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TMS Breakthrough: New Hope for Treating Severe Depression With Few Side Effects
In TMS, the patient is fully awake, sitting comfortably in the recliner, and reading or watching a video. Initial trials show a 70+ percent success rate.
A Bill to Make Employers Less Mean to Pregnant Women
Whatever our political conflicts, we can generally agree that we should treat pregnant women nicely
The Rain on Our Parade: A Letter to My Dismal Allies
Rebecca Solnit: I have a grand goal, and that is to counter the Republican right with its deep desire to annihilate everything I love and to move toward far …
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New Law Will Make Birth Control Easier to Access in California
Assembly Bill 2348 grants registered nurses, certified nurse-midwives and physicians' assistants the power to dispense birth control.
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Study Divides Breast Cancer into Four Distinct Types
And within those types, they found hallmark genetic changes that are driving many cancers.
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Where the Candidates Stand on Medicare and Medicaid
With the candidates slinging charges, we thought weu2019d lay out the facts.
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Let the Buyer Beware in a Free-Market Health Care System
The myth of the sanctity of free markets in health care keeps on chugging along, despite overwhelming evidence from around the world that they donu2019t work
Economists Identify the 100 Top Air Polluters and Highlight the Economics of Environmentalism
What do General Electric, Koch Industries, Bayer, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil all have in common? They all rank in the top ten of the Toxic 100.
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Five SCOTUS Cases That Could Be Overruled In A Romney Court, And Five That Could Be Overruled Under Obama
On Monday, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a report outlining many of the Supreme Court cases that could be overruled if President Obama appoints just one …
Getting Healthy at Work: Who Do You Trust?
A worker who doesnu2019t participate in the program may see her share of premiums raised.