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Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks: NEJM article

More than a decade after Harvard researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks -- prompting calls upon them to divest -- the insurance industry has yet to kick the habit, they say.

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: The evolution of migraine from episodic headache to chronic disorder

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Patients living with migraine have strong reason for new optimism concerning a positive future. Two review articles and an accompanying editorial, "The Future of Migraine: Beyond Just Another Pill," in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, are the basis for an ironic premise.



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