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Poll: Will Health Care Reform Pass This Week End

Sat Nov 7, 2009 5:10 AM EST

The house is expected to vote on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) This week end. Have you read the bill and called your congress person?

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us-news, news, obama, democrats, congress, republicans

Public school nurses give swine flu vaccine to kids without parents' OK, sends child to hospital

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 2:44 AM EST (NY Daily News)

Seeded by Aunk (The Cultural Health Guy)

School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn't sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital.

health, flu, h1n1, schools, children, kids, nurses, vaccine, pigs, african-americans

Cats Can't Get Swine Flu - Don't Bet On It

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 11:20 PM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by luckydog

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A 13-year-old Iowa cat has been infected with swine flu, veterinary and federal officials said Wednesday, and it is believed to be the first case of the H1N1 virus in a feline.

health, swine-flu-infects-cat, healh, h1n1

Losing a Race With Our Ancestors

Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 5:49 PM EST (Epoch Times)

Seeded by alkimija

Abundant scientific evidence demonstrates that primal foods—such as meat, fish, eggs, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds—are genuinely the healthiest foods. Relative nutritional newcomers—such as refined sugar, vegetable oils, grain, and milk—are not.

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These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll...

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 8:19 PM EST (jajjajjajjajjajja.blogspot.com)

Seeded by nearing (Clipped by krishna-167929)

...a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young.

world-news, albatross, pollution, plastic, environment

Let's be honest... legalise drugs and society would benefit

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 12:50 AM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Seeded by alkimija

Until the 1960s, our legal system was overshadowed by pre-libertarian theories of the state, which criminalised breaches of Christian morality and started from the assumption that governments were entitled to regulate the private behaviour of adults.

health, drug-war, legalise

Malaria vaccine for Africa likely to be distributed from 2015

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 12:45 AM EST (The Times)

Seeded by alkimija

The first vaccine against malaria is likely to be distributed in Africa from 2015 after the "milestone moment" of the continent's largest final-stage drug trial, scientists have told The Times.

health, malaria, vaccine, africa

Poll: Should Women Get Treat by Tricking Health Insurance Company's

Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:40 PM EST

By Aunk (The Cultural Health Guy)

I thought that the insurance company's discriminated against all their customers equally just to make a profit, man was I wrong. (Video) Lets go to the Video Tape

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us-news, health-care, michelle-obama, physical-health, psychology, cultural-health

The Ugliness of the Anti-Vaccine Movement

Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:27 PM EST (The Faster Times)

Seeded by alkimija

Things often get very nasty for those who try to tell folks that vaccines have nothing to do with autism.

health, anti-vaccine, anti-vaccination, denialists, vaccine, vaccinations

What makes us age and get old?

Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:26 PM EDT (Viewzone Magazine)

Seeded by luckydog

From the moment of birth, we begin the battle against death -- against the inevitable. Statistics say that a newborn child can expect to live an average of 76 years. But averages may not be what they use to be.

science, aging, old-age, immortality

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