Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Age And Higher Premiums Go Together: Fair? – 944th Edition

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Old people get sick more than young people, and in most states that adds up to them paying a lot more for their health insurance premiums.
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Age And Higher Premiums Go Together: Fair? – 944th Edition

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Old people get sick more than young people, and in most states that adds up to them paying a lot more for their health insurance premiums.
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Military To Get Mandatory Swine Flu Shots – 945th Edition

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Active duty forces deploying to war zones and other critical areas will be among the first to get the H1N1 vaccine.
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Military To Get Mandatory Swine Flu Shots – 945th Edition

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Active duty forces deploying to war zones and other critical areas will be among the first to get the H1N1 vaccine.
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Wrong-Embryo Baby’s Parents Laud ‘Guardian Angel’ – 934th Edition

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

An Ohio woman who gave birth to a baby boy after a fertility clinic implanted her with the wrong embryo is a “guardian angel,” the boy’s biological parents said Saturday.
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Fed. Program Misses Problem Nursing Homes – 935th Edition

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing homes leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities, investigators report.
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Toxins Found In School Drinking Water – 936th Edition

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

The drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and other toxins.
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What’s Ugly, Smells, Kills Dogs? Blue-Green Algae – 937th Edition

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that’s killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.
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Intense Tracking For Swine Flu Shot’s Side Effects – 938th Edition

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you’re one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?
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585K Kids Have Bad Drug Reactions Per Year – 939th Edition

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Unknown allergies and accidental overdoses leave over half a million kids with bad side effects each year.
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