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86Geisinger Health System - Why Obama Named it in His Healthcare Reform Speech
Geisinger was founded in 1915 by Abigail Geisinger, widow of George Geisinger. She used her sizable fortune to build a hospital intended to be a regional medical center modeled on the Mayo Clinic. As such...
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85What are things you can do to improve your IQ?
An Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test is an examination of short-term memory, verbal knowledge, spatial visualization, and perceptual speed. Most IQ tests include these four areas of testing and are time...
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85What are the benefits of Eating Bananas?
The riper a banana the better it is for you. In fact sugar content in a banana is at its peak when the skin has turned completely black. This is the point at which all the starches in a banana have been...
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70Kitchen Ingredient Substitutions
This happens to everyone who has ever stepped foot into the kitchen to make something. A key ingredient is missing. Perhaps more importantly, you'd rather not use the butter, oil, or fat a recipe calls for....
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74Kitchen Cookware Substitutions
It happens more often than we like. We are in the middle of a simple or complex recipe and it calls for some special aparatus to finish the cooking process. Melted chocolate: You need a double boiler. ...
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75Acne! Natural and technological treatments for Acne
Acne (acne vulgaris) is a skin infection typically caused by a bacterial attack on a clogged pore. Pores become clogged when the oil produced in them solidifies or is combined with dead skin-cells, dust,...
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88Problems with the Health Care Reform Bill(s)
The House version of the Bill passed on Saturday, November 7, 2009. It is currently moving through the Senate. Just last week the Senate passed a resolution to open the bill to debate. The biggest issues so...
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69Does a Thai Vaccine Prevent AIDS?
Please read the update at the end of this hub. There have been recent developments in this study which may invalidate it. Thailand's Ministry of Public Health and the U.S. Army have finished conducting a six...
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77Pregnancy, Swine Flu, Prevention & Treatment
In the Past During the 1918~1919 Spanish Flu pandemic, men who were exposed to flu in the womb were twenty three (23%) percent more likely, than the rest of the population, to develop heart disease after the...
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73Don't Get Sick and Go to ICU
ICU is short for Intensive Care Unit and you don't want to be in there. You already know you don't want to be in there because being in ICU means you are seriously ill. But there's an additional reason as...
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