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Some Coloradans are calling on regulators to make public health a priority as the state considers an overhaul of oil and gas rules amid a natural gas boom. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission was set to meet Tuesday to start considering ...

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Colo. oil, gas panel urged to consider health - Forbes

A cell phone ring tone that sings "Condom, condom!" has been launched to promote safe sex in India, where condoms carry a strong social stigma and HIV and AIDS are growing problems, health experts said Tuesday. The a cappella ring tone features a ...

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Safe Sex Ring Tone Sings 'Condom, Condom!' - ABC News

CHICAGO— A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. The study's limitations make more research necessary. And public water systems were on ...

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Trace arsenic in water may be linked with diabetes - Boston Globe

Washington (dbTechno) - According to a new report released by the Trust for America’s Health, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, both non-profits, obesity is on the rise across the U.S. Obesity increased in 37 states in the past year alone. The ...

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Adult Obesity Continues To Skyrocket In U.S. States - dbtechno.com

Health, safety and transportation advocates denounced yesterday a proposal by more than 100 university administrators to reconsider the legal drinking age of 21 -- contending that any reduction would lead to thousands of additional drunken-driving ...

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Drinking age call draws outrage - Baltimore Sun

TORONTO — — Maple Leaf Foods is expanding a recall of its packaged meats and temporarily closing a Toronto plant that prepares the products. A number of the affected products are part of an investigation into a listeriosis outbreak. No direct ...

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Maple Leaf expands recall of packaged meats - Globe and Mail

Exactly 150 years ago, an exceptionally hot spell of summer weather reduced the Thames flowing through London to a scandalous condition known as The Great Stink. Queen Victoria, travelling down the river to Millwall docks, had to contain her nausea ...

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Sanitation: Creating a stink about the world's wastewater - Guardian Unlimited

When the state House and Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committees meet in Mountain Home on Thursday and Friday, we encourage Twin Lakes Area residents to sit in and see how their lawmakers work. The committees are to meet at 1:30 p.m ...

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Don't miss a chance to see, visit legislators - Baxter Bulletin

Thousands of people in Northern Ireland are being deprived of a vital health care service after a major row between pharmacists and the government over cash, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today. Nearly 500 community pharmacies across Northern ...

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Patients lose out in health cash row - Belfast Telegraph

CHICAGO— A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. The study's limitations make more research necessary. And public water systems were on ...

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