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Bypass surgery safer using heart-lung pump: study
BOSTON (Reuters) - Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Nations:U.S. Source:(Reuters)
2009-11-05
Indian filmmaker unveils her own minuscule Parsi Minority
PARIS (AFP) - Men in PLO T-shirts march through noisy, chaotic streets; their leader, all in white, stands before the wrought iron gate of a Zoroastrian fire temple urging followers to pledge purity and denounce outsiders.
Nations:India France People:Freddie Mercury Source:(AFP)
2009-11-05
House Republicans roll out health insurance alternatives
WASHINGTON - Small businesses would have an easier time banding together to offer insurance to employees. Consumers could cross state lines to buy coverage. There'd be no big government expansion.
People:John Boehner Harry Reid Activities:2009 US Health Reform 111th Congress Source:(McClatchy)
2009-11-02
Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says
CHICAGO - Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-11-02
Stigma part of breast cancer's grip on poor
WASHINGTON - Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" - and with him, the family's income.
Nations:Mexico Malawi Rwanda Source:(AP)
2009-11-02
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