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		<title>Health Magazine Needs New York-Area Women for Jeans Makeover</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Betsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health magazine beauty and fashion team is looking for six or seven women (in the NYC area) who would like to appear in the September issue modeling some new fall jeans.
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		<title>Why Facebook Is Good for Your Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa Tamkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom’s on Facebook. In fact, she was on Facebook before I was and now she&#8217;s on the social networking site pretty much every day.
Go ahead and laugh—everyone else does. You see, my mom is a white-haired, apple-pie-making lady in her mid-70s whom several dozen people call “Aunt Bea.”
But will all due respect to Opie, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=5238&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web Making You Sick? Help for &#8220;Cyberchondriacs&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
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Ever googled a minor symptom only to come away convinced you had a serious disease?
You&#8217;re not alone. In a Microsoft Research study released this month, a quarter of respondents said they use the Internet as they would a medical expert, and more than 90% of those surveyed said medical Web searches had, at least once, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4896&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thou Shalt Get Busy? Religious Leaders Ask Congregants to Have More Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Chew</dc:creator>
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When Fellowship Church Rev. Ed Young last month called for members of his evangelical mega-church to have seven days of sex, he said it was to foster intimacy and faithfulness. But I wondered what else the quirky young pastor might turn up—on purpose or not—with his new headline-grabbing campaign.
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		<title>CDC Scientists ID New Killer Germ, but What Should They Call It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa Tamkins</dc:creator>
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I just returned from the sprawling campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. This huge federal agency is on the front line of fighting just about every kind of health threat, from biological weapons to dengue fever to obesity—both in the United States and abroad. (They have 14,000 employees in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4880&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Routine HIV Testing Could Be Coming to Your Doctor&#8217;s Office</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/30/routine-hiv-testing-could-be-coming-to-your-doctors-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Chew</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s difficult to keep a virus from spreading when you don&#8217;t know who has it. One of the main reasons HIV continues to be a problem, even in a developed country like the United States, is that 1 in every 4 HIV–positive Americans goes about life without having any idea he&#8217;s infected.
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		<title>What Are You Doing on World AIDS Day?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Chew</dc:creator>
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Monday is the 20th annual World AIDS Day, created in 1988 by the World Health Organization and U.N. General Assembly to recall those killed by the disease and to improve research, awareness, and treatment around the world. Thirty-three million people live with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
To find out how you can participate, check [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4615&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surgery Abroad? New Insurance Policy May Protect You</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa Tamkins</dc:creator>
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Heading to Brazil for a face-lift or India for a hip replacement? You&#8217;re not alone. About 750,000 medical tourists embarked from the United States in 2007 because they needed (or wanted) pricey surgery, infertility treatments, or dental work, which can cost 90% less in other countries.
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		<title>Happier Holiday Travel: 8 Ways to Minimize Jet Lag in Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
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Recently, I took my 1-year-old daughter to San Francisco to visit old friends. It was her first time crossing multiple time zones, and I worried that the change would have us all up at 4 a.m. reading Baby&#8217;s Day 14 times in a row. So I asked my online parents&#8217; group how to prepare.
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		<title>10 Ways to Save Money on Health Costs During the Recession</title>
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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.
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