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Epic Fail: Where Four State Health Exchanges Went Wrong
By Charles Ornstein Special to the NNPA from ProPublica Much has been written (and will continue to be written) about the spectacular failure of health insurance exchanges in Minnesota, Massachusetts,...
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Not Enough Blacks Staying in HIV Treatment Programs
Phill Wilson says no one cares about HIV-infected Blacks more than other Blacks (NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen) By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even though Blacks get...
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LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Veteran TV newsman Tom Brokaw has been diagnosed with cancer, NBC News said Tuesday. The Mayo Clinic discovered last summer that Brokaw has multiple...
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Loneliness, Not Obesity, Biggest Killer of Elderly
LONDON: Loneliness is a major health risk for the elderly and it can increase the risk of premature death by 14%, warns a new research. A meta-analysis showed loneliness has twice the impact on early...
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Number of Test-Tube Babies Born in U.S. Hits Record Percentage
(Reuters) – More test-tube babies were born in the United States in 2012 than ever before, and they constituted a higher percentage of total births than at any time since the technology was introduced...
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Months After Rehab, Knee and Hip Patients Keep Improving
(Reuters Health) – People who have had a knee or hip replacement reap the benefits of intense rehab months after they’ve returned home, according to a new analysis. “If you can get patients to a...
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Older Americans Are Early Winners Under Health Law
In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Marie Cadet poses for a photo at her home in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — For many older Americans who lost...
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Don’t Just Sit There! It Could Be Harmful Later in Life
[USA Today] Sitting too much increases the risk of disability in adults over age 60.(Photo11: BananaStock) Sitting too much, sometimes called sitting disease, may increase the risk of disability in...
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Lilly Weekly Diabetes Drug as Effective as Market Leader Victoza – Study
Feb 25 (Reuters) – An experimental once-weekly medicine for type 2 diabetes developed by Eli Lilly and Co proved as effective in lowering blood sugar as Victoza from Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk in...
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Rules to Limit Marketing Unhealthy Food in Schools
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, left, introduces JoAnne Hammermaster, from Vienna, Va., who is co-founder and president of Real Food For Kids, and her son Sam Hammermaster, at the White House in...
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Group Wants Heart Attack Warning on Testosterone
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A consumer advocacy group is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to add a bold warning label to popular testosterone drugs for men in light...
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Your Feet Tell the Story
by Valecia Weeks Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times If your feet could talk…. what would they say? Would they say, “I feel nice and pretty after that relaxing pedicure.” Would they...
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Obama: Health Insurance Enrollment at 4 Million
President Barack Obama speaks at the National Organizing Summit in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press...
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Child Care Centers to Follow First Lady Guidelines
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, during a workshop to help students fill out the Free Application for Federal...
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Women Still Left Out of Medical Research
MONDAY, March 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Two decades after the passage of a landmark law mandating that women be represented in government-funded medical research, a new report reveals that the world...
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Young Black Men Suffer from High Rates of Depression
They are hyper-vigilant for any signs of danger because they are under intense surveillance by Frederick H. Lowe Special to the NNPA from The NorthStar News Young African-American men suffer from much...
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Friends Common Source of Abused Prescription Meds
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Most people who abuse addictive prescription painkillers get them for free from friends or relatives, while drug dealers are a relatively uncommon...
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Suffering In Silence
The stigma associated with mental illness, mistrust of the health care system, and fear of ‘putting my business in the street’ are some of the factors preventing Black Americans from getting the help...
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WHO: 5 Percent of Calories Should Be From Sugar
This is a Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 file photo of chocolate bars on a shelf at a store in central London, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan. File) MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) —...
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Studies Show Big Promise for HIV Prevention Drug
This April 12, 2011 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows an H9 T cell, blue, infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),...
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