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CBO: Proposal Would Pound Budget, Dent Number Of Uninsured
The Congressional Budget Office has found that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee"s health reform proposal would cost taxpayers about $1 trillion over the next decade and only insure 16 million people, about one-third of uninsured Americans, Politico reports. More individuals would lose employer-provided insurance they already have, or move away from government programs, prompting Republicans to say in a memo, "For all of the money the bill spends, the coverage increase is relatively anemic."

EU Midwifery Regulators Agree To New Network
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Primary Health Care Trusts Face Court Action Over Alcohol Treatment Failings, UK
Primary Health Care Trusts (PCTs) the length of England could soon find themselves in the High Court over the pitiful lack of appropriate treatment being offered to those with severe alcohol problems following an audit carried out by pressure group UK Advocates.
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Can Happiness Be Inherited?

A new article published in Elsevier"s journal Bioscience Hypotheses suggests that our feelings in our lifetime can affect our children. Dr. Halabe Bucay suggests that a wide range of chemicals that our brain generates when we are in different moods could affect "germ cells" (eggs and sperm), the cells that ultimately produce the next generation. Such natural chemicals could affect the way that specific genes are expressed in the germ cells, and hence how a child develops. In his article in the latest issue of Bioscience Hypotheses, Dr Alberto Halabe Bucay of Research Center Halabe and Darwich, Mexico, suggested that the hormones and chemicals resulting from happiness, depression and other mental states can affect our eggs and sperm, resulting in lasting changes in our children at the time of their conception. Brain chemicals such as endorphins, and drugs, such as marijuana and heroin are known to have significant effects on sperm and eggs, altering the patterns of genes that are active in them. "It is well known, of course, that parental behavior affects children, and that the genes that a child gets from its parents help shape that child"s character." said Dr. Halabe Bucay. "My paper suggests a way that the parent"s psychology before conception can actually affect the child"s genes." "This is an intriguing idea" commented Dr. William Bains, Editor of Bioscience Hypotheses. "We wanted to publish it to see what other scientists thought, and whether others had data that could support or disprove it. That is what our journal is for, to stimulate debate about new ideas, the more groundbreaking, the better." "Endorphins, personality, and inheritance: Establishing the biochemical bases of inheritance" Bioscience Hypotheses, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 7 May 2009 Alberto Halabe Bucay. doi:10.1016/j.bihy.2009.03.003 Tanya Wheatley Elsevier


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