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Thursday, May 19, 2011

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How many teens have "Internet addiction?"
Reuters
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in every 25 teens had "problematic Internet use" in a new study of high school students from Connecticut. What's more, those students who reported an "irresistible urge" to be on the Internet and ...
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US Government To Require Review Of Big Health Insurance Rate Hikes
Wall Street Journal
By Dinah Wisenberg Brin Of Dow Jones Newswires The US government issued a rule Thursday requiring state or federal review of substantial health insurance rate increases for individual and small-group plans, prompting criticism from the managed-care ...
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Medicaid proposal could cost Ga. billions of federal dollars
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By Misty Williams A GOP proposal to transform Medicaid into a block grant program could cost Georgia billions of dollars in projected federal spending, which some groups fear will cut access to health care for thousands of the state's neediest ...
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Tommy Thompson's health care problem
Washington Post (blog)
But Thompson has one big problem — health care. President Obama's health care law has become a touchstone for conservatives who see it as the most egregious example of the "government can solve our problems" mentality of the current Administration. ...
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Ford developing health-monitoring technology for cars
Los Angeles Times
By Marissa Cevallos, HealthKey / For the Booster Shots blog Smart phones have already supplemented the doctor's office and personal computers as sources of health advice — and now it appears car companies are driving into the on-the-go consumer health ...
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Los Angeles Times
A Spotlight on Public Health, Invaded by Zombies
New York Times
Unfortunately for Mr. Skinner, over at his agency's public health blog, his colleagues were posting something that really got to the beating heart of morbidity and mortality: the first official CDC instructions on coping with a zombie apocalypse. ...
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NC legislative leaders, Gov. declare health deal
BusinessWeek
Beverly Perdue and Republican legislative leaders confirmed Wednesday an agreement to fill a $515 million funding gap for the North Carolina state employee health insurance plan while keeping a free premium option for workers intact for at least ...
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McDonald's risking kids' health, say opponents
People's World
For nearly 50 years no one has been better at hooking kids on unhealthy food, spurring an epidemic of diet-related diseases than McDonalds, especially their Happy Meals, say more than 550 health professionals and organizations. "As health professionals ...
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Bill forcing health care costs on public employees would hit lawmakers, too
Detroit Free Press
BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF LANSING — Legislators wouldn't escape, as other state employees would, the brunt of a proposed law that would require municipal, county and school employees to pay at least 20% of their health care premiums. ...
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Straight Talk On Fixing Health Care: The Innovator's Prescription
Forbes (blog)
By STEVE DENNING Amid all the overheated, confused and politicized discussion about fixing health care and Medicare, a few voices stand out as models of clarity and sanity. One of the those voices is The Innovator's Prescription. ...
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Forbes (blog)


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