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House Democrats to open hearings on health bill (AP)

House Democrats to open hearings on health bill

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(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.





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Human Tissue Act may have helped research, says study

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fears that medical research using tissue such as blood or material from biopsies would be obstructed by the Human Tissue Act 2004 may have been unfounded, a new study from the University of Leicester reveals.


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Swedish probe into Nobel corruption to close: prosecutor

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sweden is to close its investigation into allegations of corruption at the heart of several of the prestigious Nobel prize science committees, a prosecutor announced Friday.


White House frames health care as economic problem (AP)

White House frames health care as economic problem

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(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 ...


Obama outlines health care plan for all (AP)

Obama outlines health care plan for all

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- President Barack Obama says he's open to requiring all Americans to buy health insurance, as long as the plan provides a "hardship waiver" to exempt poor people from having to pay.


EPA head pitches Clean Air Bill in Senate

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created Oct 28, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has presented two Senate committees with detailed comparisons of clean air plans.


What's government's role in making the Web secure? (AP)

What's government's role in making the Web secure?

Technology / Internet

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- There is no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer.


GOP senators: Bipartisan health deal tougher now

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(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.


Atlantis crew wraps mission, testifies to Senate (AP)

Atlantis crew wraps mission, testifies to Senate

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Tests and testifying will take up what NASA hopes is the last day in orbit for the space shuttle Atlantis.


Kennedy health plan includes long-term care (AP)

Kennedy health plan includes long-term care

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Americans would be able to buy long-term care insurance from the government for $65 a month under a provision tucked into sweeping health care legislation that senators will begin considering next ...


Health care loophole would allow coverage limits (AP)

Health care loophole would allow coverage limits

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created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient ...



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