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Smoking kills your skin... duh!

Avatar http://www.cnn.com Posted by dogman 506 days ago

A new study shows that smoking harms more than just facial skin. Even skin that is covered and not exposed to the sun shows wrinkling and aging in s   read more

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The State's Health Czar is Blaming Accenture for a program he was told would likely fail

Avatar http://texasobserver.org Posted by admin 492 days ago

In a misguided, poorly executed effort to let the private sector bring efficiency to Texas government, the state has squandered at least $100 million.   read more
Location: Texas

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Public Citizen calls on FDA to stop illegal Celebrex television advertisement

Avatar http://www.citizen.org Posted by admin 486 days ago

A letter was sent on April 9 by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, urging the FDA to order Pfizer to immediately s   read more

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Texas Ranks 48th in State Medicaid Programs - 2007

Avatar http://www2.citizen.org Posted by admin 477 days ago

Placing in the bottom 10 in two categories, including the one with the heaviest weight, Texas ranks a poor 48th overall. In fact, it is the only stat   read more
Location: Texas

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Third Generation Birth Control Health Risk to Women

Avatar http://notmypill.org Posted by admin 477 days ago

Kate is taking broad action to warn women about the dangers of third generation birth control containing desogestrel   read more

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Fluorescent Light Bulbs Can Be Costly - Over $2000 if You Break One!

Avatar http://www.canada.com Posted by admin 465 days ago

How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour -- unless you break the bulb. Then yo   read more

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The Property Cops: Homeowner Associations Ban Eco-Friendly Practices

Avatar http://alternet.org Posted by admin 464 days ago

People rarely confront HOAs directly over clothesline rules; most either conform or covertly disobey. Alice lives in the Lakeside subdivision in Aust   read more

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Moguls and Misanthropes

Avatar http://texasobserver.org Posted by admin 386 days ago

SNOW JOB?Sing along now.

Oh the dazzling flakes and the slopes that snake, on the Big Mock Candy Mountain

Where the bluebirds sing and   read more

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Don't Stop Believing

Avatar http://texasobserver.org Posted by admin 386 days ago

Renegade Bloggers Besiege the Southern Baptist Convention.   read more

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Women in Government, Merck's Trojan Horse: Part Three in a Series on the Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer

Avatar http://alternet.org Posted by admin 386 days ago

An in-depth look at Merck's push to make HPV vaccinations mandatory for adolescent girls.   read more

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