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Lazarus: Patients' choices narrower, yet cost of insurance rises
It's hard enough having a serious condition like cancer or kidney failure. It's even worse, some might think, when your health insurer says you have to buy your medicine from the pharmacy of its choice — or pay the full amount for expensive life-...
Tags: Employment, Healthcare Provider, Employment Opportunities, Drugs and Medicines, Satellite and Cable Service
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Anthem's mail-order policy may have crossed a legal line
Anthem Blue Cross may be breaking California law by requiring some policyholders to buy their prescription drugs from a single mail-order pharmacy, according to the state attorney general's office. Anthem, the state's largest for-profit health insurer,...
Tags: Depression, Prescription Drugs, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Bipolar Disorder
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South Africa's Jacob Zuma: Pet dogs are part of 'white culture'
JOHANNESBURG--South Africa's often controversial president, Jacob Zuma, emboldened after being strongly voted in for a second term as president this month, told black South Africans they should never try to behave like whites. Buying a pet dog is part...
Tags: South Africa, Jacob Zuma, Barack Obama, Africa, Nelson Mandela
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Review: Jordan Wolfson's 'Raspberry Poser' a seductive visual poem
Los Angeles Times Art CriticA translucent, animated condom filled with red candy hearts is an animated protagonist in Jordan Wolfson's marvelous video installation at REDCAT, the New York-based artist's solo debut in Los Angeles. Projected onto a white screen suspended on the...Tags: Animation (genre), Roy Orbison
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Hanukkah gelt goes upscale -- and ethical
They're almost as much a part of Hanukkah as potato pancakes, the foil-wrapped chocolate candies called gelt that usually come in plastic-mesh bags at the checkout stand and taste pretty much like the leftover wax from the candles in the menorah. Embossed...
Tags: Passover, Values, Customs and Tradition, Holidays, Genetic Engineering
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Bangladesh factory fire: The Wal-Mart factor
U.S. companies are scrambling to figure out whether clothing they sell was made in the Bangladesh garment factory where at least 112 people died in a fire. Though officials are looking at arson as the cause, there are a number of allegations about the...
Tags: Walmart, Bangladesh
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HIV testing for all
Early treatment for HIV is more successful than later treatment. But that's not the only reason to praise the recommendation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that doctors should test almost everyone ages 15 to 64 for the virus that causes AIDS....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Blood Transfusion, AIDS, Gays and Lesbians
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HIV tests should be routine for most, Canada AIDS experts say
The push for routine screening for HIV infections is gathering heft. Last week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force -- which advises the U.S. government and doctors on preventive medicine -- proposed that everyone ages 15 to 64 be offered an HIV...
Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Viral Diseases and Infections, General Practitioners, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Communicable Diseases
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Los Angeles clinic launches telenovela about HIV/AIDS
L.A. NOWTo raise awareness and decrease stigma among Latinos, a Los Angeles health clinic launched a multi-part telenovela about HIV and AIDS.... -
A promising technology to prevent HIV and unwanted pregnancy
It has been decades since the last major breakthrough of a popular, easy-to-use and effective form of birth control. The pill has been available since 1960 and the IUD since 1965. Condoms have been around for centuries, although today’s latex...
Tags: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Treatments, Birth Control, National Institutes of Health, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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The doctor's in, on Twitter
Twitter. A popular online social network? Yes. A vital tool for medical research? Maybe. "Until now, healthcare providers have primarily used online networks as a promotional tool," says Lee Aase, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. "We...
Tags: Sociology, Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Healthcare Provider, Lady Gaga
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