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• Health insurance coverage getting skimpier
WASHINGTON - Health insurance premiums rose a modest 5 percent this year for coverage that's getting skimpier, researchers say. The 5 percent increase was comparable to last year's uptick. Overall, premiums for family coverage increased to $12,680 ...
• had this succinct exchange
I tried to achieve universal health care back in '93 or '94, and I still have the scars from that experience. You know, I take it as a perverse form of flattery, actually, that if they weren't worried, they would not be so vitriolic in their ...
• New TV show bolsters autism myth, doctors say
The consequences of a decline in immunization rates could be devastating to the health of our nation's children," Jenkins said in a statement Monday. Autism is a complex disorder featuring repetitive behaviors and poor social interaction and ...
• More women are having fewer children, if at all
WASHINGTON - More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever ... MORE FROM WOMEN'S HEALTH     
• More U.S. women dying in childbirth
The U.S. maternal mortality rate rose to 13 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2004, according to statistics released this week by the National Center for Health Statistics. The rate was 12 per 100,000 live births in 2003 — the first time the ...