing I know, it's how to solve a "mental" crisis.

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The Last Lecture and Living in Technicolor

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Randy Pausch, Kimberly Brooks, The Last Lecture, Exhibition, Light, Nature, Earth, Landscapes, Painting, Fine Art, Illness, Death, Family, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Much has been made recently of Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". He is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon and six months ago he was diagnosed with pancr...

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