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Calcium supplements boost myocardial infarction risk
Food Consumer
Myocardial infarction or heart attack was more commonly found in patients with osteoporosis who used calcium supplements, a meta-analysis of 16 studies reported in the British Medical Journal or BMJ revealed. Doctors whose training on nutrition ...
Calcium Supplements May Carry Heart Attack RiskABC News
Study: Calcium May Increase Heart Attack RiskWebMD
Study: Calcium Supplements Linked To Heart Attack RiskAHN | All Headline News
Medical News Today -Reuters -Telegraph.co.uk
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Compression CPR Found Effective
Los Angeles Times
Two studies of CPR techniques find that chest compressions alone, without forced breathing, are effective in helping victims of heart attacks. Chest compressions alone are as effective in rescuing victims of heart attacks as conventional ...
Studies: CPR Without Rescue Breathing OKWebMD
Health Buzz: Mouth-to-Mouth Not Key to CPRU.S. News & World Report
During CPR, Locking Lips May Not Be NecessaryNPR
CNN -Voice of America -The Associated Press
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One in five Californians say they need mental health care
Los Angeles Times
Almost 5 million California adults say they could use help with a mental or emotional problem, according to a survey released Wednesday by researchers at UCLA. About 1 million of them meet the criteria for "serious psychological distress. ...
Survey: One out of Five Californians Report Need for Mental Health HelpCalifornia Healthline
People more likely to seek mental health care when insuredUSInsurance Online.com
Positive mental health coverageConnaught Telegraph
Bizjournals.com -San Jose Mercury News -UPI.com
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2007 data show state had 6.5 million uninsured
San Francisco Chronicle
More than one fifth of Californians went without health insurance in 2007, with Bay Area counties having some of the lowest rates of uninsured people in the state, according to statistics released this week by the US Census Bureau. ...
Health insurance rates: California plans to crack down, but how hard?Los Angeles Times
Commonwealth Fund analysis highlights benefits for women in health-care overhaulWashington Post
Feds, UCLA put uninsured figure at 17%-22% in Stanislaus CountyModesto Bee
Centre Daily Times -Bloomberg -UPI.com
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Another Infant Dies of Whooping Cough in California
FOXNews
SAN DIEGO, Calif. ? San Diego County health officials say a month-old baby boy has died of whooping cough. The death reported Thursday marks at least the seventh infant to die of whooping cough this year in California. The San Diego County Health and ...
Whooping cough cases doubled in July in Santa Clara CountySan Jose Mercury News
San Diego Baby Dies of Whooping CoughKPSP Local 2
Whooping cough cases on the riseWKOW-TV.com
USA Today -msnbc.com -North County Times
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More Evidence Links Fractures to Diabetes Drugs
WebMD
July 29, 2010 -- The popular diabetes drugs Actos and Avandia boost the risk of fracture in older women, according to findings from a new study that echo those of earlier research. For the new study, researcher William H. Herman, MD, ...
TZD Use Linked to Fracture Risk in Women 50 and OlderMedPage Today
Actos Cashes In On Avandia Safety ConcernsPharmaceutical Technology Magazine (blog)
Popular diabetes drugs could make bones brittle9NEWS.com
ModernMedicine -MSN Health & Fitness -Sify
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Relationships boon to health
Deseret News
A paper published recently by Brigham Young University researchers says a lack of friends is as damaging as smoking 15 cigarettes a day (nearly a pack a day) or being an alcoholic. It's more harmful than not exercising and twice as damaging as obesity. ...
Study Suggests Strong Social Ties Could Extend LifeRTT News
Family, Friends Help You Live LongerVoice of America
Social Relation Linked to Longer LifeFood Consumer
Toronto Star -The Press Association -Execte News
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Watch Out Mosquitoes?Here Comes The Briquet
New Haven Independent
A few years ago an elderly New Haven woman died of West Nile virus. City officials want to protect residents as much as possible from any outbreak this year, so they're dropping slow-dissolving pyramids of ...
Take precautions against mosquito bitesTbo.com
Mosquito with West Nile found in villageBolingbrook Sun
Nebraskans urged to take care to prevent West NileNTV
Daily News Tribune -TriValley Central -CBS2 Chicago
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GOP-backed health care amendment removed from ballot by Florida judge
MiamiHerald.com
Calling the wording of a Republican-backed constitutional amendment on health care "manifestly misleading," a Circuit Court judge in Leon County has tossed it off the November ballot. The proposal had been drafted and put forward by the ...
Fla. judge strikes proposed health care amendmentBusinessWeek
Health amendment is tossed off ballot; state will appealSarasota Herald-Tribune
Bid to block state health care is off ballotThe News-Press
PR Newswire (press release) -CBS 4 -Examiner.com
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Poll Shows Decline In Healthcare Overhaul Opposition
Gossip Jackal
Recent polls show opposition to the massive healthcare overhaul is declining. The most recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows opposition at 35%, down from 41% last month. The poll also showed 50% approved of the healthcare reform, ...
Poll shows opposition to health care overhaul decliningWashington Post
Health care law gains support? Well, of courseAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Poll Finds Opposition to Health Care Reform Law Has Declined in JulyCalifornia Healthline
msnbc.com (blog) -The Lipman Times -The Hill (blog)
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