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 Los Angeles Times | World's largest online medical encyclopedia planned San Jose Mercury News - By Sandy Kleffman Known as Medpedia, the site will be free and available to the public when it launches at the end of this year. Physicians, medical schools, hospitals and health organizations are volunteering to build a comprehensive clearinghouse for ... Medpedia Announced, World's Largest Collaborative Online ... MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space |
 ABC News | Twofold Action Urged for Pre-Diabetes U.S. News & World Report - By Steven Reinberg WEDNESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Lifestyle changes, coupled with a reduction in heart disease risks, will go a long way toward preventing pre-diabetes from progressing to the full-blown disease, experts from the American ... Pre-Diabetes Must Be Treated, Doctors Urge Patients need to make lifestyle changes before condition worsens |
 ABC News | Billionaires Back Antismoking Effort New York Times - Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced their anti-smoking initiative on Wednesday in New York. By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that they will spend $500 million to stop ... Video: Gates, Bloomberg Pool Riches to Fight Smoking Bloomberg, Gates pledge $375 mln against tobacco |
State to get nearly $7 million in settlement with drug company Seattle Times - Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to pay the Washington state nearly $7 million to settle allegations of illegal marketing and pricing of prescription medications. Dutchess County to receive its share from Medicaid pharmaceutical ... Company to pay for Medicaid fraud |
Missouri Health Care System to Pay US $60 Million to Settle False ... FOXBusiness - WASHINGTON, July 22, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ ----Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, a health care system headquartered in Springfield, Mo. CoxHealth Pays to Resolve Allegations Health care network to pay $60 million settlement |
 eFluxMedia | Tests Confirm Pennsylvania's First Human Case of West Nile Virus ... FOXBusiness - HARRISBURG, Pa., July 22, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----HARRISBURG, Pa., July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State Health Secretary Dr. Yakima case prompts local West Nile warning West Nile Virus confirmed in Porterville |
 ChattahBox | Simple Procedure Improves Male Fertility U.S. News & World Report - By Steven Reinberg THURSDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- A simple, minimally invasive procedure can treat a common cause of male infertility and improve a couple's chances of having a baby, a new study finds. Minimally invasive treatment helps infertile men Male Infertility Treatment Skips Surgery |
 Media General Washington Bureau | AHIP Launches Campaign in Ohio for Nationwide Universal Health ... Kaiser network.org - America's Health Insurance Plans on Tuesday launched a new grassroots campaign designed "to build support for workable health care reform based on core principles shared by the American people: coverage, affordability, quality, value, ... Insurers talk health care Health-care reform coalition rejects industry-led efforts |
 eFluxMedia | Washington Post Examines HIV/AIDS Among Hispanics in US Kaiser network.org - HIV/AIDS among the Hispanic community in the US is reaching what some public health experts are calling a "simmering public health crisis," the Washington Post reports. Survey Warns about High Rates of HIV/AIDS among Hispanics US Latinos' AIDS Rates Start Getting Attention |
Family Meals Can Help Teen Girls Avoid Drugs, Alcohol Forbes - WEDNESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Eating meals together as a family can reduce a teen girl's risk of turning to alcohol or drugs, a new study suggests. Family dinner is good for girls There's a gender gap at the dinner table |
 Los Angeles Times | Why Women Remove Tattoos? eMaxHealth.com - Women are more likely to remove their tattoos than men, finds the research, in other words tattoo removal is more common in women than in men, but why? Women More Likely to Have Second Thoughts on Tattoos Social stigma drives some women to remove tattoos |
 United Press International | Health Plan From Obama Spurs Debate New York Times - By KEVIN SACK It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them. David M. Cutler, an adviser to the Obama campaign. Parsing Obamas Promise to Lower Insurance Premiums by $2500 New York Times Examines Potential for Cost Savings in Obama's ... |
 dBTechno | Loyolas Medical School Slammed Over Mistreating Animals eFluxMedia - By Anna Boyd Inspections of Loyola University s medical school run by the US Department of Agriculture revealed numerous violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, which resulted in the deaths of rabbits and dogs. Animal activists slam Loyola lab experiments Loyola's medical school mistreated animals, reports show |
 ABC News | Viagra helpful to women on antidepressants, study finds Los Angeles Times - In a small study, 72% of those on SSRIs -- which can have debilitating sexual side effects -- reported improvement when taking the male impotence drug. Viagra offers help to some women Viagra May Boost Female Libido in Some Cases |
 New York Daily News | Savage Loses Advertisers New York Times - By JACQUES STEINBERG; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM A group of seven Mississippi talk radio stations owned by Telesouth Communications has dropped Michael Savages nationally syndicated radio program over comments the host made last week suggesting that ... Reaction to comments made about Autistic children  Comment by Kim Stagliano Writer, Blogger, Mom to three girls with autism |
 Ontario Now | Salmonella Outbreak Exposes Food-Safety Flaws Wall Street Journal - By JANE ZHANG and JANET ADAMY The twisting road that led federal investigators to announce Monday that they found a single contaminated jalapeņo pepper grown in Mexico and sitting at a distribution center in McAllen, Texas -- the smoking gun in the ... Grocers stop selling jalapeno peppers after salmonella discovery Found: Smoking Jalapeno |
 Voice of America | US Immigrants Bearing More of the TB Burden Washington Post - By Amanda Gardner TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- In 2006, 57 percent of all tuberculosis cases in the United State were among foreign-born individuals and, as time passes, that population is under increased threat from the disease, ... Health Agency Highlights Global Tuberculosis Problem CDC: High TB Rates among US Immigrants Call for Immediate Measures |
 TheMedGuru | Lidocaine Gel May Ease Mammography Discomfort Washington Post - By Serena Gordon TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- There's just no getting around the fact that mammograms are uncomfortable, but a new study suggests that applying a topical analgesic before the test could significantly ease the discomfort ... Mammograms a Pain? Gel Helps Taking the "ouch" out of a mammogram |
 Wall Street Journal Blogs | Goods Worth Millions Are Missing From Indian Agency Washington Post - By Derek Kravitz Millions of dollars in equipment purchased by the Indian Health Service, including all-terrain vehicles and tractors, laptop computers and digital cameras, has been lost or stolen because of mismanagement, according to a report ... Another federal agency accused of mismanagent GAO Knocks Indian Health Service for Property Losses and Bat Dung |
 Scientific American | Using Plants to Grow Lymphoma Vaccines WebMD - By Miranda Hitti July 21, 2008 -- Plants may be a powerhouse for researchers making personalized vaccines for patients with follicular lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Tobacco Hailed as Latest Plant-Based Vaccine Tobacco 'could help treat cancer' |