Articles tagged with: health
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Insurance giant Fortis used every underhanded method it could to purge HIV-positive clients from its books, according to newly released records.
Documents reveal that the company—now known as Assurant—used an algorithm to target every policyholder diagnosed with HIV for a fraud investigat... read more
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Men who suffer from heart disease and erectile dysfunction may have twice the risk of both heart attack and death, a new study shows.
The findings, published in Circulation, add to a body of research that suggests erectile dysfunction may signal other health problems. The message to patients:... read more
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The government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings _ those popular and fashionable infant carriers that parents strap around their chests to give the little ones a cuddle on the move.
The concern: Infants can suffocate, and at least a few have.
The head of the Consumer Prod... read more
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CBS anchor Harry Smith is scheduled to have a colonoscopy live on The Early Show this Wednesday. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and Harry is getting into the spirit of things by undergoing the procedure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, CBS News sa... read more
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It turns out the woman who nearly single-handedly killed health-care reform in the US with her “death panel” charges slipped across the border for health care in socialized Canada. “Isn’t that kind of ironic?” Sarah Palin asked a Calgary crowd over the weekend. She said... read more
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Maria Alaimo wanted a breast augmentation, not a breast duplication.
But “four breasts” is what the Staten Island mother got after a 2003 visit to Dr. Keith Berman, which was intended to enlarge the woman’s breasts to a full 36 C cup.
Instead, Alaimo wound up with ... read more
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Dr. William Li, is a cancer researcher from the Angiogenesis Foundation. Angiogenesis means the growth of blood vessels. Your body usually knows how to regulate the growth of blood vessels, but sometimes there are defects in blood growing and pruning. Too little angiogenesis can lead to things like ... read more
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Samantha Lynn Frazier has sworn off dieting after surviving an Atlantic City shooting in a particularly unusual fashion: “My love handles saved my life,” she says.
Frazier had just arrived in Atlantic City, and was out on the boardwalk headed for a bar with her friend when she heard two p... read more
