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Health Care Reform Hypocrisy: States Suing Government Willing To ... By The Huffington Post News Editors WASHINGTON — More than half a dozen states suing to overturn President Barack Obama's health care law are also claiming its subsidies for covering retired state government employees, according to a list released Tuesday by the ... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf

Health Highlights: Aug. 31, 2010 - healthfinder.gov And the VA said this week that it plans to add Parkinson's disease, heart disease and certain types of leukemia to the list of health problems that might be associated with Agent Orange. -----. Restaurant Portions Too Large: Study ... healthfinder.gov Daily News - http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/

Opposition To Health Care Law On The Rise Again | TPMDC By Brian Beutler Though for a time, opposition to health care reform legislation was on the decline, and support appeared to be rising, those trends have frozen, and possibly even reversed, according to both a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll, ... TPMDC - http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/obama-holds-presser-with-medvedev----says-us-will-not-miss-a-beat-in-afghanistan.php

Unbelievable: Koch Industries Cashing in on Health Care Law They ... By igorvolsky The contradictory practice of opposing the health care law while applying for its funding has been a common practice among states. For instance, at least 19 of the 22 states that are suing the federal government over health care reform ... AlterNet Blogs Master Site Feed Posts - http://www.alternet.org/

Poll Suggests Unpopular Individual Mandate Hurts Health Care ... By Jon Walker Health care reform has steadily decreased in popularity since its passage as the Kaiser tracking poll shows; the individual mandate is deeply and extremely unpopular. Using the IRS to force Americans to buy a product from one of the ... Firedoglake - http://firedoglake.com/

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Government appeals court ruling blocking stem-cell research funding CNN By Terry Frieden, CNN Justice Producer The Justice Department says the court order irrevocably harms people who'd benefit from continuing research. Washington (CNN) -- The Justice Department, as promised, moved Tuesday to block a court ruling ... See all stories on this topic »

Officer Cited In Girl's Death Wall Street Journal By SEAN GARDINER Police suspended officer Alfonso Mendez Tuesday afternoon on the departmental charge of failure to take appropriate action, police said, in connection with the death of an 11-year-old girl who had an asthma attack. ... See all stories on this topic »

Multiple sclerosis symptoms vary with the season, study finds Los Angeles Times Patients were at higher risk of developing lesions and suffering more intense symptoms during the summer. Multiple sclerosis, a disease in which a person's own immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, is a lifelong problem -- but its effects ... See all stories on this topic »

2000 groups approved for 'early retiree' health-care claims Washington Post By NC Aizenman Nearly 2000 employers and unions have been approved to seek federal reimbursement for the health claims of their "early retirees," or retired workers aged 55 or older who are too young to get Medicare, Obama administration officials ... See all stories on this topic »

More evidence that teens are losing their hearing Los Angeles Times Can you hear me now? Not so much, according to yet another study documenting the loss of hearing among teenagers. Researchers in New York examined the ears of 8710 teenage girls who lived in a foster care facility between 1985 and 2008. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

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Surgery prevents breast cancers in high-risk women Reuters Vasiliki Kostoula, a Greek breast cancer patient, is framed through a breast x-ray after a radiological medical examination in an Athens hospital October 29, 2008. By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women with mutations in the well-known BRCA1 or ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

White House Asks Court: Unfreeze Stem Cell $$ ABC News The Obama administration filed court papers on Wednesday asking a federal judge to suspend an order he issued last week that blocked the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research. "The court's order causes irrevocable harm to the millions ... See all stories on this topic »

H1N1 in air but vaccines find few takers Times of India NEW DELHI: Swine flu vaccines, both nasal and intra-muscular injectibles, have failed to take off here in the city even as the number of cases and deaths caused by the viral influenza continue to increase. A random survey of the popular chemist shops ... See all stories on this topic »

Battling salmonella squeezes egg farmers Los Angeles Times A strict quality assurance program has virtually wiped out salmonella in California henhouses, but it makes locally produced eggs more expensive. Francisco Jimenez Cruz gathers eggs laid by Leghorn hens at Armstrong Egg Farms in Valley Center, Calif., ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Kids' Sports-Related Concussions Soar MedPage Today By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Emergency department visits for concussions occurring in children's and teens' team sports have risen sharply since the late 1990s, researchers said. The estimated number of adolescents 14 to 19 years old ... See all stories on this topic » MedPage Today

About 2000 employers qualify for federal subsidies for retiree healthcare Los Angeles Times Businesses, labor unions and state and local governments are seeking aid under a $5-billion program in the new healthcare law that encourages employers to keep insurance plans for retirees ages 55 to 64. By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times The Obama ... See all stories on this topic »

Babies Born Late May Face Small Cerebral Palsy Risk BusinessWeek By Steven Reinberg TUESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Infants born preterm or later than term are at slightly greater risk of developing cerebral palsy, Norwegian researchers report. It has been known that premature birth is associated with an ... See all stories on this topic »

Ft. Bragg investigates infant deaths Los Angeles Times Ten babies have died suddenly while living in base housing since January 2007. All were younger than 8 months, and no sign of foul play was found in any of the deaths. By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times On April 15, 2009, Melissa Pollard's ... See all stories on this topic »

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Egg Farms Violated Safety Rules New York Times By WILLIAM NEUMAN Barns infested with flies, maggots and scurrying rodents, and overflowing manure pits were among the widespread food safety problems that federal inspectors found at a group of Iowa egg farms at the heart of a nationwide recall and ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Health Buzz: Multiple Sclerosis Worsens When Weather is Warm U.S. News & World Report By Angela Haupt Sunny with a chance of a multiple sclerosis flare-up? Changes in temperature may influence the severity of MS symptoms, according to a study published Monday in Neurology. Researchers compared brain scans of 44 people with untreated MS ... See all stories on this topic »

Healthcare workers should get a flu shot or lose their jobs, two health groups say Los Angeles Times The swine-flu scare of 2009 turned a spotlight on a controversial issue: Should healthcare workers be required to have an annual flu vaccine? Most studies suggest that healthcare workers should be vaccinated to help stop the spread of flu. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Heavy Drinkers Outlive Non-Drinkers: Cheers to That CBS News That's the highly unusual conclusion of a new study which suggests that non-drinkers die sooner than heavy drinkers. Moderate drinkers fair the best. The paper, which appears in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, took a look at 1824 ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

Media's Impact On Teen Sexual Behaviors, Teenage Pregnancies And Sexually ... Medical News Today With the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Western Hemisphere and 25% of teens having had a sexually transmitted infection, we should be paying careful attention to media messages about sexuality and contraception, says a revised policy statement by ... See all stories on this topic »

Can Fruits, Veggies Help Ward Off Lung Cancer? BusinessWeek By Jenifer Goodwin TUESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables may help protect some smokers from lung cancer, a new European study suggests. But, the researchers stressed that quitting smoking will do far more ... See all stories on this topic »

Some states suing feds also claim health subsidies The Associated Press WASHINGTON — More than half a dozen states suing to overturn President Barack Obama's health care law are also claiming its subsidies for covering retired state government employees, according to a list released Tuesday by the administration. ... See all stories on this topic »

Baxter lung drug promotion misleading -- US FDA Reuters WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - US health officials have issued a warning to Baxter International Inc (BAX.N) for misleading patients and doctors about the benefits of its Aralast lung drug. In the warning released on Tuesday, the US Food and Drug ... See all stories on this topic »

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RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - Health Care Reform Has ... By Jay Cost There is no mention of health care reform in this piece. The economy is referenced several times. So is the President's inability to control the narrative. Even the Ground Zero Mosque is mentioned as a reason why the House is now in ... RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/

Nelson Blasts Nebraska Governor For Threatening Teachers Over ... By Brian Beutler Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) is openly defending health care reform from Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who this week pressured the states educational professionals to choose between the new law and, potentially, their jobs. TPMDC - http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/obama-holds-presser-with-medvedev----says-us-will-not-miss-a-beat-in-afghanistan.php

Changing perceptions of mental health - Freedom Central - Freedom ... By Veronica German This person has a mental health condition, just like millions across the UK and hundreds of thousands of people in Wales. In fact a quarter of people in the UK will experience mental ill health at some point in their lives. ... Freedom Central - http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/

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FDA Finds Safety Violations at Iowa Egg Farms RedOrbit Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors have discovered that a pair of Iowa egg farms, where tainted chicken feed linked to the ongoing salmonella outbreak in the US was discovered, failed to follow their own safety guidelines. ... See all stories on this topic »

Swine flu death toll rises to 30 in Delhi Times of India NEW DELHI: The swine flu toll in the city reached 30 after another patient admitted in a city hospital succumbed to the H1N1 virus on Tuesday. Another 53 swab samples tested positive for H1N1 virus taking the count of laboratory confirmed swine flu ... See all stories on this topic »

Study Shows MS More Active in the Spring and Summer Months Health Jackal New research shows that multiple sclerosis (MS) may be more active in the spring and summer months. A team of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital discovered on the scan results that lesions occurred three times more aggressive during warm ... See all stories on this topic » Health Jackal

Concussions Sending More Young Athletes to ER TIME As the pressure turns on, younger athletes are being sent to the ER.A study published in the journal Pediatrics reveals that childhood concussions have doubled, even though sport participation has decreased. According to the study which looked at ... See all stories on this topic »

Study: Drinkers Outlive Non-Drinkers FOXNews The benefits of drinking alcohol may go beyond the jollies of inebriation and, in fact, help you live longer than non-drinkers, Time.com reported. While the reasons aren't yet clear to the research team who conducted the study, they found that ... See all stories on this topic »

C-Section Rates Are High and Getting Higher WebMD By Salynn Boyles Aug. 30, 2010 -- Cesarean section deliveries are at an all-time high in the US and are expected to keep rising, and new government-funded research may help explain the trend. Nearly one in three babies are now delivered surgically ... See all stories on this topic »

Alimera Shares Rise On FDA Update >ALIM Wall Street Journal Shares of biotech company Alimera Sciences Inc. (ALIM) rose Tuesday on news that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted its drug candidate Iluvien priority review status, meaning the agency will make a decision on whether to approve the drug ... See all stories on this topic »

A Million Seniors Receive $250 Medicare Checks Huffington Post (blog) More than a million Medicare beneficiaries have been issued $250 checks to help with prescription drugs costs, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday. The legislation aims to close the "doughnut hole" coverage gap, ... See all stories on this topic »

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Inspectors: Egg farms in recall unsanitary Washington Post By Lyndsey Layton Federal investigators found piles of manure up to eight feet tall, live mice, pigeons and other birds inside the hen houses at two egg farms suspected of causing a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness, officials said Monday. ... See all stories on this topic »

Multiple sclerosis increase during summer Times of India "Our results showed that the appearance of lesions on brain scans was two to three times higher in the months of March to August, compared to other months of the year," said study author Dominik Meier, of Brigham and Women''s Hospital in Boston and a ... See all stories on this topic »

Health Alerts: flu vaccines, green diets Dallas Morning News Wondering if flu vaccines are available? The answer is yes, but you might have to do a little detective work to find a place near you. This year's vaccine protects against the 2009 H1N1 and two other influenza viruses. The Centers for Disease Control ... See all stories on this topic »

Cause Of Lou Gehrig's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Linked To ... Medical News Today br>Two substantial studies, and articles published by The Lancet Neurology have confirmed that variations to the genes located on chromosome number nine may contribute to the development of front temporal dementia and also ALS, amyotrophic lateral ... See all stories on this topic »

One Third of First-Time Pregnancies Delivered by Cesarean Medscape August 30, 2010 — The rate of cesarean deliveries in the United States is continuing its upward trajectory, according to a new study released today. Now accounting for 30% of all deliveries, the rate of cesarean delivery has increased 50% from 1996 to ... See all stories on this topic »

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Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers? TIME By John Cloud Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists expect C-section rate to keep rising Boston Globe AP / August 31, 2010 WASHINGTON — More women will be giving birth by caesarean section for the foreseeable future, government scientists said yesterday, releasing a study into the causes of a trend that troubles maternal health experts. ... See all stories on this topic »

They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists New York Times By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Don't be too quick to dismiss the common bedbug as merely a pestiferous six-legged blood-sucker. THE ICK FACTOR The lab of Stephen A. Kells, a University of Minnesota entomologist. Bedbugs are not known to transmit disease. ... See all stories on this topic »

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Inspectors find unsanitary conditions at egg farms Washington Post Chris Waldrop, Director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America, says the Food and Drug Administration has done a good job handling a massive egg recall, but adds the agency needs more authority to prevent outbreaks. (Aug. ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Post

Moderate Drinkers Live Longer Than Abstainers, Study Confirms BusinessWeek By David Olmos Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Older adults who enjoy two glasses of wine or cocktails daily may drink a toast to researchers who confirmed that moderate drinkers live longer than teetotalers. A study of 1824 adults ages 55 to 65 found that ... See all stories on this topic »

Ease the pain, Mary Jane Los Angeles Times Stick to the pipe, medical marijuana users: that's the message from Canadian researchers who found that smoking even relatively low doses of cannabis can help reduce chronic pain, ease sleep and reduce anxiety. The findings were published Monday in the ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

MS activity 'alters with seasons' BBC News Brain scans of patients compared with weather patterns at the time showed higher levels of disease activity in the spring and summer. The US researchers said the findings had implications for testing new medicines, which may show up different results ... See all stories on this topic »

Why has the USA's cesarean section rate climbed so high? USA Today By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY Impatience could help explain the rising US cesarean section rate, given that a high percentage of such deliveries probably are performed before women are in active labor, a new National Institutes of Health-sponsored study ... See all stories on this topic »

Pediatric Group Issues New Flu Shot Guidelines BusinessWeek MONDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- All children and adolescents 6 months of age and older should receive the annual trivalent influenza vaccine this flu season, according to updated recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics. ... See all stories on this topic »

Genetic Studies Find Clues to 'Lou Gehrig's Disease' Risk BusinessWeek MONDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Genetic variations on a specific chromosome appear to play a role in a fatal motor neuron condition known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, two teams of scientists have found. ... See all stories on this topic »

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Where Can I Find Good Health Info Online? - Healthy Living ... By Theresa Tamkins As a doctor, I appreciate patients who are interested in their health care. It's important that you understand what is going on, the symptoms, treatments, and possible side effects. And you can find really good, reliable information if ... Healthy Living - http://living.health.com/

The Progressive Economics Forum » Recession Reduces Health Care ... By Jim Stanford I'm not at all surprised by the pro-cyclical nature of health care use in the US since employer-sponsored medical plans fund so much of the health care bill. They are a very large player in Canada as well, which is what probably ... The Progressive Economics Forum - http://www.progressive-economics.ca/

Unemployed Are Seeing A Rise in Health Care Costs By The Huffington Post News Editors While the national unemployment rate has been hovering at about 9.5 percent for the last year, the average cost of health care plans for jobless Americans is steadily on the rise. Terminated workers are paying an average of $429 a month ... The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/

How Much Do Health Insurance Companies Spend On You? By DR Writer The MLR is part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a law that puts into place comprehensive health insurance reforms that is intended to hold insurance companies more accountable, will lower health care costs, guarantee more health care ... The Dough Roller - http://www.doughroller.net/

Run an Efficient Practice With Mental Health Billing Services By MasterBlaster Medical billing services encompass a variety of activities, the main purpose of which is the complete processing of bills and the filing of claims with insurance companies, so that the clients of such medical billers, ie physicians, ... StopFrom Information & Treatment - http://stopfrom.com/

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FDA reports numerous violations at egg farms CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Inspection reports released by the FDA noted numerous violations at nine egg-producing Iowa farms. (CNN) -- Rodents, leaking manure, uncaged birds and flies too numerous to count were found by investigators at Iowa farms at the ... See all stories on this topic »

5 Easy Ways Parents Can Make Back-to-School Time Safe and Healthy U.S. News & World Report By Nancy Shute Parents get no shortage of back-to-school advice, but key tasks can slip by in that flood of information. While some items on the to-do list may not seem so pressing right now, they can set your child up for success or failure. ... See all stories on this topic »

Sports-Related Concussions on the Rise in Kids WebMD By Salynn Boyles Aug. 30, 2010 -- The number of young children treated in hospital ERs for concussions they got while playing on sports teams has doubled in just a decade, a new study shows. While the concussion rate is higher among high-school-age ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Do Moderate Drinkers Live Longer Than Abstainers? Medical News Today Researchers found that moderate alcohol drinkers are more likely to live longer over a 20-year follow-up than heavy drinkers and abstainers. Moderate drinking means consuming about one or two drinks per day. A report published in the journal ... See all stories on this topic »

Marijuana Relieves Chronic Pain, Research Shows WebMD By Kathleen Doheny Aug. 30, 2010 -- Three puffs a day of cannabis, better known as marijuana, helps people with chronic nerve pain due to injury or surgery feel less pain and sleep better, a Canadian team has found. ''It's been known anecdotally," says ... See all stories on this topic »

Adding Omega-3 to Margarine Doesn't Help Heart WebMD By Charlene Laino Aug. 30, 2010 (Stockholm, Sweden) -- Margarine fortified with omega-3 fatty acids does not appear to protect older men and women who have survived a heart attack from having another heart attack or other cardiac event. ... See all stories on this topic »

Medicare To Cover Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Counseling Medical News Today People who want to give up smoking may be entitled to Medicare cover for evidence-based cessation counseling, the HSS (Department of Health and Human Services, USA) announced. Before this announcement, only individuals with a tobacco-related disease ... See all stories on this topic »

Sebelius: Time for 'Reeducation' on Obama Health Care Law ABC News (blog) With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats' health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration has "a lot of ... See all stories on this topic »

First Genetic Link Found for Common Migraine WebMD By Kelli Miller Stacy People who have a specific change, or variation, in a section of DNA that helps control a brain chemical called glutamate have a significantly greater risk of developing migraines, researchers report in this week's issue of Nature ... See all stories on this topic »

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