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Healthcare educator Rainelle White (rear) checks the weight of client Norma Ferguson in the Family Van in Boston

Super Committee Should Not Be Bamboozled By Sham Medical Claims

The drum beat to limit medical care for the elderly grows louder. President Barack Obama's health law reduces future funding for Medicare by over $500 billion in the next decade and shifts most of those resources to fund a vast expansion of Medicaid. It's like robbing grandma to spread the wealth. To bamboozle the public, advocates for limiting health care spending on the elderly are distorting science to make their case.
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High Times to End in the Netherlands

The country will no longer be a stoner's paradise thanks to a new policy that will bar non-Dutch residents from cannabis cafés in the southern reaches of the country beginning Jan. 1.
Nurse Maria Vatista works inside a mobile HIV testing van as another medic sits outside with immigrants in Omonia square in Athens Oct. 31, 2011.

In Greek Crisis, HIV Gains Ground

'Contagion' is the label financial markets use for the economic spread of the Greek crisis. For hundreds of people in an increasingly chaotic society, the word has a deadlier meaning.
Photographers take a picture of a lab assistant preparing an experiment at new P3 level research laboratory against tuberculosis in Lausanne.

Europe Health Check Shows TB, Measles, Other Worries

Europe's health is suffering, with around 80,000 cases of tuberculosis infection a year and serious problems with measles, HIV and threats from superbug infections, an annual health report on the region said Thursday.
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Tear Drops May Replace Blood in Testing for Diabetes: Study

A new study from the University of Michigan, has suggested that it may be possible for scientists to develop a device that measures blood sugar levels through tears instead of blood. If the Michigan study reaches ground reality, it could be a tearful adieu to the prick for diabetes checks.

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