Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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You Want a Toy With That?
New York Times
By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO — Lost in the nationwide electoral tumult Tuesday was another important vote, this one by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which took on one of the great (tasting) issues of our day: the Happy Meal. ...
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Health Care Vote Only a Part of Democrats' Vulnerability
New York Times
By KEVIN SACK ATLANTA — In the end, it may have mattered less whether vulnerable Democratic incumbents voted for or against the health care law than that they simply had a D by their names. Representative John Boccieri, Democrat of Ohio, voted for the ...
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FDA: Texas food plant tests positive for listeria
CNN
By Phil Gast and Greg Botelho, CNN Four people died after consuming celery that had been processed at a Texas plant, the FDA says. (CNN) -- The US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday a closed Texas food processing plant tested positive for a ...
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Use of Prostate Cancer Treatment Fell When Medicare Paid Docs Less
BusinessWeek
By Amanda Gardner WEDNESDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- When Medicare cut its reimbursement rates for hormonal treatment for men with prostate cancer, use declined drastically. But patients who really stood to benefit from the treatment ...
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Gene Associated With Autism May Alter How Brain Functions
BusinessWeek
By Jenifer Goodwin WEDNESDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- People with a common genetic variant that's associated with autism have a "disconnect" between their frontal lobe and other areas of the brain important for language, brain scans show. ...
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Colds and flu? Not you!
CNN
By Aviva Patz, Health.com Prevent the spread of germs when you get sick. Throw away your used tissues immediately and stay home if possible. (Health.com) -- It's that time again: Everywhere you go, people are sniffling, sneezing, and coughing. ...
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Ca whooping cough cases double from last peak year
San Jose Mercury News
By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER AP LOS ANGELES—Twice as many cases of whooping cough have been diagnosed this year in California as compared to the last peak year in 2005. State health officials say more than 6400 cases of the highly contagious illness have ...
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Melwood students think pink to raise awareness about breast cancer
Business Gazette
by Zoe Tillman | Staff Writer Melwood Elementary School sixth-graders (from left) Mariah Snowden, Laron Wheeler and Annie Jiang and other students at the Upper Marlboro school form a human ribbon Friday to honor National Breast Cancer Awareness Month ...
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Pregnancy and Peanuts: Tricky Truths About Food Allergies
ABC News
By JANE E. ALLEN, ABC News Medical Unit Sitting down to a meal can be daunting for an expectant mother weighing conflicting recommendations about which foods are good for her unborn child -- and which might subject that child to long-term ills like ...
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