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Swine Flu: Trying to Think Correctly

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Dr. Bruce Farber, Infectious Diseases, Swine Flu Symptoms, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, Health, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Pandemic, Mexico, Swine Flu Facts, Tamiflu, Flu, Epidemic, Dr. Peter Gross, Medicine, CBS Evening News, H1N1 Influenza, Living News

Nobody wants to overreact, but nobody wants to be caught unprepared. Responsible members of the media are faced with the difficult task of properly informing without needlessly alarming the public.

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"Main Street" Health Care Reform: Pay Cash, Bid for Discounts

Kari Henley | Posted 05.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Pricedoc, Facebook, Concierge Medicine, Health Care, Seattle, Kari Henley, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Patients, Medicine, Living News

Last week, I opened a discussion about our nation's struggles with health care. My heart went out to the comments from readers, who have life threaten...

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Concerned About Coerced Abortions? Try Saying No to Cesarean Surgery

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Ethics, Birth, Abortion, Women, Coercion, Pregnant, Cesarean Section, Woman, Pregnancy, Legislation, Reproductive, Cesarean-Section, Health, Cesarean, Hospitals, Missouri, Episiotomy, Medical Costs, Medicine, Vbac, Politics News

The rise in cesarean surgery rates has not been accompanied by overall improvements in maternal or child health and creates risks to pregnant women and babies that do not exist with vaginal births.

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Victoria Jackson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Cosmetics, Diseases, Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disease, Nmo, Medicine, Living News

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WATCH: The Conservative Case For Medical Marijuana (Video)

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Judge Jim Gray is a former prosecutor, member of the Navy JAG Corps and served as a judge for years in famously conservative Orange County. In this exclusive interview, he discusses medical marijuana.

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Goliath and the Gnats: The Resuscitation of an April Fools' Joke that Should Have Been Allowed to Die

Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 05.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Milk, Jokes, Science, Babies, Medicine, Breastfeeding, Lactation, Living News

The fake press release stated that the AAP would end the ethical problem of receiving money and sponsorships from the pharmaceutical industry.

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Bush Memos Suggest Abuse Isn't Torture If a Doctor Is There

Sheri Fink | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Doctors, Detainees, War on Terror, Cia, Medicine, Psychologists, CIA Interrogations, Interrogation, Nuremberg Code, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Politics News

Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the memos is their intimation that medical professionals conducted a form of research on the detainees, clearly without their consent.

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Detecting Skin Cancer: You've Seen the Dermatologist, But Has The Dermatologist Seen You?

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Medicine, Health Care, Health, Privacy, Dermatology, Skin Cancer, Living News

Everybody should be getting routine head-to-toe skin exams. This means looking from head to toe at every millimeter of your body, including where the sun doesn't shine.

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Public Confidence in Medicare, Social Security Up

Jim Jaffe | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Health Insurance, Medicare, Saving Money, Saving for Retirement, Medicine, Retirement, Healthcare, Politics News

Americans are saving more, which could reduce their dependence on Social Security when they do retire and make proposed reforms less painful.

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An Essential Cheat Sheet of Important Medical Info

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Emergency, Emergency Room, Ambulance, Sickness, Medical Emergency, Medicine, Illnes, Living News

Because you never know where you'll be -- or what you'll be carrying -- when you head to an ER, I highly suggest that you share your medical synopsis with an "emergency healthcare buddy."

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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

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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Study: Cholesterol Drug Lowers Blood Clot Risk

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Cholestoral Drugs, Cholesterol, Medicine, Crestor, Blood Clots, Lipitor, Living News

ORLANDO, Fla. — Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing...

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Too Much Medicine: A Doctor's Guide to Better and More Affordable Health Care

Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living

Read More: American Medicine, Health Care Costs, American Health Care System, Obama Health Budget, American Health, Medicine, Healthcare, Oecd, Living News

American health care is failing, suffering with problems that jeopardize our well-being and that worsen each day. Science, tempered by compassion, once controlled medical decisions--but no longer.

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A New Debate Can't Wait

Michael Rugnetta | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Ethics, Benchmarks, Obama, Medicine, Barack Obama, Politics News

We no longer have the luxury of debating the profound but ultimately unanswerable questions surrounding the dignity of the embryo. The research is proceeding whether we like it or not.

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Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009

Ryan Mehl | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Science, Embryos, Stem Cell Research, Medicine, Embryonic Stem Cells, Stem Cells, Politics News

The days of cautiously taking care of ourselves will wane as we move medicine, politics and society forward. By embracing stem-cell research, we will see the many troubles of aging and disease disappear.

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Workforce Development Essential to Obama's Health Care IT Initiative

Julian L. Alssid and Jonathan A. Leviss | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Health Information Management Association, Health Care Technology, Hospitals, Information Technology, Technology, Medicine, Health Care, American Medical Informatics Association, Onc, Politics News

What remains unclear are the exact skills and expertise necessary for this health information technology workforce, a subject regularly debated by experts at all major health IT conferences.

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Doctors Skeptical After Viewing Obama's Speech to Congress and Remain Pessimistic About the Future

Stu Kreisman | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Medicine, Health Care, Surveys, Obama Speech to Congress, President Obama, Politics News

A new national study among 526 primary care physicians revealed that the majority (61%) reported that health care will "get worse" in the next four years, after viewing Obama's speech to Congress.

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Technology For Brain Health: an Upcoming Revolution

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Telehealth, Neuroimaging, Geriatric, Brain Health, Research and Innovation, Ontario, Gordon Winocur, Cognitive Assessments, Aging Workforce, John Wilkinson, Healthy Aging, Brain Function, Donald Stuss, Brain Fitness, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Sharpbrains, Cardiovascular Health, Alzheimer’s Disease, Centre for Brain Fitness, Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, Assessments of Cognitive Functions, Medicine, Groundbreaking, Psychiatry, Baby Boomer, Women, Aging, Aging and Brain Function, William Reichman, Mental Health, Physical Fitness, Gary Small, Neuroscientists, Traumatic Brain Injury, Ian Robertson, Cognitive Exercise, Stroke, Female Hormones, Brain Development, Consumer Electronic Show, Mars, Neuropsychologists, Rotman Research Institute, Nutraceuticals, Pda, Caregivers, Baycrest, Living News

We talk to the CEO of Baycrest, a brain fitness institute, about why Ontario and Baycrest chose to become pioneers in this area, and discuss some of the main opportunities, and challenges.

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Let's Have a Heart to Heart

Anne Dunev | Posted 03.14.2009 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Exposure to Chemicals, Valentines Day, Flu, Immunity, Germs, Green Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day, Heart Disease, Gardening, Blood Pressure, Medicine, Love, Environmental Chemicals, Flu Season, Valentine's Day Gifts, Ohio State University, Personal Health, Therapeutic Touch, Pediatrics, Chemicals, Babies, Valentine's Day Ideas, Immune System, Toxic Chemicals, How to Be Happy, Heart, Daily Life, The Ohio State University, Romance, Hospitals, Being Happy, Gardens, Living News

We can be a big influence on each other's health. A warm smile, a greeting, a hug to a dear one, can brighten anyone's life -- and may have more of a therapeutic effect than you realize.

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Top Ten Suggested Names for the Nadya Suleman Babies A to H (That's 80 Names Folks!)

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Angela Suleman, In Vitro Fertilization, Reproductive Rights, Science, Reproductive Health, California Octuplets, Nadya Suleman, Fertility, Pro-Life, Babies, Bioethics, Medicine, Suleman Octuplets, Names of the Octuplets, Octuplet Names, Octuplet Baby Names, Nadya Suleman Babies, Suleman Babies, Comedy News

1. Addendum 2. Another 3. Accident 4. Anomaly 5. Annoying 6. Afterbirth 7. ADHD 8. Appendage 9. Analogue 10. AdvertisingSpace

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Doctor Andrew Wakefield, Who Pushed Link Between Vaccine, Autism Falsified Data: Report

Times Of London | Brian Deer | Posted 03.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Andrew Wakefield Falsified Autism Data, Andrew Wakefield, Andrew Wakefield Autism Vaccines, Medicine, Autism and Vaccines, Andrew Wakefield Fixed Data, Andrew Wakefield Autism, Living News

THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appeara...

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FBI Revisits 1982 Tylenol Death Case

Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Medical Fatalities, Fatalities, Tylenol, Medicine, Fbi, Medical Deaths, Business News

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- FBI agents searched the home of a one-time leading suspect in the 1982 murders of seven people who swallowed tainted Tylenol as pa...

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Change We Can Be Livin' In: Health Democracy in America

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Tom Hanks, Politics, Health, Inaugural Concert, Inauguration Concert, President Obama, Lincoln Memorial Concert, Medicine, Health Care, Concert, Healthcare, Lincoln Memorial, Politics News

During the recent pre-inaugural concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Tom Hanks read the last words of Lincoln's Gettysburg address in a way I...

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Shut That Vagina Down: The Nadya Suleman Misconception(s)

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.07.2009 | Comedy

I mean its ridiculous. A baby momma 14 times over should not be living with her parents in a modest 3-bedroom house in Bellflower, California.

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Haiti on the Brink

Arthur Fournier | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: Haiti Poverty, Global Poverty, Haiti, Health Clinics, Poverty, World, Walk-in Clinics, Health, Hospitals, Medical Care, Health Care, Medicine, World News

Today in Marmont, a small rural community of 12,000 people in Haiti's central plateau, a new maternity hospital is being built through the efforts of Project Medishare.

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