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Hospital emergency departments across the region are overflowing with patients who have been battered by the recession and are increasingly using hospitals as their primary source of health care, according to local and national health officials. (By Marcus Yam -- The Washington Post)
While pressing ahead on his plan for health care, President Obama introduced Dr. Regina Benjamin, his nominee for surgeon general, as someone who "understands the urgency" of health-care reform.
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The ADA, whose earlier position statements had supported vegetarian diets as healthful but relegated information about some of the age groups, now states it can be healthful all children, from infants to teens, too.
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Virus that causes AIDS passes between U.S. and Mexico.
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