Costa Mesa, California became the first U.S. city to pass a resolution calling for an immediate end to dental amalgam, which is 50 percent mercury. It asks federal and state agencies to eliminate amalgam and local dentists to switch to alternatives, but does not itself ban the material.
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Veterans Day
The November 11 federal holiday marks the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I. President Woodrow Wilson declared Armistice Day in 1919, and the name changed in 1954. The Library of Congress's Veterans History Project collects and preserves veterans' remembrances.
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Cigarette Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Adults --- United States, 2009
CDC's analysis of 2009 BRFSS data found self-reported smoking ranged from 6.4% in the U.S. Virgin Islands to 25.6% in Kentucky and West Virginia, and smokeless tobacco use from 0.8% to 9.1% in Wyoming. Smokeless use was highest among men and people aged 18 to 24.
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Quit Smoking: Expanded Coverage in Health Plans
From January 2011, every Federal Employees Health Benefits plan must cover all seven FDA-approved cessation medications plus individual, group and telephone counseling, with no co-pays or deductibles. OPM estimates about 400,000 federal employees, or 18 percent, smoke.
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November is National Diabetes Month
About one in ten American adults has diabetes now, and CDC scientists project that 20 to 33 percent of adults could have it within four decades. The piece lists control steps: manage A1C, blood pressure and cholesterol, get flu and pneumonia shots, and stay active.
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Urgent: Please, Do This NOW to Protect Your Child's Health...
A Mercola-posted appeal urging parents who feel pressured into 69 doses of 16 vaccines, or threatened with job loss over flu shots, to speak out against drug companies and to press elected officials on vaccine safety and informed consent rights.
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Standards: Daylight Saving Time (DST)
Since the Energy Policy Act of 2005, US daylight saving time has run from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 lets states opt out; Arizona and Hawaii do, as do Puerto Rico, Guam and other territories.
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What are the election results in my state?
A directory of the state, District of Columbia and territorial election offices that register voters, staff polling places and administer voting laws, with contact links for each.
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Email from President Barack Obama
A 2010 campaign email from President Obama urging Oregon recipients to return their ballots, vote for John Kitzhaber and Ron Wyden, and get three friends to do the same.
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President Kennedy's adviser Theodore C. Sorensen dies
Theodore C. Sorensen, John F. Kennedy's counselor for 11 years, died at 82 in New York, reportedly from complications of a stroke. An accompanying summary of stroke research ties increased waist-to-hip ratio and periodontal disease to higher stroke risk.
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Hugh Hefner Movie Shows Down Side to Sexual Excess
A review of Brigitte Berman's documentary Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, screened at Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center, where Hefner drew a standing ovation. The film revives figures from Dick Gregory and Lenny Bruce to Miles Davis and Pete Seeger.
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How long did the Great Depression last?
A short history of the Great Depression: it ran from the 1929 crash to about 1939, 9,000 banks failed during the 1930s and depositors had lost $140 billion by 1933, before New Deal programs and wartime growth restored the economy.
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No More "Fat" Looks -- These Winter Fashions Are Slimming
A first-person essay arguing that leggings and yoga pants freed women from tights and pantyhose, which never reached the waist, ran in the feet, cut off circulation and made working out nearly impossible.
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Email from President Barack Obama
A campaign fundraising email from President Obama, asking supporters to give $3 to Organizing for America in the last seven days before the election, with each grassroots donation matched by another donor.
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Study Suggests Pediatricians Should Screen for Postpartum Depression
A study in Pediatrics recommends that pediatricians screen new mothers for postpartum depression. Dr. Marian F. Earls and colleagues say 5% to 25% of pregnant and postpartum women are depressed, with major depression in 1% to 6.8% during the first year.
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New CDC Resources: Safe Teen Driving
CDC reports that fatal crashes involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers fell 36 percent from 2004 to 2008, crediting graduated licensing laws in part, and releases a "Parents Are the Key" campaign and a teen driver safety policy brief.
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FDA: Anti-Osteoporosis Bisphosphonates Linked to Leg Fracture
The FDA warned on October 13 that osteoporosis bisphosphonates including Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva and Reclast may raise the risk of atypical thigh-bone fracture, while saying it remains uncertain whether the drugs cause it. Labels and Medication Guides must now carry the risk.
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Vivitrol Approved to Treat Opiate Addiction
The FDA cleared Vivitrol, an extended-release naltrexone injection already approved for alcoholism, as a treatment for opiate addiction. In trial data, patients on Vivitrol gave clean urine samples 90 percent of the time against 35 percent on placebo; experts urge pairing it with counselling.
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