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Europe's free, state-run health care has drawbacks - 07/04/2009

As President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the American health care system, the role of government is at the heart of the debate. In Europe, free, state-run health care is a given. The concept has been enshrined in Europe for generations. Health systems are built so inclusive that even illegal immigrants are entitled to free treatme

Advocates are back with real health care stories - 07/02/2009

When carpenter Greg Douglas rolled his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000. Douglas is among thousands of people now telling their stories on videos, ads and Web sites on both sides of the health care debate.

Federal probe finds problems with chelation study - 07/02/2009

A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death. The study is testing chelation _ infusions of a drug that in this case has been removed from the market for safety

Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people - 07/02/2009

With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is _ so far _ more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division

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• Holder having surgery for cracked tooth

• Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama closing in

• Jackson's hospital is known for 'raising the dead'

• CDC: Private health care coverage at 50-year-low

• Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR

• Fawcett's death spotlights a rare cancer

• Gene variants linked to higher schizophrenia risk

• State-by-state list of obesity rates, rankings

• WHO paper: TB vaccine could kill babies with HIV

• Bone agent linked to problems in neck surgeries

• FDA panel recommends smaller doses of painkillers

• Which treatment works best? Top study needs listed

• Study: More sex may help damaged sperm

• Experiment seeks to head off Type 1 diabetes

• Drug-resistant swine flu seen in Danish patient