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			<title><![CDATA[ Memory lapses are common and increase with age; when do they signal Alzheimer's? ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Where did I park my car? What is that lady's name? Where are my glasses? Some call these "senior moments" or "tip-of-the-tongue" experiences. They're mundane for many elderly (and not-so-elderly) adults, but when do they become something more serious? How does one know when it's time to get scree...
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			<dc:creator>Rachel Saslow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 'Village' groups help seniors remain in their homes as they grow older ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Nearly three years ago, Harry Rosenberg and his wife, Barbara Filner, met with nine of their neighbors about starting an aging-in-place "village" in the Burning Tree community of Bethesda. The idea: If neighbors could help one another with basic services such as transportation and simple home...
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			<dc:creator>Howard Gleckman</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Autism and diet: Many questions to digest ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Last week, the British medical journal the Lancet, which had originally published a controversial 1998 study by British researcher Andrew Wakefield that implied a link between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, formally retracted that study . In the wake of this, one of the...
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gym workouts for skiers before hitting the slopes ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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I'm not one of those people who doesn't go skiing in the Washington region because the slopes are too puny and the conditions are too icy. Nope, I'm one of those people who doesn't ski around here because sharp poles, slippery surfaces and gravity never seemed like a friendly combination.
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			<dc:creator>Vicky Hallett</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Super-size equipment helps D.C. area EMTs move the obese ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Local paramedics and firefighters don't need to follow television shows about a half-ton teen or biggest losers to track the obesity trend.
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			<dc:creator>Mary Pat Flaherty</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pentagon to stock health facilities with morning-after pill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:12:56 EST</pubDate>
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The Department of Defense will begin making the morning-after pill Plan B available at all of its hospitals and health clinics around the world, officials announced Thursday.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama invites Republicans to summit on health care ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama moved to jump-start the stalled health-care debate Sunday, inviting Republicans in Congress to participate in a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on the subject this month.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Geriatrics experts discuss the upside of growing older ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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If you think that getting older is the beginning of the end, think again. Sure, skin loses some elasticity and joints get creaky, and maybe you can't keep your eyes open past 9:30 p.m. But even people well into their 80s are going to yoga and Pilates classes, volunteering, having sex and taking c...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Earthquake-response doctors in Haiti can't save everyone seeking emergency care ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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We have three tents for our "triage emergency department." Two tents stand out: the "Jiffy Pop" (look that up, those of you born in the microwave era) and the Blue Tent.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Congressmen seek accounting of AIDS fraud complaints ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Two Republican congressmen who help oversee billions of dollars for people with AIDS are asking the federal government for an accounting of fraud and mismanagement complaints leveled against AIDS programs nationwide.
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			<title><![CDATA[ In 'vegetative state' patients, brain scanners show some alert minds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Many of the patients were labeled with the same grim diagnosis: "vegetative state." Their head injuries, teams of specialists had concluded, condemned them to a netherworld -- alive yet utterly devoid of any awareness of the world around them.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Problems at D.C.-funded AIDS program also reported at homes for mentally ill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The founder of a city-funded AIDS program that recently closed amid reports of alleged fraud and neglect also operated eight facilities for the mentally ill that were racked for years by similar problems, city officials said.
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			<dc:creator>Debbie Cenziper</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Looking forward to life after prostate cancer treatment ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After being treated for prostate cancer recently, I did a review of my writings on the subject through the years. Pretty consistent stuff: Get screened regularly, fellows, as I was doing, and stop being so chicken-hearted about those digital exams.
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			<dc:creator>Courtland Milloy</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lancet retracts paper linking vaccine to autism ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between autism and the childhood vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
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			<dc:creator>Kate Kelland</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gates Foundation pledges $10 billion to vaccine research ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research vaccines and make them available to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday.
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			<dc:creator>Alexander G. Higgins</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama 2011 budget request: Food and Drug Administration ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Food and Drug Administration would see a 6 percent jump in its budget to $2.51 billion. The agency's total resources would reach about $4 billion because of user fees it expects to collect from food, tobacco and drug industries.
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			<dc:creator>Lyndsey Layton</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dietary supplements may produce health benefits, but proof is lacking ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Shelf after shelf of strangely named bottles fill an entire aisle at Whole Foods Market. There are "CoQ10" softgels, "charcoal" pills and mysterious "hoodia" tablets. But why would anyone take charcoal? What exactly is a CoQ10? And can you eat a hoodia?
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			<dc:creator>Melissa Bell</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's pick for food safety chief surprises consumer advocates ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Soon after taking office, President Obama highlighted food safety as a domestic priority. A string of national outbreaks of food illnesses were a "troubling trend," the president said. He called the problems "critical" and said they presented a "risk to public health."
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			<dc:creator>Lyndsey Layton</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Evidence is thin that multivitamins are beneficial, but they seem benign ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Earlier this month, I found myself standing in front of a massive display of multivitamins at a local grocery store, confounded by the options: There were supplements for children, teens, males, females, pregnant women, adults "50 and wiser," those in peri-menopause and menopause, and seniors; fo...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Creepy crawlies can really get under your skin ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Carla Sguigna laid her daughter's head in her lap as they watched a movie in their basement family room in her North Bethesda home. Sguigna methodically combed through her 4-year-old's hair, strand by strand, fingering each shaft down to her scalp.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Omega-3 fatty acids may reduce heart disease risk ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Suddenly, they're everywhere: in your pasta, your peanut butter, your baby's formula. Omega-3 fatty acids have been known to doctors since the 1930s. But their recent bump in popularity stems from a 2004 ruling by the Food and Drug Administration that labels could say foods containing omega-3s may...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rise in teenage pregnancy rate spurs new debate on arresting it ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The pregnancy rate among teenage girls in the United States has jumped for the first time in more than a decade, raising alarm that the long campaign to reduce motherhood among adolescents is faltering, according to a report released Tuesday.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Genetic tests give consumers hints about disease risk; critics have misgivings ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Last fall, Sgt. Timothy Gall, an Army medic stationed at Fort Belvoir, sought clues to the multiple sclerosis and heart disease that ran in his family by looking into his DNA. All it took was some spit and about a thousand bucks.
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			<dc:creator>Chris Berdik</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ How to choose the best multivitamin ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Many people take just one supplement, a multivitamin. Here are some tips for choosing the best multivitamin, from Andrew Weil, founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, which focuses on combining alternative treatments with conventional medical practices.
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			<title><![CDATA[ SE hospital believes nonprofit status could help finances ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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United Medical Center, formerly known as Greater Southeast Community Hospital, is seeking a nonprofit charitable status to help stave off a financial crisis that appears to have worsened -- two years after it received nearly $80 million from the District.
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			<dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ High cholesterol puts 1 of 5 teens at risk of heart disease ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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One out of every five U.S. teenagers has a cholesterol level that increases the risk of heart disease, federal health officials reported Thursday, providing striking new evidence that obesity is making more children prone to illnesses once primarily limited to adults.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Denise Austin is still going strong ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Most people greet strangers with a "pleased to meet you." Denise Austin prefers a more direct approach: "Touch my tummy."
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			<dc:creator>Vicky Hallett</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 'Health Heroes' dish up nutritious food at Clinton high school ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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As a substitute teacher in Prince George's County, Kim Carrington, 44, has stepped up to the head of a lot of different classes, from kindergarten to high school French. But it was the food and nutrition class she taught at Surrattsville High in Clinton that came to mind when she got an e-mail on...
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			<dc:creator>Charity Brown</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pain and dying are explored by doctors in new books ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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LAST ACTS Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life
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			<dc:creator>Perri Klass</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Ohio, Obama says he won't 'walk away' from health-care fight ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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ELYRIA, OHIO  -- Offering both a passionate defense of his policies and a populist pitch, President Obama told audience members in this economically struggling region Friday that he will continue fighting for them even in the face of stiffening political opposition.
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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pelosi: House won't pass Senate bill to save health-care reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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As Democrats continued to grapple with the consequences of their loss in Massachusetts, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday eliminated the most obvious avenue for completing health-care reform, saying the House will not embrace the version of the legislation already approved by the Senate.
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			<title><![CDATA[ On TV's 'One Big Happy Family,' Cole family is losing weight together ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Well, they certainly are big. And they do appear happy.
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			<dc:creator>Jennifer LaRue Huget</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Virginia medical team reaches Haitian city, begins to treat patients ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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JACMEL, HAITI -- After 2 1/2 days of travel, over the sea, across borders, in planes so small they had to leave most of their food and water behind, the emergency relief workers from Northern Virginia had finally arrived.
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			<dc:creator>Susan Kinzie</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Doctors changed diagnosis after woman said allergies weren't causing runny nose ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Rebecca Yates was sick of sounding like a broken record -- and tired of getting the same response from the internist at her HMO.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Debate on circumcision heightened as CDC evaluates surgery ]]></title>
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Circumcision, long one of the most emotionally charged surgical procedures performed in the United States, has become the focus of yet another intense debate as leading health authorities are about to issue major new evaluations of the potential health benefits of the operation.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Insurer okayed out-of-network care for heart patient but family faces huge bill ]]></title>
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RICHMOND -- Five months into pregnancy, Jodi Lemacks discovered that her unborn son had a severe heart defect and would require a complex operation as soon as he was born. But the local pediatric heart surgeons didn't inspire confidence.
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			<title><![CDATA[ WHO official denies exaggeration about dangers of swine flu pandemic ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A top World Health Organization official dismissed charges Thursday that the agency exaggerated the threat posed by the H1N1 virus and that it had been unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry to issue dire warnings about the swine flu pandemic.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ FDA can't block importing of 'electronic cigarettes' ]]></title>
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration may not block the importation of "electronic cigarettes," battery-powered versions of conventional smokes.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Democrats seek quick deal on health-care bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama and congressional leaders raced Friday to strike a compromise on far-reaching health legislation, hoping to settle lingering disputes before Tuesday, when a special election in Massachusetts could hand Republicans their 41st vote in the Senate and the power to defeat Obama's top...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Reversing itself, FDA expresses concerns over health risks from BPA ]]></title>
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The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its position on the safety of Bisphenol A, a chemical found in plastic bottles, soda cans, food containers and thousands of consumer goods, saying it now has concerns about health risks.
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Haiti, relief agencies rush to meet desperate need for water ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti's densely populated capital, is home to more than 2 million people, each of whom, under normal circumstances, needs to drink about a gallon of clean water every day, just to survive. Basic needs such as washing and cooking add another three gallons or so per person each day.
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			<title><![CDATA[ One in five Americans got swine flu vaccine, CDC reports ]]></title>
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ATLANTA -- About one in five Americans has been vaccinated against swine flu, according to the government's first detailed estimates of vaccination rates against the pandemic.
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33% Proportion of U.S. adults who are obese. 12.6%
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			<title><![CDATA[ Functional training exercises compete with machine-based workouts in D.C. gyms ]]></title>
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As they do every January, people are cramming into gyms to lose weight. But this year, some gyms are also working to slim down -- by excising rather than exercising. Instead of love handles and jiggling arm flesh, their problem area is the equipment loaded with stacks of hefty plates meant to wor...
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The District government and the National Institutes of Health on Monday announced the launch of a $26.4 million initiative to attack the city's HIV/AIDS epidemic with expanded testing and treatment to reduce the level of the virus in its victims and hopefully decrease their chances of spreading t...
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			<dc:creator>Darryl Fears</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Researchers ask why optimism is associated with health, pessismism with disease ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Carolyn Butler </dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Battery-powered pump is implanted in teenager with unexplained heart failure ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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It was the kind of complaint any mother of a 16-year-old has heard a hundred times: "Mom, I don't feel well."
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pharmacists dispense pills, counsel patients, screen for illness, give vaccines ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When Charley John tells people he's a pharmacist, he knows what many of them think: that he spends his workdays sequestered behind a counter doling out pills, dropping them into little plastic vials and handing them to customers.
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			<dc:creator>Sandra G. Boodman</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Democrats confer on health-care reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Worried House Democrats held a caucus-wide conference call Thursday to strategize about health-care reform before lawmakers return to Washington next week.
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			<dc:creator>Ben Pershing</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Healthful-living experts weigh in with their New Year's resolutions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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By the time you turn 49, as I recently did, the tradition of making New Year's resolutions has lost some of its luster. What remains to be resolved that hasn't been resolved before?
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			<dc:creator>Jennifer LaRue Huget</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Mayo Clinic publishes book detailing healthy diet and weight-loss program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Grapefruit, bacon, cabbage soup: They're impostors, staples of fad diets billed as Mayo Clinic weight-loss plans but never endorsed by the medical institution .
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			<dc:creator>Emily Langer</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Health bills would shift Medicare money to Mayo and other 'high-value' hospitals ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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As House and Senate lawmakers start to reconcile their health-care bills with an eye to final passage, a little-noticed provision is already prompting celebration from a small group of influential hospitals that stand to gain millions in Medicare dollars.
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. moves to curb sidewalk smoking, youths' access to tobacco ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to enact far-reaching proposals to curtail smoking by giving store owners a tool to prevent smoking on public sidewalks and by assessing new penalties on anyone younger than 18 who possesses tobacco products.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obstretricians debate whether Caesarean section is always best for breech babies ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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About 32 weeks into her first pregnancy, Christie Craigie-Carter's obstetrician told her that the baby she was carrying was stuck in a bottom-down position -- a breech baby -- and that she'd have to give up her dream of a natural delivery and have a Caesarean section instead.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tips from the Mayo Clinic Diet ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Mayo Clinic Diet kicks off with "Lose It," a two-week phase in which dieters follow the guidelines outlined at right to safely lose as many as six to 10 pounds.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Testing of cocaine vaccine shows it does not fully blunt cravings for the drug ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Scientists may have created a vaccine against cocaine addiction: a series of shots that changes the body's chemistry so that the drug can't enter the brain and provide a high.
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			<dc:creator>Rachel Saslow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Consumer Reports notes the health benefits of adding more fiber to the diet ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Fiber is often heralded as a miracle worker. Yet your body can't digest the stuff. So how can it be so good for you? Here are four ways:
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			<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Costly case raises issues of immigration, health care ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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For Jeanne d'Arc Kayembe, the trip to Washington in May 2007 was meant to be a month-long respite from an abusive boyfriend and a chance to visit relatives before going home to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to have her first child.
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			<dc:creator>Eliza Barclay</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Some foes of health-care bill hope courts will stop legislation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Opponents of the health-care reform bill are not giving up the fight, and some think their last, best hope to halt the legislation lies not in the U.S. Capitol but in the court across the street.
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			<dc:creator>Ben Pershing</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ E. coli-tainted beef infects 21 people in 16 states ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Twenty-one people in 16 states have been infected in recent days with a potentially lethal strain of E. coli bacteria, after consuming beef in restaurants supplied by the same Oklahoma meat company, federal officials said.
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			<dc:creator>Lyndsey Layton</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The not-so-sweet side of closing 'doughnut hole' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Six years after Congress added a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, Democrats in the House and Senate are poised to make a central change that they and most older Americans have wanted all along: getting rid of a quirk that forces millions of elderly patients with especially high expenses for...
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			<dc:creator>Amy Goldstein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Military helps families find care for special-needs kids ]]></title>
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When her husband, a Marine Corps colonel, was transferred last summer from the Pentagon to a base in southern California, Karen Driscoll was forced to confront her autistic child's new school district and the intricacies of federal special education law.
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			<dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Maryland cancer-testing firm MarkPap lands first customer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Nenad and Olivera Markovic labored for years to design a low-cost kit that could be used for the early detection of cervical cancer in women in poor and underdeveloped regions. This month, the two Rockville doctors and their start-up firm landed a first customer.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama lists financial rescue as 'most important thing' of his first year ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama outlined Tuesday a first-year legislative record that he said rescued the economy and placed it on a path of long-term growth, even as he acknowledged that some unfinished items would probably be more difficult to achieve heading into a midterm election year.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Christmas Perils ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MOST PEOPLE PICTURE AN IDYLLIC CHRISTMAS MORNING SCENE: sipping eggnog around the decorated tree while opening gifts from Ma and Pa. Not to be too bah humbug about it, but what if you get sick from that eggnog? Or what if that beautiful tree is too close to the radiator and ignites? To help you d...
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			<title><![CDATA[ More vaccine but fewer takers, H1N1 surveys indicate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Pandemic influenza vaccine is getting much easier to find but more than half of American adults say they still don't want it, and one-third of parents say they don't want their children to get it either, according to two surveys.
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			<dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sleepwalking is especially common in children and usually not dangerous ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Here is what can, and does, happen: The child gets out of bed and climbs out a window. Or gets out of bed, walks down a hallway, perhaps goes down a flight of stairs, navigates through a room or two, opens a door, walks out on the patio and, maybe, steps into the backyard swimming pool.
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			<dc:creator>Tom Wilkinson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Coffee may have health benefits and may not pose health risks for many people ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Of all the relationships in my life, by far the most on-again, off-again has been with coffee: From that initial, tentative dalliance in college to a serious commitment during my first real reporting job to breaking up altogether when I got pregnant, only to fail miserably at quitting my daily la...
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			<dc:creator>Carolyn Butler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Health bill approaches key vote in Senate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After a week of high-profile concessions, Senate Democrats were on the brink early Monday of securing a milestone victory in the health-care debate, as White House officials sought to refocus attention on the bill's far-reaching insurance reforms and other potentially major changes.
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			<dc:creator>Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senators ready to cast second of three votes on health-care bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Senators prepared to cast the second of three procedural votes early Tuesday to end the health-care debate, but Republicans showed little indication that they were ready to relent in a standoff that could push passage of the legislation to the latter part of Christmas Eve.
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			<dc:creator>Shailagh Murray</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Antiabortion pregnancy center figures in state Senate race ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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One brochure boldly states that condoms fail one-third of the time -- by flaws, breaking or deterioration. A nearby diagram of a broken condom shows a small "HIV Virus" particle looming near the spot where the latex ripped. Another flier claims that the "most preventable cause of breast cancer" is...
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			<dc:creator>Derek Kravitz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In wake of mammography guidelines, U.S. health task force faces new scrutiny ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The once-obscure federal panel that triggered a firestorm with its new mammography guidelines would get far greater authority under the health-care reform proposals pending in Congress, sparking more debate about its power and independence.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Number of Americans getting tests for swine flu plummets, report shows ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:49:58 EST</pubDate>
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The number of Americans being tested for the swine flu has plummeted, providing more evidence that the second wave of H1N1 infections has peaked in the United States, a medical testing company reported Friday.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Analysis finds nearly 1 percent of U.S. children diagnosed with autism ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:12:59 EST</pubDate>
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About one out of every 110 U.S. children has been diagnosed with autism, according to a new federal estimate released Friday.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Democratic congressman from North Carolina angers supporters by voting against health-care bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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KANNAPOLIS, N.C. --  To voters in this hard-luck town where stable factory jobs and the health care that came with them have long since disappeared, change looked good a year ago. Change came not only from President Obama, who narrowly won this swing state, but also from a millworker-turned-high ...
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			<dc:creator>Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ District gives HUD accountability plan for AIDS funding ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Federal housing officials said Friday that they are encouraged by the District's revised plan to account for millions of dollars in AIDS funding and to monitor the accounts of partners that deliver services to people with the disease.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Copenhagen climate deal shows new world order may be led by U.S., China ]]></title>
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COPENHAGEN -- If the talks that resulted in an imperfect deal to combat global warming provided anything, it was a glimpse into a new world order in which international diplomacy will increasingly be shaped by the United States and emerging powers, most notably China.
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			<dc:creator>Anthony Faiola, Juliet Eilperin and John Pomfret</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Climate deal falls short of key goals ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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COPENHAGEN -- President Obama helped broker a climate deal with a group of leading nations that provides for monitoring emission cuts by each country but sets no global target for cutting greenhouse gases, and no deadline for reaching a formal international climate treaty.
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin and Anthony Faiola</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. jobless rate dips; uptick in Md. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Unemployment rates fell in 36 states and the District in November, according to government data released Friday that signaled a possible plateau for the highest levels of joblessness in decades.
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			<dc:creator>V. Dion Haynes</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Kansas boy receives bone transplant from deceased brother who was a tissue donor ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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WICHITA, KAN. -- When Kyle Adams got his learner's permit, his parents asked whether he wanted to be an organ and tissue donor, should anything ever happen.
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			<dc:creator>Karen Shideler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ ÂAnti-gravity' treadmill designed for astronauts now helps injured athletes ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- A treadmill developed at the NASA Ames Research Center for exercising in space has seen more athletes than astronauts lately.
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			<dc:creator>Pete Carey</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ WHO not ready to declare H1N1 pandemic over; U.S. officials urge vaccination ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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With swine flu cases continuing to mount in many countries, it remains far too early to declare the H1N1 pandemic over, a World Health Organization official said Thursday.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Slow-burn exercises promote fitness by making the most of brief workouts ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Santa manages to wiggle up and down millions of chimneys in a single night, but somehow throughout the holiday season we avoid visiting the gym even once. It's not that we mean to be naughty, but between the stocking-stuffing, candle-lighting and party-hopping, we forget that it's not just the tr...
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			<dc:creator>Vicky Hallett</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama urges Senate to pass health-care bill; Lieberman signals support ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to overcome lingering disputes and push a health-care overhaul through the chamber before Christmas, as vigorous negotiations continued behind the scenes to lock down the last votes needed for final passage.
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			<dc:creator>Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Christmas carols mention holiday foods that make tasty temptations ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe help to make . . . it hard to eat well this time of year. If the spreads at holiday parties weren't enough to derail a diet, there are all those tempting Christmas carols. Below, we take a look at the nutritional value, or non-value, of some of the most...
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			<dc:creator>Emily Langer and Leigh Lambert</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ H1N1 vaccine recall includes doses sent to Washington region ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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About 800,000 doses of swine flu vaccine for children are being recalled because tests found the strength of the shots had dropped since shipment, officials announced Tuesday.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein and Michael Laris</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Epigenetics research takes aim at cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, other illnesses ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Two mice. One weighs 20 grams and has brown fur. The other is a hefty 60 grams with yellow fur and is prone to diabetes and cancer. They're identical twins, with identical DNA.
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			<dc:creator>Rachel Saslow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Study may show whether neurofeedback helps people with ADHD and other disorders ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Gulf War veteran Lynn Gibbons has awful memories of combat with her fourth-grade son, Brent. "He was an out-of-control monster whenever you asked him to do something," the former Air Force computer operations officer recalls. Brent, who had received a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity ...
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			<dc:creator>Katherine Ellison</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ GWU creates graduate certificate in Grief, Loss, Life Transitions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When it comes to helping people cope with grief, having a heart goes a long way. But professionals often need something more.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Doses of swine flu vaccine for young children are recalled in Md., Va. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:17:58 EST</pubDate>
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Some doses of swine flu vaccine for young children are being recalled in Maryland and Virginia.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Laris</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clue to woman's extreme fatigue was found in presidential history ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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As she lay in a heap, trying to figure out how badly she had hurt herself falling headfirst down a flight of stairs in the middle of the night, Rebecca Woodings grasped just how sick she really was.
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			<dc:creator>Sandra G. Boodman</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pregnant woman is panicked about swine flu risk for herself and her chldren ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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I've just gotten on the elevator, and I have a problem. The buttons are staring at me, all dark, waiting to be pushed. I look at the 5, knowing that's where I need to go, but I hesitate. Who knows how many germy fingers have touched it this morning?
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			<dc:creator>Allison Klein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. opens swine flu vaccinations to all ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:58 EST</pubDate>
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The District has joined Maryland in opening swine flu vaccinations to anybody who wants them.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Laris</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Vote moves D.C. toward medical marijuana, abortion funding ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The U.S. Senate passed a bill Sunday that clears the way for the District government to allow medical marijuana use and to spend local tax dollars to help low-income women pay for abortions.
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			<dc:creator>James Hohmann and Tim Craig</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate disputes threaten 2009 passage of health-care bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The next 48 hours will be critical to the fate of health-care reform in the Senate, as Democratic leaders struggle to settle disputes that stand in the way of holding a final vote this year on the massive package.
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			<dc:creator>Shailagh Murray</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pelosi supports Medicare buy-in plan in senate health-care deal ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed a proposal Thursday that would allow people in late middle age to buy insurance through Medicare, helping to sustain an idea that sprang unexpectedly from the Senate this week.
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			<dc:creator>Amy Goldstein</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Swine flu death rate elevated for American Indians, Alaska natives ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The death rate from pandemic H1N1 influenza is four times higher in American Indians and Alaska natives than in the rest of the U.S. population, government epidemiologists reported Thursday.
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