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• Financial crisis may worsen mental health woes
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA - The global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with poverty and unemployment, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday. Hundreds of ...
• McCain vs. Obama: A tale of two different health plans
No matter which candidate wins the presidential election in November, employers’ involvement in health care will undergo fundamental changes if the next president’s proposals are approved by Congress. Republican presidential candidate and U.S ...
• Edwards has ‘passion’ for health reform
NEW YORK - Elizabeth Edwards said Saturday that her passion for reforming the nation's health care system has been "a great refuge" for her during the recent turmoil over her husband's extramarital affair. Edwards, who has incurable breast cancer ...
• When you are denied health insurance
Jacqueline Ruess was lying on a bed inside a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida, still woozy from anesthesia but hoping that, maybe just this once, she'd caught a break. She'd had laparoscopic surgery in order to examine a growth her gynecologist ...
• Calif. told to find $250 million for prison health
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration to say whether California has the $250 million needed to start an $8 billion overhaul of the prison health care system. U.S. District Judge Thelton ...