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Kaiser Family Foundation says employers are shifting health care costs to workers

Kaiser Family Foundation says employers are shifting health care costs to workers

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02 Sep 2010
Employers have been shifting health care costs to workers, according to Employer Health Benefits Survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & ...

Experimental New Drug May Prolong Life for Melanoma Patients

Experimental New Drug May Prolong Life for Melanoma Patients

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26 Aug 2010
A newly discovered and experimental gene therapy drug may bring a ray of hope to those patients who are suffering from Melanoma. Although it is ...

New Help for Adults With ADHD: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

New Help for Adults With ADHD: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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24 Aug 2010
Doctors have prescribed pills to adults who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for decades, but a new study has found something that will ...

 
Tai chi proven effective as a therapy for fibromyalgia

Tai chi proven effective as a therapy for fibromyalgia

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19 Aug 2010
According to new research, tai chi may be effective as a therapy for fibromyalgia. The research was published on Thursday in The New England Journal ...

Alarming number of teens are losing some of their hearing

Alarming number of teens are losing some of their hearing

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17 Aug 2010
An alarming number of teenagers have lost at least some of their hearing, approximately one in five and the problem has increased considerably in recent ...

Second HPV vaccine okayed by FDA

Second HPV vaccine okayed by FDA

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19 Oct 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a second vaccine designed to protect against cervical cancer and setting up a pharmaceutical competition. Cervarix, manufactured ...

 
Wait and Watch Good Option in Prostate Cancer: Study Shows

Wait and Watch Good Option in Prostate Cancer: Study Shows

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16 Sep 2009
New studies show that older men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and decide to wait to have a procedure done are faring better ...

House Democrats to Follow Lead of Senate Dems on Health Care

House Democrats to Follow Lead of Senate Dems on Health Care

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16 Jul 2009
By Sarrah Martin-Howell WASHINGTON--In the wake of the Senate Health Committee's approval--along strictly partisan lines--of President Obama's massive program to reform the country's health care system, ...

Farrah Fawcett Anal Cancer Update

Farrah Fawcett Anal Cancer Update

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19 May 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - NBC has requested a sequal to Farrah Fawcett’s documentary. The strong ratings that “Farrah’s Story” brought this past Friday, with ...

 
Health Care Reform In America: Merely Chasing Rainbows?

Health Care Reform In America: Merely Chasing Rainbows?

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19 Apr 2009
Jacksonville -  In January of 2009, there were six deaths due to contaminated peanut butter. The US government under the waning days of the Bush ...

Need For Health Care Reform Painfully Obvious

Need For Health Care Reform Painfully Obvious

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19 Apr 2009
jacksonville - It is obvious that there is a call for immediate repair of the health care system in the Untied States. The media is ...

Brown Fat Helps Battle Obesity: Study

Brown Fat Helps Battle Obesity: Study

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12 Apr 2009
Jacksonville - Do you like to be really COLD? Would you consider being kept at 61* for at least two hours in order to increase ...

 
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