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• Live to 43 or 86? Depends on where you reside
GENEVA - Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care. Huge discrepancies also exist ...
• Urban medical schools feel weight of uninsured
As one of about 750 Wayne State University Medical School physicians, he looks at the deluge of job cuts in Detroit's auto, manufacturing and other industries and sees even more people lining up for health care they can't afford to pay.
• Economy turning around soon? Not likely
GDP measures the value of all goods and services produced within the U.S. and is the best barometer of the country's economic health. The economy is the top concern for Americans.
• Half of Katrina victims were 75 or older
The study was published online Thursday and will appear in the October print edition of the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
• DNC gives local Denver band a boost
The veterans wanted convention delegates and the Obama campaign to hear their demands for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, full health care benefits for returning troops and veterans and reparations to the Iraqi people for damage caused ...