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    CBO: Senate bill $1 trillion over 10 years (AP)
    AP - A leading health care bill under consideration in Congress would cost the government an estimated $1 trillion over the next decade and reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about one-third, or 16 million individuals, congressional budget officials said Monday in a preliminary estimate. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:52:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    PE requirement isn't enough to fight obesity (AP)

    In this photo taken May 26, 2009 Betty Hale, center, instructs a physical education class in a 100-year-old gymnasium at Eberhart Elementary School in Chicago. Although the school has a newer gym, for much of the day it doubles as a cafeteria where the school's 1,800-plus students are offered breakfast and lunch. Time and space limitations mean each class gets physical education just once a week for 40 minutes. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The gym at Eberhart Elementary School is bright and spacious — with high ceilings, several basketball hoops, even a large, colorful climbing wall.


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    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:49:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    FDA urges caution in weighing risks of ADHD drugs (AP)
    AP - Federal health regulators are urging parents to keep their children on attention deficit drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, despite new evidence from a government-backed study that the stimulants can increase the risk of sudden death. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:56:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Obesity surgery thins bones, but enough to break? (AP)
    AP - It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too. -- read full article
    Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:14:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Obama presses doctors to back health care overhaul (AP)

    President Barack Obama address the American Medical Association during their annual meeting in Chicago, Monday, June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - President Barack Obama bluntly told doctors Monday he is against their highest legislative priority — limiting malpractice awards — and earned a smattering of boos from an audience he was here to court for his health care overhaul plans.


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    Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:36:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Marijuana Damages DNA and May Cause Cancer (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - A lot of studies have shown marijuana is not good for you. It can fry the brain and contribute to psychosis. The latest one finds "convincing evidence" that marijuana smoke damages the genetic material DNA in ways that could increase the risk of cancer. -- read full article
    Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:01:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Men's 'stiff upper lip' may explain cancer death rate (AFP)

    A man smokes a cigarette in Belfast, northern Ireland. British men may be literally dying as a result of their reluctance to see the doctor, researchers have said with a new study showing they are nearly 40% more likely to die from any form of cancer than women.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - British men may be literally dying as a result of their reluctance to see the doctor, researchers said on Monday with a new study showing they are nearly 40 percent more likely to die from any form of cancer than women.


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    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:00:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Medicare advisers eye imaging, biologics savings (Reuters)
    Reuters - Expensive medical tests, costly biological drugs and overpaid private insurance plans need tighter controls to help rein in costs to the multibillion-dollar U.S. Medicare health insurance program, a panel of advisers said on Monday. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:50:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    ADHD Drugs Linked to Sudden Death in Kids (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - MONDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Stimulant medications commonly prescribed to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are associated with an increased risk of sudden death, but those deaths are still rare, new research finds. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:03:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    FDA questions heart risk findings on ADHD drugs (Reuters)
    Reuters - A study that found possible heart risks with attention deficit drugs had limitations and should not prompt parents to stop giving the medications to children, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:10:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Australia tries tough love to heal Aboriginal woes (AP)

    In this May 29, 2009, photo,the remote town of Wadeye in the Northern Territory in  Australia, is seen on approach in a light aircraft. Wadeye, with a population of 2,500,  the largest Aboriginal community in Australia's remote Northern Territory, is a reminder of the  tortured relationship with its oldest inhabitants, and the government's endless failed attempts to right the wrongs it's wrought.(AP Photo/Kristen Gelineau)AP - Along the dusty red road that leads from the lonely airstrip into town, the signs flash by: "No alcohol," says one. "Petrol sniffing kills," admonishes another. "Don't bring gunja into our town," warns a third.


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    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:03:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Health care's forgotten victims (AP)

    This July 2005 photo provided by the Little Light Family shows Ta'shon Rain Little Light in Crow Agency, Mont. Five-year-old Ta'shon had stopped eating and walking, and complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt. On her first and subsequent visits to the Indian Health Service clinic on the Crow Agency, Mont., Ta'shon's mother was told her daughter was depressed, when in fact she had cancer, and died some months later. (AP Photo/Little Light Family)AP - Ta'Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.


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    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:56:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    AP NewsBreak: VA inspections show training flaws (AP)
    AP - Fewer than half of Veterans Affairs clinics given a surprise inspection last month had proper training and guidelines in place for common endoscopic procedures such as colonoscopies — even after the agency learned that mistakes may have exposed thousands of veterans to HIV and other diseases. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:18:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Co-op compromise gives White House a health option (AP)
    AP - With Republicans fighting the idea of a government-run health insurance plan, members of President Barack Obama's team said Sunday that they are open to a compromise: a cooperative program that would expand coverage with taxpayer money but without direct governmental control. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:14:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    FDA urges caution in weighing risks of ADHD drugs (AP)
    AP - Federal health regulators are urging parents to keep their children on attention deficit drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, despite new evidence from a government-backed study that the stimulants can increase the risk of sudden death. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:39:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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