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Health Highlights: Feb. 21, 2012

February 22nd, 2012 by admin

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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Health resources

February 21st, 2012 by admin

Providence Regional Cancer Partnership: 1717 13th St., Everett. Call 425-297-5500 or see www.cancerpartnership.org for more information: Click on "Support Services," then, on the right side of the page, click on "Classes" or "Support Groups."
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HEALTH

February 19th, 2012 by admin

BLOOD DONATIONS: •American Red Cross Bloodmobile locations: First United Methodist Church, Activity Center, 110 N. Cass St., Wabash, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday; South Adams Senior Center, Main Hall, 825 Hendrick St., Berne, noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday;
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Health Highlights: Feb. 17, 2012

February 18th, 2012 by admin

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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Health Highlights: Feb. 16, 2012

February 17th, 2012 by admin

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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Health Highlights: Feb. 14, 2012

February 15th, 2012 by admin

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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Health Care In Massachusetts Turns To Cost Control

February 14th, 2012 by admin

When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he made universal health care law. But the 2006 law didn't do anything about controlling costs, which were already among the nation's highest. So now the conversation has turned to cost control, and some very interesting things are beginning to happen.
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Health Care In Massachusetts: 'Abject Failure' Or Work In Progress?

February 13th, 2012 by admin

President Obama's health care overhaul was largely based on one that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in Massachusetts in 2006. Now, more than 98 percent of state residents have health insurance, and the law has drawn unexpected supporters. But controlling costs remains a challenge.
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Health Highlights: Feb. 10, 2012

February 11th, 2012 by admin

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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Health Savings Accounts Help Consumers Save on Their Taxes and Health Care

February 9th, 2012 by admin

As 2011 W-2 forms and 1099s start arriving in mailboxes throughout the country, now is the time to remind taxpayers with health savings accounts that they have until April 1
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Health-care changes lurk

February 8th, 2012 by admin

Health-care changes are under way no matter what happens with federal reform, either as a result of the presidential election or challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court, a national health-care economist and Toledo native says.
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Doctors Health Press Supports Study Showing That Diabetes Could Boost the Risk of Hearing Loss

February 4th, 2012 by admin

Doctors Health Press Supports Study Showing That Diabetes Could Boost the Risk of Hearing Loss The Doctors Health Press, a publisher of various natural health newsletters, books and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is lending its support to a new study showing that diabetes, if not controlled well, boosts the risk of hearing loss. The Doctors Health Press, a ...
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Health Care Payers Push Back Against Costs

February 4th, 2012 by admin

The opacity surrounding prices and the practice of charging different buyers different prices for identical goods or services contribute mightily to the cost of health care, but at the least the former may be on the way out, an economist writes.
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Health care law defended

February 3rd, 2012 by admin

Local mothers, female business owners and students are the latest groups being targeted by the White House's campaign to promote the Affordable Care Act.
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Employment Rising as Health Care Eclipses Factories With Aging Americans

February 1st, 2012 by admin

The aging of America may be good for the U.S. labor market.
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U.K. Health Service Faces Damage From Reforms, Editors Say

January 31st, 2012 by admin

Britain’s National Health Service will need another overhaul in five years if “damaging” changes being implemented by the government are allowed to continue, the editors of three U.K. health-care publications said.
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Three Health Benefits of Kettlebell Exercises

January 29th, 2012 by admin

Kettlebells can provide an athlete with a great workout, and can be very beneficial to his or her health. Kettlebells basically look like a ball with a triangular handle, and is very common in different lifts or presses. An athlete can choose to swing the kettlebell for a pretty...
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Discrimination Seems to Harm Health Regardless of Race

January 28th, 2012 by admin

FRIDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Discrimination can be a threat to health, according to a new study that included both blacks and whites.
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