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Health Customs Migrate To U.S. (CBS News)
Members of Mexico's 60 Indian groups working in the U.S. are often isolated from the American health care system. There is now a larger effort to preserve their health care customs that predate the Spanish conquest.
Immigrants from Mexico's indigenous groups work to preserve traditional health care customs (Billings Gazette)
MADERA, Calif. - A thick tangle of marigolds reaches chest-high around Caritina Cruz, who plucks one of the deep orange flowers and explains to her little sister how to prepare it in a tea that soothes indigestion.
'Health warnings' for store cards (Guardian Unlimited)
Retailers could be forced to include "health warnings" on store card literature after the competition watchdog yesterday proposed measures to tackle poor communication and high interest rates.
Alternative view of the Point; what it was like for women (The Daily Record)
Karen Olson calls herself a peeping Tom with credentials. The Dundalk Community College professor likes history but prefers to study the social side of the past.
An Alternative to Nursing Home Care (RedNova)
By Felice J. Freyer, The Providence Journal, R.I. Dec. 26--Like many people with an aging mother, Diane Charbonneau had her hands full.
Boca doc says alternative milk view means (Boca Raton News)
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said philosopher George Santayana. Boca Raton Pediatrician Dr. Adam Cutler agrees, saying that if any local parents choose to go outside of established health protocols "then they're taking risks into their own hands."
Health & Medicine (Houston Chronicle)
WASHINGTON - Think popping extra pain pills can't hurt? Think again: Accidental poisonings from the nation's most popular pain reliever seem to be rising, making acetaminophen the leading cause of acute liver failure.
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. healthcare system is not ready for the baby boom generation moving into retirement, geriatric care specialists say. |
