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1. Witherspoon - Cancer Clusters
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Roger Witherspoon failed to mention that claims of increases in cancers, birth defects, infant mortality, Leukemia, etc. due to nuclear power plants have also been refuted by the American Cancer Society, ...

2. Same old, same old...
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...  What people don't realize, or Congressmen Lance fails to point out, is that they have lower infant mortality rates, higher life expectancy, universal health care, 'free' higher education. Yes, they ...

3. Nuclear powered cancer clusters
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... of Sciences to conduct a two-year study of both cancer incidence and mortality around former, current, and proposed nuclear reactor sites. The $5 million study, which is expected to take a year to design ...

4. ‘Addams Family’ musical succeeds as a crowd-pleaser
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... musical. Composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa's score is spotty at best; Morticia's bouncy "Just Around the Corner" anthem to mortality and a ‘20s-style vo-dee-o-do "Let's Not Talk About Anything Else But Love" ...

5. Outbreak of equine herpes forces quarantine of six farms
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... spontaneous abortions in pregnant mares, and the neurologic form of the virus can reach high morbidity and mortality rates. The incubation period for clinically affected horses is typically 2 to 10 days, ...

6. Isn't the real measure of successfull medical treatment keeping the patient alive?
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... alive. The mortality rate for opiate addiction is comparable to just about any form of cancer and yet many continue to suggest that this deadly disease can be controlled through 12-step programs and ...

7. Wellness coaching study finds long term benefits for cancer survivors
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... other healthy lifestyle behaviors. The American Cancer Society recommends survivors maintain a healthy weight and engage in healthy lifestyle habits to reduce risk of recurrence, mortality, and other ...

8. Gates pledge $10 billion to help save lives of poor children through vaccines
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BY JIM LOBE IPS NEWS AGENCY WASHINGTON — The pledge by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide 10 billion dollars over 10 years on vaccines aimed at reducing child mortality in the world's ...

9. Stephen Rea stars in Sam Shepard’s latest play ‘Ages of the Moon’
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... women. Not an especially dynamic or deeply profound work, "Ages of the Moon" gracefully considers mortality, regret, friendship and eternal fascination with the opposite sex. Shepard writes of these ...

10. Robert C. Garrett: Like politics, all health care is local
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... being recognized as high-value facilities. Indicators including re-admission rates, mortality rates and patient safety demonstrate that hospitals that focus on the quality of service rather than the ...

11. Screening for breast cancer: Opposing federal task force recommendations
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... a loss of 20 percent of the benefit is an acceptable loss of life or years of life preserved. Similarly, the conclusion that the additional mortality reductions in the 40-50 and over 69 age groups compared ...

12. Mammogram debate: Politics and breast cancer have a history
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... behind you. When you look at a disease like lung cancer, the mortality rate is so high that there are very few survivors. So all of the women that we see who have, fortunately, survived breast cancer ...

13. Some not pleased with government’s new guidelines for mammograms
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... breast cancer mortality, while decreasing the harm," she states. Specialists are split on the new guidelines which also recommend that doctors stop teaching women how to do self exams. As for mammograms, ...

14. Women in Cuba choosing to have fewer children
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... health clinic to the national network of hospitals, where 99.9 percent of all mothers give birth today, Cuba has been able to reduce the maternal mortality rate from 120 per 100,000 live births in 1960 ...

15. Study: Antibiotic-resistant infections cost the U.S. over $35 billion annually
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... per patient, while the duration of hospital stay was extended 6.4 — 12.7 days for affected patients. Additionally, the excess mortality attributed to ARIs alone was 6.5% — a death rate two-fold higher ...

16. Jersey doctor Dr. Robert Gallo focuses on natural treatments for dealing with menopause
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... saying women who have lung cancer and use Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) have a 71 percent higher mortality rate than women with lung cancer who are not on HRT, I have a healthy distrust of HRT," states ...

17. How to keep your ability to be happy forever young
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...  We may feel the effects of aging on our bodies. We may look in the mirror and wonder who that old guy or gal is. We may have even dodged a few mortality bullets already. But that doesn't change the only ...

18. N.J. seeks Medicaid family planning coverage for over 70,000 people
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... healthier babies," said Health Commissioner Heather Howard. "Inadequate prenatal care late in a pregnancy can lead to dangerous complications including low birth weights, infant mortality and even the ...

19. Civilization can be saved from climate change and food shortages
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... population by lowering fertility before nature takes over and halts population growth by raising mortality? Yes. But it will take something close to a wartime mobilization, one similar to that of the ...

20. Harvard report finds nearly 45,000 Americans die annually because of lack of health insurance
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... poor and unemployed, smokers, the obese and other potentially vulnerable populations, "lack of health insurance significantly increased the risk of mortality," according to the study. On a positive note, ...