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Wal-Mart set to open Panorama City grocery store
L.A. NOWAs unions and community groups dig in to stop Wal-Mart from opening a grocery store in Chinatown, the retailing giant is scheduled to open a Panorama City store Friday morning with little outcry. Los Angeles' first Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market will...... -
The excesses of Nadya Suleman
These are somber and sobering times, but they may offer us the opportunity to reexamine not only the material extravagance that has characterized so much of our recent life, but also some of its emotional excesses.
Take, for example, the grotesque...Tags: Medical Specialization, Health, Politics, Hospitals and Clinics
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Shop around for deals on prescription drugs
If your insurance has ever stopped covering a prescription drug or you don’t have coverage at all, you know how quickly costs can mount. Americans spent, on average, $758 out of pocket for medication in 2012, according to a recent Consumer Reports...Tags: Asthma, Prices, Consumers, Statins (drugs), Services and Shopping
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Meth lab busts double in W.Va.
The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia law enforcement agencies have seized 200 methamphetamine labs so far this year, setting a pace that's expected to shatter last year's record high. Authorities shut down 288 meth labs in West Virginia last year,...Tags: Earl Ray Tomblin, Methamphetamine (drug), Laws, Law Enforcement, Services and Shopping
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Rosenthal: Health and hypocrisy at the drugstore
You now can go to a Walgreens and get examined by a medical professional. Maybe your blood pressure is a little high, or you've suffered from asthma for years. Walgreens has prescription and over-the-counter medications for you. And, on your way out...
Tags: American Heart Association, Asthma, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Health and Medical Professionals, American Medical Association
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Overdosing on reality: New NC law needed because problem is now an epidemic
Hickory Daily Record, N.C.Time was when you heard about someone overdosing it usually meant they had ingested or injected too much illicit narcotics. Now, when you hear someone has overdosed the likely culprit could just as easily be prescription drugs. Overdose deaths from...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Addiction, Lorazepam (drug), Services and Shopping, Crime, Law and Justice
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Fake medicine poses growing threat to consumers
Consumers shopping for medicine on the Internet often are getting convenience, a good price and the cloak of privacy, but they may not be getting the real thing. A burgeoning multibillion-dollar industry of counterfeit drugs — ranging from AIDS...
Tags: Erectile Dysfunction, AIDS, Consumers, Sales, Services and Shopping
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Feed The Need Day Wed November 21st
What: Feed The Need When: Wednesday November 21st Where: Lafayette Marsh Supermarkets Coming up Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, The WASK Radio Group (98.7 WASK, 93-5 ‘KHY, K105, B102-9, and ESPN 1450AM) will be broadcasting live to help...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Drugs and Medicines, Health and Personal Care
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Letters to the editor
25x25 looks good -- on the surface Editor: Most Michigan residents support renewable energy but I cannot support Proposal 3, the so called "25 x 25" proposal that will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot. This proposal would require the state's energy providers...
Tags: Medicare, Prices, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Omnicare Incorporated
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Report: CT Has High Rate Of Doctors Dispensing Costly Drugs
The Hartford CourantNew research shows a sharp rise in the number of Connecticut doctors who are prescribing drugs to injured people on workers' compensation at higher prices than if the drugs were bought at pharmacies. The study conducted by Workers Compensation Research...Tags: Vicodin (drug), Employment Opportunities, Labor Legislation, Services and Shopping, Career and Workplace
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Website Helps You Pay Less For Prescriptions
We compare prices on airfare, hotels and gadgets, so why not do the same for prescription drugs. Now a new website called GoodRX lets you do just that. Americans spend more than 300 billion dollars on prescription drugs, often just paying whatever the...
Tags: Prices, Prescription Drugs, Health, General Practitioners, Services and Shopping
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