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Insurers face increased scrutiny for canceling policies
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May. 5th —
When Karen Knee filled out an online application for health insurance four years ago, she scanned her address book and her memory. She wrote down the names and numbers of her doctors and listed her recent health history - anti-depressants after a death in the family, a normal Pap smear and a bladder infection. She never thought to mention that her back sometimes felt sore after playing soccer or that she'd once taken pain pills after a muscle spasm.
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The fiber challenge
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Apr. 24th —
Based on average calorie intake, women 51 and older should eat about 21 grams of fiber per day and men 51 and older about 30 grams of fiber daily, according to the Institute of Medicine.
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How to plan for a happier ending
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Apr. 21st —
Marilyn Morenz teaches seminars on making medical decisions at the end of life and how to fill out living wills. Still, last February when her 80-year-old mother became seriously ill with advanced breast cancer, Morenz was surprised by how difficult it was to decide to stop life-prolonging blood transfusions that were no longer working.
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'Our Bodies, Ourselves' continues to educate women
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Apr. 10th —
Things were happening to her body that Dorothy Robinson couldn't quite understand. She works out regularly and strives to eat right, yet it was more difficult to keep her weight under control.
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Pillows: the inside story
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Apr. 7th —
I love my pillows — the bigger and puffier the better. I've always thought of them as the ultimate allies, cradles of comfort outside the womb, the means to melt into peaceful slumber. And I've been so wrong.
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