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Senate panel OKs middle-of-the-road health plan
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama's goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant ...
GOP senators: Bipartisan health deal tougher now
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Republican senators say chances of reaching a bipartisan deal to overhaul health care dimmed after President Barack Obama issued a letter strongly supporting a new public health insurance plan.
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White House frames health care as economic problem
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Senate chairman who will have a major role in writing health care legislation said Tuesday he hopes to convince President Barack Obama that taxing some employer-provided benefits will help control ...
Senators dig in on massive health care legislation
Jun 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Eye-popping new cost estimates for President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system are forcing majority Democrats to scale back their plans to subsidize coverage for the uninsured.
House eyes new taxes as senators pare health bill
Jun 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- House Democrats have lots of potential targets for higher taxes as they aim to expand health care coverage, from wealthy Americans and the nation's employers to anyone who pops the top on a soft drink.
Panel backs vaccine as cervical cancer alternative
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A second kind of vaccine against cervical cancer may be added to the recommended list for girls and young women after a federal advisory panel voted Wednesday to support it.
Health insurers offer another concession
May 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The health insurance industry has offered to end its practice of charging higher premiums to women.
House Democrats to open hearings on health bill
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- House Democrats are pushing forward with a partisan health care bill even as a key Senate Democrat labors to achieve an elusive bipartisan compromise on President Barack Obama's top legislative priority.
Smoking bans reduce the risk of heart attacks associated with secondhand smoke
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Smoking bans are effective at reducing the risk of heart attacks and heart disease associated with exposure to secondhand smoke, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The report also confirms there is sufficient ...
WHO consults emergency flu committee
Jun 05, 2009 |
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The World Health Organisation on Friday began consulting its emergency committee of flu experts on the severity of the swine flu virus and possible travel recommendations.
Kennedy bill would make employers provide care
Jun 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty - and all Americans would be guaranteed health insurance - under a draft bill circulated Friday by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's ...
Protect children first with H1N1 flu vaccine, says national pediatric disease expert (w/ Video)
Oct 01, 2009 |
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The optimal way to control swine flu, the new H1N1 virus that emerged as a global threat in 2009, is to vaccinate children with the planned H1N1 flu vaccine, says the co-director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham ...
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