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Although the words beta-carotene may sound more like something you would find on a computer instead of in your body, you will want to make sure it is a good portion of your diet. Since beta-carotene is a source of vitamin A, you may think you are eating enough through a healthy intake of meat and eggs, but food sources rich in beta-carotene transform into not one, but two vitamin A molecules in your system essentially doubling their power.

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People without health insurance will have another avenue for medical care beginning Aug. 1 when student volunteers at the Indiana University School of Medicine open the IU Student Outreach Clinic in a near eastside Indianapolis neighborhood.
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China Daily explores how a new anti-smoking initiative in China targets the country's medical professionals. According to the newspaper, "China is the world's largest tobacco producer and consumer," with "350 million smokers, plus 450 million people exposed to second-hand smoke." Annually, 1 million deaths are smoking-related, according to China's Ministry of Health.
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AP - Americans spend more than a 10th of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such spending in more than a decade.

LiveScience.com - Last month, researchers found that schizophrenics were more likely to have been subjected to influenza in the womb than healthy individuals. Other common experiences can also drive away our wits, long after we are out of diapers.
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Women who are pregnant, children 6 months and older and health-care workers should all get top priority when the H1N1 swine flu vaccine arrives this fall, a U.S. government advisory panel recommended late Wednesday.
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Alcohol addiction or alcoholism as it is more commonly referred to, is no longer a rare phenomenon. When people find themselves in distress, some of them usually resort to alcohol or even drugs that, in extreme cases, they find very hard to let go of. ...
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