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  “as dementia slowly robs self-awareness, the person becomes less inhibited, losing both the memory of how he or she once behaved as well as a sense of social norms. It’s as if an internal filter on what’s polite behavior or not is turned off.”...

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  Today, one of the hottest political topics across the country is the impending “Medicaid work requirement.” Reversing an action from 2012 by former President Barack Obama, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued on a Jan 11 lette...

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Depending on whom you talk to, medical marijuana (also known as cannabis) is either a panacea for everything from cancer, to chronic pain, to epilepsy or it’s a dangerous and illegal drug with no place in medicine. In 1996, California voters passed P...

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Recently, Civil Rights Leader, 76-year old Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. revealed that he has Parkinson’s Disease. Rev. Jackson said that this all came about after family and friends noticed a change in him about three years ago, and he could no longer ign...

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    According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems. 51 percent of American children and adults were taking one or more pr...

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Is expired medication effective and safe to take? Do drugs really stop working after the date stamped on the bottle? Drug manufacturers are required to stamp an expiration date on their products. If your medicine has a use by or use before date inste...

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As health-reform continues to take effect over the next several years (in one way or the other), millions of newly insured Americans will gain access to a regular doctor. They will soon learn what others already know: Getting the best care from your ...

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  Are you wondering why you’re still smoking cigarettes? Unless you enjoy the taste of more than 7,000 harmful chemicals entering your body with each puff. And of those 7,000 chemicals, 69 of them are known to be cancer-causing (carcinogenic). B...

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  Remember a few years year ago when your friends were pouring buckets of ice-cold water over the heads in the name of science? In total, a whopping $220 million was raised from the challenge. help anywhere from 12,000 to 15,000 people in US who...

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“I was in Newark and Harlem just this week. And I walked into the homes of welfare mothers. I saw them in conditions—no, not with wall-to-wall carpet, but wall-to-wall rats and roaches. . . . [One mother] pointed out the walls with all the ceiling fa...

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  Healthcare is a huge issue for people in jail and prison.      There are currently 2.4 million people in American prisons. This number has grown by 500 percent in the past 30 years. While the United States has only 5 percent of the world’...

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  “a child is deemed to be living in relative poverty if he or she is growing up in a household where disposable income, when adjusted for family size and composition, is less than 50% of the median disposable household income for the country co...