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• Three Mile Island Cats Have 9 Lives, Too?

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  Or will it be third time unlucky for the TMI puss?Radiation leak at TMI, home of the worst U.S. nuclear power disaster: No threat to public health and safety Those of us who are old enough to remember the 1979 near complete core meltdown at Unit 2 of  TMI, or smart enough to have carefully [...]
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• President Jacob Zuma Says It is Unacceptable That Most Rural Communities in South Africa Lack Clean Water

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  It is unacceptable that most rural communities still do not have access to clean water, says South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. Zuma, who was speaking during the official launch of the upgrade of the Nsezi Water treatment plant in Richards Bay on Saturday, urged local councilors to work together with Mhlathuze ...
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• Swine flu vaccine gets hogged

  
  Volcanic Ash| Volcanic Ash blog, honoluluadvertiser.com | Honolulu, Hawaii — Authority: 124
  I catch grief from the city administration when I josh about the outsized egos and general sense of self-importance over at Honolulu Hale, but sometimes they make it too easy. Last week, an Advertiser report said the state has designated 7,174 of its 50,000 employees as essential to keeping the government ...
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• How To Keep Yourself from Being Infected With Swine Flu

  
  Health Tips — Authority: 130
  How To Keep Yourself from Being Infected With Swine Flu Swine flu is an illness which derives its name from a virus that infects pigs. While the virus cannot affect people, they are likely to get an infection from time to time. The virus is communicable and can be transmitted from one person to another. The ...
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• The autism “biomed” movement: Uncontrolled and unethical experimentation on autistic children

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 131
  Ever since I first discovered the anti-vaccine movement, first on Usenet, specifically on a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussing alternative medicine (misc.health.alternative, or m.h.a. for short) and then later on web and on blogs, there have been two things that have horrified me. First, there are the claims that ...
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• Lehigh Valley Health Board Has a Website

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 482
  Its located here , and provides meeting dates, actual minutes and useful links to other public health resources. Once (or should I say if?) a bi-county health department is established, this website will serve as a central location for information on public health services that will be available to the entire Lehigh ...
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• Inside a Swine Flu vaccination clinic

  
  America's North Shore Journal — Authority: 134
  On Thursday, November 19, and Saturday, November 21, 2009, I spent about five hours each day working as a volunteer at a vaccination clinic run by the Monroe County Public Health Department (DPH). It was one of five each day held to vaccinate at risk groups for pandemic H1N1, the Swine Flu. I worked at the one held at ...
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• Senate Unveils Health Care Bill

  
  CVN Health — Authority: 145
  Democratic senators unveiled their long-awaited health care reform bill with significant departures from the House’s plan. Nancy Cordes reports.
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• Small amount of contamination found at Pa. nuclear plant

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA (BNO NEWS) — More than one-hundred employees working inside the shutdown Three Mile Island Unit 1 containment building were sent home on Saturday after a small amount of contamination was found inside, officials said on Sunday.About 150 employees were inside when the airborne ...
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• Leak at Central Pennsylvania nuclear plant Three Mile Island exposes workers to radiation (New York Daily News)

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 167
  A leak at Three Mile Island exposed about 20 workers to low levels of radiation Saturday, but officials said there is no public health risk. Read more from the original source: Leak at Central Pennsylvania nuclear plant Three Mile Island exposes workers to radiation (New York Daily News)
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• H1N1 Mutation Found In Some Flu Deaths

  
  ForWomenOnline — Authority: 146
  Norwegian health authorities said Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected. “The mutation could be affecting the virus’ ability to go deeper into the respiratory system, thus causing ...
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• All Santa wants for Christmas is the H1N1 swine flu vaccine

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 439
  (AP Photo/Jim Cole)David Oelerich stands by some of the Santa suits he rents to Santas around New England and Canada at his "Costumes of Nashua" shop in Hudson, N.H., Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Ernest Berger, president of the nations largest...
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• Drug-resistant swine flu in Welsh hospital

  
  Moo News Moo News - Entertainment, Sports, Showbiz, Celebrities & TV — Authority: 522
  Health experts have announced that five patients in a Welsh hospital are believed to be the first to transmit a new, drug-resistant strain of swine flu to one another. The five patients were all on a ward for people with severe underlying health conditions in the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff when they ...
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• Study Finds New Tool That Is Effective In Reducing Selection Bias In Comparative Effectiveness Research

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 721
  The study shows that stabilized weights can be used in observational studies to make valid comparisons between non-randomized treatment groups.
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• HHS Awards More Than $5 Million To The University Of Mississippi For Help In Eliminating Health Disparities In The Mississippi Delta Region

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 721
  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (OMH) is awarding up to $5.2 million to the University of Mississippi to support efforts to eliminate health disparities in racial and ethnic minority communities in the Mississippi Delta Region (DRI). The Delta Region comprises Mississippi, ...
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• How Should We Elicit Preferences For Health Care?

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 721
  Consumers preferences for health care have become increasingly important to inform health policy decision making. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) have become a commonly used technique in health economics to elicit such preferences. In a DCE, choice sets can be unlabeled (e.g. screening test A or B) or labeled (e.g. ...
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• US ‘to ban drinks containing combination of alcohol, caffeine’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  London, Nov 22 (ANI): The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that drinks, which contain a combination of alcohol and caffeine, will be banned within months if proven to be unsafe.The agency has asked for scientific evidence to prove it is safe, as they are worried that consuming the drinks, which can mask ...
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• On Breast Cancer, Unemployment and Warfare

  
  Odd Citizen — Authority: 129
  The hoopla about breast cancer screening recommendations masks a basic and important difference between private health and “public health.” The public health people study health in terms of statistics. If a test saves one life in a thousand but costs everyone who takes the test $100, then one life is lost but ...
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• Report: Coal’s Assault on Human Health

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 542
  Physician’s for Social Responsibility : Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a groundbreaking medical report, “Coal’s Assault on Human Health,” which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, ...
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• Not Quite Jocelyn Elders, Not Exactly Nixon Going to China, Still a Good Idea

  
  Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine — Authority: 123
  Summary: Carrie Prejean disgraced herself by publicly opposing same-sex marriage, not for either having a sex life or camera-phoning herself. Sungold proposes an unusual but sensible way she could at least partly redeem herself. Further down, reflections by Sungold, Blue Gal, and Melissa McEwan on the way ...
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