Native Americans Struggle With High Rate of Rape 23.05.2012, 05:47:19 The assault rate on tribal lands is higher than the national average, and reservation residents who report being attacked often confront gaps in medical and legal help.
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Well: The Doctor's Remedy: Biofeedback for Stress 22.05.2012, 17:04:01 Patients aren't the only ones interested in alternative and complementary medicine. In a new series, Well talks to doctors across the country to find out what nontraditional medicines or therapies they sometimes recommend or use themselves.
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Tailoring Treatments for Alcoholics 22.05.2012, 20:17:20 Some addiction experts envision a near future in which patients will be able to choose a drug that best suits them, and couple it with therapy and other tools to achieve long-term recovery.
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Well: New Data on Harms of Prostate Cancer Screening 22.05.2012, 03:15:34 In a controversial finding, a government task force concluded that the harms of the simple blood test far outweigh any potential benefit.
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Advertising: Band-Aids and Muppets Soothe Child’s Scrapes 23.05.2012, 05:05:14 A free app for iPhones and iPads linked to Muppets Band-Aids makes a Muppet character appear to emerge from the bandage to console the injured child.
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Direct Primary Care Providers Lower Cost of Concierge Services 23.05.2012, 05:00:52 Direct primary care providers, which were once most associated with concierge health services for the rich, are reaching out to small businesses and the working class.
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Gains in Health System Seen as Lasting by Some 23.05.2012, 05:47:19 The new health care law has improved the system for patients, and those gains will survive any Supreme Court decision, some Democratic officials said.
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Katie Beckett, Who Inspired Health Reform, Dies at 34 23.05.2012, 03:40:05 Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, called Ms. Beckett “an inadvertent pioneer in the civil rights movement for people with disabilities.”
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