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A 17-year-old student in New Zealand has discovered antibiotic resistant bacteria that could be difficult to treat in humans... in a bunch of grocery store chickens. The key finding was that the... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

In a previous post I called your attention to the Kaiser Foundation Health Tracking Poll revealing that 50 percent of respondents said they didn’t know, or couldn’t name, or that none of the candidates represented their views on health

Under the Obama plan, as it now stands, healthy people could choose not to buy insurance -- then sign up for it if they developed health problems later ... as a result, people who did the right thing and bought insurance when they were ...

Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama have each presented detailed proposals for health reform. The Clinton and Edwards plans include health mandates, which require Americans to obtain health care coverage or face

Here’s why: under the Obama plan, as it now stands, healthy people could choose not to buy insurance — then sign up for it if they developed health problems later. Insurance companies couldn’t turn them away, because Mr. ...
30.11.2007

What worked for health care in Massachusetts could work for the rest of the country, said the state’s former Governor, Mitt Romney. On Nov. 27, the Republican presidential candidate visited All Children’s Hospital in St.

30.11.2007
Sometimes health care reporters remind me of the financial journalists who helped hype the bull market of the 1980s and 1990s. I began my career as a journalist at Money magazine, and I remember sitting in an editorial meeting where we ...


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Hostage-taker invades Clinton campaign office
International Herald Tribune - 1 hour ago
AP, The Boston Globe CONCORD, New Hampshire: If it hadn't been for a doctor's appointment, Dan Nagy would have been volunteering at Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, when a man with what appeared to be a bomb ...
Video: Hillary Clinton Talks About Hostage Situation wmurtv
Hostage ordeal over, Clinton resumes campaign CNN
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30.11.2007

The Clinton campaign has launched an attack on a month-old Obama health care ad, calling on him to withdraw it in a letter (text after jump) and a press conference call because its claim that his health care plan would cover everyone is


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Dozens Hurt in Train Crash in Chicago
New York Times - 1 hour ago
The front of an Amtrak train came to rest atop a freight train Friday after a crash in Chicago. By CATRIN EINHORN CHICAGO, Nov. 30 - An Amtrak train slammed into the back of a freight train on the city’s South Side on Friday, sending about 70 people to
Video footage, black box to explain Amtrak crash Chicago Sun-Times
Amtrak train collides with freight train in Chicago San Diego Union Tribune
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30.11.2007

Such a single payer plan would make possible a set of mechanisms, including public budgeting and investment planning, that would allow us to address the real sources of cost increases and allow us to rationalize our health care



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China blocked another US ship: defense official
Reuters - 2 hours ago
By Andrew Gray WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China turned down a request for another US Navy ship to visit Hong Kong amid a spat over a long-planned visit by a US aircraft carrier, a US defense official said on Friday.
China denies 3rd US ship port call CNN International
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30.11.2007
Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton on Friday called on rival Barack Obama — who has been closing the gap with her in key early-voting states — to stop airing his television advertisement on health care because she says ...
30.11.2007

Caught Out There [The Beat]: “Rather than acknowledge the flaws in his own [health care] plan, Obama has attacked Clinton and Edwards in language that does indeed ’sound like Rudy Giuliani inveighing against ‘”socialized medicine.

The Road Show is traveling across the country to try and pass a bill that would provide free health care for every American. With more than forty-six million Americans without health insurance many people are hoping for a change.

The Clinton campaign this morning called on the Obama campaign to stop running a campaign television commercial in New Hampshire that asserts that his health insurance plan will cover all Americans.

Note: It’s not that the Democrats’ mental health actually is suboptimal. […] Read the rest »

Clinton wants Obama health care ad down

Author: media@politico.com (Ben Smith)
30.11.2007

Blog: HRC camp engages Obama on claim that “every” American will be covered in health care plan.

Change the Obama Health Care Plan

Author: Chris Owens
30.11.2007
Obama’s positioning regarding Social Security and health care coverage. If you have not read the two Krugman pieces, then you should. I have pasted them below. I am less concerned about the Obama tactic regarding Social Security. ...
30.11.2007

Kids’ Health Topics. You’re Researching Strep, Asthma, But No. 1 Is More Serious: Top 10. Another Cause of Alzheimer’s 50 Million Adults Already Have This. To Your Health Sleep Like This to Fight Cancer Doctor’s Dish on Sex Questions

30.11.2007

So there is something right about the photograph, in that it reproduces the newspaper’s framework for the story, which in turn is not merely a compositional strategy but one that reflects key features of how American health care is

30.11.2007
DES MOINES — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards says he doesn't want to get involved in the "petty bickering" over expanding health care that has been at the forefront of high-profile battling between rivals Hillary Clinton ...
30.11.2007
Heraklion, Crete: An earthquake has just shaken the Greek island. Damage is widespread and all conventional, terrestrial communications have been destroyed. The rescue operations have only one means at their disposal that has not been ...

Source: Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Volume 18, 2007, Pages 191-208 Abby L., Bloom.

30.11.2007

My suggestion is that we first begin to view our lives from the standpoint of good health versus bad health. Good health means we become active participants in taking care of our physical, mental, and emotional selves.