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		<title>Medical Tourism: the next reform in health care?</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/06/medical-tourism-the-next-reform-in-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 23 | 6/5-6/11]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 23 | June 5 - June 11]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shoreline retirees Yoshi and Naomi Minegishi, ages 70 and 61, returned this spring from a vacation in Asia and brought back a new interest]]></description>
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		<title>Father and son create endowment in memory of wife and mother</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/05/father-and-son-create-endowment-in-memory-of-wife-and-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 19 | 5/8-5/14]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 19 | May 8 - May 14]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clyde Shields, a uremia patient, was saved 50 years ago by the first successful dialysis treatment at the University of Washington Hospital (now the UW Medical Center).]]></description>
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		<title>Grouping all Asians together could be bad for their health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 19 | 5/8-5/14]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 19 | May 8 - May 14]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Asian Americans as a whole are half as likely as non-Hispanic whites to die from heart disease. However, Native Hawaiians are 40 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease than whites.]]></description>
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		<title>What Asian Pacific Americans need to know about diabetes</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/04/what-asian-pacific-americans-need-to-know-about-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 18 | 5/1-5/7]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 18 | May 1 - May 8]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Cheng began ice skating at age 7.

After skating competitively for three years, she took a yearlong break from the sport at age 10. She wasn’t sidelined due to injury. She was out for health reasons.]]></description>
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		<title>Asian American women strive toward feeling happy with life and body</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/02/asian-american-women-strive-toward-feeling-happy-with-life-and-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 6 | 2/6-2/12]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[    By James Tabafunda
NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
Body image — or the perception of how one’s body looks — gets reassessed every January. In 2010, losing weight returns as one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions.
Forty-three percent of Asian American women said they considered themselves overweight. This statistic is based on a 1997 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cindy Chen — a voice for counseling in the Asian community</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/01/cindy-chen-%e2%80%94-a-voice-for-counseling-in-the-asian-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 4 | 1/23-1/29]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cindy Chen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 4 | January 23 - January 29]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In her cozy office in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, Dr. Cindy Chen has shared countless conversations with clients. She is willing to talk about many issues in life — interpersonal relationships, gambling addiction, low self-esteem — as long as clients are willing to open up. ]]></description>
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		<title>The top 5 stories you’ve heard way too much about and 5 stories that went under the radar</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/12/the-top-5-stories-you%e2%80%99ve-heard-way-too-much-about-and-5-stories-that-went-under-the-radar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/12/the-top-5-stories-you%e2%80%99ve-heard-way-too-much-about-and-5-stories-that-went-under-the-radar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[January 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 1 | 1/2-1/8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 1 | January 2 - January 8]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fame, fortune, and scandal were the driving forces behind the endless news coverage of Jackson. Readership of Jackson news shot up when a Los Angeles coroner ruled the singer’s death a homicide after lethal levels of the anesthetic propofol, combined with two other sedatives, were found in his system.]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-sational Vitamin D: D-fense against disease</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/07/sun-sational-vitamin-d-d-fense-against-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/07/sun-sational-vitamin-d-d-fense-against-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 28 No 32 | 8/1 - 8/7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vol 28 no 32 | August 1 - August 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than 130 million Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease.  We spend $1.5 trillion dollars a year to manage chronic diseases, but it still causes 70 percent of all deaths in the United States.]]></description>
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		<title>Local nonprofits await stimulus funds</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/04/local-nonprofits-await-stimulus-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/04/local-nonprofits-await-stimulus-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Community News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 28 No 15 | 4/4 - 4/10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 28 No 15 | April 4 - April 10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With President Barack Obama’s recent economic stimulus package on its way to the States, many local agencies are eagerly awaiting its]]></description>
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		<title>1998: Give yourself the gift of good health</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2008/12/1998-give-yourself-the-gift-of-good-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2008/12/1998-give-yourself-the-gift-of-good-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 27 No 51 | 12/13-12/19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol 27 No 51 | December 13 - December 19]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Strangely, I had never thought about how lucky I was to be alive until I was fighting for my life a month ago. It was a terrifying experience. This kind of thing tends to hit you without warning, just when you least expect it. It seems to happen when life is smooth and sweet.]]></description>
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