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		<title>Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When this blog was originally created, it served as a challenge to a large cohort/class of health policy students at UNC.  It was, in fact, a required assignment, and it was expected that it would continue with similar classes in the future.  Due staff-assignment shuffling and economic realities, Professor Crawford is not teaching this class [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1071&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Video Saved the Radio Star&#8221; by H. Fleming Fuller III</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of telecommunications in healthcare has revolutionized medical treatments, and has helped medicine enter the next generation of patient care and education. This technology was originally implemented to overcome the problems associated with geographical barriers often faced by medical professionals when practicing in remote regions. However, the use of telecommunications has bloomed into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1038&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Spoon Full of Sugar&#8230;Could Be the Medicine Going Down; by H. Fleming Fuller III</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday September 17, 2003, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of placebos for prescription use in the pill and liquid form, in doses ranging from 1 to 40,000 milligrams. Since their inception, placebos such as Obecalp (placebo spelled backwards) and Sucrosa have hit the prescription drug market with a mixed response. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1032&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Access to Healthcare is my RIGHT&#8230;or is it? by H. Fleming Fuller III</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issues, developments, questions and topics of healthcare paint a landscape of a profession with a unique but complicated position in today’s society. And within this portrait, the rugged, labyrinthine question of healthcare as a right, or as a privilege is a mountain. There are very few profession’s in which a question of right or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1035&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina’s Cinderellas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Hardison Agriculture is the economic backbone of North Carolina providing over 59 billion dollars to the economy each year and representing 22% of the state’s income. Eighty-five% of this production is harvested by the hands of migrant workers who individually contribute over 12,000 dollars in profits per year and receive an annual salary of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1040&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Hardison The D.C. Council voted unanimously yesterday to require employers to grant their workers paid sick leave. This seems like reasonable legislation when viewed from a public health perspective, but what has taken so long? Washington D.C. is only the second city in the country to offer paid sick leave to workers. San Francisco [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1043&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dying For Mental Health Care:  Is the Medical Community Responsible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You eat right, exercise daily, drink water, and ensure that you take in all the vitamins and nutrients the FDA recommends. Seems like you’re set to live a pretty healthy, long life right? Not if you’re mentally ill according to a recent article in Time Magazine. The sad truth is that people who have mental [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Structural Violence: the Potential Key to Improving Access to Health Care; By Julie Golding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Identifying Structural Violence: the Potential Key to Improving Access to Health Care; by Julie Golding</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire Fall 2008 semester, our class has been directed to approach health care and policy issues through lateral thinking. It was a much harder task than I expected, but well worth it, because it made me realize how much education is taught linearly (i.e. Variable A affects Variable B which affects Variable C and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1050&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant Health Disparities: Time for Change By Callan Blough</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent rises in immigration have sparked controversial conversations in the healthcare industry. Much of the discussion focuses on healthcare provided to undocumented immigrants, however, there should also be discussion around the healthcare of documented immigrants. In 2005 the foreign born population in the United States was close to 36 million, of these 35% were naturalized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1026&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Signals for Women&#8217;s Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many advantages and benefits of being a woman in America is that we have many resources and avenues to turn to for support in achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. There are mass amounts of information at the fingertips of women to educate themselves on how to better their lives and well-being. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1015&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, What’s Your Name Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shiny suit wearing Puff Daddy transformed into the couture wearing, entrepreneur P. Diddy, Beyonce wants to now be known as Sasha Fierce, and even Garth Brooks took on his pop-rock alter ago Chris Gaines to the top of the musical charts. But underneath the new titles aren’t the packages truly the same or has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1013&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Organ Donor Overhaul: Presumed Consent Safer than a Market Approach?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presumed consent with organ donation is an issue which has the possibility to make positive changes to the current U.S. system. As discussed in a recent BBC article, the United Kingdom is radically pushing to double the pool of donors through the increased recruitment of donor coordinators. It also discusses the possibility of presumed consent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1010&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What opportunities do you REALLY have in America? by Stacy Black</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States of America is a country of freedom, job opportunities, and choice. Immigrants from all over the world settle in USA, the melting pot, to be able to utilize their education and professional skills…yeah right. They think that they will be able to use their degree in medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, etc., but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1007&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Won’t You Join ‘My Circle’? by Tiffany Anderson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone is familiar with Chad, of the ALLTEL Wireless network campaign ‘My Circle’, which believes in an all inclusive wireless plan no matter what network one is a affiliated with or contracted through. It is eerie how this similar thinking is reflected by President-elect Barack Obama’s approach to health insurance; one may even say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Path to Pseudo-Utilitarianism by Justin Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can only hope that I impacted the people of Honduras to the same degree they impacted me. On the Global Medical Brigade, our group set up medical clinics in three different villages with the help of two American physicians, a Honduran physician and pharmacist. I was responsible for an array of tasks: taking blood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=1003&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using general practitioners as a gate keepers: a lesson from Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing gatekeepers has been identified as one of key reform strategies in Ukrainian health care. Currently, there is no distinct division between primary and secondary care in Ukraine, and patients can see specialist without being referred by a district physician. As a result, there is a decrease in quality of medical care and abuse of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=942&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Hope for our Economy: Analyzing our recent economy&#8217;s focus to it&#8217;s health.  By Sid Mathur</title>
		<link>http://informeddessent.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/a-new-hope-for-our-economy-analyzing-our-recent-economys-focus-to-its-health-by-sid-mathur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;It&#8217;s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America&#8230;&#8221; asserted President-elect Barack Obama following his victory in the United States presidential election. What kind of change is President-elect Barack Obama referring to? Well you and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=944&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The American Dream Tips the Scales By Sierra Long</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, my civics and history classes all echoed one idea: America is the land of freedom and opportunity; that bigger was better. Most importantly, anything was possible. Anyone could attain the American Dream, you know, the white picket fence with a house in the suburbs. All we needed to do was a little hard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=999&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Radical, Incentivized Approach to Beating Obesity</title>
		<link>http://informeddessent.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/a-radical-incentivized-approach-to-beating-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past decade has been filled with a plethora of attempts by public health officials, policymakers, educators and physicians to combat childhood obesity. Obesity in children has become an epidemic, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that over 15% of children ages 6-19 are obese. Of great concern is the link of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=939&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equal Insurance for Equal Issues by Meredith Trudgeon</title>
		<link>http://informeddessent.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/equal-insurance-for-equal-issues-by-meredith-trudgeon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nellie Bly was an American journalist well known for exposing the inhumane and inequitable care given to patients in mental institutions. She managed to convince both doctors and administrators of Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York that she was mentally ill and then proceeded to spend ten days in a prison masquerading as an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=937&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would a managed care approach repair India’s ailing healthcare system?  By Sheriff Muse-Ariyoh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulating Health Care Markets In China And India Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal and David H. Peters With its objective to maximize profits and exposure to various input market distortions, India’s private sector generally fails to address cost minimizing concerns. The existing payment system which majority is out of pocket increases fixed incentives. Most private providers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=933&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare: Breaking the Berenstain Bears’ Rules by Michael Cowherd</title>
		<link>http://informeddessent.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/medicare-breaking-the-berenstain-bears%e2%80%99-rules-by-michael-cowherd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my fondest childhood memories is my mother reading to me before I fell asleep every night. In retrospect, I’m not sure what part about these memories I appreciate more: the comfort I gained from hearing my mother’s voice or the lessons I learned from the books she read. Our preference was almost exclusive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=931&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Physician Assisted Suicide. What’s Legal and What’s not? By Chris Burton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost in the hubbub of this year’s presidential election was a largely ignored ballot initiative in an even less-discussed state. On November 4th, Washington became only the second state in the US to allow physician-assisted suicide along with Oregon. These two states allow mentally competent adults with terminal illness obtain a prescription from their physicians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=929&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When you&#8217;re a hammer, everything looks like a nail by Charlie Henson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the state of healthcare today, average consumers are faced with healthcare costs increasing at a faster rate than their incomes, an issue amplified by the fact that 46 million people possess no healthcare insurance coverage. A possible reason for the overwhelming increase in costs has been expressed as, “when you’re a hammer, everything looks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=927&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GoToMeeting: a sign of things to come for healthcare by Christian Mibelli</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The business world has recently faced a transition that will transform the idea of business meetings, sales demonstrations, training, and seminars. The motto of “Do More. Travel Less.” has spread across the industry, encouraging reduced costs through the use of new communication technology. This trend shows a sign of trends to come throughout similar industries, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=925&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOOGLE IT: Following Search Engine Trends to Prevent Disease and Save Lives by Janie Moore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Flu Trends1 It seems that Google always has something new up its sleeve&#8211; the kind of idea which seems reasonable once it’s already created, but takes a team of internet experts to become a reality. This time, Google Flu Trends has been added to Google’s evermore successful résumé. An “…early warning system for fast-spreading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=919&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerald City by Jane Richards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1978, the 1975 Broadway Musical “The Wiz” was adapted to film. The film, based on L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” stared musical and acting talents such as Diana Ross as Dorothy, Lena Horne as Glinda the good witch, Michael Jackson as Scarecrow, Nipsey Russell as Tin Man, and Richard Pryor as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=915&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Actions Speak Louder than Words, Then the US is Yelling that Health Care is a Human Right!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is health care a human right? Once the nation answers this question definitively, we can go on to define the mission of our health care system and set forth goals that will allow the nation to achieve such mission. But, this question has yet to be answered. It would be most reasonable to approach the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=912&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stand up and get out of the pool already! &#8211; By Julie Golding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of sex education in the United States public school system reminds me of a summer job I held a couple of years ago in a water park, Boomerang Bay. Boomerang Bay was home to several water attractions, but Sydney Sidewinder was probably one of the most amusing and obnoxious to lifeguards. Guests ride [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=909&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare and Flesh Eating Bacteria  By: Jackie Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you go to see your doctor for a very bothersome rash on your arm that will not go away. After careful inspection your doctor informs you that you have a flesh eating bacteria and need immediate medical attention. You tell the doctor that you ate peanuts yesterday and that you are highly allergic. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=905&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Price Gouging: Are Hospitals Really to Blame? by Nick James</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical price gouging is a serious issue which is affecting the lives of a unique population in the U.S. economy. Hard working Americans making between $30,000-$55,000 become victimized by a federal policy, which often results in bankruptcy and consequential spend-down for these individuals. The common cases are independent workers who have lost insurance due to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=903&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Price Gouging: Injustice for the Indigent By Daniel McMillan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Well, that’s because life just isn’t fair!” Did anyone else hear that phrase way too frequently growing up as a child? It seemed that, back then, every new thing that I tried to do was impeded by this underlying injustice with which my parents seemed to characterize life – at least, that is, when I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=901&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google, Influenza, and the Lying Weatherman:  Searching for a Connection by Jennifer Richmond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google can tell us where to find the cheapest gas in town, how to write a resume, the proper dinner etiquette and almost any other thing you might want to know. Similar websites can help the government track terror and other threats when individuals search methods to make bombs and other dangerous devices. Now google [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=892&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Be Ethical, Or Not To Be Ethical by Farah Siddiqui</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen year old James Posking is terminally ill with a rare heart condition that makes it hard for him to breath. Recently, James’ illness became so severe that he needs a ventilator in order to breathe properly, and now, in order to survive. His father, after his mother passed away, is his legal guardian and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=informeddessent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614960&amp;post=891&amp;subd=informeddessent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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