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Sprinkle the pounds away: Does that make any Sensa?
The SkinnyI don???t believe in fad diets or gimmicks for long-term weight management. There are only so many grapefruits or bowls of cereal you can eat before you get bored and give up. So when I see infomercials touting the latest......Tags: Television, Entertainment, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hamburgers, Foods and Beverages
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Obama health care pitch at WebMD
The Swampby Mike Memoli President Obama today goes to a sub shop in New Jersey and a daytime talk show set in New York as he looks to sell his message on the economy. Now, we can add Internet pitchman to......Tags: Kathleen Sebelius, Health Care Reform (2009), New York, White House, New Jersey
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Cleveland tragedy reminds us of importance of knowing neighbors
Americans were at once thrilled and horrified with the news this week out of Cleveland. Three long-missing women ... found alive after all these years. With details still trickling out, we've only scratched the surface of the nightmare lived by Amanda...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, Ariel Castro
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Is Obamacare a tax? The argument teaches us to stay healthy by disagreeing
Sometimes our elected officials operate on such a high intellectual plane that their message can get lost. Take, for example, the debate over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law in the wake of theU.S. Supreme Court's declaration that the...
Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Parties and Movements, Mitt Romney, Education, Elections
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Fighting mental illness
Maybe something good will come from the Shakespearean tragedy that is the Jesse Jackson Jr. saga: A deeper understanding of mental illness and more empathy for those afflicted with it. Or maybe not. The level of cynicism in these parts is so high that...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Philosophy, Rod Blagojevich, Jesse Jackson, Washington, DC
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System to quickly alert state healthcare providers about disease outbreaks
The Indiana State Department of Health announced Thursday they would implement a new alert system, which will communicate urgent public health messages to healthcare providers statewide. “As demonstrated by the several public health emergencies...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Healthcare Provider, Meningitis, U.S. Department of State, Measles
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Patient trapped in health insurance rate hike
It's understandable that car insurance rates can change when you move. One neighborhood might have more accidents or burglaries than another. But health insurance? Joan Swope, 62, moved recently from Cathedral City, just down the road from Palm Springs,...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Treatments, Healthcare Provider
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For starters, Peavy can't think about relieving
Thanks for the offer, Jake. Now shut up and make a rehab start in the minors.
Jake Peavy told White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper he would pitch out of the bullpen. Heck, Peavy told anybody and everybody he would pitch out of the bullpen.
Understand,...Tags: Surgery, Major League Baseball, Sergio Santos, Social Issues, Groin
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One for the record books
HealthThere are all sorts of stories lurking in the piles of data compiled by government and scientific researchers, but you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to see some major implications in the birth data reported recently in the journal Pediatrics. According... -
Sitting for long periods increases death risk, study finds
The Fitness Center - Orlando SentinelSpending too much time sitting can be deadly, according to a study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers found that people who sit 11 hours or more a day are 40 percent more likely to die — from any cause. Even those who... -
Eat the cookies, not the dough
HealthHere's a reminder that when it comes to holiday cookies, you should eat them only after baking them. Our reminder comes via the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, which recently published a report on a 2009 outbreak of E. coli that sickened 77 people... -
Are you affected by the ADHD drug shortage?
HealthIt sometimes takes the heft of a media giant such as The New York Times to concentrate the rest of the news media's attention on significant medical issues. The latest one is the nationwide shortage of drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity...
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