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BPA in cans safe: Health Canada
Globe and Mail - Canada
Health Canada says the bisphenol A levels found in testing by The Globe and Mail and CTV to be leaching into a variety of canned foods, ranging from ravioli ...
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Obama's health 'excellent,' physician says
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
Although he hasn't had a physical in 16 months, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been "in excellent health" and is medically fit to serve ...
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Universal Health Care
New York Times - United States
In fact, our company has publicly embraced and acted on its commitment to universal access to health care for all Americans for many years, and achieving it ...
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Obama’s Doctor, Praising His Health, Sees No Obstacles to Service
New York Times - United States
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and JEFF ZELENY Senator Barack Obama, 46, was in “excellent health” at the time of his last examination more than a year ago and has ...
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Children's health care report ranks state 34th
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Colorado posted a middling score in a report that evaluates how well its health care system serves children. But a spokeswoman for Colorado's Department of ...
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UT Health Science Center wins $26 million award
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
A South Texas consortium led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is set to receive a $26 million Clinical and Translational ...
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Doctor says Obama in excellent health
Reuters - USA
By Deborah Charles CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is in excellent health and fit to serve as US president, ...
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California health agency offers Web tool for hospital data
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development's California Healthcare Tool is a Web-based mapping tool that draws on a data warehouse of 68 ...
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Stanford gets $30M health research grant Silicon Valley / San Jose ...
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The five-year grant links Stanford to the CTSA consortium of 38 academic health centers working to speed medical progress, each according to its own ...
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Aero Med helicopter crashes at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital
MLive.com - MI,USA
by The Grand Rapids Press Press Photo/Robert C. DaySmoke and fire followed a helicopter crash on top of Spectrum Health Butterworth. ...
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Researchers to examine video games and health (AP)
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For example, at Union College in New York, researchers will monitor how participating on a virtual cycling team influences exercise behaviors and health outcomes for people age 50 and older. Read more.
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Researchers to examine video games and health
WASHINGTON (AP) - Why fight the proliferation of video games if you can use them to improve the nation's health? Health researchers are looking at ways that people's obsession with video games might be put to good use. ...
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";Silent" Heart Attack Boosts Dementia Risk
By MSNBC - Health News
Source: MSNBC - Health News. Men who are found to have had an unrecognized or "silent" heart attack are at increased risk of developing dementia or small lesions in the brain that can affect cognition, a study finds. ...
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Health News in Second Life: Counseling Center
By berci.mesko@gmail.com (Bertalan Meskó)
As I have several projects in Second Life, the virtual world, I come across plenty of interesting news focusing on the health/medical aspect of virtuality. A second act for Second Life? (CNN). This past weekend the Los Angeles Times ran ...
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BC AND NEW ZEALAND SIGN HISTORIC HEALTH ARRANGEMENT
VICTORIA – An international agreement between the British Columbia Ministry of Health and the New Zealand Ministry of Health was signed today to further encourage the sharing of information and innovations in health service to maximize ...
Ministry of Health NEWS - http://www.news.gov.bc.ca/