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		<title>10 Ways to Save Money on Health Costs During the Recession</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/23/10-ways-to-lower-health-costs-in-the-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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Whatever the prospects for health-care reform, the sick economy is going to put lots of pressure on Americans. Unemployment will be up, the number of uninsured will rise, companies will surely cut health benefits to employees, and all this stress will be, well, unhealthy.
Although there is some evidence that recessions can actually improve certain health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4363&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Cigarettes Should Cost $10 a Pack</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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As the U.S. government throws tax money on the banking bonfire, you have to wonder how many billion-dollar notes are left in the Washington ATM machine for health-care reform. If an income-tax hike isn&#8217;t in the cards for 95% of Americans, there will surely be a revenue hunt elsewhere.
The last time a president was looking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4121&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Be Just a Little Bit Paranoid About Google&#8217;s Flu Detector?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/12/should-we-be-just-a-little-bit-paranoid-about-googles-flu-detector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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Google, the all-seeing, all-knowing Internet search engine, made front- and home-page news when it proposed that its philanthropic Flu Trends tool might help with the early spotting of epidemics.
The idea is simple and obvious: Search-term patterns reveal what&#8217;s going on among searchers. If a lot of people in Des Moines Google flu symptoms, we may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4001&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wacky Health and Medical Stuff on eBay</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/22/wacky-health-and-medical-stuff-on-ebay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the economy staggers like Mr. Magoo in a bar brawl, it gets harder to stay healthy by conventional but costly means, such as visiting your doctor or joining a gym.
Is it time to bid on a little do-it-yourself medicine, perhaps? EBay lists more than 37,000 products under the category of “medical equipment&#8221; and another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3454&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could Anger at the System Bring You and Your Doc Together Online?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/22/could-anger-at-the-system-bring-you-and-your-doc-together-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patients and health-care providers are all over the Internet: Patients talk to each other and organize into disease-specific networks, while HMOs build websites that allow members to check billing, look up doctors, and sometimes upload medical test results and other data.
According to Web observer Clay Shirky, however, there’s a huge divide between patients and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3471&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Response to Our Blog, Anti-Aging Company Explains Dubious Website</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/14/anti-aging-company-explains-dubious-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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On September 29 I wrote about a slippery, hard-sell website called caracol-cream.com. The site sells an anti-aging cream (made of snail extract), and I detailed its connections to a dubious entity called the American Anti-Aging Association, which happened to really, really recommend Caracol&#8217;s product. Now the company has responded with an email—basically &#8216;fessing up—and remade its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3183&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Does Colorado Kick Alabama&#8217;s Fat Butt?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/09/why-does-colorado-kick-alabamas-fat-butt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama resident and Health.com diabetes blogger Sean Kelley has worked hard to put his home state&#8217;s obesity rank (No. 2 in the country, waddling just behind Mississippi) in context. Don&#8217;t snicker at the deep-fried South, Sean warns: &#8220;The South may have the three states that have obesity rates of more than 30%, but the rest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3069&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Get Slimed: The Slippery Web Promotion of an Anti-Aging &#8220;Breakthrough&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/29/dont-get-slimed-the-slippery-web-promotion-of-an-anti-aging-breakthrough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weird case of Caracol Cream offers a glimpse into the sometimes slimy but lucrative world of anti-aging product hype, in which an $80 cream is promoted vigorously by an allegedly scam-busting association that probably doesn&#8217;t exist based on tests in a laboratory that also probably doesn&#8217;t exist.
Who knew that the goo from Helix aspersa, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=2673&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering Chronic Pain? Sorry, Much of the Burden to Get Better Falls to You</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/05/suffering-chronic-pain-sorry%e2%80%94much-of-the-burden-to-get-better-falls-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sit through session after session at PainWeek, an annual medical conference held this year in Las Vegas, the message I hear is that much of the responsibility for effective chronic pain treatment rests on the patient’s shoulders. Whether pain comes from a bad back, migraines, arthritis, fibromyalgia, or—in one case cited by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1825&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Smoking Around Kids Be Illegal?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/25/should-smoking-around-kids-be-illegal/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/25/should-smoking-around-kids-be-illegal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, a few years after the surgeon general released the original report linking smoking to vast health risks, my Dad—a doctor!—still smoked a pipe and the occasional cigar. I remember him lighting a stogie during a long drive in the family VW. I remember throwing up. It was an effective counterattack. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1531&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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