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New York Times
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Americans are increasingly frustrated about the subpar performance of this country’s fragmented health care system, and with good reason. A new survey of patients in seven industrialized nations underscores just how badly sick Americans fare compared wi..
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Washington Post
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A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported..
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CBS News
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Light drinking helps heart health. But more than one drink a day for women and more than two daily drinks for men are harmful.
That's the bottom line from a state-of-the-art review of drinking and health by University of Missouri cardiologist James H...
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MSNBC
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Loosen the belt buckle another notch: Obesity rates continued to climb in 31 states last year, and no state showed a decline.
Mississippi became the first state to crack the 30 percent barrier for adults considered to be obese. West Virginia and Alabam..
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CNN
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Infectious diseases are emerging more quickly around the globe, spreading faster and becoming increasingly difficult to treat, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. In its annual World Health Report, the United Nations agency warned there..
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BBC News
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Some spectators attending the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing face serious health problems due to air pollution, a leading health expert has warned.
Dr Michal Krzyzanowski of the World Health Organisation told the BBC that those with a history of cardiov..
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FOX News
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While breast-feeding has many benefits, it won't prevent a child from becoming fat as an adult, says a new study that challenges dogma from U.S. health officials.
The research is the largest study to date on breast-feeding and its effect on adult obesi..
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Toronto Star
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Health outcomes for patients in Canada are as good as or better than in the United States, even though per capita spending is higher south of the border, suggest Canadian and U.S. researchers who crunched data from 38 studies.
The findings were publish..
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USA Today
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City health officials are considering a program to urge circumcision for men at high risk of AIDS, noting studies that the procedure can reduce the chances of getting the disease.
The city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has sought feedback fro..
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MSNBC
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High-deductible health insurance plans favored by many employers often wind up being an unfair burden to women, a new study says, largely because women need many routine medical exams that quickly add up.
The median expense for men under 45 in these pl..
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BusinessWeek
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The executive director of the World Society for the Protection of Animals on why Americans should say no to food from animal clones Ten years after scientists produced the first clone of a mammal, a sheep named Dolly, the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat..
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Seed Magazine
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The German parliament passed a long-awaited reform of the national health care system after a bitter battle that threatened to capsize Chancellor Angela Merkel's government...
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Washington Post
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President Bush likes to say that his health-care proposal would "level the playing field" between people who get health coverage through their job and those who buy it on their own...
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Yahoo News
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Some people are just cheap. Others are playing the odds, reasoning that paying for doctors and prescription medications on an ad hoc basis will prove cheaper than the $500-plus per month they'd have to shell out for health insurance. But most of America..
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MSNBC
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More than 300 people say they became ill, and at least three have been hospitalized, after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant last weekend, health officials said Friday...
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MSNBC
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Meanwhile, a recent MTV/Associated Press survey found 12 percent of college students found “life was not worth living” at least sometimes. About 10 percent have considered suicide in the last 12 months, according to the American College Health Associa..
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MSNBC
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A new study provides strong evidence that being bullied can cause children to develop depression and anxiety.
Among identical twin pairs in which one experienced bullying between the ages of 7 and 9 and the other did not, the bullied twin was significa..
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MSNBC
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The European Union's health chief wants to introduce tougher food labeling rules to combat the growing problem of obesity across Europe, but is facing stiff political and industrial opposition.
EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou is due to unveil p..
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MSNBC
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A federal patient privacy rule has had a chilling effect on medical research, making it tougher to recruit patients and use their health records, the first national survey on the topic suggests.
Two-thirds of the more than 1,500 epidemiologists surveye..
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USA Today
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Routine physical exams cost the U.S. health care system nearly as much as treating breast cancer, but that's not necessarily money well spent, a report said Monday.
The authors say they are the first to quantify the number and cost of routine checkups,..
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