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Talking Point: Why shouldn’t we call people obese? Yorkshire Evening Post Fri, 11 May 2012 02:53 AM PDT A health watchdog wants the word “obese” to be dropped. People should just be told to achieve a “healthier weight” instead, it says. But will this softer approach actually help, or is it just more political correctness? Interviews by Rod McPhee and Neil Hudson Revolutionary women look back on 40 years of 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' The Burlington Free Press Fri, 11 May 2012 02:48 AM PDT Vilunya Diskin (left) and Jane Pincus helped author the women's health book "Our Bodies, Ourselves" 40 years ago. / EMILY McMANAMY, Free Press Every now and then, a book is more than a book. Citywide ban on public smoking can impact maternal and fetal health News-Medical-Net Fri, 11 May 2012 02:47 AM PDT A citywide ban on public smoking in Colorado led to significant decreases in maternal smoking and preterm births, providing the first evidence in the U.S. that such interventions can impact maternal and fetal health, according to an article in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. Richard Stallman falls ill at conference Linux Today Fri, 11 May 2012 02:37 AM PDT ITWorld: Richard Stallman, suffered from health problems during a talk he was giving this afternoon in Barcelona, eventually suspending the rest of his talk. De Lima: DOJ won't oppose Gloria Arroyo treatment abroad GMA News Online Fri, 11 May 2012 02:28 AM PDT Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Friday said the Department of Justice will no longer oppose in case former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would request permission to travel abroad for medical treatment â€" if indeed her current health condition is 'life-threatening.' Aid for treating opioid addiction, but no clinic here Bennington Banner Fri, 11 May 2012 02:28 AM PDT Friday May 11, 2012 NEAL P. GOSWAMI Staff Writer BENNINGTON -- Bennington could see improved services for patients addicted to opioids under newly passed legislation, but a methadone clinic is not slated for the area, according to a state health official. The legislation, H.627, which originated in the House, calls on the state Department of Health to establish a regional Palatka Daily News Video Library Palatka Daily News Fri, 11 May 2012 02:24 AM PDT Current Rating: 2.1 of 33 votes! What kind of health insurance do you have? HHS announces big pay boost for some Medicaid docs News-Medical-Net Fri, 11 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT HHS says the increase, required by the health law, would raise primary care doctors' payments for treating Medicare patients, on average, 34 percent. Foreign aid for health services not significantly displaced, analysis says News-Medical-Net Fri, 11 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT In an article published in the May 8 edition of PLoS Medicine, Rajaie Batniji, an affiliate of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and Eran Bendavid of FSI's Stanford Health Policy, found that a 2010 Lancet study by researchers at the University of Washington that "concluded that about half the money given to ... Republican govs like free-market insurance exchanges but skewer 'Obamacare' News-Medical-Net Fri, 11 May 2012 02:17 AM PDT Many governors find themselves in an awkward spot since opposing the health care law is GOP orthodoxy. In the meantime, Iowa lawmakers approved a bill requiring licensure of advisers who help people navigate health insurance options.

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