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By Bob Curley

The children’s health-insurance bill passed by the House and Senate this week not only raises federal tobacco taxes to pay for expanded health care but also requires state programs to treat addiction and mental-health disorders on par with physical illnesses.

The Senate voted 67-29 on Sept. 27 to approve the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The legislation would add $60 billion to SCHIP over the next five years, providing health coverage to an additional 4 million uninsured children. Currently, state-run SCHIP programs cover 6.6 million children who families have incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but can’t afford health insurance.

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Massachusetts has launched a statewide public awareness campaign to address and reduce the stigma associated with addiction.

The campaign promotes a new website, TalkAboutAddiction.org, which launched Sept. 1 to coincide with Recovery Month, according to Michael Botticelli, Director of the state’s? Bureau of Substance Abuse Services? in the Department of Public Health.

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In the midst of Milan’s all-important Fashion Week, the picture that is turning heads in Italy is a shocking one. An Italian advertising campaign featuring photos of an Italian label, Nolita, an emaciated girl is supposed to serve as a warning to young women, but medical experts fear it could encourage anorexia and other eating disorders. It??™s the latest work by controversial Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani.
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The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program said that homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults increase about 2 percent last year, but that the property-crime rate fell 1.9 percent, the Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 25.

The overall crime rate is at its lowest point in 30 years, and some experts downplayed the increase in violent crime. “To some extent, the rise that we saw this year and last has been because we’re at a relative low point,” said James Alan Fox, a criminal-justice professor at Northeastern University. “When you’re that low, the only way to go is up.”

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The back is an amazing structure. As its central support, there are 33 vertebrae balanced on top of each other, held together by ligaments and cushioned by intervertebral disks. There are 7 cervical vertebrae, which are the smallest and most flexible. The top two have very specific functions. The first cervical vertebra, or atlas, articulates with the base of the skull, allowing nodding movements. The second, the axis, rotates around a peg connecting into the atlas and allows turning of the head.

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Women who consume alcoholic drinks daily face an increased risk of breast cancer, Reuters reported Sept. 27.

Researchers found that women who had one or two alcoholic drinks daily had a 10-percent increased risk of breast cancer, while risk of the disease rose 30 percent among those who had three or more drinks daily.

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