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Another Heart Attack Waiting To Happen: Texas Healthcare Deals With Questionable Drugs

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

As if there were not enough things to show us chest pain, new studies show that Nexium and Prilosec, from pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca, the risk of fatal heart attacks increase after years of use. The heartburn medication follow closely in the wake of the controversy over Vioxx, a painkiller also believed to raise the likelihood [...]

Texas Health Insurance Can Aide Health Problems Related To Obesity

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

The problem of obesity in the United States has reached a point where it has received national attention, has grown. In 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General to prevent a call to action, and a reduction of overweight and obesity. A year later, Congress mandated that the Institute of Medicine, an action plan in order to [...]

Texas Workers Find Getting Health Insurance A Problem

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Many people in Texas, but especially in the larger cities of Austin, Dallas and Houston, it will find a challenge to recently published impossible in need of affordable health insurance they and their families. As a whole state, Texas has the highest proportion of people without health insurance, just over 25% (compared to a national average [...]

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