Health

Jim Pethokoukis spotlights a new Health Affairs study on how Romneycare laid the foundation for Obamacare, and what it portends for the federal health insurance scene. In short: Expanded government coverage, higher taxpayer costs. Read here for details and analysis. His conclusion: The authors conclude that based on the Romneycare experience, Obamacare will improve...
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FORBES Matthew Herper,  Forbes Staff So did you hear the one about the fetal tissue in your soda? Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff So did you hear the one about the fetal tissue in your soda? Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey is being widely mocked for a bill to ban the use of human embryonic...
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (CBS Cleveland/AP) — Former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno died Saturday night from lung cancer at the age of 85, CBS Sports confirms. The winningest major college football coach of all time, Paterno was diagnosed shortly after Penn State’s Board of Trustees ousted him Nov. 9 in the aftermath...
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G+ “The storm cannot master its own strength.” Dr. Simon Atkins CEO, Advanced Forecasting Corporation The hype over Hurricane Irene is overblown, predicts the CEO of Advanced Forecasting Corporation. “North of Delaware, most hurricane force winds will very likely be gusts, not sustained winds.” o    The demise of Irene has already begun. There...
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HURRICANE IRENE ADVISORY... STATS... CONE... SATELLITE...   HURRICANE WARNING FROM NC TO NYC... 65 MILLION PEOPLE IN PATH... VIDEO: 8 Swept Off Jetty By Wave... NYC BRACES FOR UP TO 12" RAIN... COMPLETE SUBWAY SHUTDOWN PLANNED... New moon could make flooding worse? FLIGHTS CANCELED, UP AND DOWN...   - Irene is a hurricane that...
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Ricky Kreitner The 11th Circuit U.s. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia has declared the “individual mandate” provision of President Obama’s health care bill unconstitutional, calling it an “unprecedented exercise of congressional power,” Reuters reports. The section of the bill in question made it illegal for an individual not to have health insurance, and...
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ScienceDaily (June 3, 2011) — One of the beneficial compounds found in green tea has a powerful ability to increase the number of “regulatory T cells” that play a key role in immune function and suppression of autoimmune disease, according to new research in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. This may...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top congressional Republicans said on Sunday they would be open to a compromise on healthcare costs, one of the biggest stumbling blocks in a deal to get the United States’ debt under control. Representative Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, said he would “absolutely” be willing...
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Harnessing the Energy of the Sun: New Technique Improves Artificial Photosynthesis Transforming solar energy into a usable form is a real challenge. One technique is to use semiconductors to store the energy as hydrogen. Unfortunately, the most efficient semiconductors are not the most stable. Scientists have just discovered that …  > full story The Calculus...
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Last month, the revelation that sitting is slowly but surely killing us just about scared every cubicle monkey and their bosses straight out of their desk chairs. Sitting is not only making us fat, lazy, and weak (all bummers) — it’s shaving precious years off of our desk-bound lifespans: men who sit six hours...
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