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Obama Details Vision of Medicare for Baby Boomers Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:04 AM PDT The November presidential election looms larger daily and the candidates from both parties are sharpening their rhetoric and addressing details to their plans for the next four years. Health care is a hot topic; the future of Medicare is up in the air. As the health insurance plan that will cover every American at some point in their lives, the interest in Medicare by Americans seems warranted. New SARS-like virus detected in Middle East Associated Press via Yahoo! News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:41 AM PDT Global health officials are closely following a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left another person in critical condition in Britain. Venture firms see signs of rebirth in life sciences Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:40 AM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Life-sciences and health investing, long shunned by venture-capital investors, is making a comeback. Several venture firms globally have each raised or are raising funds this year in the $200 million to $400 million range dedicated to life sciences, biotech and medicine, while others have raised large, diversified funds with big chunks dedicated to those fields. Venture ... Genital cutting tied to later abuse risk Reuters via Yahoo! News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:05 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who underwent genital cutting as young girls may be at increased risk of physical, sexual or emotional abuse from their husband, a study of women in Mali suggests. The study, of nearly 7,900 women, found that 22 percent of those with genital mutilation said they'd been physically abused by a husband or male partner. That compared with 12 percent of women who'd ... New SARS-like virus found, man critically ill in UK Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:39 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS infection and the common cold is critically ill in hospital in Britain, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. The U.N. health body put out a global alert on Sunday saying a new virus had infected the 49-year-old man who had recently travelled to Saudi Arabia - where another man with an ... UPDATE 2-New SARS-like virus found, man critically ill in UK Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:09 AM PDT * Virus is different from any previously found in humans * International authorities on alert, no evidence of spread * Virus from same family as SARS and common cold * Only two confirmed cases worldwide so far (Adds fresh comment, UK advice to health workers) LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A Qatari man struck down with apreviously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS infectionand the common ... Patient flees ambulance, dies after highway accident: Newfoundland health board The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health board says one of its patients was killed today after a vehicle hit the person. New SARS-like mystery illness emerges in Mideast: WHO AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT The World Health Organisation issued a global alert on Monday for a new SARS-like respiratory virus which left a man from Qatar critically ill in a London hospital and killed at least one more in Saudi Arabia. WHO monitoring SARS-like virus in 2 men who had travelled in Saudi Arabia; 1 has died The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:58 AM PDT LONDON - Global health officials are closely following a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left another person in critical condition in Britain.

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