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Once-conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina thrive six months after operation

By doris | Published: May 1, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) On November 1, 2011, when they were two years old, conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina Sabuco underwent separation surgery at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. Conjoined twins undergo separation surgery in Calif.PICTURES: Conjoined twins: 40 amazing photos (GRAPHIC IMAGES)PICTURES: Formerly conjoined Sabuco twins: How [...]

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Computer use and exercise may help fight memory loss

By doris | Published: May 1, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com Using a computer may protect against memory loss late in life, as long as you also make sure to exercise, a new study suggests. In the study, which included older adults, computer use and exercise reduced the risk of memory loss, whereas doing either activity alone did not. Participants who engaged [...]

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New beef brouhaha: Should you be grossed out by ‘meat glue?’

By doris | Published: April 30, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com Still reeling from the specter of “pink slime,” beef industry officials on Friday fought off another culinary creep-out: “meat glue.” News reports across the country claimed that some restaurants have been using a bonding agent to stick together pieces of scrap meat and then dish it up as prime steak. “This [...]

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Kindergartner, 6, arrested and charged with battery for kicking principal

By doris | Published: April 29, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.comWhat is going on with this world?  There is to much fighting going on and there is no respect for anyone any more. Some of the parents just don’t care and others are to busy to see what the children are doing. Some parents better put a better example for their children. [...]

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Debt Collector Is Faulted for Tough Tactics in Hospitals

By doris | Published: April 28, 2012

Full Story at NYTimes.com Hospital patients waiting in an emergency room or convalescing after surgery are being confronted by an unexpected visitor: a debt collector at bedside. This and other aggressive tactics by one of the nation’s largest collectors of medical debts, Accretive Health, were revealed on Tuesday by the Minnesota attorney general, raising concerns [...]

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200 now sick in salmonella sushi outbreak

By doris | Published: April 27, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnb.msn.com At least 200 people in 21 states and Washington, D.C., now have been sickened by raw scraped tuna contaminated with not one but two rare strains of salmonella, government health officials reported Thursday. Tainted tuna scraped from the backbone of the fish has been linked not only to the salmonella Bareilly [...]

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Dying veteran protests Spirit Airlines’ no-refund policy

By doris | Published: April 26, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com Jerry Meekins, who is battling cancer, has a new foe: Spirit Airlines. Meekins recently purchased an airline ticket from Spirit Airlines to visit his daughter in New Jersey. “Two weeks after I bought the ticket, I found out I was terminal,” Meekins, a Vietnam veteran, told NBC affiliate WFLA-TV in Tampa, [...]

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Mad cow disease in California: Should humans be worried?

By doris | Published: April 25, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) A cow’s positive test for mad cow disease has prompted health officials to alert a concerned public that humans are not at risk for contracting the deadly human variant of the disease. VIDEO: Mad cow disease discovered in Calif.New case of mad cow disease discovered in California; First since [...]

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Wal-Mart hushed up vast Mexico bribery case

By doris | Published: April 24, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com MEXICO CITY — In September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive at the company’s largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico. In the e-mail and follow-up conversations, the former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. [...]

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Jailed for $280: The return of debtors’ prisons

By doris | Published: April 23, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (MoneyWatch) How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn’t pay a medical bill — one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn’t owe. “She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn’t have to pay it,” The Associated Press reports. [...]

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7 Healthy Mother’s Day Gifts

By doris | Published: April 22, 2012

Full Story at Health.com This Mother’s Day, skip the flowers and give your mom something she really needs—the gift of good health. No, you don’t have to buy her a treadmill. There are many other things you can do to give your mom a boost in terms of her physical (or mental) well-being. Most moms [...]

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Cell phone in cockpit distracted Jetstar pilot, led to ‘missed approach,’ report finds

By doris | Published: April 21, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com You know that pre-flight announcement urging you to shut down your cell phone before takeoff? Perhaps it should be mandatory in the cockpit as well. It turns out a pilot’s chiming phone onboard a Jetstar flight was part of a chain of events that ultimately forced the crew to execute a [...]

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Warren Buffett’s son tackles hunger in rural America

By doris | Published: April 20, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) DECATUR, Ill. – Billionaire Warren Buffett is well known for his charity work and so is his son Howard. On Thursday, Howard Buffett announced a new partnership to feed the needy with the food processing giant Archer Daniels Midland and Feeding America, a national hunger charity. Howard Buffett owns [...]

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Graying boomers get wired to cut healthcare costs

By doris | Published: April 19, 2012

Full Story at  msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Baby boomers wired to their iPads and smart phones are giving U.S. health experts some new ideas about ways to cut the soaring costs of medical care in graying America. Some of the ideas might sound like “Robo-Granny”. An astronautical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made [...]

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Caffeinated potato chips aim to boost snack time

By doris | Published: April 18, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) Need a caffeine boost? A company suggests you consider snacking on a bag of chips or grabbing granola. But, these aren’t just any snacks it sells – they’re packed with the same caffeine that coffee and energy drinks provide. Arma Energy Snx foods are made with salt, spices, B [...]

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Dole recalls bagged salad for salmonella risk

By doris | Published: April 17, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com Dole Food Co. has recalled 756 cases of bagged salads in 15 states, including Maryland and Virginia, because they could be contaminated with salmonella. The fresh vegetables division of Dole Food Co. recalled the cases late Saturday because a random sample tested by the State of New York came back positive [...]

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Space Shuttle Discovery Mounted Atop Jumbo Jet for Ride to Smithsonian

By doris | Published: April 16, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NASA mounted space shuttle Discovery on a jumbo jet Sunday (April 15), in preparation for the retired orbiter’s delivery to the Smithsonian. The paired air- and spacecraft are expected to depart Florida for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning (April 17), weather permitting. Discovery’s mating to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA’s [...]

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Jordan Brown, boy accused of murder at age 11, found guilty

By doris | Published: April 15, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/AP) PITTSBURGH – A judge on Friday found 14-year-old Jordan Brown guilty of killing his father’s pregnant fiancee when he was just 11. Lawrence County Judge John Hodge found Brown delinquent, the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty verdict, in the deaths of Kenzie Houk and her unborn child in New [...]

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Label tenderized beef? Recall renews worries

By doris | Published: April 14, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com On the eve of summer grilling season, the recall of more than a ton of beef potentially contaminated with dangerous E. coli bacteria — including mechanically tenderized sirloin steaks — is renewing calls for better labeling. Connecticut Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro said that the Wednesday recall involving some 2,057 pounds of [...]

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‘Miracle’ baby found alive after 12 hours in morgue

By doris | Published: April 13, 2012

Full Story at TODAYHealth.today.msnbc.msn.com A baby that had been declared dead at birth was discovered alive by her parents after she had spent 12 hours in a frigid morgue drawer in Argentina. The baby, born about three months prematurely, was whisked off to the morgue before her parents even saw her, said the baby’s mother, [...]

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