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• Vermont named healthiest state, Louisiana last
WASHINGTON - Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest U.S. state and other Southern states were close rivals due to high obesity and smoking rates in new rankings that deemed Vermont the healthiest. The overall health of Americans ...
• Hospitals raise perk ante to draw, treat patients
The $360 million hospital's atrium will resemble a northern Michigan Main Street complete with storefronts that will offer health and wellness products geared toward women, who hold most of the purchasing power in health care, hospital Chief ...
• Auto union says it will restart contract talks
WASHINGTON - The United Auto Workers said Wednesday it is willing to change its contracts with U.S. automakers and accept delays payments of billions of dollars to a union-run health care trust to do its part to help the struggling companies secure ...
• Bigger waist may spell more success for women
Dec. 2: Health magazine's Dr. Roshini Raj talks to TODAY's Amy Robach about medical breakthroughs that could help women live longer. An imperfect body might be just what the doctor ordered for women and key to their economic success, an ...
• Blacks tolerate cervical cancer chemo better
... compared to white women, black women were not at increased risk of having their disease get worse or of dying from their disease, the study team reports in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. "Our results," Plaxe told Reuters Health ...