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    <title>Health Show: The Chart</title>
    <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/</link>
    <description>The Chart, a production of The Health Show, is a collection of links to interesting health-related news, stories and reports</description>
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    <webMaster>greg@wamc.org</webMaster>
    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:29:28 -0500</pubDate>

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      <title>Don&apos;t call it the war room</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001902</link>
      <description>The WHO is preparing its response team for the possibility of an influenza pandemic, even as the experts involved acknowledge...</description>
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      <title>Go drugs!</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001901</link>
      <description>The fact that drug reps tend to be good-looking and enthusiastic has been noted in the health biz for some...</description>
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      <title>Medicare drug benefit sign-ups start</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001892</link>
      <description>And it still doesn&apos;t seem to be any easier to understand. [WP]...</description>
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      <title>There just might be something about this exercise stuff</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001891</link>
      <description>All sorts of research has indicated that exercise can help stave a range of health problems. And now a study...</description>
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      <title>Research supports mammograms</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001881</link>
      <description>There had been some doubt as to whether mammograms reduced death rates for breast cancer, but a study published in...</description>
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      <title>Understanding the flu</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001880</link>
      <description>Three physicians break down the health risks related to a typical influenza season and the effectiveness of the vaccine. Their...</description>
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      <title>McDonald&apos;s pushes nutrition info... a little</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001879</link>
      <description>The burger chain announced it will be adding nutritional info to its packaging, including little pictograms indicating what percentage of...</description>
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      <title>Nobel Prize for Medicine winners announced</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001862</link>
      <description>This year&apos;s prize goes to two Australians who were involved in figuing out that H. pylori causes stomach ulcers. [AP]...</description>
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      <title>Speaking of food and cancer</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001861</link>
      <description>A link to this article was posted on the front page of MSN today. Here&apos;s the thing about that......</description>
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      <title>Not so fast</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001860</link>
      <description>There have been a lot of theories regarding food and cancer. Unfortunately, many of them don&apos;t seem to be panning...</description>
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      <title>Post-Katrina public health challenges abound</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001838</link>
      <description>You name it -- medicine shortages, infectious diseases, accidents -- it&apos;s a problem right now throughout the affected area. [NYT]...</description>
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      <title>Healthy school lunches are possible</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001837</link>
      <description>Just ask the folks in Opelika, Alabama. They made a commitment to serve healthier lunches ten years ago. The first...</description>
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      <title>Grass roots health coverage</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001836</link>
      <description>Fewer than 10 percent of people in Africa have health insurance. Many governments there have been slow to extend what...</description>
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      <title>If bird flu strikes, who&apos;s in charge?</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001835</link>
      <description>If you said public health officials, you&apos;d be wrong. It&apos;s the Department of Homeland Security, according to the DHS secretary....</description>
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      <title>Another instrument disinfection mishap</title>
      <link>http://healthshow.org/chart/#001834</link>
      <description>This time it was in Virginia, and it involved an endoscope. No surprise, as The Health Show found out early...</description>
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