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EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Scott Sonner - Nov. 23 (News Report) - A new wave of testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that 79 percent of the wells tested north of the World War II-era copper mine have dangerous levels of uranium or arsenic or both that make the water unsafe to drink. And, more importantly to the neighbors, that the source of the pollution is a groundwater plume that has slowly migrated from the 6-square-mile mine site.

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Advocacy Groups May Reshape Message During Holidays

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Katharine Q. Seeleye - Nov. 22 (News Analysis) - The Senate debate on health care, set to begin the week after Thanksgiving, is now on course to collide with the holiday season. One question for advocacy groups on all sides will be whether to keep up their barrage of pointed commercials, even as chestnuts roast and stockings are hung.

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Republicans Hope For Just One Defection

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Public Radio - Nov. 21 (News Analysis) - No Republicans will vote Saturday night to advance the Senate's health care bill to open debate, Republican Whip Sen. John Kyl says. That leaves the fate of the vote in the hands of a few moderate Democrats, all of whom are needed to reach the 60 votes needed to push the bill forward. Host Scott Simon speaks with Kyl on his party's chances of defeating the bill.

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What to watch for in today's debate

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Chris Frates - Nov. 21 (News Analysis) - Nancy Pelosi did it. Can Harry Reid? Two Saturdays ago, Pelosi passed health reform on a squeaker of a House vote. Today, Reid can’t spare a single Democrat as the Senate decides whether to start debate. If not, President Barack Obama’s reform hopes suffer immeasurable harm.

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Study raises more doubts about cholesterol drugs Zetia, Vytorin

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lyndsey Layton - Nov. 21 (News Report) - A widely prescribed and expensive cholesterol drug does not unclog arteries as effectively as a modified version of Vitamin B3, a cheap alternative used to treat heart disease for decades, according to a new study.

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The $100 Million Health Care Vote?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Jonathan Karl - Nov. 20 (News Report) - The health care bill includes a $100 million section for increasing medicaid subsidies to the state of Louisiana. The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick Klein, covers politics, the White House, Congress, Democrats, Republicans, and all latest political campaigning for the 2012 presidential race. Washington's first and most influential tipsheet, The

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Senate girds for Saturday vote and long battle on health care

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By David Lightman - Nov. 20 (News Report) - The Senate Thursday began what promises to be a bitter, lengthy battle over the future of health care in America, and taxes, abortion, affordability and federal deficits emerged as key flashpoints.

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Reid uncertain of tally as healthcare bill heads for rare Saturday vote

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Jeffrey Young - Nov. 20 (News Report) - The majority leader also put to rest any notion that the Senate would try to use budget reconciliation rules. Read more...

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Reid announces a Saturday vote on beginning debate on health bill

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Lori Montgomery, Shailagh Murray - Nov. 19 (News Report) - That procedural vote will decide whether to bring that bill to the Senate floor and begin debate, and its approval relies on the votes of three wavering moderate Democrats. Republicans are expected to rally all 40 of their senators to block the

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Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Gretchen Reynolds - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Thanks to improved research techniques and a growing understanding of the biochemistry and the genetics of thought itself, scientists are beginning to tease out how exercise remodels the brain, making it more stress-resistant.

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Seniors skeptical of health overhaul

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Kyung M. Song - Nov. 17 (Special Report) - For seniors opposed to an overhaul, much of the fear stems from well-publicized news reports of massive Medicare cuts over a decade. The House bill calls for nearly $500 billion in spending cuts that are designed to keep Medicare solvent longer by reducing fraud, waste and excessive spending. Half the cuts would be to what experts call excessive payments to home-health, skilled-nursing and other institutional health providers.

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Foes seek funds for critical study

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Michael D. Shear - Nov. 16 (News Report) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an assortment of national business groups opposed to President Obama's health-care reform effort are collecting money to finance an economic study that could be used to portray the legislation as a job killer and threat

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Toxins in plastic 'feminise boys'

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys making them "more feminine" and uninterested in rough games, say researchers.

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China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By James Pethokoukis - Nov. 16 (News Analysis) - A new study from the U.S. government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finds that the healthcare reform bill recently passed in the House of Representatives would increase healthcare spending to 21.3 percent of GDP by 2019 compared with 20.8 percent under current law. That’s bending the curve the wrong way.

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Army study: Mental health staff lacking in Afghanistan

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Nancy A. Youssef - Nov. 15 (News Report) - An Army task force has found that a growing number of soldiers serving in Afghanistan are suffering from some kind of mental stress and is urging the military to double the number of mental health professionals deployed there.

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U.S. soldiers' morale down in Afghanistan

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ann Scott Tyson - Nov. 15 (News Report) - Morale has fallen sharply among U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, with repeated combat deployments taking a toll on their psychological health and marriages, according to an Army mental health survey released Friday.

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Health bill reduces senior benefits, according to report

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lori Montgomery - Nov. 15 (News Report) - A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.

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In House Record, Many Spoke With One Voice: The Lobbyists’

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Robert Pear - Nov. 15 (News Report) - In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.

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Doctor and Patient: Primary Care’s Image Problem

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Pauline W. Chen, M.D. - Nov. 13 (News Report) - But even with current legislative efforts to address educational debt, payment discrepancies and lifestyle differences, many medical educators worry that the results will not be enough. Despite the fact that primary care physicians remain this nation’s frontline doctors — diagnosing new illnesses, managing chronic ones, advocating preventive care and protecting wellness — medical students may continue to turn away from the practice of primary care.

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Drugs: Virtually legal

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - From heroin “shooting galleries” in Vancouver to Mexico’s decriminalisation of personal possession of drugs, the Americas are suddenly looking more permissive. Meanwhile in Europe, where drugs policy is generally less stringent, seven countries have decriminalised drug possession, and the rest are increasingly ignoring their supposedly harsh regimes. Is the “war on drugs” becoming a fiction?

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Like a Rat

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Alan E. Kazdin, Carlo Rotella - Nov. 12 (News Analysis) - Psychologists who work with children and families tend to avoid mentioning to parents that the treatments they use are often based on research done on animals.

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What is expert advice worth on the stock market?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Eli Malki - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - How seriously should you take their forecasts? Does an understanding of economics and the capital market give you tools to peer into the future? A paper by psychology professors Gustaf Torngren and Henry Montgomery of Stockholm University - "Worse Than Chance? Performance and Confidence among Professionals and Laypeople in the Stock Market" - demonstrates that Lao Tzu nailed it on the head.

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Just speaking of war can be a big battle

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Des Moines Register - By Marc Hansen - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - Howard Hall wouldn't have agreed to this on his own. He's 93. He can barely hear. World War II was no fun. He never liked talking about it anyway. What's the point?

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Eternal sunshine of the unconscious mind

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Amanda Gefter - Nov. 12 (News Report) - On Saturday, at New York City's Rubin Museum, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (who wrote Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation) and Jungian psychoanalyst John Beebe took the stage and were handed an image that neither had seen before. It depicted a figure of a man with a ray of light flowing into (or out of) his chest, and a snake, its head reared, coiled around his feet.

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When Soldiers Snap

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Erica Goode - Nov. 11 (News Analysis) - “Every man has his breaking point,” said military doctors in World War II, believing that more than 90 days of continuous combat could turn any soldier into a psychiatric casualty.

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