health
Redwood forest suffers for Game of Thrones-style wedding
June 7, 2013Napster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker decided to have a $2.5 million Game of Thrones-inspired wedding right in the middle of a California redwood forest, putting the ecosystem there at risk, as well as several threatened...
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Cancer patients more likely to go bankrupt
June 4, 2013Cancer patients are twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as people without cancer, a study in Washington State has found.
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Audio: Demanding food safety, Houston protests GMOs
June 4, 2013Houstonians join food safety advocates around the world to demonstrate against a biotech giant they say may be poisoning us all.
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Judge OKs Patriot Coal plan to renege on miners’ pensions
June 3, 2013A federal bankruptcy judge in St. Louis has left Patriot Coal's retirees - whom it inherited from Peabody Energy and Arch Coal - high and dry, and said Patriot could dump its union contracts, too.
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President Obama hosts event aimed at reducing mental health stigma
June 3, 2013President Barack Obama called for a more robust national discussion on mental illness, saying the time had come to bring the issue "out of the shadows."
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