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Harvard Hospital Transplants Human Face
Harvard Crimson
By Benjamin M. Scuderi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital successfully performed the first full face transplant in the United States last week, the hospital announced yesterday. In the 15-hour surgery, surgeons attached a ...
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Where we stand after health care law's first year
Chicago Sun-Times
BY MONIFA THOMAS Mar 22, 2011 01:48AM President Obama, surrounded by lawmakers and guests, signs health care insurance reform legislation at the White House on March 23, 2010. Many of the provisions have yet to kick in. | sauL LOEB~AFP/Getty Images ...
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Plastic Makes the Perfect Man?
Technorati
Whether it be celebrities with perfect bodies and wrinkle-free faces, claiming that they haven't had any "work" done or magazines showcasing uber-skinny models wearing the latest trends, it's obvious our society is obsessed with youth. ...
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Safflower oil helps lower heart disease risk
Times of India
A dose of safflower oil, a common cooking oil, each day for 16 weeks may help reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a new research. In the study, researchers found that a dose of safflower oil can improve such health measures as good ...
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Ohio Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View"
Public News Service
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The view of the road will be a bit different for some of Ohio's children if their parents follow new guidelines for car seat use. The American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending that parents keep toddlers in rear-facing car seats ...
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Test to predict diabetes 10 yrs before onset
Times of India
LONDON: Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have suggested that measuring the levels of small molecules in the blood could predict diabetes risk as much as a decade before first symptoms appear. They said the levels of five amino ...
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Anthem to lower health insurance rate hikes
Sacramento Bee
By Darrell Smith Anthem Blue Cross will lower its rate hikes planned for July and will hold off on increases to co-payments and deductibles until 2012, according to an agreement announced Monday by the state Department of Insurance. ...
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Authorities jump gun on iodine pills
AsiaOne
Iodine is essential for the production of the thyroid hormone, and thus iodine in the body is absorbed by the thyroid gland. If radioactive iodine discharged from a nuclear reactor enters the human body, such as via air or food, it accumulates in the ...
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Firstborn Kids Seem to Have More Food Allergies, Hay Fever
BusinessWeek
SUNDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- Firstborn children may be more likely to suffer from certain types of allergies, finds a new study. Japanese researchers surveyed parents of more than 13000 children aged 7 to 15 and found that a child's birth order ...
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Skip The Tanning Bed Before Spring Break
Patch.com
By Advocate Lutheran General Hospital | Email the author | March 21, 2011 After the long dark days of winter, it's hard to believe that spring vacation, Little League, and soccer practice here in the northern suburbs are just around the corner. ...
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Protein in brain linked to autism
BBC News
Scientists have shown how a single protein may trigger autistic spectrum disorders by stopping effective communication between brain cells. The team from Duke University in North Carolina created autistic mice by mutating the gene which controls ...
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Diabetic patients' weight loss shows disease's symptoms can go away
The Tennessean
Claudean Jackson, 61, lost 110 pounds through weight-loss surgery and no longer requires medication to treat her diabetes. / JOHN PARTIPILO / THE TENNESSEAN Are you at risk of developing pre-diabetes or Type-2 diabetes? Take this quiz from the American ...
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Menthol's friends in high places
Boston Globe
By Derrick Z. Jackson TOBACCO GIANT Lorillard crows as the FDA cowers. Last week, an advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration found that removal of menthol cigarettes would benefit public health. But the panel stopped short of recommending a ...
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Boston Globe
Program Your Phone for Poison Prevention Week
Patch.com
By Kym Byrnes | Email the author | 12:30am In September 1961, President John F. Kennedy designated the third week in March as Poison Prevention Week. This week, the Maryland Poison Control Center (MPC) is urging people to program the poison center ...
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Baby Joseph case turns US political issue
Toronto Sun
By JONATHAN SHER, QMI Agency Moe Maraachli holds a photo of his son, Joseph. Atracheotomy was performed on the baby at a hospital in St. Louis, Mo., Monday. (QMI Agency file photo) LONDON, Ont. - Some American right-to-lifers are distorting Ontario's ...
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Six sites OKd for medical marijuana | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-03-22
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Geoff Mulvihill AP TRENTON - A half-dozen alternative treatment centers across New Jersey could be legally selling marijuana to patients with certain medical conditions by late summer, state Health Department officials said Monday. ...
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States need freedom to design own health care programs
The Cross Timbers Gazette
Government-run health care programs are bankrupt and broken. Medicaid, specifically, is breaking the banks of all fifty states. To avert bankruptcy, and to reclaim authority and responsibility for providing health care to our neediest residents, ...
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House passes compromise to fund Medicaid shortfall
Paducah Sun
By Mallory Panuska mpanuska@paducahsun.com FRANKFORT — The Kentucky House was rather productive Monday — the sixth day of Gov. Steve Beshear's called special session — in passing a compromise proposal to fill the $166.5 million Medicaid deficit with ...
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Archbishop Buechlein recovering after stroke
Indianapolis Star
Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein was recovering Monday at St. Vincent Hospital after suffering a stroke, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis said. Greg A. Otolski said medics rushed Buechlein to the hospital Friday after he felt dizzy at his ...
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Alabama AG says GCCF forcing claimants to beg for 'handouts'
The Louisiana Record
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said his state "has reached a boiling point" in a letter we wrote to Kenneth Feinberg criticizing the Gulf Coast Claim Facility. "The GCCF appears inappropriately proud of its recent announcement that it has ...
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