Thursday, November 4, 2010

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CT Scans Can Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths, Study Finds
New York Times
By GARDINER HARRIS WASHINGTON — Annual CT scans of current and former heavy smokers reduce the risk that they will die from lung cancer by 20 percent, a huge government-financed study has found. Even more surprising, the scans seemed to reduce their ...
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Happy Meal Ban in San Francisco: Food Police or Fat Fighter?
CBS News
Actually, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban restaurants from handing out toys with meals that fail to meet basic nutritional standards for fat, calories, and sodium. That would include the Happy Meal, which has been a fat-packed fave ...
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CBS News
HealthKey: Will new Congress repeal health care reform?
Baltimore Sun
Many conservatives running for Congress, including many who won, say they want to revisit health care reform – repeal or tweak or defund or something. Americans do remain split on the legislation overall – CNN said exit polls showed half want it ...
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FDA Confirms Listeria in Celery from Texas Food Processing Plant
eMaxHealth
On October 20, the Texas Department of State Health Services ordered SanGar Fresh Cut Produce to immediately stop processing food and to recall all of its products that were shipped since January from its San Antonio plant after tests came back ...
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Alcohol Energy Drinks to be Banned in Michigan
MyFox Detroit
By myFOXDetroit.com Staff (WJBK) - Michigan officials Thursday announced the ban of alcohol energy drinks throughout the state and will give manufacturers 30 days to remove the products from store shelfs, according to a release from the Michigan Liquor ...
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MyFox Detroit
Decline in ADT Not at Expense of Men With Prostate Cancer
Medscape
November 4, 2010 – In 2003, Medicare paid out about $1 billion for gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists used in the treatment of prostate cancer. By 2005, the payout for these drugs, known as androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), was reduced to ...
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Americans sicker but English die quicker says study
Reuters
An elderly man in a electric wheelchair smokes a cigar as he rides through Hyde Park in London, May 19, 2010. By Kate Kelland and Julie Steenhuysen LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Older Americans suffer more chronic disease than their English counterparts, ...
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Reuters
State to drop 350 patients in HIV/AIDS drug program
Sun-Sentinel
By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel The Florida Department of Health plans to drop about 350 uninsured HIV/AIDS patients from a federally funded program that pays for all or most of their drugs, because of a budget crisis. Another 2000 or more HIV-positive ...
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