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Easing the Trauma of Rape: Therapy Used for PTSD Also Helps Women in Congo

Easing the trauma of rape: therapy used for PTSD also helps women in Congo

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UW researchers found that a talk-therapy technique used with soldiers also helped victims of sexual assault in Congo, the rape capital of the world. By Sandi Doughton. Seattle Times … I salute non-drug therapy as first choice of treatment. Current …
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Report: Jan Ullrich admits blood doping

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BERLIN (AP) — A German magazine is reporting that 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has admitted receiving blood-doping treatment from Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. Ullrich was quoted Saturday as saying in an interview with the weekly …
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Alaska workers comp board seeks to reduce costs

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"For example, for this diagnosis, this is the recommended treatment.'" … Prescription drugs account for 20 percent of medical benefits paid in compensation claims and prescription painkillers account for about 40 percent of all drug costs in Alaska …
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Staff Writer, NBC News

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Fair Warning reports that the Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C.,-based advocacy organization, also wants the government to reduce the need for chemical treatment by cleaning up sources of public drinking water. ….. Authorities could go …
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