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  Prolonged bed rest duration after percutaneous coronary intervention/Connect: The World of Critical Care Nursing | Find Articles at BNET

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 7:53pm CDT by CHCCFINC

  Although PCI is a common interventional procedure, there is yet no consensus about how long patients should remain under bed rest after sheath removal (Reynolds et al., 2001).
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  Researchers Discover How Folate Promotes Healing In Spinal Cord Injuries

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 7:04pm CDT by Par4TheCourse

  NIH Funded Study Deciphers Chemical Sequence of Nerve Regeneration in Rats The vitamin folate appears to promote healing in damaged rat spinal cord tissue by triggering a change in DNA, according to a laboratory study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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  Why gay parents are good parents

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 6:54pm CDT by Lilithbytes

  We should acknowledge that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people do what every other American tries to do.
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  Tolerance of white militias exemplifies racial double standard

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 3:19pm CDT by Dr. Sherman N. Miller

  Is the white militia movement merely a rebirth of yesterday's Ku Klux Klan white supremacy movement that ran roughshod over the rights of nonwhite peoples? I think it is when an uppity African American male, President Barack Obama, is their practice target on their training ran …
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  Jobless aid measure dying in Senate

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 3:12pm CDT by msnbc.com health

  Republicans in the Senate appear likely to kill legislation to provide continued unemployment checks to millions of people and provide states with billions of dollars to avert layoffs.
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  http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/beauty/post-workout/sweat-fixes/how-to-freshen-up-fast-after-working-out/?esrc=nwtbl

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 3:03pm CDT by Angela1586572

  For those who are just getting started in a gym or community center setting and getting healthy, hope you finds these tips helpful.
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  No boys allowed! Save cash on a girls' night in

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:56pm CDT by msnbc.com health

  Want an excuse to stay in your comfy clothes on a Friday or Saturday night? Women's Health magazine offers four inexpensive ideas that will cover you from food to fun for a grown-up slumber party.
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  Hospitals' 'code blue' most deadly at night

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:50pm CDT by msnbc.com health

  The graveyard shift at the hospital is the worst time to call code blue, a new study finds. Patients who go into cardiac arrest while in the hospital are more likely to die if it happens after 11 p.m.
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  What if the Pill was over the counter?

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:48pm CDT by Loretta Kemsley

  An op-ed in today's New York Times argues, "Women don't need a doctor to tell them if they need cold medicine or condoms, and they shouldn't need a doctor's permission to take the pill." Is that true?
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  Bookmark and Share

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:32pm CDT by Angela1586572

  When growing up in Key West, Florida.. enjoying jumping rope with my sisters of color. We even used two jumping ropes. We also sang deep southern songs during that time.
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  Kick the Habit Without Gaining a Pound - MSN Health & Fitness - Quit Smoking

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:25pm CDT by Dar73

  Kick the Habit Without Gaining a Pound - MSN Health & Fitness - Quit Smoking
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  Most Americans consume too much salt

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:25pm CDT by msnbc.com health

  A new government report shows that only a small fraction of U.S. adults are meeting strict limits on salt consumption.
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  New doctors could get shorter shifts under new proposal

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:25pm CDT by Kitty4038

  CHICAGO (AP) — Patients will be told when they're being treated by rookie doctors, who would get shorter shifts and better supervision under proposed work changes for medical residents.
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  Doctor tied to 68 overdose deaths found guilty

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:24pm CDT by msnbc.com health

  A federal jury has found a Kansas doctor and his wife guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients who later died.
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  Lab-grown lungs? Scientists making progress

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:12pm CDT by msnbc.com health

  It is an early step toward one day building new lungs: Yale University researchers took apart and regrew a rat's lung, then transplanted it and watched it breathe.
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  Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:01pm CDT by msnbc.com health

  Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells - a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field, Italian researchers reported Wedn …
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  'My morning sickness was so bad I had to have an abortion'

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 1:30pm CDT by cartooncat

  A mother has told how she suffered such extreme morning sickness that she chose to have an abortion. Cheryl Harrison made the heartbreaking decision after her condition left her unable to walk or care for her young daughter.
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  Rowing against the tide...

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 1:19pm CDT by RebelGirl

  Rowing against the tide…
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  Friendly's BurgerMelt: Worse Than KFC's Double Down?

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 1:19pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  We all know that the bun is easily the most boring part of a burger. So why not swap a stale old bun for something rich and flavorful like, say, a couple of grilled cheese sandwiches? Oh, wait. That's already been done.
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  Changing Behavior Real Key to Stopping AIDS

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 1:16pm CDT by laws-john

  Despite the great increase in condom use, the new HIV infection rate has not gone down, but remains level at about 40,000 per year, with some 15,000 people still dying each year from the disease.
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  Scientists grow a rat lung in the laboratory

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 1:00pm CDT by Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer

  It's an early step toward one day building new lungs: Yale University researchers took apart and regrew a rat's lung, and then transplanted it and watched it breathe.
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  Jobless aid measure dying in Senate

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 12:56pm CDT by msnbc.com health

  Republicans in the Senate appear likely to kill legislation to provide continued unemployment checks to millions of people and provide states with billions of dollars to avert layoffs.
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  Small fraction of Americans meet salt guidelines

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 11:08am CDT by Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer

  Most U.S. adults should eat less than a teaspoon of salt each day, but a new government report says just 1 in 18 meet that goal.
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  runaway census cost is frightening preview of true Obamacare price tag

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 10:27am CDT by joe-1280782

  If the costs of a relatively simple administrative procedure like taking the decennial census have a history of spiraling wildly out of control, what is the graph of runaway Obamacare costs going to look like? Imagine the price tag of having the government in charge of keepin …
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  Addicted docs put patients in peril

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 8:21am CDT by msnbc.com health

  Strung-out doctors and nurses imperil patients' lives every day. So why is no one trying to catch them?