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Study Finds Many Older People Are Being Prescribed The Wrong Drugs

Posted 08.23.2012 | Fifty

One in five medications used by people older than 65 are prescribed inappropriately in primary care settings, which can cause adverse reactions, acco...

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Birth Control Is a Critical Health Need

Vanessa Cullins | Posted 08.28.2012 | Black Voices

Birth control has had such a dramatic impact on women and families in this country that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named it one of the top 10 public health achievements of the past century.

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Iceland Trying To Make Cigarettes Prescription-Only

Newser | Posted 09.04.2011 | World

Read More: Prescription-Only Cigarettes, Smokers, Smoking, Cigarettes, The Guardian, Smoking Ban, Prescription, Pharmacies, Iceland, World News

In Iceland, you may soon need to head to the pharmacy to get your cigarettes. The country is considering a counter-intuitive measure that would make c...

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"Kidney Stone II: The Sequel"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

Read More: X-Ray, Nurse, Stamford Advocate, Urologist, Humor, Hospital, Prescription, Anesthesiologist, Medical, Doctor, CAT Scan, Long Island, Stamford, Kidney Stones, Percocet, Comedy News

In what I fear will become a series with more sequels than "Rocky," I had my second kidney stone.

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Do it Yourself Health Care Reform

Dave Chase | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Costs, Health Care Bill, General Motors, Rube Goldberg, Direct Primary Care, Health Discount Card, Dell, Microsoft, Washington DC, Prescription, Health Care Reform, Health Savings Accounts, Ben Franklin, Amazon, Home News

In the past, health care costs weren't a big enough impact on the bottom line for business to worry about. That has changed. Many are at a breaking point, and I believe the prescription is a do-it-yourself approach.

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Fact Or Fiction? Michael Jackson, Sotomayor, And What To Do When You Don't Know What To Believe

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

What if what frightens us silly is facing the notion that we've actually got to learn how to work collaboratively together as the Unknown presents itself, before its too late?

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