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Mexico wins praise for swine flu response
The Associated Press
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health. Only Friday did Argentina's new ...
Swine flu: Your questions answeredBBC News
China expects swine flu vaccine ready in September (Feature)Monsters and Critics.com
WHO, poor nations urge global access to swine flu vaccineAFP
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Healthcare reform hangs on cinching the cost to taxpayers
Christian Science Monitor
Latest effort to lower the federal price tag taps companies that don't offer health insurance to employees. They would pay an annual fee. By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer/ July 3, 2009 edition The drive to overhaul healthcare gets under way in ...
Revisions to Health Bill Are Unveiled by DemocratsNew York Times
Obama, Party Tout Lower Figure for Health ReformWashington Post
Senate Seeks to Pare Tab for Health OverhaulWall Street Journal
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Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis
CNN
DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline ...
5700 may be at risk for hepatitis C in Colorado due to medical techDenver Post
Patients flood hospital amid hepatitis C scareFox 31 KDVR.com
Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitisThe Associated Press
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Fattest State Weighs Its Options
WebMD
July 1, 2009 -- It's official, again. For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi is still the nation's heaviest state -- ground zero for obesity in the US That's according to a new report, F as in Fat 2009, issued today by the nonprofit ...
Obesity in the USWSOCtv.com
Minn. holds lowest child obesity rate in the USWahpeton Daily News
Floridians among least obese in nationBizjournals.com
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IN THE MAIL: Time comes to fix broken health care system
Grand Forks Herald
You may have read that the cost of health insurance premiums in North Dakota rose 2.8 times as fast as wages from 2000-2007. Or you may have heard that in a few years, health care costs may account for 45 percent of a typical family's budget. ...
Web site connects consumers to free health careBizjournals.com
Unions seek a new definition of liberty – health care for allWorkday Minnesota
Obama defends Canada's medicareVancouver Sun
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New vaccine keeps E. coli inside cows
San Francisco Chronicle
While storekeepers were frantically pulling E. coli-tainted cookie dough and beef from their shelves last month, scientists rolled out the country's first cattle vaccine to snuff out the potentially deadly bacteria. Epitopix LLC, a Minnesota veterinary ...
Loblaw Recalls Some PC-Brand Beef On E. Coli Concerns >LTWall Street Journal
Oklahomans Safe From Beef RecallKSBI 52
HEB recalls meat sold in 68 Houston-area storesHouston Chronicle
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US parents think twice about sending kids to camp
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas. ...
Swine flu spreading through summer campseFitnessNow
Fewer Children Attending Summer Camps Due to Swine FludBTechno
US Summer Camps on Alert Due to Swine Flu FearsRedOrbit
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Health minister: 100000 swine flu cases in Argentina (Roundup)
Monsters and Critics.com
Buenos Aires - The number of swine flu cases in Argentina rose drastically on Friday, with the new government health minister reporting an estimated 100000 cases of of the A(H1N1) virus. But he clarified that the estimate covers all seasonsl flu cases ...
Argentina Stks Dn On Wall St; Bonds Continue Post-Vote RallyWall Street Journal
Argentines Question Vote During OutbreakNew York Times
Argentines give up tea-sharing as flu spreadsReuters
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Wal-Mart lends its support to employer health insurance mandate
IFAwebnews.com
The nation's largest private employer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., said it supports President Barack Obama's plan to force large employers to offer their employees health benefits. The company favors the employer mandate, strong efficiency ...
Is Wal-Mart Using Health Reform To Target Target?Atlantic Online
Everyday Low PoliticsWall Street Journal
Wal-Mart's Health ScareReuters
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