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Take time this holiday to build a family health history with relatives.

Americans who spend too much time basking in the electronic glow just before bedtime pay the cost with the lack of a good night’s rest . According to a new survey, the nation may be might be losing valuable sleep due to being exposed to the electronic glow of a television, cell phone, or computer during the last hour before retiring to bed. read more

Forbes has released its annual report on the most toxic cities that (dis)grace our fair land, and Philadelphia takes the top spot. According to the report: “The sprawling Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), including parts of four states (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and one county in Maryland), is pocked with more than 50 Superfund sites—areas no longer in use that contain hazardous waste.” read more

Improvements in health care quality continue to progress at a slow rate—about 2.3 percent a year; however, disparities based on race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other factors persist at unacceptably high levels, according to the 2010 National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report issued yesterday by the Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

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