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If you answered no to any of these questions, or wondered why he or she should know about your private affairs, you could be playing with

fire and restricting your physician's ability to make a diagnosis.

Dr. Bernard Kaminetsky, the Medical Director of MDVIP, Inc., a national network of affiliated primary care physicians, says: "Your primary care doctor must know everything about y...

PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) - A health center in Plainfield has installed a vending machine that dispenses prescription drugs.

The seven-foot tall "automated dispensing unit" at the Health Center holds 122 prescription medicines, and is used by a pharmacy technician, not patients.

Instead of quarters, it takes a bar-coded paper to get the medicines, which are drugs that treat acute conditi...

By PEGGY SCHMIDT, Daze of Our Lives There's a book in my kitchen filled with almost 400 pages of helpful suggestions for ways to solve housekeeping problems. It was gleaned from a book store's "bargain books" shelf at a very small price and gave me hope that there would be no dirt dilemmas that I couldn't resolve once it was in my possession.

In fact, the book does offer a hos...

Dear Heloise: We had something scary happen yesterday. The dogs were outside, and I heard 1-year-old Daisy yelping. Her bottom jaw was caught under the collar of Ginger. The collar was twisted, and both dogs were stuck.

My husband managed to get the collar off. Daisy had a little bleeding of her lip but was otherwise OK. So was Ginger.

This happened because Ginger's collar was too ...

Sitting in a recliner at his Saginaw Township home, Klomp looks older than his 62 years. In part, that's because the Delphi Energy & Chassis Saginaw Operations salaried retiree:

• Learned to walk again -- defying doctor's expectations -- after a 500-pound steel box fell off a plant conveyor belt and landed on him, severely injuring his back.

• Underwent a second major ba...

Look, if you really want to stop the guy getting out you can either try mounting a case that he's not going to be rehabilitated…

OR you can mount a campaign of sworn vigilante activism against him, thus rendering it impossible for him to ever be released back into society for his own safety. I'm pretty sure that kept Mark David Chapman (the guy that shot John) in prison a bunch lo...

Last Modified: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 4:11 a.m.

They borrow leftover prescription drugs from friends, attempt to self-diagnose ailments online, stretch their diabetes and asthma medicines for as long as possible and set their own broken bones. When emergencies strike, they rarely can afford the bills that follow.

Click to enlarge Alanna Boyd, 28, received bills totaling $1...

On its last couple of albums, Delirious has become increasingly vocal about poverty and disease around the world.

One of the British band's most recent worship anthems, Our God Reigns, pricked listeners' and singers' consciences with the idea that the cost of an order of Chinese take-out food could cover the cost of medicine for an impoverished victim of AIDS.

"I remember going t...

On Berkeley's Holy Hill, a seminarian at the Pacific School of Religion inquires about steroids to control her weight. Despite stomach bypass surgery, she's up to 310 pounds, she says.

Blue whale carcass found off California coast 02.14.09 NTSB: Plane didn't dive, but landed flat on house 02.14.09 Obama to sign $787 billion stimulus bill Tuesday 02.14.09 Shootings in San Francisco in...

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