Review panel criticizes Great Lakes health study September 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday. | |
Study: Workers to pay more for health care September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Get ready for another hike in copays and deductibles. A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' ... | |
Smoking riskier to women's hearts than men's September 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday. In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks nearly 14 years earlier than women who don't smoke, Norwegian doctors ... | |
Drunken-driving deaths fall in 32 states August 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Drunken-driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, the government reported Thursday, but alcohol-related fatalities increased among motorcycle riders in half the states. | |
Study: 12 percent of Indian deaths due to alcohol August 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Almost 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related - more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says. | |
 New attack ad on TV, but this one targets hot dogs August 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer." It's a startling ... | |
Number of uninsured drops; Poverty holds steady August 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- The Census Bureau reports that the number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office. | |
 How to clear confusion from food allergy warnings August 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- It's one of the biggest frustrations of life with food allergies: That hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contain the wrong ingredient. The warnings are voluntary - meaning there's ... | |
Audits of Medicare drug plans lacking August 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Nearly three years into the Medicare drug benefit, federal officials have yet to ensure that private drug plans enacted programs to deter fraud and abuse, government investigators say. | |
FDA: Irradiating spinach, lettuce OK to kill germs August 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Consumers worried about salad safety may soon be able to buy fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce zapped with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and a few other germs. | |
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