HRT Users Who Get Breast Cancer Less Likely to Die
By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter
Friday, December 12, 2008; 12:00 AM
FRIDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Taking hormone therapy after menopause is known to increase the risk of getting breast cancer, but women who take hormone therapy and then develop breast cancer have a lower risk of […]
Here is George Will on ABC’s THIS WEEK…
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“All will be forgiven if things turn out well. And it’s just possible, Donna, that the economy is not going down the drain. 94, 95 percent of all mortgages in this country are being paid off on time. Ninety-four percent of those who want to work are working. […]
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61
By MARK SCHOOFS
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the […]
Constance Coldspring
has sent this piece which shows the results of 8 more years of
Compassionate Conservatism.
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20-year life gap separates city’s poorest, wealthy
By Annie Linskey | annie.linskey@baltsun.com
October 16, 2008
In West Baltimore’s impoverished Hollins Market neighborhood, where the average life expectancy is about 63 years, residents shared beers and cigarettes on their front steps at midday yesterday […]
Could there also be a relationship between big oil, coal and gas
and a few of the nay-saying scientists of Global Warming?
N’ahhh!!
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Emory acknowledges past issues with professor, launches investigation
By CRAIG SCHNEIDER, ALISON YOUNG
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Emory University officials said Saturday that a prominent psychiatric researcher has been accused several times in […]
By David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding
Provided by: Men’s Health
America’s Worst Breakfast Foods
Posted Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 11:50 am PDT
Worst Side Dish
Burger King Hash Browns (large)
620 calories
40 g fat (11 g saturated; 13 g trans)
1,200 mg sodium
60 g carbs
Worst Breakfast Sandwich
Hardee’s Monster Biscuit
710 calories
51 g fat (17 g saturated)
2,250 mg sodium
37 g carbohydrates
Worst Kids Meal
Denny’s Big […]
The Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman
The New York Times
September 19, 2008, 7:24 pm
McCain on banking and health
OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before […]
Court: US can block mad cow testing
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer Fri Aug 29, 1:42 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday.
The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially […]
Talk about avarice in biblical terms; this is the Trifecta!
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Please find the CNN story and video at Yahoo.com/news
Two Charged in Medical-Care Billing Scam
The Wall Street Journal
By AMY KAUFMAN
August 7, 2008; Page A14
LOS ANGELES — A top hospital official and the operator of a homeless facility face federal criminal fraud charges for their alleged involvement in an elaborate plan to recruit homeless individuals for unnecessary health-care treatment and then bill the government for […]