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20 Sep 2011 00:46

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Offbeat: Florida woman has twins from — SURPRISE — two separate uteri

  • whatTwo healthy babies. Two uteri. One mother. A Florida woman’s rare condition, called “uterus didelphys,” allowed her to have children in two separate uteri. So they’re twins, kinda sorta.
  • how? It’s incredibly rare for a mother to become pregnant in both uteri. There are only 100 known cases, and only one in five million uterus didelphys pregnancies succeed. This was one of them! source
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09 Feb 2011 14:20

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U.S.: Gabby Giffords recovering well, beginning to regain speech faculties

Great news: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is regaining the ability to speak. Sources wouldn’t divulge her first words, other than they involved her asking for toast. Good luck, Gabby! source
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26 Jan 2011 14:59

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U.S.: Good news on Giffords, as medical condition is upgraded

  • GOOD Giffords’ current condition source
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19 Mar 2010 17:12

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Tech: What if you could take a pill to stop damage from smoking?

  • good New research suggests a protein, GM-CSF, controls lung damage from smoking and can be turned off with the use of a pill.
  • bad The effects (for now) have only been tested short-term. Also, there’s still no cure for cancer, so it’s not a perfect solution. source
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15 Dec 2009 11:16

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Politics: Video flashback: Joe Lieberman wanted to expand Medicare

  • Why does Joe Lieberman hate America? In this video, Lieberman suggests the very option he publicly killed this week. The uncomfortable kid over to the right just gave the left a ton of ammo in the health care fight by asking this question, even though he called Medicare “Medichoice.”
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08 Dec 2009 09:52

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Culture: Bryant Gumbel’s lung cancer > Regis Philbin’s new hip

The newscaster revealed on “Live With Regis & Kelly” (where he’s filling in for hip-getting-replaced Regis) that part of his lung was removed in the treatment. source
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16 Nov 2009 19:55

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U.S.: Breast cancer backstep: The U.S. flips the script on mammograms

  • 50 the new recommended age for women to start getting biannual mammograms (too many false positives)
  • no women shouldn’t self-examine their own boobs for cancer anymore, the strangely weakened new guidelines say source
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07 Oct 2009 11:23

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Politics: Shepard Smith makes a super-passionate public option pitch

  • How does Shep stay on Fox News? Really? He’s like the worst fit for the network, ever. He doesn’t fit in with any of the right-leaning line, and he knows what he’s talking about in this video. He does more to devastate the arguments against a public option (and big insurers in general) in this video than Democrats fighting tooth and nail for it for six months. source
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23 Sep 2009 10:40

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Biz: Medical malpractice leads to more wasteful medical spending

  • $60 billion each year spent on wasteful CYA treatment source
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27 Jul 2009 21:42

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U.S.: The obese are currently weighing down the U.S. medical industry

  • $147 billion amount it cost to treat obesity-related health problems in 2008 alone – a huge increase
  • $1,429 more the average extra amount it costs to treat an obese person’s health problems over a normal one source
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