Metal leak at China chemical plant leaves 500 sick

More than 500 villagers in central China have been found to have high concentrations of a dangerous metal in their bodies after a series of leaks from a chemical plant, state media reported Monday.

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Ark. children who drank windshield fluid are OK

Officials in Arkansas say all 10 children who drank windshield wiper fluid last week at a home day care center are out of the hospital and doing fine.

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600 Sickened After Eating at N.Y. Bar

At least 600 people came down with a gastrointestinal illness after eating at a popular biker bar and restaurant, health officials said Friday.

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Astronauts offer etiquette lessons to space tourists

Astronaut Lisa Nowak washes her long hair on her July shuttle flight to the International Space Station (Image: NASA)

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But even as the flu season unfolds, there's much you can do to substantially lower your own risk of getting sick.

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Of all the fantastic musings and mutterings about the H1N1 flu and vaccine, few are more outrageous than the pronouncements of retired Army Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine III and his psychiatrist wife, Rima Laibow...

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H1N1 What is going on?

Last spring we heard of the dreaded H1n1 in Mexico and how many people were either sick or dying from it. Every day our news stations told of how it was spreading like wild fire. However not once did I hear of the thought of that country being quarantined.

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10/13/2009 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Relying on an independent study by the Institute of Medicine, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K.

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BALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) -- A few weeks ago, 22-year-old Tatiana Gulenkina felt bad. Tired with a headache and high fever, Gulenkina knew she was coming down with something. Yet she wasn't sure with what.

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Poll: Have you been forced to put off medical treatment due to a lack of insurance?

I'm curious as to what the news would be on newsvine. I know a lot of people who don't have insurance myself included do whatever they can to avoid going to a hospital even if it means bearing through some pain.

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Pick Your Poison: Socialism or Fascism

Our health care system is a mess. So far as I can remember it went astray with HMO's, when insurance companies began to dictate who got what coverage, what doctors we could see, and what specific illnesses it would cover.

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What do citizens want when it comes to Healthcare?

There has been a lot of debate on the vine, the news, and they have even tried to have some town hall meetings about healthcare. I have been on several different seeds, links and the like, commenting and reading.

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A Malmö woman has been ordered to repay 18,000 kronor ($2,300) by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Forsäkringskassan) for sickness benefits received while working on a phone sex chat line.

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"Consider this: Right now, some 75 percent of health care costs are accounted for by heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and obesity.

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How to Feel Better When You have the Flu

It isn't the flu season right now, but with the reports of the H1N1 epidemic, I want to share the top things I have used to conquer flu symptoms.

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Poll: Rationing Health Care--Is it Time?

The recent news about Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's draft bill, called the "American Health Choices Act", got me thinking about society's role in providing health insurance to its citizens. The issue at hand is that the health care system can't go on as it is.

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The next time you cough or sneeze, there is good reason to cover your mouth. As many as 20,000 viruses are expelled in an average cough, which may be sufficient to infect many people -- particularly those who are not vaccinated.

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A Pontotoc County woman who recently returned from Mexico has become Oklahoma's first person with a confirmed case of swine flu, state health officials announced Tuesday.

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What is Swine Flu Exactly?

How do people get infected?

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Breaking News!! I just found out why Jay Leno missed a taping of the Tonight Show!

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"Zero Trends: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy," examines ways employers can head off health insurance cost increases by targeting risk factors and overall systems instead of individual defects.

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And now their home's interior is being rebuilt because it contained Chinese-made drywall that they say has made them sick.

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Well, I have a 53-year-old brother. He's autistic and due to a doctor's mistake, now retarded as well. He's also invalid due to many seizures, in bed and cared for by a family member who quit his job to be my brother's solitary caretaker.

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Hopeful Signs of Spring

Without much fanfare, save my own little "Snoopy dance", spring has flopped down on the porch like the wet dog it has shown itself to be. Wet and cold with the briefest teases of warm sunshine, tickling the usual entourage of flora and fauna from their hiding places.

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We have come far from the days of Hyppocrates - but have we gone in the right direction? Presented here is the original Hypocratic Oath - taken by doctors/healers since Greek times, and probably harking back to those ancient healers before him.

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Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven-But Nobody Wants To Die!

Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven...But Nobody Wants To Die! (From CNN News )

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Are you a good person? Skip to next paragraph Derek Goodwin Peter Singer THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE Acting Now to End World Poverty By Peter Singer 206 pages. Random House.

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An estimated 4 million Americans have lost their health insurance since the recession began, and as many as 14,000 people could be losing their health coverage every day, according to a report by liberal think tank Center for American Progress' Action Fund.

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Peanut Corporation: Just another Corporate Sociopath

What could be more natural than enjoying a peanut butter sandwich with your kids? One of life's simple pleasures has been made a high-risk endeavor. Like economics, the American food crisis is touching lives in a very real way beyond corporate profits and money.

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