Saturday, March 19, 2011

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Kidney Transplant Patient Contracts HIV From Donor
NY1
In a horrible first, a kidney transplant patient at a New York City hospital contracted HIV from a living donor, the city revealed Thursday. NY1's Kafi Drexel filed the following report. New York City Department of Health investigators say it happened ...
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NY1
Do All Women "Experiment" With Lesbianism In College? Not Even Close
Medical News Today
Common in popular culture these days is when you ask a grown woman if she ever kissed a girl, you often get the response, "Well once...in college." However, a national study found that women with their college degrees actually were less likely to have ...
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Tobacco industry brushes off call for FDA restrictions on menthol cigarettes
Los Angeles Times
An advisory panel stops short of recommending a ban on menthols but urges further study, suggesting that the FDA might impose marketing limits to reduce access for young people. By Andrew Zajac, Washington Bureau Despite evidence that menthol ...
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Britons call for iodine tablets in Japanese radiation panic
Telegraph.co.uk
Constant assurances that Britain is safe from harmful radiation were not enough to prevent people trying to buy iodine pills at pharmacies up and down the country on Friday. By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter 9:16AM GMT 19 Mar 2011 The National Pharmacy ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
9 million lost healthcare in last 2 years
UPI.com
NEW YORK, March 18 (UPI) -- An estimated 9 million working-age adults became uninsured in the last two years due to unemployment, a US health insurance survey indicates. The Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey indicates 43 million adults ...
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A conversation about the national conversation
Los Angeles Times
The Dukan Diet is the new twist on the Atkins Diet. It's rumored that Dukan is currently the diet choice for the next princess of England, Kate Middleton. Created by the French nutritionist, Dr. Pierre Dukan, like Dr. Atkins' famous diet, ...
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Live-saving skills offered for free today
abc13.com
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Today is 'Gabrielle Giffords honorary Save-a-Life Saturday. The event is sponsored by the American Red Cross and all around the country today, people can receive free life-saving training. Three of those free classes are being offered ...
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Enrollment frozen for BadgerCare Basic
BusinessWeek
In a statement, state Department of Health Services Secretary Dennis Smith says expenditures have outpaced premium revenues by nearly $2 million in the program's first nine months. The BadgerCare Basic program started enrollment last June for ...
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Not Even Experts Agree on Safety of Airport Scanners
BusinessWeek
By Maureen Salamon THURSDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term health dangers from the type of airport body scanners that emit radiation are tiny, experts say, but disagreement lingers over the collective cancer risks because of the sheer mass of ...
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House nearing agreement on Ky. Medicaid budget
BusinessWeek
Kentucky House lawmakers were closely guarding details of a plan Friday to shore up finances in a government program that provides medical care for more than 800000 of the state's poor, elderly and disabled residents. Republican Leader Jeff Hoover said ...
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Canine Genetic Wrinkle Has Potential for Humans
New York Times
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Shar-peis are an ancient Chinese dog breed characterized by two singular traits: thick, wrinkly skin and frequent bouts of fever. "Jayne," a Chinese Shar-pei, at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Researchers are now reporting ...
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Another Mass. health insurer suspends board pay
BusinessWeek
Massachusetts' fourth-largest health insurer has joined the state's largest nonprofit service provider in suspending pay for its board of directors. Fallon Community Health Plan announced on Friday that its directors have voluntarily suspended their ...
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Health Highlights: March 17, 2011
BusinessWeek
About 169000 pogo sticks are being recalled in the United States because they pose fall and laceration hazards to users, says the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The bottom of the Chinese-made pogo sticks' frame tube can break or come apart, ...
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