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Grieving Mother Fights for 9/11 Tree New York City park officials ignore tree rescued near Ground Zero.
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Paying More for Less Insurance Coverage? Workers are paying 14 percent more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey.
Health care - Insurance - Business - United States - Kaiser Family Foundation
PHOTOS: X-Rays: Human Voodoo Dolls? Some doctors are alarmed by what they see as a growing trend by adolescents to mutilate their bodies through self-embedding, which can involve inserting shards of wood, glass or paper clips under their skin.
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Avandia Faces Scrutiny in U.K. On July 15 -- a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration completed two days of hearings on the diabetes drug Avandia -- a British advisory commission on drugs concluded that the product should be withdrawn from the market, according to an investigation conducted by BMJ.
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More Americans Taking Prescription Drugs Nearly half of all Americans -- 48 percent -- took at least one prescription drug in a one-month period in 2007-2008, a four-percentage-point hike over a decade, researchers found.
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Kids' Sports-Related Concussions Soar Emergency department visits for concussions occurring in children's and teens' team sports have risen sharply since the late 1990s, researchers say.
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Michael Douglas' Life as a Cancer Patient Cancer patient survives 31 grueling days in radiation treatment similar to what "Wall Street" actor has already begun.
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'Miracle' Encounter: Nurse Finds Long-Lost Dad in Hospital Bed A nurse was reunited with the father she had never met after a chance bedside encounter at a New York hospital for the terminally ill.
Hospital - Nurse - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Organizations
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Garden of Death: Man Survives Freak Infection Researchers have published a case report involving a 67-year-old man admitted to a hospital in March after spending eight days suffering from fever, shortness of breath and confusion. Doctors diagnosed pneumonia, but were at a loss to find the underlying cause, according to the report this week in The Lancet.
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