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- Bailouts create health pandemic
  Posted by rhoehn from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Taxpayers are now left holding the bag for $1 trillion in debt incurred by capitalists run rampant, brought about largely by a frenzy of deregulation over the past decade. These bailouts are as dramatic as a pandemic of influenza resulting in the Department of Health declaring marshal law, closing schools and restricting travel.
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- STD postcards: You've got mail — and more
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The site, www.InSPOT.org , is a way for people newly diagnosed with an STD to notify their partners to be tested, too. The e-cards, a sort of greeting card you'd rather not receive, are direct and to the point.
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- Clinton, Obama, Insurance
  Posted by rhoehn from New York Times
  Great overview of the Clinton Obama health care plans.
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- Medical Mystery Baffles Southern Scientists
  Posted by rhoehn from Blog.wired
  People who live in the middle South appear to have a heightened risk of allergic reactions to cetuximab, a chemotherapeutic drug.
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- Wired News - AP News
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  A federal judge has ordered the Labor Department to share with the public the results of years of toxic substance sampling in American workplaces. Federal officials said Monday they were reviewing the decision. The decision, by U.S. District Judge Mary L. Cooper, came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by former Labor Department official Adam Finkel, who now is a whistleblower.
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- Goals and risks questioned in polio eradication fight - International Herald Tribune
  Posted by rhoehn from International Herald Tribune
  In both 2000 and 2005, the World Health Organization set deadlines to eradicate polio, the crippling and sometimes fatal virus that caused widespread panic in much of the world more than a half-century ago. Twice it failed to meet the deadlines.
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- An Epidemic of Meddling - The totalitarian implications of public health
  Posted by Billbar from Reason
  Calling the habits that supposedly lead to these consequences “public health” problems, “epidemics” that need to be controlled, equates choices with diseases, disguises moralizing as science, and casts meddling as medicine.
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Clinton, Obama, Insurance

One of the many tragedies of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina three years ago was the fact that insurance companies used the event to systematically deny claims, leaving victims further in desperate straits. That shouldn’t happen following any natural disaster, and even though the immediate storm effects did not cause as much damage as predicted, there are sure to be plenty of claims for flood damages throughout the Midwest and along Gustav’s path. If you or someone you know has been denied an insurance claim related to Gustav: that would be a site you should visit.

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rhoehn
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Programmer and podcaster in Seattle, WA. I'm especially interested in media accountability, free speech, open source, and IP issues.
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