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Hospitals: The cost of admission
- Health & Healing
- December 11, 2012
Doctors have been saying that the hospital chain they worked for (Hotel Management Associates) pressured them to admit patients and fill beds with people who did not actually need to be admitted, simply to make money. Cliff Cloonan, who worked at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania as the assistant emergency room director, warns, "If
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Tailored Parenting Advice in the Comfort of Home
- Home & Family
- December 11, 2012
Many websites are now offering online parenting classes run by counselors, psychologists and professors. These classes give parents a more personalized way of learning than what they would find from simply reading a book. The Wall Street Journal, 11/13/2012
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Breath Test May Detect Colon Cancer
- Health & Healing
- December 10, 2012
In a new study from Italy, researchers were able to identify patients with colorectal cancer with an accuracy of over 75% by analyzing samples of their breath. So a breath test, similar to the one used to determine when a driver has had too much to drink, is now showing promise as a screening tool
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How to Deal When Your Adult Children Have Setbacks
- Home & Family
- December 10, 2012
Playing the role of parent changes considerably when the kids grow up and begin to really live lives of their own, but it doesn’t mean your motherly or fatherly responsibilities are gone. Mom Susan Engel talks about her struggle and how she dealt with her son's pain as she watched him endure setbacks. Learn the ways
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Pesticides in tap water, produce linked to food allergies
- Environmental Well-Being
- December 10, 2012
According to a new study, pesticides in produce and drinking water may be playing a role in the increasing prevalence of food allergies. ABC News Channel 5, 12/5/2012
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Sleepy Drivers Can Dose Unknowingly
- Entertainment, Books & Humor
- December 10, 2012
Driving while tired is the second highest cause of car accidents after drinking while driving. But it's not just driving that is affected by lack of sleep. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that workplace accidents from sleep deprivation cost $31 billion of damage every year. Chronic lack of sleep fogs
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How the smartphone boom could damage your health and the environment
- Environmental Well-Being
- December 10, 2012
Much research points to microwave pollution from smartphones and tablets as a serious threat to our health. There are countless examples of families experiencing insomnia, headaches and heart arrhythmia in neighborhoods undergoing increased microwave activity- a similar pattern to the sickness from ‘low’ levels of radiation that was well-known in the 1960s. The Ecologist, 12/3/2012
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Secret Santa saves Christmas for Sandy victims
- Making a Positive Difference
- December 10, 2012
An anonymous Missouri man has been going around handing out $100 bills to those hit hardest by superstorm Sandy. In fact, this wealthy businessman does this sort of thing every December, going to the cities and towns in America that he thinks need him most, hoping to lift the spirits of those in need right on time
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CSR, Profits Closely Linked
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- December 7, 2012
While a company’s reputation is the primary reason for adopting a corporate social responsibility program, there is still a close link between profits and CSR, according to new research by corporate and investor relations firm Adam Friedman Associates. Environmental Leader, 11/29/2012
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Simple measures cut infections caught in hospitals
- Health & Healing
- December 3, 2012
A project at seven big hospitals reduced infections after colorectal surgeries by nearly one-third. It prevented an estimated 135 infections, saving almost $4 million, the Joint Commission hospital regulating group and the American College of Surgeons announced Wednesday. The two groups directed the 2 1/2-year project. Solutions such as germ-fighting soap and wound-protecting devices were
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: The Brilliance of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas
- Entertainment, Books & Humor
- December 3, 2012
Many of us mark the start of the holiday season by the vine-like crawl of festive lights on more and more houses throughout our neighborhoods, or by the influx of relatives on Thanksgiving. Others see the holidays as having started two weeks ago – with the start of the Hallmark Channel’s 2012 edition of The
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Denise Austin’s plan for holiday health and happiness
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- December 3, 2012
Denise Austin’s new book, Side Effect: Skinny offers tips on nutrition, exercise, and how to shed pounds permanently and maintain a fitness program for life. Philly.com, 11/26/2012
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How Can We Create A World of Powerful Female Entrepreneurs?
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- December 3, 2012
While women are graduating from college at ever-increasing rates, the amount of high-growth companies they start is still unacceptably low. What can we do to tip that balance? Co.Exist, November
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Helping Parents Score on the Homework Front
- Home & Family
- December 3, 2012
The type of parental help a child needs with homework is determined by that child's age, research shows. Should parents stay up half the night with procrastinating kids to help them finish research papers or let them face the consequences? The answer seems to be that it depends on how old the kids are, because
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NYPD officer: Grandfather inspired act of kindness
- Making a Positive Difference
- December 3, 2012
Good for You to NYC police officer Larry DePrimo for an an act of kindness that he had no idea would capture the attention of a large audience.and touch their hearts. After a tourist from Arizona snapped a picture of Officer DePrimo giving a pair of boots and thermal socks to a barefooted homeless man,
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