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Insurers Bringing Plans Into Compliance With New Mental Health Rules
09 February 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports that insurers are bringing their insurance plans in compliance with new rules and laws that make mental health and substance abuse insurance coverage available to millions of Americans...
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Marijuana Ineffective As An Alzheimer's Treatment: UBC-Vancouver Coastal Health Research
09 February 2010
The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer's disease have been challenged in a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute...
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Anthrax Alert For Heroin Users In London
07 February 2010
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) and NHS London have confirmed that a drug injecting heroin user has tested positive for anthrax and is being treated in a London hospital.
This is the first case of anthrax seen in an...
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