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Health Tip: Symptoms of Addiction |
| (HealthDay News) -- Addiction to drugs or alcohol can lead to a variety of behavioral and physical changes in teenagers. The Nemours Foundation says signs that your child may have an addiction problem include: Acting withdrawn or secretive with fam |
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Bush Budget: Cut Medicare and Medicaid Growth Rate |
| MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush\'s proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget, unveiled Monday, calls for health care spending cuts, including a major five-year reduction in Medicare expenditures to slow the program\'s annual growth ra |
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Bush Budget Would Cut Medicare and Medicaid |
| MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush\'s proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget, unveiled Monday, calls for health care spending cuts, including a major five-year reduction in Medicare expenditures to slow the program\'s annual growth rat |
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ER Chest Pain Tests Driven by Race, Gender, Insurance |
| THURSDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Race, gender and health insurance status strongly influence how U.S. hospital emergency departments evaluate patients with chest pain, says a new study. Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Johns H |
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Looking for a Longer Life? Win a Nobel Prize |
| THURSDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- If you want to live longer, just win a Nobel Prize. Attaining that lofty award can add nearly two years to your life span, according to a study by researchers at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom |
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Domestic Abuse Costs 'Enormous' for Women: Study |
| TUESDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Women with a history of intimate partner violence have much higher health care costs and use health services more often than women with no history of abuse, a new study shows. Even years after the abuse has sto |
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More Americans Paying Their Medical Bills With Credit Cards |
| TUESDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- More American families -- both with health insurance and without -- are sinking in a sea of medical debt, and are turning to their credit cards as a last-ditch lifeline to pay their bills, a new report finds. \"T |
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Study Backs Worksite Stress Interventions |
| WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- A workplace intervention program can significantly reduce signs of stress on the heart, say researchers. Work-related stress is one of several factors that may increase the risk of heart attack. In a study pub |
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Low-Income Minorities at Risk for Peripheral Artery Disease |
| FRIDAY, Jan. 12 (HealthDay News) - Low-income minorities with blood flow problems are at higher risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD) and amputations, a new study reports. People with PAD have fatty build-ups in the arteries, which can harden the |
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FDA Warns of Salmonella-Contaminated Peanut Butter |
| THURSDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Consumers should not eat certain jars of Peter Pan peanut butter or Great Value peanut butter because they may be contaminated with Salmonella Tennessee, a bacterium that causes food-borne illness, U.S. official |
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