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Take Two Studies And Call Them In The Morning

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Annals of Internal Medicine, American Cancer Society, Cancer Screening, Breast Cancer, Breast Exams, Diagnostic Tests, Mammograms, Health Guidelines, Health and Human Services, Medicine, Health Care, Preventive Services Task Force, Health, Living News

If you've been eating plenty of this and that because we kept proclaiming that this and that are good for you, you might want to scale back a bit.

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Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

In the case of Coleman v. Lantz, Connecticut has argued for the right to force feed a hunger-striking inmate in an excruciatingly painful manner.

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What You Don't Know About Osteoporosis

Joseph Sciabbarrasi, M.D. | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Bones, Osteoporosis, Women's Health, Health, Bone Health, Milk, Medicine, Wellness, Living News

We'll look at one of the most controversial and misunderstood treatments for osteoporosis -- hormone replacement therapy. We'll also answer whether being obese can actually reduce the risk of osteoporosis.

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Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Abortion, Women's Rights, Congress, Naral, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Nancy Pelosi, Hyde Amendment, Pelosi, Obama, Roe Wade, Choice, Planned Parenthood, House, Senate, Rahm Emanuel, Center for Reproductive Rights, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Anti-Choice, Medicine, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...

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Health Care: Understanding Functional Medicine

Dr. M.J. Wegmann | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Emergency Care, Physicians, Medicine, Health Care, Chronic Disease, Health, Alternative Medicine, Living News

Wellness can be described as a state that combines health and happiness. Thus those factors that contribute to being healthy and happy also will be contributing to being well.

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When Militarism 'Invades' Medicine...Doctatorship Happens

Dana Ullman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Homeopathic, Military, Physicians, Military Industrial Complex, Weapons of Mass Destruction, War, Side Effects, Natural Medicine, Militarism, Collateral Damage, Medicine, Homeopathy, Health, Living News

Our medical thinking has become totally militaristic. It is not just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to attack illness, combat disease, kill infective agents, and create a war on cancer.

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Antibiotics Linked To Birth Defects, Study Says

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Antiobiotics, Health, Infection, Birth Defects, New Study, Parenting, Bacteria, Babies, Medicine, Wellness, Bacterial Infection, Living News

CHICAGO — Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections and b...

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Alternative Medicine: Safety Tips

latimes.com | Tammy Worth | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Homeopathic Remedies, Complementary and Alternative Therapies, Health, Integrative Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Herbs, Medicine, Health Care, Homeopathy, Alternative Medicine, Living News

It's unlikely that Americans will lose their love affair with complementary medicine, so the best thing to do is to make the practice as safe as possi...

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AIDS Is The No. 1 Cause Of Death, Disease For Women 15-44, Says WHO

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Maternity, Girlhood, Aids Rates, Developing Countries, Pregnancy, Hiv, Sex Education, Teenagers, Girls, Education, West, Breast Cancer, Health, Sex, Africa, Women's Health, Aids, Safe Sex, Contraception, Cancer, Adults, Unsafe Sex, Health Care, Medicine, World News

GENEVA — In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cau...

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Cocaethylene Studied: Cocaine, Alcohol Mix To Create Toxic 3rd Chemical

The Observer | Jamie Doward | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Uk, Social Drinking, Beer, Addiction, Liver, Drugs, Coke, Heart Problems, Liquor, Social Drug Use, Cocaethylene, Health, Alcohol, Wine, Us, Medicine, Heart Failure, Cocaine, Living News

Drug addiction clinics say they are becoming increasingly concerned by the health risks associated with the chemical -- the only known example of the ...

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Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Dean Ornish, The Internet, Jeff Arnold, Internet, Web 3.0, Sharecare, Health, Well-Being, Dr. Dean Ornish, Webmd, Medicine, Health Care, Wellness, sharecare.com, Living News

Searching for health information on the web can feel overwhelming. The power of the Internet is also its limitation--it provides information, but not guidance on how to sort what is credible and what is not.

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Health "Insurance": A Criminal Enterprise

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Ethics, Law, Politics, Human Rights, Crime, Harry Truman, Health Care Reform, Henry Waxman, Health Insurance, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, Barack Obama, Politics News

I have little doubt that the day will soon arrive when the CEOs of health "insurers" are dragged before Congress to face the same sort of interrogation to which the Waxman Hearings subjected Big Tobacco in the 1990s.

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Paging Dr. Benjamin

Dr. Nancy Snyderman | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Regina Benjamin, Kathleen Sebelius, Health, Swine Flu, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Surgeon General, Medicine, H1n1, Politics News

Well it's about time. Nine months after the inauguration of President Obama, we finally have our Surgeon General. And it couldn't have come soon enough.

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Mapping The Link Between Alcohol, Cancer

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Science, New Study, Cancer, Alcohol Consumption, Medicine, Health, Wellness, Alcohol, Living News

New research suggests that alcohol may boost the progression of cancer by stimulating a pathway inside cells....

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American Medical Association Struggles To Find Role In Health Reform

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lobbyblog, Medicine, Politics News

The Associated Press reports that the esteemed American Medical Association's political clout may be waning. The group is struggling to have its voic...

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A Seedling of Sanity Takes Root in the War On Drugs

Rich Robinson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Medical Marijuana, Justice Department, Medicine, Marijuana, Pot, Marijuana Legalization, War on Drugs, Legalize Marijuana, Politics News

It is time to cast aside all of the misinformation and propaganda about what marijuana is and what it is not. At least we are on the right path.

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Whose Decision Is It, Anyway?

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: H1N1 Virus, Legal Adult, Decision-Making, Maturity, Health, Swine Flu, Adulthood, Natural Medicine, Vaccine, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Medicine, Health Care, Wellness, Vaccination, Living News

When it comes to medical decisions involving children, physicians are charged with ensuring the medical standard of care, even over the objections of their parents.

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Study Shows Hope For Type Of Blindness

Wall Street Journal | By RON WINSLOW | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Eyesight, Sight, Kids, Braille, Blind, Children, Blindness, Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, Health, Gene Therapy, Medicine, Study, rpe65, Living News

A small but provocative study showed that a form of gene therapy significantly improved the vision of patients left legally blind by a rare genetic ey...

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Rescuing Health Reform: Why Doctors Should Practice Lifestyle Medicine

Huffington Post | Mark Hyman, MD, Dean Ornish, MD, and Mike Roizen, MD | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care, Mark Hyman MD, Dean Ornish, Mark Hyman, Dean Ornish Md, Dr. Dean Ornish, Mike Roizen, Prevention, Dr. Mike Roizen, Health Care Reform, Dr. Mark Hyman, Lifestyle Medicine, Medicine, Functional Medicine, Mike Roizen Md, Living News

We must not only change who is covered but also what is covered to include personalized lifestyle medicine if we are to make current treatments more effective and less costly.

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Mayim Bialik's Latest Role: Green Mom

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: L.A., Holistic, Disposable, Children, Green Parenting, Babysitter, Waldorf Education, Diapers, Neuroscience, Strollers, Mothering, Eastern Europe, Actress, Medicine, Sitcom, Trend, Family, Research Professor, Materialism, Replacement Level, Nanny, Home-Schooling, Body, Nbc, Caregiver, Planet, Husband, Los Angeles, Sierra Magazine, Sustainable, Ucla, Reform Judaism, Health, Judaism, Population, Vegetarian, Homemade Hygiene Products, Bedsharing, Discipline, Earth, Liberal, Potty-Training, Cleaning Products, Cloth, Tolerance, Holistic Moms Network, Cats, Acting, Southern California, Kids, Celebrity, Stay-at-Home Mom, Mayim Bialik, Hollywood, Elimination Communication, Jewish, Tikkun Olam, Religion, Water, Fast Food, Slings, Environment, Mom, Shtetl, Blossom, Green News

We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.

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New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pain, White House, Marijuana, Marijuana Policy Project, Orgeon, Doj, Eric Holder, Decriminalization, Nevada, Marijuana Laws, Obama, War on Drugs, Patients, New Mexico, Colorado, Prescriptions, California, Suppliers, Washington State, State Laws, Weed, Michigan, Medicine, Maryland, Montana, Users, Medical Marijuana, Vermont, Rhode Island, Justice Department, Drug Enforcement Agency, Maine, New Medical Marijuana Policy, Health, Hawaii, US Attorneys, Alaska, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...

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Doctors Tackle The Rickrolling Pandemic

Miles Klee | Posted 10.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Rick-Astley, Internet, Doctors, Rickrolling, Medicine, Comedy News

Jack Kevorkian: Rickrollers experience no quality of life and want to give up some things more than others.

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Disease Turns Muscle Into Bone: Joshua Scoble Fights For His Life (VIDEO)

Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Video, Disease, Health, Muscle Into Bone Disease, Joshua Scoble, Medicine, Joshua Scoble Muscle Into Done Disease, Living News

Three-year-old Joshua Scoble is fighting a rare and disabling genetic disease that turns his muscle into bone. He tries to live as normal a life as p...

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WATCH: Sanjay Gupta And Stephen Colbert On Cheating Death

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Dying, Medicine, Cheating Death, Authors, Health, Death, Books, Colbert Report, Sanjay Gupta, Stephen Colbert, Cnn, Books News

Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN, spoke to Stephen Colbert last night about his new book, Cheating Death. He explained that there's m...

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Americans on Drugs

Francine Hardaway | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: SLHI.Org, Prescription Drugs, Fda, HealthworksAZ.Org, Health Care Reform, Iguard, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Inside DC, Living News

The number one problem doctors report about treating patients is failure to take prescription medications correctly, regardless of patient age.

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