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 <title>Ruby Room, The Chicago Salon and Spa</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;Our mission is to positively affect the energy and spirit of those we touch by providing &amp;amp; recommending quality services and products that promote healing &amp;amp; beauty from the inside out.&lt;/p&gt;
 RubyRoom.com  
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 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:13:33 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Twice as Deadly: Chicago’s Race Gap in Breast Cancer Survival—A Special Program</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&quot;Several years ago, doctors and scientists faced a troubling fact: although black women in Chicago are less likely to get breast cancer than white women, they are much more likely to die from it.&lt;/p&gt;
 chicagopublicradio.org  
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 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:36:10 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;Besides taking many pills, the boy was injected with vitamin B12 and received intravenous infusions of a drug used to leach mercury and other metals from the body.&lt;/p&gt;
 chicagotribune.com  
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 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:22:34 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Natural Health And Beauty Tips</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;we will be provided information about health, beauty tips, slimming, general weakness, reshaping body, hair problem, skin problem, gynecological problem, ulcers, stomatitis, pregnancy affections with &lt;/p&gt;
 healthnbeautytips01.blogspot.com  
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 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:50:07 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Public Health Officials See Few H1N1 Flu Deaths</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;Fewer than one dozen Illinois residents have perished from H1N1 &amp;quot;swine flu&amp;quot; complications, while more than 200 have been hospitalized. Much ado about the flu, Windy Citizens? &lt;/p&gt;
 suntimes.com  
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 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:51:18 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Health system could cut 1,250 more jobs in 2011</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;They may have to combat a $75 million cut in county appropriations because of the sales tax rollback.&lt;/p&gt;
 chicagocurrent.com  
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 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:46:32 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>You can&#039;t light up at county hospitals anymore</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;A new rule bans smoking at all county health facilities.&lt;/p&gt;
 chicagocurrent.com  
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 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:45:37 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Jesse Jackson: &#039;You can&#039;t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man&#039;</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;Ahhh, the post racial politics of the Obama years:&lt;br /&gt;
&quot;The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.&lt;/p&gt;
 thehill.com  
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 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:20:54 -0600</pubDate>
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 <title>Protect Women&#039;s Health Care: Stop Stupak Amendment</title>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;The Stupak Amendment Discriminates against women by taking away health coverage they already have — and tells women who participate in the new health insurance exchange that they can’t even use th&lt;/p&gt;
 action.barbaraboxer.com  
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 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:58:51 -0600</pubDate>
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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;As Thanksgiving approaches, and we all reflect on what we are thankful for in our lives, Sheila Kelley S Factor™ would like to give thanks by offering 50% off on an intro class from November 27 to D&lt;/p&gt;
 node/20465  
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 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:10:13 -0600</pubDate>
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