Tag: health
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May 24, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Let’s take our lumps first: as a nation, the headlines and health reports scream at us -- we are fat, chubby, tubby, obese, double-wide, love-handled, heavyweight snack-masters. And we . . .
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January 02, 2008 11:21 AM EST --
About six weeks ago, On Point host Tom Ashbrook had a little pain in his chest, the kind millions of Americans have felt over the years. It set him off on a big adventure. And six weeks ago today, . . .
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April 13, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
On Point is tasting today the new frontier of beans getting the buzz with George Howell, founder of the George Howell Coffee Company and of The Coffee Connection, which he sold to Starbucks in 1994 . . .
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May 08, 2007 09:18 AM EDT --
In the mid-'90s, when Bill Clinton looked to reform American health care, American business swung in with a vengeance to help kill the initiative. Now, with health care costs threatening to swamp major . . .
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May 31, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
Fifty years ago, marriage and divorce rates in America were roughly equal among all classes and races. Not anymore. Not even close. When headlines this month announced divorce rates were down to their . . .
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February 14, 2008 10:58 AM EST --
Hollywood just can't help itself. Every few years, along comes a movie or a TV show with a psychiatrist prowling through the plot. A killer shrink from Hitchcock, Billy Crystal and DeNiro . . .
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February 13, 2008 10:28 AM EST --
Sometimes it seems there are "campaign issues" in an election year and there are "real issues" - and the real issues don't always get an airing.
Health care is huge on the campaign . . .
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April 23, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy last week, On Point is taking a closer look today at how schools should balance privacy, public safety, and the rights of students and parents.
Here . . .
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July 02, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
Love him or hate him, filmmaker Michael Moore knows how to put a stick in the beehive of American politics and into the eye of the powerful. His films have done it with the war in Iraq, General Motors . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
How thirsty is America for bottled water? Pretty darned thirsty.
Every week of the year we now move a billion bottles of water from ground to gullet in ships and trains and trucks. That's the equivalent . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:42 AM EST --
Migraines are miserable -- hours, even days, of head-pounding pain.
They're real and debilitating. Just ask the millions of Americans - as many as one in ten -- who have been suffering with them . . .
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September 18, 2007 11:03 AM EDT --
Back in the early 1990s, when she was First Lady, Hillary Clinton took a political shellacking when she tried to reform the nation’s health care system. She was trounced by drug companies . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
In the storybook, when little Heidi got sick, she went to the countryside to recover -- sunshine and meadows. That's where health, and the healthy life, were: in the tidy suburbs and the rosy-cheeked, . . .
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September 25, 2007 11:24 AM EDT --
Most Americans alive today were not born yet the last time the United Auto Workers went on strike against GM, back in 1970. And that's not all that's changed.
In 1970, GM was king of auto-making. . . .
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June 16, 2008 10:30 AM EDT --
Cardiologist Thomas Grayboys had it all. He was a big time doctor on the Dream Team that treated NBA star Reggie Lewis. He had status and power, and a reputation as a "patients' doctor" . . .
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July 31, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
Less than a week after leaving rehab, police arrested actress Lindsey Lohan for driving drunk and possessing cocaine. Britney Spears has also made headlines for seeking treatment. Robert Downey, Jr. has . . .
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