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Job insecurity = health insurance insecurity
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Jan 5, 2012
The pressure for healthcare reform won't go away -- far from it.
Herbalife critics call company a pyramid scheme
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Jan 2, 2013
The nutrition-supplement giant says the allegations are bogus and is back fighting to save its reputation and its future.
Plastic surgery peaks during the holidays
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Dec 29, 2011
It's the most wonderful time of the year... At least for cosmetic surgeons.
States snuff out smoking prevention programs
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Dec 28, 2011
Faced with big budget gaps, state governments are taking money away from programs that help people quit smoking. Analysts say this will cost more in the long run.
In the English countryside, no sheep is safe
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Dec 26, 2011
More than 60,000 sheep have gone missing in the UK this year - three times the usual number - as the rising price of Lamb presents opportunity for thieves.
The birth of a new career
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Dec 23, 2011
New programs help low-income women train to become doulas and birthing assistants.
The war on cancer -- a healthy metaphor?
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Dec 26, 2011
President Richard Nixon used the phrase "war on cancer" in signing the National Cancer Act of 1971. Forty years later, scientists say our understanding of cancer has outgrown a military analogy.
Not-for-profit hospitals?
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Dec 26, 2011
The name implies health care for the poor in exchange for tax breaks. But it turns out it's not that simple.
Crime down, FBI says
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Dec 19, 2011
According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, wrongdoing continues to drop.
A compromise on Medicare
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Dec 15, 2011
Republican Congressman Paul Ryan and Democratic Senator Ron Wyden have a plan.










