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globeandmail.com: Who's tracking your health? Paging Dr. Internet
Posted by MikeS from Globe and Mail
Canadians have a public health care system that they may not always like, but for the most part at least they trust it. Will they embrace the idea of Google Health ?
Bush signs bill to prevent discrimination based on genetic testing
Posted by MikeS from CBC
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was signed into law today by President Bush. With genetic tests available over the internet at a price many people can afford, there has been a strong lobby for a law that will help safeguard how that information is being used. The law will make it illegal for employers or insurance companies to use genetic information as a basis for discrimination. The law was first put forward 10 years ago but faced stiff opposition. Many people see this as the law finally catching up with the technology.
Pharmaceutical Drug Companies Killing Middle America Legally while Robbing You Blind | Fitness, Weig
Posted by Damianmann
The category ''drug-induced causes" includes not only deaths from dependent and nondependent use of either legal or illegal drugs, but also includes poisoning from medically prescribed and other drugs.
Pollution a lifesaver for Midwest storm victims?
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Ah yes, stupid media headlines: environmental degradation saving lives ... some say!
Corporations and bad health
Posted by SoxFirst
Whether it's because of cigarettes, or binge drinking or pollution, it's often blamed on the big corporations. Now a new website tracks the impact that corporations have on public health
Conservatives Happier Than Liberals
Posted by theangryindian from Live Science
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.
Ayoreo Indian dies after first contact
Posted by theangryindian
A Paraguayan Indian, who lived without contact with the outside world until 1998, has died of tuberculosis. Survival International has called his life, 'a symbol of the fate of indigenous people in the Americas since Columbus'.
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