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Will It Pass? The Odds on Health Care
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Recipes for Health: Portobello and Fried Egg Panino
Have the portabellos in your refrigerator seen better days? This simple sandwich is a satisfying solution.
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Big Drug Makers Lag in Emerging Markets, Study Says
As pharmaceutical sales in countries like China and India overtake established markets, leading drug companies risk losing market share to local players, a study said.
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Paralympics offer a vision of 'what's possible'
Jasmin Bambur, injured in 2000, skis competitively. He is participating in the 2010 Paralympic Games. Watching the Paralympics on television or on the Internet helps show newly disabled people that they have the potential to become active again in a variety of recreational activities, experts say.
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Sick ship turning back early
The Celebrity Mercury cruise ship is returning to port a day early and delaying its next sailing to address an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness that sickened 350 passengers. The outbreak is the third consecutive outbreak on the ship in a month.
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Bench to Bassinet Program Seeks Congenital Heart Disease Treatments
To help speed the translation of scientific discoveries into usable treatments in congenital heart disease, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health recently launched the Bench to Bassinet Program. This program, which involves several major research institutions across the country, will be highlighted in the March 23 edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Congenital heart disease affects the lives of 40,000 newborns a year in the United States, and up to 2 million adults are living with congenital heart disease.
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Fly and cry: Babies divide air travelers
You're stuck in a cramped metal tube with hundreds of strangers for hours, when it invariably happens: A baby starts screaming and the passengers' collective blood pressure seems to rise along with the decibel level.
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House health care foes have 200 votes
Even as a top House Democrat expressed confidence in passing legislation to overhaul health care, a new CNN analysis shows that opposition in the House of Representatives to the Senate health care plan has reached 200 members.
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Dr. Arnall Patz, Who Saved Many From Blindness, Dies at 89
Doctors used to think they were helping premature babies by giving them a lot of oxygen. Dr. Patz proved they were hurting them.
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Triumph for Xiaflex, Drug to Straighten Clenched Fingers
After 50 years, a tiny drug maker on Long Island has found a potentially lucrative use for its only medicine.
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With Medicaid Cuts, Doctors and Patients Drop Out
As states cut Medicaid, doctors find payments insufficient. Poor areas like Flint, Mich., face particular hardship.
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Boston Scientific Stops Defibrillator Sales
The company withdraws the heart devices, saying it failed to warn the Food and Drug Administration about manufacturing changes.
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Advertising: Rebellion Against the UsuallyEvasive Feminine Care Ad
A campaign for U by Kotex skewers the indirect approach taken in ads for products like tampons and pads while pushing for more frank discussion.
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50 Years After Defect Tragedy, Finding Answers on How Thalidomide Caused Defects
Researchers trying to decipher the drug’s effects have discovered surprising clues to how normal limbs develop.
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Observatory: Seeking Safe Ways to Deliver Nitric Oxide in Medical Care
Researchers are investigating new methods for storing and releasing an important gas for those who do not produce enough of it.
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Personal Health: Fighting the Pain of Lung Cancer, and Preparing to Say Goodbye
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With Cancer, Let's Face It: Words Are Inadequate
The cliches most people use when talking about someone with cancer make Dana Jennings, who was treated for prostate cancer, bristle.
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At Ohio Rally, Obama Tries to Personalize the Health Care Bill
At a seniors’ center in Ohio, President Obama talked about a cleaning woman who had dropped her costly insurance plan, only to discover she had leukemia.
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Gaps in Dealing With Cancer in Teenagers
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