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Women wait in line to receive free clothing during a Women's Day in the Park event at Elysian Park in Los Angeles on May 18, 2012. The event is held to help women facing homelessness and extreme poverty, providing them with the tools to improve their physical and mental health. Coordinated by the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health and sponsored by the Downtown Women's Center, the activity-filled event was organized as part of National Women's Health Week.
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Although the findings of this study will be valuable for the Department of Health working group currently reviewing the drinking recommendations, the focus of the guidelines must be to gain the maximum acceptance by the drinking public, and to offer a realistic way of reducing the risks associated with drinking
Late yesterday, our office received the 'verification in-lieu of certified copy' from officials within the Hawaii Department of Health that we requested in March
Shell has been working cooperatively with the Illinois EPA, Illinois Department of Health and the Village of Roxana to conduct environmental assessments and address historic subsurface impactsMore quotes »
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Diocese sues Obama over birth control plan
plan, part of Obama's health care system overhaul, is intended to expand women's access to free preventative health services, including contraception."Nearly 99 percent of all women have used contraception at some point in their lives, but more than half of Read more »
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City to tackle over-prescribing of drugs
prescriptions for opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, according to data released Wednesday by the Department of Health .This means just more than 8,000 health care professionals wrote painkiller prescriptions for about 1.1 million patients Read more »
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Whooping cough case reported in Hauppauge
with a few still being investigated -- in Suffolk County, according to a spokeswoman for the Suffolk County Department of Health Services.The community was notified about the case through a letter dated April 30 from the Division of Public Health that is posted Read more »
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Appeals Court Backs FDA Move for Graphic Images on Cigarette Packs
about the dangers of smoking, which remains the leading cause of preventable death in America," the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said at the time.The proposed requirement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , which is set to take effect Read more »
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Latina women sue Nassau for discrimination
routinely harassed and discriminated against based on their ethnicity while they were employees at the county Department of Health . The women, Celina Breton and Alma Duran, both of Uniondale , Betty Martinez-Navarez, of Lindenhurst , and Anna Miranda, of Read more »
Around the web
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Veteran snake-handling West Virginia pastor dies after rattlesnake bite
June 2, 2012 questions to the state Department of Health and Human Resources, which didn’t immediately respond. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- A West Virginia preacher who followed his father into the rare practice of handling snakes to prove faith in God died 6/1/12 from Bennington Banner Read more »
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Letters: Catholics and the Birth Control Mandate
of Religion ” (editorial, May 28) tries to turn a severe breach of the separation of church and state by the Department of Health and Human Services into a breach by the Roman Catholic Church. It plays down government coercion by describing the department 6/1/12 from The New York Times Read more »
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Change.org petition:No bleach enemas to “cure” autism in children!
in children Greetings, I just signed the following petition addressed to the US Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Federal Trade Commission. Order cease and desist on selling, recommending, or administering Miracle 6/1/12 from Left Brain/Right Brain Read more »
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Lawsuit alleges state is illegally denying BadgerCare coverage
Action of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Friday against the state Department of Health Services, alleging the state is illegally denying BadgerCare coverage to people on a waiting list. The suit, filed in Dane County Circuit Court on behalf of two women from Milwaukee, 6/1/12 from Madison.com Read more »
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Indiana abortions fell 5% in 2010, report says
need to take action to bring Indiana law up to the realities of abortion in 2012.” Indiana is among several states that have enacted laws restricting access to abortion, Wind said. “There has been a big uptick in the last two years in state restrictions on 6/1/12 from The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Read more »
