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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: Alzheimer's Progress Is Cruel and One-Way]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alzheimer's is a gradually progressive disease that eventually leads to
relentless declines in memory, with loss of virtually every aspect of
intellectual function. Early on, the disease is nothing more than a
minor disability.

Short-term memory ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1149013</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/24/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: Outcome-Based Payments Have Cost-Saving Potential]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A New York Times article also published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
discussed a slowdown in the growth of health spending. Before 2009,
health care spending invariably rose at 3 or 4 times the rate of
inflation. But in 2009 and 2010, costs ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1145136</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/17/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: PSAs Ill-Advised in Men of Warren Buffett's Age]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett's recent disclosure that he has been diagnosed with stage
1 prostate cancer made front-page news in virtually every newspaper and
business website in the nation.

The billionaire investor is 81, and questions have long been raised
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1141943</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/10/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: Dental Care Essential to Maintaining Health]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[At every age, a trip to the dentist is important. Having all your teeth
pulled and wearing dentures and plates is no fun and most importantly,
readily preventable.

Thanks to improved dental care, fluoride in water, and more healthful
lifestyles, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1138595</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/03/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: Doctor Groups Diagnose When Tests Are Overdone]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaders in the field of medicine are embracing the fact that we do far
too many unnecessary tests and procedures that could account for a third
to a half of our $3.2 trillion annual health care spending.

In the past few weeks, nine major medical ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1134993</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/26/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: Personalized Responsibility Has Role in Cancer Fight]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The news about cancer continues to be good. A report by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention says that death rates decreased by 1.6
percent annually from 2004 to 2008 for lung, colorectal and prostate
cancer. Death rates from breast ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1131539</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/19/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: Marriage in U.S. Is Occurring Later]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that
more and more couples are choosing to live together before getting
married. From 1982 to 2010, the number of women below age 45 who lived
with a domestic partner out of wedlock...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1128318</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/12/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Primary Care Physicians Must Know Cancer Details]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there are more
than 12 million cancer survivors, and that number will likely double in
the next few decades as the population ages.

In 2005, the Institute of Medicine published a report ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1125225</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/05/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: Side Effects of Statins Can Outweigh Efficacy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must start with a warning. If you are taking a medication for whatever
reason and learn it has a possible side effect, do not stop taking the
drug without informing your doctor.

Many people have stopped taking osteoporosis and diabetic drugs ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1118959</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/29/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lifelong Health: Eye-Opening Study Lists Perils of Sleeping Pills]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insomnia is one of the most common symptoms affecting us. Almost daily,
my patients complain they cannot sleep, and the request is invariably
the same -- "Please, doctor, I must have a sleeping pill." And most of
us take the path of least ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/lifelonghealth/s-1115508</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/22/2012</pubDate>
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