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Senate approves delaying Medicare pay cut Los Angeles Times The move would postpone a 25% reduction in doctors' fees for another year. President Obama urges lawmakers to work on a permanent solution. By Noam N. Levey, Tribune Washington Bureau The Senate on Wednesday agreed unanimously to postpone for another ... See all stories on this topic »

Secondhand smoke tied to childrens' poor mental health Reuters This handout image, released on November 10, 2010 depicts a mother blowing cigarette smoke in a child's face in one of the Federal Drug Administration's proposed new ''graphic health warnings.'' Diseased lungs, dead bodies, a man on a ventilator and ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

Orexigen Vote Provides Hope For Approval, Other Cos Wall Street Journal By Thomas Gryta Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A US Food and Drug Administration panel's positive recommendation of Orexigen Therapeutics Inc.'s (OREX) weight-loss drug Contrave increases the likelihood for approval and provides hope for ... See all stories on this topic »

Weight-Lifting After Breast Cancer Won't Cause Lymphedema, Study Finds BusinessWeek By Amanda Gardner WEDNESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Contrary to conventional wisdom, lifting weights doesn't cause breast cancer survivors to develop the painful, arm-swelling condition known as lymphedema, new research suggests. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dirty money: Tests find BPA on dollar bills msnbc.com Tests of dollar bills detected traces of the hormone-disrupting chemical BPA, advocacy groups said. JoNel Aleccia writes: As if holiday shopping weren't stressful enough, a new report says the dwindling stash of cash in your wallet might be tainted ... See all stories on this topic »

Aretha 'recovering' Boston Globe Aretha Franklin reportedly has pancreatic cancer and underwent serious surgery last week and is "recovering very well,'' her longtime friend, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said yesterday. Jackson said that he's visited with the legendary singer four or five ... See all stories on this topic »

Doctors slash patients' lab-test costs CNN By Jim Kavanagh, CNN Dr. Doug Lefton of Fairlawn, Ohio, developed a way to lower patients' cost for lab tests. (CNN) -- Day after demoralizing day, Dr. Doug Lefton watched uninsured patients leave his office needing laboratory tests but unlikely to ... See all stories on this topic »

Surgeon general says a whiff of cigarette smoke can hurt you Los Angeles Times Even secondhand smoke leads to inflammation and injury to tissues throughout the body and can cause many diseases, a report says. By Linda Shrieves, Orlando Sentinel Any exposure to tobacco smoke can cause immediate damage to your body, according to a ... See all stories on this topic »

Cholera in Haiti has spread to every part of the country, CDC reports Los Angeles Times By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times ATLANTA -- The cholera outbreak has spread to every section of Haiti, sickening more than 91000 people and killing more than 2000, and is spreading into the Dominican Republic, the Centers for Disease Control and ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

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