Tag: politics
group name: publichealth
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May 12, 2006 10:02 AM EDT --
It's becoming increasingly obvious to me that an alarming number of people, even highly educated people, either have never learned to read critically or, when they're attracted to an idea, don't . . . more
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February 11, 2007 10:49 PM EST --
As most Americans know, one of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) most critical jobs is to make sure that the medicines we take are safe.
But did you know that if a medication starts . . . more
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April 07, 2008 12:50 PM EDT --
It's interesting how a discussion about vaccination can quickly become heated and sometimes even hostile. Would the same debate rage over an antibiotic or an antihypertensive medicine if there was . . . more
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October 02, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
Health groups are rejoicing this week after a federal judge in New York gave the go-ahead to the largest class action lawsuit in U.S. history. Smokers of "light" and "low tar" cigarettes . . . more
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November 19, 2006 02:46 PM EST --
Introduction: 23 years of my life treating, advocating for, and educating cancer patients and their families; helping them cope with massive crisis of personal, spiritual, and economic dimensions; . . . more
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December 05, 2006 12:11 AM EST --
"..we all have the knowledge of DNA, but we still die..Those last few days at Jonestown ain't got nothing on this..How do we tell the people in the white coats, enough is enough?" -- "White . . . more
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December 12, 2006 10:00 AM EST --
A new high in sexual hysteria was recently reached when a four-year-old pre-kindergartner in Waco, Texas was suspended for “inappropriately” touching a teachers’ aide after hugging . . . more
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . . more
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October 15, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
Evidently it is possible, in some states, for the police, if they have been called, to enter a home and arrest a resident for domestic violence even when the spouse does not press charges. In these . . . more
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July 19, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
Another angle to this story which so far hasn't gotten any press is whether Elizabeth Edward's back to back fertility treatments caused her breast cancer. She had two children using such treatments . . . more
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August 29, 2006 08:53 PM EDT --
http://www.newsobserver.com/110/story/480210.html
I can't believe this. Is there anyone who could find a reason to support this? Believe me. I have always been opposed to the war, but . . . more
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July 09, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
The most current statistics indicate that thirty percent of the American adult population have been alcoholics, been dependent on alcohol or abused alcohol in their lifetime. An estimated . . . more
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July 20, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
This from Investor's Business Daily
WAVING OFF TSUNAMIS
Posted 7/19/2006
Disaster: If government's main job is to guard its coasts from external threats, Indonesia failed spectacularly with . . . more
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October 17, 2006 08:32 PM EDT --
Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation that would require all girls entering sixth grade next year to be vaccinated with against HPV. Michigan has exemptions from the vaccination laws for . . . more
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February 28, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
A twelve-year-old Maryland boy died from complications of an abscessed tooth when the bacteria from the tooth spread to his brain. The boy was hospitalized due to the brain infection and . . . more
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October 30, 2006 01:59 PM EST --
I have posted below a link to a Newsweek article dealing with the new efforts of cities to deal with the homeless/panhandling problems by forbidding churches and other non-profits from . . . more
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December 29, 2006 09:27 AM EST --
The US Department of Justice has issued a report that indicates that domestic violence rates have fallen by more than fifty percent from 1993 to 2004. The sharp decline is attributed to a number of factors . . . more
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August 31, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
The official report on the Virginia Tech shootings has been published and it contains details of Cho’s mental health history and treatment details. I am a retired therapist that . . . more
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February 17, 2007 11:51 PM EST --
The incessant drive of governments and megamedia has taken an already-overbureaucratized system and injected it with carcinogenic steroids. Government programs that help generate . . . more
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September 15, 2006 09:47 AM EDT --
Clooney says that the lack of the United Nations stopping the genocide that is going on in Darfur puts the blame directly on the UN, for the deaths in the genocide.
This all occurred on Bush's watch . . . more
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