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Michelle Obama launches campaign on child obesity

Michelle Obama launches campaign on child obesity

First Lady Michelle Obama has launched a nationwide campaign to tackle child obesity.
One in three children in the US is overweight or obese and Mrs Obama says the issue threatens America’s future.
She is setting out an ambitious plan to try to solve the childhood obesity problem within a generation.
The Let’s Move campaign will seek to [...]

Biting recession leaves ever more Americans hungry

Biting recession leaves ever more Americans hungry

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The number of Americans receiving emergency food from the largest U.S. hunger-relief charity and its partners rose 46 percent from 2005 to 2009, according to a report released on Tuesday.
“Feeding America” said 37 million people, including 14 million children, needed emergency food aid each year, more than 10 percent of the U.S. [...]

60 million in U.S. vaccinated against Swine Flu

60 million in U.S. vaccinated against Swine Flu

At least 60 million people in the U.S. have rolled up their sleeves or taken the nasal spray version of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, according a briefing at the CDC today.
Twice as many doses have gone to children than adults, but only about 2 million children had received the second dose of the swine [...]

Walgreens to offer H1N1 vaccine nationwide in December

Walgreens to offer H1N1 vaccine nationwide in December

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Walgreen Co aims to offer the H1N1 vaccine shot in all 50 states by the end of December, a move that could help the largest U.S. drugstore chain bring more consumers into its stores and clinics
Walgreen, which operates Walgreens drugstores and Take Care clinics, is already offering the H1N1 vaccine at about [...]

Corporate employers got scarce flu vaccine

Corporate employers got scarce flu vaccine

When the swine flu vaccine was most scarce, health officials gave thousands of doses to corporate clinics at Walt Disney World, Toyota, defense contractors, oil companies and cruise lines, according to a USA TODAY review of vaccine distribution data from three states.
USA TODAY examined how state health departments distributed H1N1 vaccine after public outcry last [...]

Reid tasks 10 senators to find public option fix

Reid tasks 10 senators to find public option fix

WASHINGTON – The fate and shape of the public option in the Senate health care bill now rests in the hands of ten Democratic senators: five moderates and five progressives whose views span the spectrum within the Democratic caucus.
The group had several closed door sessions over the weekend, but most of its members have been [...]

Swine flu abates, but experts urge preparedness

Swine flu abates, but experts urge preparedness

The swine flu is receding in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide, and the worst of the pandemic may be over, but public health experts say it’s too early for people to let their guard down.
The number of hospitalizations and deaths from the swine flu probably peaked at the end of October or early [...]

Cost concerns unlikely to sink U.S. health overhaul

Cost concerns unlikely to sink U.S. health overhaul

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. debt that is topping $12 trillion is raising fresh questions about the cost of President Barack Obama’s proposed healthcare overhaul, but those concerns are unlikely to sink the legislation.
The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan scorekeeper of federal spending, put the first 10-year cost of the Senate healthcare bill at $849 [...]

Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps

Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps

WASHINGTON — First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.
New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.
The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to [...]

Reid says Saturday vote on health care likely

Reid says Saturday vote on health care likely

Sen. Harry ReidWASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the Senate on Wednesday unveiled their proposal for overhauling the health care system, outlining legislation that they said would cover most of the uninsured while reducing the federal budget deficit.
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, said at a news conference that the legislation, embodying President Obama’s [...]

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