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Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be Surgeon General | RaceWire (www.racewire.org) TMC

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, has been tapped to join the Obama administration as Surgeon General. The Atlanta-based neurosurgeon and son of Indian immigrants has plenty DC... More

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New Study Shows Antibiotics Sprouting In Vegetables Too! (www.publicnewsservice.org) TMC

Missourians have long been exposed to antibiotics in meat and milk, but now such drugs have been found in vegetables we eat as well. Producers feed large doses of antibiotics to farm animals raised in... More

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Post-Election Report Shows SD "Voter Fatigue" With Abortion Issue (www.publicnewsservice.org) TMC

South Dakota voters opposed the 2008 abortion ban by a slightly wider margin, less than one percent, than they recorded when they defeated it in the 2006 election.

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Group studies HIV/AIDS drug effectiveness (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

For almost 10 years Marcela Madrid of Pittsburgh Supercomputing has been working to find a cure for AIDS. More specifically, she is trying to create a more effective drug for those living with the... More

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Cancer: Cause and Defects (www.inthesetimes.com) TMC

When Sarah Palin says stupid things, they have the virtue of sounding really dumb. Appropriate derision greeted her insistence that what caused global warming “kind of doesn’t matter at this point... More

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On Abortion, Pro-Choice Is the Compromise Position (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

The Bush administration is scrambling to issue a number of anti-abortion rights executive orders before leaving office. This is of course just a tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the hostile... More

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The Economic Crisis: A Generation of Reproductive Health "Horror Stories" (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

These words were written by the historian David Rothman 30 years ago, in an essay called "The State as Parent." Rothman's argument is that Progressives of the early 20th century saw the social ills... More

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The Long-Term Effects of OR’s Long-Term Care Cuts (www.publicnewsservice.org) TMC

State funding for nursing homes, assisted living facilities and in-home care services could be cut by more than $60 million to help manage Oregon's budget shortfall this year. However, it's not just... More

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Team Obama Eyes Gupta for Surgeon General (www.truthdig.com) TMC

Although the fact that his sponsoring network, CNN, reported this rumor makes it a tad suspect, it wouldn’t be the first time that the concept of self-promotion was associated with the name of Dr.... More

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Who Wants to be Dr. Sanjay Gupta? (blogs.newamericamedia.org) TMC

Good for Dr. Sanjay Gupta. But I fear it’s a mixed blessing for the rest of us much more run-of-the-mill South Asians. It’s exciting to see someone who comes from your stock make it big. But... More

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