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Health Insurer Tests Program For Abroad Surgery
The health insurer Wellpoint is testing a new program that gives covered patients the option of...
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Autumn Babies Are More Prone To Childhood Asthma
Are you afraid of having a child with
asthma? A new study suggests that the time of the year in...
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New Hampshire’s Drug Privacy Law Upheld
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld New Hampshire’s law that
restricts drug companies access...
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Investigation Shows Disastrous Situation in Washington Hospitals
A news investigation conducted by The Times takes a hard look at Washington hospitals’ failure to...
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Hospitals Ignore MRSA Infections
A very dangerous hospital infection is killing a shocking number of patients, according to a recent...
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Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death Highest in the Month after Heart Attack
Heart attack patients are more susceptible to die within the
first 30 days after the attack, a...
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Eating Fish Regularly May Prevent Kidney Damage In Diabetics
One of the most serious complications of diabetes is kidney
disease. British researchers have...
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Excessive Pregnancy Weight Poses Risks to Both Mother and Child
Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Ore. report there’s a...
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3 Percent of American Children Are Unisured, with an Insured Parent
More than 2 million American children have
no health insurance because their parents can’t afford...
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Sharing Your Genes With The World
As part of their project on http://www.personalgenomes.org, a
group of enthusiastic scientists and...
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Biden’s Medical Records Released, He Is In Good Health
Democratic US
vice president nominee Joe Biden appears to be in good health, according to...
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Information on the Presidential-Nominees’ Health Yet to be Fully Disclosed
The two candidates who are running against each other in this year’s United States presidential...
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Michigan Physicians Expand Electronic Records To Save Money
The Michigan State Medical Society is working to create a new Web-based system for its...
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Top Psychiatrist of Emory University Failed to Report Income from Drug Makers
Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff of Emory University, one of the nation’s leading psychiatrists and a...
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Leading Emory Psychiatrist ‘Fails’ to Report $1.2 Million of Drug Income
Emory University psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff has been accused of not reporting almost half of the...
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The Largest Human Health Study To Be Launched In The United States
The largest human health study ever conducted in the United States is about to be launched. The...
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Employee Sick Leave Associated With Premature Death
Employees who take extended sick days from work may be at higher risk of passing away sooner that...
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U.S. Children Take More Psychotropic Drugs Than European Peers
According to a recent study, U.S. children are about three times more likely to be prescribed...
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WHO IDs Diseases, Warming as Asia-Pacific Health Challenges
Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) is bracing for major health challenges in Asia and the...
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Pain Relievers Lower PSA Levels, May Affect Prostate Screening
Pain relievers like aspirin and ibuprofen appear to lower a man’s PSA level, which is measured...
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More Than 200 Sickened By E. Coli In Oklahoma
According to state health officials, an E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in Locust Grove,...
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US Study: If You Were Diagnosed With Diabetes, Lose Weight
A Kaiser Permanente study published online in Diabetes Care, the American Diabetes Association...
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Americans Dissatisfied with the Present Health Care System
When it comes to health care, most Americans are deeply
dissatisfied with it and hope the...
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Efficiency Of Prostate Screening In The Elderly Questioned
Prostate-cancer screening or the PSA test for men aged 75 or
older should be stopped because there...
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Can Medication Replace Talk Therapy?
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health in Baltimore
found that...
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The Double Life of US Scientist Bruce Ivins
A US Army scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation lead a double life. The...
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McCain Skin Biopsy Shows He’s Cancer-Free
A biopsy performed on a patch of skin removed from Republican
Sen. John McCain’s temple on Monday...
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Prostate Hormone Therapy Fails to Improve Survival in Older Men
Widely used hormone-blocking drugs fails to improve survival
in older men with early prostate...
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Few Doctors Adopt Electronic Health Records
In a world of technology, the computer seems to be the
answer to all our problems saving us a lot...
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Google Health Secures First Deal: Blue Cross
Google Health has managed to secure its first deal with a health care insurer. The Blue Cross Blue...
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People
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Suge Knight Faces Criminal Charges, Jail Sentence
Marion “Suge” Knight is
facing criminal charges following his arrest in August in Las Vegas on...
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Michael Jackson, Too Ill For Court
Michael Jackson is the eternal King of Pop. Five oh his records were worldwide best-sellers, namely...
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Britney Spears’ Father To Remain In Control Of Her Finances Indefinitely
Tuesday, Los
Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz granted Britney Spears’ father
Jamie...
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Motown Influential Songwriter Norman Whitfield Dies
Tuesday, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Norman
Whitfield died from diabetes...
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Suge Knight Posts Bail, Expected in Court Sept. 26
Hip hop entrepreneur Marion “Suge”
Knight posted $19,000 bail Wednesday after being arrested on...
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Zuma: The New Addition To Stefani – Rossdale Family
According to a statement from Stefani's publicist, Interscope Records, singer and fashion designer...
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Music Star Isaac Hayes Suffered A Stroke, Police Says
Isaac Hayes, one of the artists whose influence in soul
music enriched this genre, died at the age...
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Hospital Workers Fired for Peeking into Britney’s Medical Records
Several employees of the UCLA Medical
Center will be fired or
disciplined for looking at Britney...
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Controversial Anna Nicole Smith Remembered
On February 8, 2007, a year ago, Vickie Lynn Marshall aka Anna Nicole Smith died.A Texas native,...
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Rap Diva Foxy Brown Refuses Prison Bus Ride
Foxy Brown, currently serving a 1-year sentence in a New York prison, refused to board the...
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Leaking George Clooney's Medical Records Leads to Suspension
Hospital employees that allegedly accessed information from George Clooney's medical records...
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Hanson Brother Released from Hospital
Isaac Hanson, the eldest of the musical siblings in the band Hanson, was released Friday from...
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Hanson Brother Undergoes Surgery, Recovering Well
Isaac Hanson, the eldest brother of the “MMMBop” trio, was hospitalized Tuesday night...
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Foxy Brown: New Album, Jail Time and No Baby
Rapper Foxy Brown was sentenced to 12 months of jail last week and now her manager has denied she...
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Amy Winehouse Absent at VMAs
Amy Winehouse’s record label has confirmed that the British singer, hospitalized for a drug...
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Amy Winehouse "Retreats" from U.S. Tour
Amy Winehouse announced earlier this week that she would cancel her forthcoming U.S. tour due to...
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World
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Biden Shares Medical Records with the World
To avoid speculations upon his health, Democratic US vice
president nominee Joe Biden on...
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Medicare Payment Error Rate Higher Than Said
The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services denounced Medicare for...
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Federal Agents May Seize Travelers’ Laptops at Border
Under a new measure introduced by the Bush administration, federal agents may seize a traveler's...
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Pittsburg Woman Charged for Killing Mother, Stealing Unborn Baby
Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, of Wilkinsburg, the main suspect in the case of the woman found dead in a...
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Pittsburg Teen Killed, Eviscerated and Baby Stolen from Her Womb
A woman was found dead in the Pittsburg suburbs and investigators are currently trying to identify...
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Warren Jeffs, the Polygamist Sect Leader, Hospitalized
Tuesday, Warren Jeffs, the polygamist sect leader who was
jailed, was transported to a hospital in...
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Senator John McCain Is As Fit As Can Be
After Senator John McCain’s alleged health problems reached the spot light, his medical records...
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Airplane Crash In Congo Kills 33 People
A Congolese airplane crashed yesterday into a crowded market district in the eastern city of Goma,...
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Document on Marriage, Birth, Cyanide Seized at Polygamist Ranch
The released copies of search warrants showed that police investigators involved in the raids at...
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Suspect in Slaying Pregnant Marine Spotted in Louisiana
The suspect in the murder of pregnant Marine Lance Cpl.
Maria Lauterbach, declared missing by her...
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Nationwide Manhunt for Suspect in Marine's Death is Under Way
Investigators in the case of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, declared missing by her mother on...
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Doctor Arrested in Australia to Be Questioned by British Police
Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, arrested Monday at Brisbane Airport over last week’s failed...
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Giant Baby Born In India
The tallest woman in India, a 19-year-old basketball player hovering at over 7 feet, has given...
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Specials
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Fall Babies Have 30 Percent Higher Risk of Developing Asthma
Children born four months before peak flu season are more
likely to develop childhood asthma...
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Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death - the Highest within 30 Days after Heart Attack
A new study by researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis and Mayo Clinic in...
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Excessive Weight Gain during Pregnancy Doubles the Risk of Having Heavy Babies
More than one in five women gain excessive weight during pregnancy and they have a higher risk of...
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Alleged NYPD Police Brutality Before Special Grand Jury
A special investigative grand jury will examine evidence in
the Brooklyn case of a 24-year-old...
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The Police Sodomy Allegation Is Under Thorough Investigation
New York prosecutors are investigating allegations that five police officers attacked a tattoo...
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DWTS’ Julianne Hough Was Taken To The Hospital After The Show
Tuesday
night, just after the live broadcast of the “Dancing With The Stars” show ended,
Julianne...
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OHSU: 9 Million Kids Have No Health Insurance Coverage in the US
While US
presidential candidates’ debate over health care is making headlines all over
the world,...
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The Beginning of Personal Genome Project: Positive and Negative Aspects
Harvard Medical School genetics professor
George Church, Harvard psychology professor Steven...
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Harvard Gene Project Posts DNA Data of 10 Volunteers Online
Hoping to give medical research a big push forward, the Harvard University Medical School made the...
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Kim Kardashian, Braxton And Bass To Hit The Dance Floor
The list of celebrity contestants for the new season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars"...
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Celebrity Rehab Subject Of Investigation
Dr. Drew Pinsky, co-medical director of Aurora Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, is...
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Obesity Comes With Heart Risks But Not Necessarily
Hundreds of previous studies have showed that obesity comes
with a number or risks, such as heart...
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Oscar-Winning Soul Legend Isaac Hayes Dies At 65
Oscar-winning soul singer and songwriter Isaac Hayes, whose
1971’s “Theme from Shaft” made him the...
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FBI Reveals New Details in Anthrax Case
Bruce E. Ivins, the US scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation, used two...
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Sparrow Hospital Employees Fired for Accessing Private Medical Information
After the UCLA Medical Center scandal, when
127 workers read without permission celebrity medical...
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Snooping in Celebrity Files – Something Common at UCLA Medical Center
It appears that celebrity comes itself with more than fame. It
brings paparazzi trouble, which...
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More UCLA Medical Center Staffers Involved In Medical Records Scandal
127 workers at a Los Angeles hospital read without permission
celebrity medical records between...
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Prostate Screening’s Efficiency In The Elderly Questioned
Prostate-cancer screening or the PSA test for men aged 75 or
older should be stopped because there...
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Wife Accuses A-Rod of Spying on Her
Things are getting more interesting day by day in Alex Rodriguez’ divorce trial from his wife...
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Hormone Therapy Not Efficient in Older Men with Prostate Cancer
A new study published in the July 9 issue of the Journal of
the American Medical Association...
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50s Musical Star Cyd Charisse Died
Cyd Charisse, one of the icons of the Hollywood musicals from the 50s, died Tuesday of what is...
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