Archive for August, 2009

Drug Industry Helping Obama Overhaul Health Care – 655th Edition

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

A big money campaign for health care reform by the nation’s drugmakers could dwarf all attempts to derail President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
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Recession Baby Bust: US Births Down 2% – 654th Edition

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

There aren’t just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too.
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Alcoholics Often Experts At Hiding It – 653th Edition

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

At one point during her quarter-century as an alcoholic, Carol Colleran would down at least 10 beers each weeknight, more on weekends. Then she would show up the next morning at her job in hospital management, feeling fuzzy and lousy.
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Higher Debt Means More Fat, Research Says – 652th Edition

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

A study finds that people with high debt are more likely to be obese.
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Hormone Drops May Help People Lose Weight – 651th Edition

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Some clinics give a pregnancy hormone to help people lose weight. But patients also have to follow a very strict diet.
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Recession Baby Bust: US Births Down 2% – 650th Edition

Friday, August 7th, 2009

There aren’t just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too.
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Higher Debt Means More Fat, Research Says – 649th Edition

Friday, August 7th, 2009

A study finds that people with high debt are more likely to be obese.
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Recession Drives Summer Push To Feed Kids – 648th Edition

Friday, August 7th, 2009

The federal Summer Meal Service program is making a summer push to feed millions of children at risk of going hungry.
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Experts: Women Drink More, DUIs Rise – 647th Edition

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Women in the U.S. are drinking more, and drunken-driving arrests among women are rising rapidly while falling among men.
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Officials: ‘Nurse Of Year’ Not Really Nurse – 646th Edition

Friday, August 7th, 2009

A Connecticut woman who authorities say spent more than $2,000 to stage a dinner honoring her as “Nurse of the Year” has been charged with pretending to be a nurse at a doctor’s office.
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