Louis R. Harlan, 87, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at the University of Maryland whose two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington made him one of the nation’s foremost scholars of the history of race relations, died Jan. 22 at a nursing facility in Lexington, Va. He had Crohn’s disease, a chronic digestive disorder.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012803812.html

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For those who are recently unemployed, self-employed, about to run out of COBRA coverage, or are excluded because of a pre-existing condition, high-risk health insurance pools available in most states can be a lifesaver.

http://www.naschip.org/states_pools.htm

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The New York Times has created a simple and categorized breakdown comparing the Senate and House health bills.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/19/us/politics/1119-plan-comparison.html

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Scientific American’s article, “Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear?“, mentions the Human Microbiome Project, which is devoted to identifying all the different types of organisms on and in the human body, including the GI tract.

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PharmacyChecker.com is a great site for finding reputable online pharmacies.

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Many of the presentations from the 2009 Advances in IBD conference are available online:

http://imedexinc.com/ei/conference-materials/a066-01/index.html

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