The Associated Press is reporting that the nation’s largest private employer, Wal-Mart, has announced that it supports an employer health insurance mandate.
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Depression and anxiety appear to boost the risk of angina and death due to heart-related problems, two new studies suggest.
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Television pitchman Billy Mays, best known for his OxiClean and Orange Glo commercials, died of heart disease, a Florida medical examiner says.
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The average total wait time in an emergency room in the United States is four hours and three minutes, but experts say there are ways you can cut down your wait.
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The Los Angeles Coroner’s Offfice called the autopsy performed on the body of pop star Michael Jackson “inconclusive,” and he said it will take six to eight weeks before an official cause of death can be determined.
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Results from a new study suggest that some parts of the Mediterranean diet are more beneficial to good health than others.
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A reader asks Joe and Teresa Graedon about the flu-like symptoms he experienced when he began taking the statin Lipitor, symptoms that stopped after his doctor took him off the cholesterol drug.
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Friends and medical experts believe the narcotic painkiller Demerol was behind Michael Jackson’s sudden death from cardiac arrest.
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Los Angeles police are looking for Michael Jackson’s doctor, but so far they have been unable to find or contact him.
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The seizure of meds from drugmaker Caraco affects 33 medications, and it could lead to a shortage of the painkiller choline magnesium trisalicylate.
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