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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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Low Health Literacy May Have Deadly Consequences
WebMD
By Jennifer Warner April 26, 2011 -- Not knowing enough about basic health can be deadly for people with heart failure, a new study finds. The study shows that nearly one in five people with heart failure have low health literacy, making them more than ...
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Supreme Court Considers Vermont's Limits on Prescription Data
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Katherine Hobson Data-mining companies such as IMS Health and SDI purchase prescription information — stripped of patients' but not doctors' identities — and sell it to pharmaceutical companies, which use it to better hone their marketing ...
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Valley High hosts health fair Friday
Sacramento Bee
By Diana Lambert Valley High School will host a Health and Fitness Expo for the community from 9 am to 1:15 pm Friday. The event will provide information on improving the health of participants and their families. The expo has been presented annually ...
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Shrinking Height Of Poor Women Reflects Lack of Food, Health Care
NPR (blog)
by Nancy Shute Height is often used as a proxy for health, because children who get good nutrition and health care tend to grow taller than their forebears. Now new research shows that the average height of women in 14 African countries is shrinking. ...
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Health questions altering draft stock of handful of prospects
SI.com
One voice teams are listening to more and more are those of the trainers and doctors who have evaluated the health of players. Injury risk is one thing for an NFL team, but acquiring that risk at the high prices of the first round is something most ...
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Mass. lawmakers say sex ed website 'disgusting'
Boston Globe
By Bob Salsberg AP / April 26, 2011 BOSTON—Massachusetts public health officials said Tuesday they would be willing to consider changes in the content of a sexual education website aimed at teens, after critics in the Legislature complained that the ...
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Liberals Try to Rekindle Town Hall Fury That Inflamed Health Care Debate
Fox News
Arlen Specter at a town hall-style meeting on health care, August, 11, 2009. (AP) Democrats still scarred over the town hall fury that inflamed the health care debate two summers ago and came to symbolize the unpopularity of that legislation are hoping ...
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Oregon's health exchange grant in danger
BusinessWeek
By JONATHAN J. COOPER A $48 million grant from the federal government to help Oregon create a health insurance exchange is endangered, and some Democrats say it's because of Republican opposition to the federal health care overhaul. ...
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Health Promotion Pays Off for Mixed HIV Couples
MedPage Today
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Explain that an eight-week program of health promotion program increased healthy behaviors among controls in an HIV prevention trial among African-American controls where only one member of ...
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Vermont Senate advances health care bill
Forbes
By DAVE GRAM , 04.26.11, 08:27 AM EDT MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The state Senate gave preliminary approval Monday to health care legislation that is a key part of Gov. Peter Shumlin's agenda. The bill, a version of which already has been passed by the House, ...
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