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Senate Inaction on Medicare Hurts Seniors, Military and Boomers |
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Written by AMA
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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A Medicare meltdown now seems certain, as the U.S. Senate has left early for the weekend, abandoning seniors, military families and baby boomers. The Senate failed to repeal the Medicare physician payment formula that will cause a drastic 21 percent payment cut to physicians who care for Medicare and TRICARE patients. |
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Information on Life after Cancer Now Available on NIHSeniorHealth.gov |
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Written by Sunday NewsCape
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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Older adults who have survived cancer can find out what to expect once treatment ends in Life after Cancer, the newest topic on NIHSenior Health. |
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February New-Vehicle Retail Sales Projected to Increase Slightly from February 2009 |
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Written by J.D. Power and Associates
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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February new-vehicle retail sales are expected to increase marginally compared with February 2009, according to J.D. Power and Associates, which gathers real-time transaction data from more than 8,900 franchisees across the United States. |
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Governments Celebrate Five Years of Anti-tobacco Convention |
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Written by WHO
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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A ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was held in the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization. |
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Men: Little Things Matter Most by Jerry Maldonado |
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Written by Jerryt Maldonado
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Life can be so horrible at times, but everything happens for a reason. That is the belief I carry and probably most of you as well. It’s that belief in life we learn from and try to come to terms with events and situations to offer ourselves peace and hope. |
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How the Proton Get its Spin? |
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Written by MIT
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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At a meeting this week of the American Physical Society in Washington, MIT Associate Professor of Physics Bernd Surrow reported on new results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) that provide a better understanding of the internal structure of the proton, the basic building block of all nuclei.
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Multiracial Adoption Study Suggests Ways to Build the Multicultural Family |
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Written by University of Chicago
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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While many people who are adopted by members of another race still identify as black or mixed race, many lack the community and cultural connections with others who share those same identities. New research in the journal Family Process suggests that adopted children of mixed–race parents need early and ongoing experiences within the cultural communities of their origin, and with other multiracial adopted persons, to help them to build healthy cultural identities. |
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County Health Rankings Expanded from Wisconsin to all 50 States |
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Written by University of Wisconsin
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Madison, Wisconsin, and Princeton, N.J. - Where we live matters to our health. A first-of-its-kind report by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation highlights this fact. The County Health Rankings, a collection of 50 reports - one per state - ranks all counties within each state on their overall health. |
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Ability to Navigate May Be Linked to Genes |
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Written by John Hopkins University
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Imagine that you are emerging from the subway and heading for your destination when you realize that you are going in the wrong direction. For a moment, you feel disoriented, but a scan of landmarks and the layout of the surrounding streets quickly helps you pinpoint your location, and you make it to your appointment with time to spare. |
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Quantum Logic Clock Now World’s Most Precise Clock |
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Written by NIST
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world’s most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous pacesetter based on a mercury atom. The new aluminum clock would neither gain nor lose a second in about 3.7 billion years, according to measurements to be reported in a forthcoming issue of Physical Review Letters.* |
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