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Sensitive Eyes sounds like a good title for a dreamy romance novel… but I was thinking more of your actual eyes being sensitive to things. Maybe I’ll write that romance someday, though!
You may already know if you have sensitive eyes.

On September 22, 1993, President Bill Clinton spoke to a joint session of Congress about the imperative of enacting health reform. It was a powerful speech. Clinton emphasized the need to fix a badly broken system that cost too much and left too many Americans without insurance. He eloquently cited stories of how ordinary Americans [...]

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The following is part of a series of original guest columns by the American Medical Association.

The need to bend the curve of rising health care costs is certain. Less certain is the nations political will to take on that difficult task.

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by Wendy S. Harpham, MD, FACP

A family member was recently diagnosed with pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes is when your blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes.
Pre-diabetes is a new name for an existing condition: impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose.

Patients with serious or advanced illnesses would be given more control over their care by language in health reform legislation passed by three House committees that would pay physicians, nurse practitioners, and other providers for counseling Medicare beneficiaries about advance planning for future care decisions.

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by Maya Sequeira

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by Doctor Grumpy

The HPV vaccine for young women has been a subject of debate and legislation around the United States over the last few years.
First, some background: in 2006, the U.S.


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