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Obama's healthcare: Best in the USA
The Swampby Mike Dorning When President Barack Obama said at a recent news conference that he has the best health care in the world, he wasn't exaggerating. The White House medical unit with a staff of four doctors and even more......Tags: Private Health Care, Michelle Obama, History, Medical Services, Health
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Is sleep deprivation the reason the Romney campaign is blowing it?
Arianna Huffington"Saturday Night Live" opened its new season with a sketch in which President Obama acknowledges that "things aren't great, the economy's in the tank" and "the job market is horrible," but says he's not worried because his campaign has a "secret weapon" to...Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Arianna Huffington, Elections, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), 2012 Democratic National Convention
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Secretary Clinton can help us all become 'untired'
Arianna HuffingtonWe don't yet know what big challenge Hillary Clinton will take on next, but that she will bring her considerable talents to something big and worthwhile is not in question. Whether or not that challenge is trying to become the first woman president, she'...Tags: Diabetes, Behavioral Conditions, Arianna Huffington, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), High Blood Pressure
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"Smarts" isn't Bobby Jindal's problem, but slashing education and health services in our state is
I thought Bobby Jindal was supposed to be an education governor. I thought Bobby Jindal was a pro health care governor. Hard to think he is when his favorite places to cut the state budget is by putting health care and education on the chopping block year...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Budgets and Budgeting, Bobby Jindal, Government, Brown University
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Can we make people change?
I have this terrible habit — I keep hoping people will change. It's not like they ever do, but for some reason I keep going back to the well — and that well continues to be empty. Sound familiar? That's because according to experts, most of us...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Authors, Psychiatry
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Bipartisanship begins with seeing the other side's humanity
Arianna HuffingtonCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- One convention down, one to go. To borrow from a more successful Clint Eastwood appearance: It's halftime in America. It was certainly an amazing week in Tampa, and I'm not talking about empty chairs -- or empty suits or empty speeches....Tags: Social Issues, Diabetes, Behavioral Conditions, Poverty, Arianna Huffington
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Having a family can be good for your career
Arianna HuffingtonIf you haven't read Anne-Marie Slaughter's cover story in the July/August issue of The Atlantic, titled "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," you've probably seen part of the discussion it sparked. With her argument that "among those who have made it to...Tags: Diabetes, Behavioral Conditions, Arianna Huffington, High Blood Pressure, Heart Attack
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Obamacare is just the beginning
Arianna HuffingtonThe narrow survival of the Affordable Care Act last week was certainly cause for celebration. But as the jubilation subsides, it's important to realize that having avoided what would have been a giant step backward doesn't mean we've taken a giant step...Tags: Diabetes, Lawyers, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Arianna Huffington, Obesity
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Sleep on this: Connect by disconnecting
Arianna HuffingtonEach year, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity gathers thousands of innovative thinkers and practitioners in advertising and media from around the world to talk about what's new and what's next in our brave new digital world. Last year,...Tags: Online Advertising, Archimedes, New Products, John Steinbeck, Arianna Huffington
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The main event
Cal ThomasNext week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear three days of oral arguments in the healthcare lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, otherwise known as "Obamacare." We now know the law was based...Tags: Paul Ryan, Healthcare Laws, Healthcare Policies, Health Care Reform (2009), Book
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The Unreal World: A miscarriage in 'A Separation'
"A Separation"
Hopscotch Films, Golem Distribution
U.S. release: September
The premise
Nader (Peyman Moaadi) refuses to leave Iran with his wife because his aged father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi) suffers from Alzheimer's disease, causing a schism between...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Depression, University of Pittsburgh, Medical Specialization, Abusive Behavior
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Exercise vs. Counting Calories
As a nation, we are obviously getting fatter and fatter. Not only are we ever more confused about how to lose weight, we're particularly fuzzy on the question of how big a role exercise plays and whether we just have to count calories.
So, here's the...Tags: Diabetes, Hormones and Metabolism, Social Issues, Diets and Dieting, Death
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