Champaign (US), May 27 : “One person, one vote” is often the rallying cry for democratic reform, suggesting everyone should get an equal say in their government.

Yet in some of the oldest and largest democracies, some votes are worth far more than others by design.

A Wyoming voter, for instance, is significantly over-represented compared with a California voter.

Each state has two US senators, but California has 66 times more people.

How much does it matter?

According to a recent study of decades of data, from the US and eight other countries, it matters a lot when it comes to money.

About 80 – 90% cases of breast cancer in women are detected by mammography. "Mammography remains the most effective screening test for the early detection of breast cancer available to women today," Dr. Otis W. Brawley, the ACS's chief medical officer, said in a society news release. "Women are strongly urged to schedule their mammograms yearly and to talk to their doctor regularly about their risk for breast cancer."

Rasmussen Reports’ latest Obama vs McCain opinion polls, conducted in Illinois, New Mexico, and Kansas, show that Barack Obama is presently leading in Illinois and New Mexico, while John McCain is holding lead in Kansas.

Of late, Republican presidential nominee, John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, have attacked Senator Barack Obama’s link with William Ayers. So much so that Ayers has become the central figure in a debate over character, judgment and associations in an increasingly bitter presidential race between McCain and Obama.

Amid increasing evidence that political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko is cooperating with federal prosecutors, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich called on the convicted influence-peddler and shakedown artist to simply, “tell the truth.” Already, the federal prosecutors have strongly hinted that Rezko, convicted in a state corruption scandal, might be cooperating in their investigation.

Investigations have revealed that Marty Himebaugh, a 57-year old former nurse at Woodstock, a McHenry County nursing home in northern Illinois, who gave medication cocktails of lethal morphine to patients she felt had lived far too long, to ensure that she had a ‘quiet shift’.  Amazed when one of the women survived the lethal dose, in 2006 when the incident happened, she is purported to have said that she was amazed that the woman was still alive after all the morphine she had been administered.

Among the 25-recipients of the $500,000 MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grants’, there are four doctors who have been accorded recognition for their achievements. They include; Regina Benjamin, founder of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama, who with the help of volunteers rebuilt it twice, after being destroyed by the Georges and Katrina Hurricanes. Traveling to remote rural areas to treat immobile patients, no one who comes to her clinic is turned away without being treated.

Sen. Barak Obama appears to be invincible in his home state. Well, Obama is having a big lead over Sen. John Mccain, in the presidential race, in the state of Illinois — that’s what the recent Obama vs McCain Illinois polls show.

Illinois has 21 electoral votes. Obama has been leading in the state since January, and he has well maintained his lead over McCain in the recent Illinois opinion polls. Let’s check out what the latest Obama vs McCain Illinois Polls say.

Another poll points out marginal difference between Democrat and Republican candidates for elections to be held, in November, in the swing states.

The "Big Ten" poll, conducted by the University of Wisconsin political science department, covered the eight states of the Big Ten conference and revealed that Barack Obama and John McCain are statistically tied in seven of the eight Midwestern states.

Yes, Sex can lead to stroke. The chances of stroke after sex are very rare but not impossible; the chances of stroke after sexual activity increase if the woman is suffering from heart problem. This displeasing fact was brought to light by the case of a 35 year-old woman who suffered stroke after having sex with her boyfriend. She was admitted to hospital after complaint of slurred speech, losing sensation in left side of face and weakening of left arm, minutes after having sexual intercourse..

Sen. Barack Obama is having respectable lead over Sen. John McCain in the presidential race, in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin — well, that’s what indicate, the Obama versus McCain pre-election opinion polls conducted in these states, in the month of August.

Before flying to Chicago, Barack Obama himself approached the traveling press corps to make remarks, something that he hasn’t done in the past ten weeks, although he walked away without entertaining questions.

"I'm very excited about the convention," Obama said on the tarmac before boarding his campaign plane to Chicago. He said he is still in the process of preparing his convention speech, to be delivered on Thursday night, but that he had seen the video of his wife, Michelle. The video will be aired on Monday night before she gives her own address.

According to law, Health insurer Amerigroup was required to enroll all eligible beneficiaries in the state of Illinois Medicaid program. Basically Medicaid is the state-federal health plan for the poor. Allegations were filed against Amerigroup Corp for not adhering to the rules of the Medicaid program.

Living alone makes people more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease in later years of life, said a Swedish study, presented on Wednesday at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois. The study reported that people in their 40’s and 50’s who lived alone were 50% more likely to develop Alzheimer’s two decades later.

Obama campaign, on Monday, condemned the new song “Politics: Obama Is Here,” by the three-time Grammy Award-winning American rapper, Ludacris. “Hillary hated on you, so that b—- is irrelevant. … McCain don’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed. Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped,” sings Ludacris.  

“Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what? If you said it then you meant it how you want it have a gut,” Ludacris sings, referring to Jackson’s remarks on Obama’s speeches on morality at black churches.