Health
Getting young people to embrace health reform
Young people often criticized as whiny, entitled and irresponsible, may now have the most clout in one of the biggest overhauls of the country's health system ever.
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Recipe rehab with three new cookbooks
A diet rich in vegetables does a body good, health experts say.
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In medicine, more care may not be better
The dull whir of the computer running in the background seemed to have gotten louder as the patient fell quiet. She was a young woman, a primary-care patient of mine, seeking a referral to yet another gastroenterologist. Her abdominal pain had already been checked out by two of the city's most renowned...
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Affordable Care Act has many conservative ideas at its core
Supporters downplay the notion. Opponents ignore it. Yet at the core of the Affordable Care Act are many ideas backed by conservatives and decried by liberals.
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Not just a 'women's disease,' osteoporosis strikes men too
GRAND FORKS, N.D.-Osteoporosis, a disease that causes bones to weaken and sometimes break, is often thought of as a "women's disease," but it poses a significant threat to more than 2 million men in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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Quinn on Nutrition: Nutrition products
This is the time of year I remind myself to take a closer look at some of the product samples I've received over the last few months. Helps me to find out about new products. And sometimes I'm surprised. Here are a few worth noting:
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Nurse practitioner champions a new model of mind-based rehab
She sometimes refers to her death, euphemistically, as "The Event."
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For male nurse, healing patients and himself
He was riding in his aunt's sedan, a kid in elementary school, watching senior citizens walk in and out of the Lynwood, Calif., retirement home where his mother worked. Then she emerged in scrubs.
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Q&A: Readers' questions answered on Affordable Care Act
In a live chat on the Orlando Sentinel's website, Anne Packham, lead navigator for Central Florida for the federal Affordable Care Act, answered questions from readers on how to sign up for insurance.
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Salmonella outbreak: 7 ways to protect yourself and your family
A salmonella outbreak has been linked to chicken from three Foster Farms processing facilities in California, sickening nearly 300 people in multiple states and triggering a public health alert.
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