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		<title>H5N1 Paper Published: Deadly, Transmissible Bird Flu Could Be Closer than Thought</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/03/h5n1-paper-published-deadly-transmissible-bird-flu-could-be-closer-than-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might not have noticed, but the influenza world has been in a bit of an uproar since late last year, when news leaked out that two teams of researchers had purposefully tweaked H5N1 bird flu in the lab to potentially make it more transmissible among human beings. (H5N1 spreads like wildfire among birds — [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=58731&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug-Resistant Malaria Is Spreading, and It Could Be a Public Health Disaster</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/06/drug-resistant-malaria-is-spreading-and-it-could-be-a-public-health-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infectious Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artemisinin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug resistance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malaria remains one of the world&#8217;s great unnecessary killers. More than 650,000 people succumb to the disease each year — that&#8217;s more than one per minute — mostly in the poor nations of sub-Saharan Africa, but as deadly as malaria is, it doesn&#8217;t have to kill. Prevention and better treatment can stop the progression of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=56892&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Food: Illnesses from Imported Food Are on the Rise, CDC Says</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/15/bad-food-illnesses-from-imported-food-are-on-the-rise-cdc-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a good chance that at least part of your lunch came from another country. According to the Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Economic Research Service, food imports to the U.S. grew to $86 billion in 2010 from $41 billion in 1999. Most of that came in fruits and vegetables — think of all the produce that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=55428&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soda Wars: Can the Color in Your Cola Give You Cancer?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/06/soda-wars-can-the-color-in-your-cola-give-your-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If some public-health advocates have their way, sodas could become the cigarettes of food. Doctors already dislike the sugary drinks for their teeth-dissolving properties and for the role they may play in childhood obesity. There&#8217;s a constant struggle to get soda vending machines out of public schools, with administrators often forced to choose between losing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=54609&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bird Flu: More Common, Less Deadly than We Thought?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/24/bird-flu-more-common-less-deadly-than-we-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avian flu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one thing we thought we knew about the avian influenza virus H5N1: it is extremely deadly. Since the virus first emerged widely in human beings in 2003, there have been 587 cases confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Of them, 346 resulted in death. That&#8217;s a fatality rate of 59%, far above the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=54013&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>AFP / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[H5N1 avian influenza spreads easily among chickens and other birds.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Study: BPA May Be Linked with Heart Disease</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/24/study-bpa-may-be-linked-with-heart-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bisphenol-A]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest obstacles to confirming the impact of bisphenol-A (BPA) on human health is that the chemical is so ubiquitous in the environment — it is commonly used in plastics, dental fillings and sealants and in food and beverage can linings, among other places — that it is difficult to separate BPA&#8217;s influence from that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=53933&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, Baby: There May Be Arsenic in Your Formula</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/16/oh-baby-why-there-may-be-arsenic-in-your-infant-formula/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No surprise here: arsenic is not good for you. In high doses, of course, it&#8217;s a deadly poison, but even at lower levels, exposure to arsenic can raise the risks of cancer and heart disease. It&#8217;s especially dangerous for young children in whom chronic arsenic exposure has been linked to lower IQ and poor intellectual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=53578&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Introverts and Extroverts of Our Time</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/27/the-great-introverts-and-extroverts-of-our-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
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		<title>How a New Swine Flu Virus Could Complicate Influenza Season</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/30/how-a-new-swine-flu-virus-could-complicate-influenza-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received my annual flu shot back in October, and I have to say, I felt pretty good about myself. Though doctors constantly tell us to get vaccinated, most Americans don&#8217;t bother — a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in November indicated that just 36% of all Americans age 6 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=50458&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Patrick Wilken / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[The new H3N2v flu strain began in pigs before spreading to a handful of human beings. Could this virus spark the next flu pandemic?]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Should Journals Describe How Scientists Made a Killer Flu?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/21/bioterror-should-scientists-describe-how-to-make-a-man-made-killer-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[H5N1 avian flu rarely infects humans, but it is deadly when it does. Since the virus first emerged in humans in Hong Kong in 1997, nearly 600 people have been infected worldwide and almost 60% have died. The virus isn&#8217;t very transmissible, but scientists have long worried that it might mutate, perhaps through reassortment with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=49840&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arsenic and Old Rice: Should We Worry About a Toxic Chemical in a Popular Food?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/05/arsenic-and-old-rice-should-we-worry-about-a-toxic-chemical-in-a-popular-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arsenic is nasty stuff. Concentrated doses of the chemical can be fatal — one reason it&#8217;s long been a popular poison for assassins and unhappy widows. And chronic high exposure has been linked to skin lesions, certain cancers and cardiovascular disease. But scientists are increasingly concerned about even low-dose exposures [PDF], especially for pregnant women, finding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=48396&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Wi-Fi-Enabled Laptops Really Frying Your Sperm?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/30/are-wi-fi-enabled-laptops-really-frying-your-sperm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reproductive Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fertility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infertility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laptops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reproductive health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the whole, I&#8217;m assuming that studies in the academic journal Fertility and Sterility — which include chart-toppers like &#8220;Are varicoceles associated with increased deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation?&#8221; — don&#8217;t receive a whole lot of media attention. But a recent article that raised the question of whether WiFi-enabled laptops might be frying men&#8217;s sperm proved to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=48059&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>He's totally getting fried. Credit: Photographer's Choice / Getty Images</mediaCredit>
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		<title>Is Disease Occupying Wall Street?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/14/is-disease-occupying-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy wall street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugee camp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Refugee camps, not surprisingly, are rather unhealthy places to be. For one thing, there are the effects of the natural disaster that usually drive refugees to a temporary settlement. There&#8217;s also the threat of hunger and thirst — as we now see among Somali refugees who fleeing a devastating famine in their home country. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=47006&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Air Fresheners Can Trigger Respiratory Problems</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/08/why-air-fresheners-can-trigger-respiratory-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[air pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asthma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They may smell sweet, but popular air fresheners can cause serious lung problems. That&#8217;s the message from a new study presented over the weekend at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). Home fragrance products often contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that include such nasty chemicals as formalehyde, petroleum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=46571&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Latest Study on Cell Phones and Brain Cancer Won&#8217;t Be the Last Word</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/21/why-the-latest-study-on-cell-phone-use-and-brain-cancer-wont-be-the-last-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epidemiology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proving a negative in science is really, really hard — and that may well be the task that researchers trying to evaluate the potentially carcinogenic effects of cell phone use may have before them. PHOTOS: See a Photographic History of Cell Phones To wit: in a new study published in the BMJ, European researchers — [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=45449&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Knows What You&#8217;re Feeling</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/30/twitter-knows-what-youre-feeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us use Twitter to a) self-promote, b) find out what Kim Kardashian is up to, or c) freak out over the news. But for social scientists, a 24/7 global stream of constantly updated status messages is a rich vein for research — as Michael Macy and Scott Golder of Cornell University learned when they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=43894&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Shows the Killer 1918 Flu Began Even Earlier Than Thought</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/21/study-shows-the-killer-1918-flu-began-even-earlier-than-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infectious Disease]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1918 flu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contagion was high on the box office list again last weekend, proof that millions of Americans are entertained by scenes of infection, suffering, sniffles and autopsies of Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s brain. The movie can sometimes veer a little over the top — in it, global society essentially melts down — but the risk of a dangerous new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=43206&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Our Public Health System Isn&#8217;t Ready for Another 9/11</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/09/why-our-public-health-system-isnt-ready-for-another-911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy & Industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[911]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we look back over the decade since 9/11, perhaps the most pressing question is this: are we ready for another one? When it comes to national security, we&#8217;ve certainly spent a lot — by some estimates, more than $1 trillion since Sept. 11, 2001. We&#8217;ve added a whole new Cabinet-level office, the Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=42420&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Rescue workers at Ground Zero after 9/11  Credit: Lynn Johnson / National Geographic</mediaCredit>
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		<title>Can a Tiny Electronic Tattoo Measure Your Vital Signs?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/15/can-a-tiny-electronic-tattoo-to-measure-your-vital-signs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Information is the currency of modern medicine. Better diagnostic tools — think everything from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines to rapid genetic sequencing for new pathogens — enable better medical care. One problem, however, is that many medical diagnostics are bulky and expensive, limiting where they can be used. (Just try taking an MRI machine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=40732&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pregnant Women in California Have High Levels of Toxic Chemicals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unintended consequences are a pain. California has long had some of the strictest flammability regulations in the country for furniture and other household items. As a result, in the 1970s flame retardant chemicals called polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were added to consumer products, including electronics and foam in furniture. No doubt those PBDEs, which slow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=40545&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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