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24.10.2006 - After she and her husband staged a cold-blooded murder, Lady Macbeth became famously obsessed with washing her hands. Pontius Pilate cleansed his paws, too, even as he sentenced Jesus. It wasn't until the 19th century that scientists developed germ theory, the idea that poor hygiene spreads... Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Medicaid spending rose by 2.8 percent in fiscal 2006, the smallest increase in a decade, according to a study released yesterday by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil -- Adriana Pereira da Silva's family and friends are a weary lot who spend their days coaxing whatever crops they can from the red dirt that surrounds their thatch-roofed shacks. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - As the population in Virginia has grown in recent years, especially in Northern Virginia, the capacity to help the mentally ill has declined steadily. The number of psychiatric beds in Northern Virginia has plummeted from 402 in 1990 to 196 today, and those who can't find treatment often wind up in... Read more…
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24.10.2006 - SPRING LAKE, N.C. -- They winced while their blood was drawn and fidgeted as the blood pressure cuff tightened. But the sixth-graders were excited about becoming test subjects in a nationwide diabetes study, if only to score the $50 gift card being offered. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - A prominent Washington mosque has sued its longtime business manager, accusing him of embezzling more than $300,000 and diverting the money to companies he owned or controlled. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) says Medicare officials have a problem with their math. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - More than one-third of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars seeking medical treatment from the Veterans Health Administration report symptoms of stress or other mental disorders -- a tenfold increase in 18 months, according to an agency study. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - About one in four doctors use some form of electronic health records, suggesting that a technology frequently billed as a way to improve the quality and efficiency of care has yet to win widespread acceptance, according to a study released yesterday. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Antipsychotic drugs that are widely used to calm agitated patients with Alzheimer's disease help very few of them, and those modest benefits are canceled out by the frequent side effects, a comprehensive government-funded study has found. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - It had been several decades since I closed down a bar. But two years ago, in a tile-floored dining room a few kilometers from the Tecate beer brewery in Baja California, I became so engrossed in conversation with a wise stranger I failed to notice how desperately the staff wanted us gone. For... Read more…
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24.10.2006 - A consumer activist organization yesterday asked the Food and Drug Administration to investigate what it considers a possibly criminal attempt to suppress information about the risks of the new generation of silicone breast implants. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Lucille Schenk bought $20,000 worth of jewelry a year ago, plunging herself into debt and despair. She knew something was wrong but couldn't help herself: For hours each day, she watched a jewelry channel and the Home Shopping Network, until the salespeople felt like family. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - The Medicare prescription drug benefit is on pace to cost the federal government about $30 billion this year, far less than the $43 billion originally projected, outgoing Medicare chief Mark B. McClellan said yesterday. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Doctors yesterday reported the first evidence that targeted electrical brain stimulation may help head-trauma victims stuck in a state of semiconsciousness, after an experiment apparently restored some of one patient's abilities to function and communicate. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Barely two weeks into the flu-shot season, the promise of a record supply of vaccine already is being tarnished by shipment delays that are causing sporadic shortages and forcing some doctors to postpone clinics or serve only high-risk patients. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - You can see it the next time you visit your office cafeteria or a nearby park: Whites sitting together with whites, blacks with blacks, young people with other young people. When individuals from these groups mix, it is usually because they share something else in common, such as a pastime. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Racial and ethnic differences in getting such potentially lifesaving preventive testing as mammograms, Pap smears and colon cancer screenings appear to be larger than previously thought, according to a new study. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Three years after the Food and Drug Administration first hinted that it might permit the sale of milk and meat from cloned animals, prompting public reactions that ranged from curiosity to disgust, the agency is poised to endorse marketing of the mass-produced animals for public consumption. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - An occasional series in which staff members share a recipe that we turn to time and again: Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Ask Sally Your Healthy Eating Questions at 1 p.m. Tuesdays Read more…
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24.10.2006 - You've checked out your lover's zodiac sign, and you know what her sleep number is. Before taking the next step, though, you might want to have a close look at her fingers. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Most of the time I'm fine. But some days I can't find the car keys. And I can't recall the name of the nice lady who lives two houses down. And I wonder if next time I will be able to stop my car fast enough to avoid a thrill-seeking squirrel. And sometimes even simple, two-syllable words... Read more…
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24.10.2006 - The pharmaceutical company Novartis is recalling 500,000 doses of its flu vaccine after two shipments bound for use in a childhood immunization program in New York were found frozen. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - PALO ALTO, CALIF. -- What if we turned the life cycle upside down? I am sitting in the office of Laura L. Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, and we're exploring ideas for a new chronological agenda that would be more appropriate for a life span of 80 years or more. What if . .... Read more…
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