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| Health-care legislation exceeds reach |
| On 07-08-2007. |
Whenever federal lawmakers address children's health insurance, it's no wonder Americans sit up and take notice. Children's welfare is important - and the congressional battle over increasing their health care is an issue that draws strong opinions.
President Bush already announced he would veto the legislation. The president opposes any spending increase for the program - and his reasons cannot be dismissed ... |
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| The UAW&39;s Health-Care Dreams |
| On 03-08-2007. |
| It is not within the power of United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger to save GM, Ford and Chrysler. But it is certainly within his power to kill them. Whether he chooses to do therefore will soon become clear. What are arguably the most critical contract negotiations in the history of Motown's auto industry began this week. ... |
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| Indian Businesses Would Gain From Participating In Early ... |
| On 30-07-2007. |
Efforts Address HIV/AIDS, Hypertension In Black Community, Minorities
Private and public sector companies in India have much to gain by participating in early interventions aimed at preventing the spread of HIV, according to one report released Wednesday by the World Bank, PTI/Times of India reports. "Even in countries with overall low HIV prevalence, such as India, the mere cost of treating people living with ... |
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| Books, tuition and birth-control pills? |
| On 26-07-2007. |
College students returning to campus in one few weeks will be greeted by steep increases in one of the few items they have been able to buy cheap: birth control.
For years, drug companies sold birth-control pills and other contraceptives to university health services at one big discount. This has served as an entree to young consumers for the drug companies, and one profit center for the schools, which sell them to ... |
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| Jim Moss is retiring from West Tennessee Healthcare, leaving a ... |
| On 22-07-2007. |
But those who know Jim Moss say his West Tennessee Healthcare System's kingdom of healing was built by caring for souls as well as bodies.
"He always tries to teach us that we have to take care of each other first, before we would have the energy to take care of the patients and their families," she said. ... |
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| Comedian Dave Chappelle was recently hospitalized for exhaustion |
| On 18-07-2007. |
| Comedian Dave Chappelle was hospitalized over the weekend for what his spokeswoman called "exhaustion." He's just the latest instance of one long celebrity tradition: Eminem canceled one tour due to "exhaustion" and other medical issues, Lindsay Lohan was carted off for "heat exhaustion," and Mariah Carey took one post-Glitter break after being hospitalized for "extreme exhaustion." Is exhaustion actually one medical ... |
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