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For Wash. government bean-counter, a pot education
SEATTLE (AP) — Mike Steenhout knows spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting. He has worked as a budget assistant to the governor, managed local operations for the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed juvenile crime databases. Now, the married,...
Tags: Medical Marijuana Therapy, Plant Openings, United States Census Bureau, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Treatments
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Attorney: Miss. man denies mailing suspected ricin
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man charged with mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders was surprised by his arrest and maintains he is innocent, his attorney said Thursday after his first appearance. Paul Kevin Curtis, 45,...Tags: Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Trials, Justice System, MySpace, Court Preliminary
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Mississippi man arrested for mailing suspected ricin to Obama, senators
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government"...
Tags: Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Justice System, Jay Carney, MySpace, Music
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Doctors order less expensive lab tests when they know the cost
If doctors were better informed about the cost of lab tests, they would request fewer of them for their patients or look for cheaper alternatives, Hopkins researchers have found. Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Hospital put the price on some blood...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics
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Doctors, non-physicians battle over medical turf
SACRAMENTO -- A series of bills to expand the roles of nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals has set off a turf war with doctors over what non-physicians can and can’t do in medical practices. Citing a doctor shortage in...
Tags: Healthcare Policies, High Blood Pressure, Botox (drug), Diabetes, Drugs and Medicines
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Dining with Diabetes workshop scheduled
Penn State Extension will hold its Dining with Diabetes workshop in Chambersburg and Waynesboro, Pa. With funding from Summit Endowment, the program is offered at a low cost and includes six classes. The series is offered at no cost for beneficiaries...Tags: Diabetes, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), The Pennsylvania State University
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Combine fire research progresses
One day last fall, while ag engineer Dan Humburg was perched atop a combine during sunflower harvest in central South Dakota, the grower operating the machine stopped at the end of the field and asked, “Do you smell that?” The South Dakota State...Tags: Weather, Weather Statistics, Science and Technology, Technology, South Dakota State University
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Peninsula health systems have taken steps to contain superbug
Nationally, there's a new buzz about a class of superbug, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, CRE, which is resistant to the strongest antibiotics. It has only been found in hospitals and nursing homes and has no presence in the community, nor is...
Tags: Riverside Regional Medical Center, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Specialization, Nursing Homes
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Diabetes notices alarm Palm Beach teachers
Some Palm Beach County teachers say they received mailings from United Healthcare this week informing them they were at risk for diabetes -- news they had never heard from their doctors. United Healthcare sent its "Healthy Living Diabetes Health Plan"...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Diabetes, Teachers, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health and Safety at Work
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Few insurance plans cover federally mandated services
WASHINGTON - Just 2 percent of health plans available to consumers in the private insurance market offer all the coverage that will become mandatory next year under the federal health-care law, a new analysis has found. Only about one in 50 plans now...Tags: Justice System, Medical Procedures and Tests, Science and Technology, Politics, Taxation
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A year later, Trayvon Martin case murkier than ever
The simple story — cops yawn when burly white vigilante stalks and kills unarmed African-American child for the "crime" of walking while black — shocked the conscience of much of the nation a year ago and touched off an explosion of...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman
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Rural Docs
FrameworkThirty years ago, Drs. Oscar and Marcia Sablan moved from tropical Hawaii to dusty Firebaugh, Calif., and started a medical practice in a trailer on the corner of O and 9th streets. They're still there....
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