Editor's note: CNN contributors offer their analysis of President Obama's delivery at the DNC. Read reaction from LZ Granderson, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Donna Brazile, Robert Dallek, Alonzo Hamby, Timothy Stanley and others. LZ Granderson: Obama showed what he knows about fighting for the little guy President Obama did not promise heaven and earth, as he did four years ago.
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Rating President Obama’s DNC speech
Bad memories are hard to shake. But a new study suggests some details can be intentionally forgotten, raising hope for people with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Can Painful Memories Be Erased?
Reported by Julielynn Wong, M.D., ABC News Medical Unit: The U.S. health care system wasted $750 billion on unnecessary and overpriced medical tests and treatments, administrative fees, medical fraud and missed prevention opportunities in 2009, a new report found. The report, released today by the…
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US Health System ‘Wasted’ $750B in ’09
Former National Football League players are more likely to die from neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS, a new study found.
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NFL Players Risk Alzheimer’s, ALS
As the Yosemite hantavirus outbreak continues to make headlines, past survivors are reminded of their pain. The virus is rare in the U.S., and doctors often misdiagnose it.
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Hantavirus Survivors Haunted by Yosemite
For every heart attack that strikes with chest pain, shortness of breath and nausea, almost two more slide in under the radar among older adults, a new study found.
Coming right after Harvard’s recent cheating scandal, the staff at its student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, may be a little red in the face today after approving an ad for a pill that promises to improve brain function without a prescription. The ad was quickly..
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Harvard Pulls Adderall Alternative Ad
German manufacturer of thalidomide makes 1st apology 50 years after birth defect drug launched
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Drug Firm Apologies for Thalidomide
CNN's Deb Feyerick investigates controversial remarks that New York priest Benedict Groeschel gave to the National Catholic Register concerning pedophiles and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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Priest: ‘Teenage victim … the seducer’
The small coin-sized batteries found in many toys, electronics and singing greeting cards could be life-threatening in children. An analysis released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Consumer Product Safety Commission found 14 children who are aged 13 and under…
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Tiny Batteries Are Big Problems for Kids
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