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Logistics Specialist Seaman Sergio Torres draws pictures with a child at the Vladivostok children's cancer ward.
(photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Brian A. Stone)
75% Of Childhood Cancers Are Curable
Peace FM Online
A Consultant Pediatrician at the Department of Child Health, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Lorna Awo Renner says when detected early, about 75 percent of childhood cancer can be cured. | Unfortunately, she admitted, that due to financial constraints, coupled with the lack of awareness of the disea...
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) Office along Quimpo Boulevard, Davao City, Philippines as seen on this June 5, 2009 file photo.
(photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Health insurance benefits to be set by state
Tulsa World
State employees are beginning the process of looking at Oklahoma's largest health-insurance companies to determine what the state will declare are essential benefits that must be covered. | In December, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department announced it would not be providing a national set ...
Buying a health insurance cover? Don’t skip the medical test
The Times Of India
No medical test required', says the advertisement by the insurance company, and it seems just what you wanted to buy. But will it be the right thing to do? Today, many insurers are offering policies that don't insist on putting you through the entire...
New threat to ALP's surplus as Tony Crook opposes means test on private health insurance
The Australian
| KEY independent Tony Crook has declared he won't support the Gillard government's means test on the 30 per cent private health insurance rebate, jeopardising the fate of the $2.9 billion savings measure that accounts for half Labor's...
State reviews health insurance hikes, lacks authority to halt them
Austin American Statesman
| Under the 2010 federal health care reform law, Texas is reviewing medical insurance companies' rate increases of at least 10 percent to determine whether they are justified, but even if reviewers find a problem, they have no way of heading it off o...
Insurance failures blamed for deaths
Jakarta Post
| At least five mothers have reportedly died due to maternity complications over the last month in Banyumas, Central Java, allegedly due to poverty. | Banyumas Health Agency head Widayanto blamed the condition on the failure of the so-called free Jam...
Dave Ramsey: Many types of insurance are necessary for financial health
The Oklahoman
  BY DAVE RAMSEY Oklahoman    Leave a comment | DEAR DAVE: I've got auto insurance, but can you tell me what other kinds of insurance are good to have? | Chris | DEAR CHRIS: The purpose of insurance is to transfer risk that you can't a...
Dave Ramsey: Having the right insurance protects your nest egg
Knox News
| Q: I've got auto insurance, but can you tell me what other kinds of insurance are good to have? | A: The purpose of insurance is to transfer risk that you can't afford to take. Most people can't afford to have a heart attack and triple bypass surge...
Bogus car insurance claims crackdown: 5,000 firms chasing no-win no-fee and 700 of them have ...
The Daily Mail
| The Mail on Sunday's campaign has highlighted the dishonest claims for whiplash injuries and the soaring cost of premiums for law-abiding drivers (posed by model) | Tough new curbs on bogus car-accident injury claims to stop Britain being the ̵...
New car accident app accelerates insurance claims
Independent online
Discovery Insure has launched a free Blackberry application (app) that enables its policyholders to use their phones to lodge car accident claims. | To date more than 1 300 policyholders have already downloaded the app, which was launched in December...
Q&A: Make life insurance a premium consideration
Lexington Herald-Leader
| Buying life insurance isn't a sexy purchase, but it's fundamental to financial planning. That's why it's alarming that ownership of policies in the U.S. is at a 50-year low. | About a third of U.S. households have no life insurance, according to LI...
Oklahoma Legislature: Health insurance exchange awaits GOP
Tulsa World
Dealing with President Obama's health-care reform again threatens to splinter state Capitol Republicans. | Three times last year GOP leaders attempted to bring forward bills to give legal shape to a health insurance exchange - an electronic marketpla...
Sports
New York Giants players including wide receiver Victor Cruz, left, and wide receiver Hakeem Nicks, right, celebrate their team's 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Indianapolis.
(photo: AP / David J. Phillip)
New York Giants win Super Bowl over New England Patriots
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| FOR the second time in five seasons, Eli Manning led the New York Giants to Super Bowl success over the New England Patriots, nabbing a second MVP award in the process. | Manning directed a nine-play, 88-yard drive that set up running back Ahmad Bradshaw for the game-winning touchdown with a minute to go, as the Giants triumphed 21-17 in Super Bo...
Business
Local residents move to higher ground as the Brisbane river burst its banks to cause widespread flooding in Brisbane, Australia, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. Queensland has been in the grip of its worst flooding for more than two weeks, after tropical downpours across a vast area of the state covered an area the size of France and Germany combined. Residents in low-lying regions of the state capital of Brisbane were urged to sandbag their homes and later told to move to higher ground.
(photo: AP / Tertius Pickard)
Australian floods force thousands from their homes
The Guardian
* One dead in flooding, thousands evacuated * Coal industry largely unaffected by floods * Flooding causes damage to agriculture, property By Rebekah Kebede PERTH, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians were forced from their homes on Monday because of floods that have risen to record levels in some areas and killed one person, and authorities ...



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