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Gene Helps Prevent Heart Disease
Some individuals who carry a gene mutation can consume fatty foods without having their cholesterol...
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Medicare Prescription Drugs Premiums to Increase
Analysis of
government data has revealed that in 2009, Medicare prescription drug-plan...
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Medicare Drug Premium Expected to Rise in 2009
Premiums for Medicare drug coverage will rise an average 24
percent for elderly and disabled...
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US Medicaid Children Have Their Teeth Problems Left Untreated
An analysis released Wednesday by Government Accountability
Office showed that 6.5 million US...
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CMS: Medicare Premium Rates Don’t Go Up in 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on
Friday that Medicare premium rates...
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'Tropic Thunder' Still The King Of Box Office, With 16 Million
Despite the controversies it has caused, or probably,
because of them, the action comedy “Tropic...
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“The Dark Knight” Defeated by Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder”
“The Dark Knight” was finally forced to end its impressive
four-weekend-long reign at the top of...
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Advocacy Groups Protest Against 'Tropic Thunder'
'Tropic Thunder' was launched last night in Los Angeles and a few people came to boycott the film...
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US Study: Frequent Running Found To Delay Aging Process
If you want to delay the consequence of aging, you’d better
start running on daily basis according...
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Disability Advocates Gathered at “Tropic Thunder” Premiere
U.S.
groups that advocate for the disabled protested at Monday night’s premiere of
Ben Stiller’s...
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Disgruntled System Admin Holds San Francisco Network Hostage
A disgruntled system administrator working for the San Francisco city on their new computer network...
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Pornography Trial On Hold Over Judge's Racy Photos
A Los Angeles criminal obscenity trial has been suspended after the judge presiding over it...
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Minnesota: Autistic Boy Not Allowed Inside Church
The parents of a severely autistic 13-year-old boy in
Bertha, Minnesota,
are facing a restraining...
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FDA: Transplant Drugs CellCept and Myfortic Carry Fetal Risks
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a statement
on Friday warning that certain...
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Renowned Italian Tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano Dies
Celebrated Italian tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano, longtime singing partner of soprano Maria Callas,...
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Autism Group Offended by Big Brother Contestant
National autism advocacy group Autism United, led by its executive director John Gilmore, is...
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Wheelchair Van Strike Continues Pending Vote on Offer
A tentative settlement was reached Monday between striking van drivers and the companies that...
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The Consequences of Skype’s Unavailability?
Only if you are not on a well-deserved holiday, then you
certainly already know that the famous...
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Health
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Employee Accidentally Spills Pills Into Cake
At a home for disabled clients in Cheshire, residents were sent to the hospital to be checked out...
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Surgeon Acquitted of Speeding Death for Organs
San Luis Obispo County Superior Court on Thursday acquitted an Iranian-born transplant surgeon...
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GAO Giving Medicare Private Plans Heat
A warning given by a government watchdog agency on Monday
says that those who sign up for the...
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FDA Cancelling The Registration Of Handgun For The Disabled
The US Food and Drug Administration has revoked
the registration for the single-bullet Palm Pistol...
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CT Scans Unreliable as Heart Test
Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that even though Medicare, the United...
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U. S. Presidential Nominees’ Health-Care Plans: Behind The Scenes
Over the
past month, there has been much ado about the United States presidential
nominees’ views...
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Medicaid Spending Expected to Rise to $674 by 2017
Federal and state Medicaid spending is
expected to grow annually at a rate of 7.9 percent over the...
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Medicare Won’t Pay For Certain Hospital Errors Anymore
Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled, will stop paying hospitals...
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Medicare to Halt Hospital Payments for Medical Errors
On
Wednesday, a Medicare resolution that entails stopping hospital payments for
costs of medical...
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Medicare Drug-Plan Premiums To Rise in 2009
In the coming year, Medicare drug premiums will significantly increase, an analysis of new...
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Clot-Busting Stroke Drug To Help Patients
If you are a stroke sufferer you can take advantage of a clot-busting drug even if you take it...
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6.5 Million US Medicaid Children Lack Dental Care
An estimated 6.5 million US Medicaid
children had untreated tooth decay, according to a report...
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No Medicare Increase For 2009
This is the first time since 2000 when Medicare premiums rates won’t go up, the federal government...
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Medicare Premiums to Remain Steady in 2009
Medicare
officials have announced that 2009 would be the sixth year not to register an...
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Palin Promises to Be A Friend, An Advocate of Families with Disabled Kids
In her acceptance speech as the Republican
vice presidential nominee, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin...
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Regular Running Delays Ageing Clock, US Study Concludes
The expression “run for your life” could have new and more serious meanings as a study carried out...
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Most Stroke Patients Receive Delayed Treatments
A new study published on Stroke: Journal of the American
Heart Association reveals that...
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FDA Panel Backs New Drug for Moderate or Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis
By a 10-1 vote, a government advisory panel Tuesday backed Roche Holding AG's (RHHBY) drug Actemra...
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Report: Medicare Pays 30 Percent More for Drugs than Medicaid
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that Medicare unjustifiably pays 30...
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Bush Administration Vows to Veto Medicare Bill, Override Likely
While the Bush administration again threatened to veto the Medicare bill which rejects a 10.6...
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After One Week, Autistic Man Rescued Alive from Woods
Keith Kennedy, 25, was found alive after being lost for a week in the woods of Wisconsin. He had...
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GAO Finds Providers in Medicare Program Guilty of Tax Fraud
A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a
federal watchdog agency, found that more...
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Report: Employees Fired at Texas Mental Hospitals over Abuse
Disciplinary records on medical employees working at Texas’s 10 state mental
hospitals reveal that...
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Alzheimer’s Risk Factors Vary Depending on Gender
Men and women have different risk factors that contribute to
the development of Alzheimer’s...
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Wal-Mart Drops Lawsuit Seeking Reimbursement from Disabled Worker
Following controversial discussions, Wal-Mart is dropping
its effort to collect over $400,000 in...
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Ashley Treatment – ‘Successful in Every Expected Way,’ Parents
In 2006, parents of a severely disabled girl known only as “Ashley”
went public about their...
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Prosecutors: Transplant Surgeon Speeds Patient’s Death for Organs
Prosecutors have charged the transplant surgeon, Dr. Hootan
Roozrokh with attempting to hasten a...
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Supreme Court Backs Medical-Device Manufacturers
The Supreme Court today ruled that patients could not sue
medical-device manufacturers in state...
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Healthy Lifestyle Is the Secret to Longer Life, Researchers Say
Not smoking, regular exercise, maintaining normal weight,
and avoiding diabetes and high blood...
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Pig Brain Tissue May Be Cause of Slaughterhouse Illnesses
The ongoing investigation of a mysterious illness affecting workers at two pig slaughterhouses in...
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Movies
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Keanu Reeves Cleared Of Paparazzi Abuse
Actor Keanu Reeves was glad to find out a Los Angeles jury unanimously rejected a civil trial...
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'Tropic Thunder' Enjoys Third Week Of Box Office Glory
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., action comedy "Tropic Thunder"...
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Scandal over the R-Word
It appears that Ben Stiller, who co-wrote and directed the
comedy “Tropic
Thunder” didn’t get his...
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“Tropic Thunder” Knocks Off "The Dark Knight” From The First Position
Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder,” a satire of the
Hollywood-ian industry, dethroned the 4-week reign...
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Batman Against Nature. Can “Tropic Thunder” Strike “The Knight”?
Everybody expects the weekend to bring some chaos in what
concerns big screen productions and...
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Stiller's “Tropic Thunder”: Humor And Controversy
It’s quite sad that humor has to be so obvious nowadays.
Comedies seem to have lost the ability to...
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“Tropic Thunder” Strikes Hollywood, Target Misinterpreted
In spite of the fierce protests over “Tropic Thunder” by U.S. groups
that advocate for the...
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Tropic Thunder's LA Premiere Thundered With Protests
Ben Stiller has been working hard lately: he wrote,
directed, produced and starred in “Tropic...
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Protesters Say “Tropic Thunder” Not Funny But Offensive
Even if some people are looking forward to see the new
comedy “Tropic Thunder,” and laugh their...
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Update: Disability Groups Protest Against “Tropic Thunder”
On Monday, an association of disabilities groups is anticipated to demand a national boycott of the...
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'Tropic Thunder' Opens Next Week
One of the rather anticipated comedies of the summer, 'Tropic Thunder,' opens next week. While it...
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Technology
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Windows 7 Community Technology Preview – Impressions
An early preview version of Microsoft’s Windows 7 has been
demoed at PDC in Los Angeles...
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Until Windows 7, Optimize Your Windows Vista
There will be at least a year or maybe more until we will
get our hands on Windows Vista’s...
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Hollywood Attacks Legit DVD Ripping Software RealDVD
Hollywood's power players have attacked the recently released Real Networks software which makes an...
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North Korea Announced Intention to Restart Nuclear Reactor
North
Korea announced on Friday its intention to
restart its Yongbyon nuclear reactor as...
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Real Networks Introduces Legal Way of Ripping DVDs
Finally, now there's a legit way of ripping DVDs and playing them back on your desktop or laptop...
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Scrabulous Is Shut Down For Its Canadian and U.S. Players
The toy company Hasbro Inc. which owns the rights to Scrabble in North America won the match...
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Update 1: Scrabulous Shut Down By Facebook
Facebook has finally decided to shut down the popular game Scrabulous. “Scrabulous is disabled for...
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Mozilla, Firefox 3.0 And 10 Million Downloads
It seems like the Firefox download frenzy is slowly fading
away, but Mozilla has some serious...
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Firefox 3: Are We Heading Towards a New Browser War?
Tomorrow, Mozilla will release the latest version of its
famous browser Firefox. After 34 months...
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Firefox 3 To Make Its Debut On Tuesday, June 17
The third version of the popular browser Firefox will be available
for download as soon as Tuesday...
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ASIMO To Conduct The Detroit Symphony Orchestra on May 13
If we say Honda, we say
innovation, and that is exactly what its latest idea inspires us to think....
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AMD Launches 2 New Phenom X3
The chip-maker AMD announced today the launch of two new AMD
Phenom X3 processors that were...
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Nokia Launches N82 Smartphone For Visually Impaired
Nokia N82 is the first smartphone designed for the blind
or disabled persons with an incorporated...
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Sears Web Site Breaks Customer Privacy Policy
Antispyware researchers alleged
that Sears has been violating the privacy policies of its...
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Boeing Working On Brand New Airborne Weapon
Boeing is currently working on a
new powerful weapon that could strike fear into the eyes of many,...
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Apple Squashes QuickTime Bugs With New Update
Apple released today an update for its QuickTime
application, via Mac OS X's Software Update...
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Toyota Shows Off Two New Partner Robots
Toyota Motor Corp. presented on Thursday its latest creations belonging to robotics field meant to...
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Windows Vista SP1 To Go Public Next Week
In a post on the official Windows Vista blog, Microsoft
announced the release candidate of Windows...
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Microsoft To Kill “The Kill Switch” In Windows Vista
Microsoft announced Tuesday morning that it would withdraw
an anti-piracy tool from Windows Vista,...
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New Zealand Teenager Questioned for Global Cyber Crime
New Zealand
police are questioning a teenager suspected of being part of an international
team of...
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