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Piecemeal Approach To Health Overhaul Would Be Tricky
By April Fulton Liberal House Democrats have definitively ruled out taking up the more moderate Senate health overhaul bill, all but dashing any hope that of accomplishing President Obama's goal of signing this year a comprehensive law to remake the...
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Thu, Jan 21 2010 9:42 AM
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California Supreme Court Bolsters Protection For Marijuana Users
By Scott Hensley While most folks seemed to be hanging on the U.S. Supreme Court's startling decision to toss out limits on corporate campaign spending yesterday, we found ourselves far more interested in a judicial ruling way out west. A court decision...
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Fri, Jan 22 2010 6:02 AM
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Brown Blame Game Takes Washington By Storm
By Christopher Weaver It should come as no surprise, we suppose, that the varied agendas of politicos, pundits, and activists color their views on who's to blame for Scott Brown's surprise win in Massachusetts. President Obama concedes health...
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Fri, Jan 22 2010 1:58 PM
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Tweet This: CDC Offers 9 Pages Of Twitter Advice
By Scott Hensley Since hopping on the Twitter train a while back, we can hardly imagine living without it. (Twitter) We follow smart folks and learn about cool stuff in a hurry. When we have something to tell people, we can pump out a tweet in a matter...
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Mon, Feb 01 2010 12:03 PM
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Lancet Renounces Study Linking Autism And Vaccines
By Scott Hensley It took 12 years, but the medical journal the Lancet has retracted once and for all a controversial paper that drew a link between vaccines and autism and helped fuel a backlash against immunization of children. A 1998 Lancet paper reported...
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Tue, Feb 02 2010 9:25 AM
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Kellogg Slapped For Contamination At Eggo Waffle Factory
By Nadja Popovich You might want to leggo that Eggo. Eggo Buttermilk Waffles tested positive for Listeria at a Kellogg factory in Atlanta last year. (iStockphoto.com) Eggo Buttermilk Waffles tested positive for Listeria at a Kellogg factory in Atlanta...
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Wed, Feb 17 2010 1:02 PM
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Glaxo Pulling Some Poligrip From Market Over Zinc Risk
By Scott Hensley Wearing dentures isn't anybody's idea of fun. But nobody expects that the glue used to hold the darn things in place could lead to nerve damage. Glaxo warned about health risks from these three formulas of Poligrip. (GSK) Glaxo...
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Thu, Feb 18 2010 11:45 AM
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Come On, Get Happy. It May Help Your Heart
By Nadja Popovich Happy people may have even more to smile about. It turns out that being positive and enthusiastic could lower your risk of heart disease. Something to smile about: people with sunnier dispositions were found to have a lower risk of heart...
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Fri, Feb 19 2010 9:33 AM
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President Lays Out Health Overhaul Proposal
By Scott Hensley If you're looking for surprises in Team Obama's last-ditch proposal to restart health overhaul, you'll be disappointed. It's mostly a rewarmed version of the Senate bill, with a few tweaks. Time for a long pass to restart...
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Mon, Feb 22 2010 7:51 AM
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The Biology Of Dithering
Even with 1,001 channels, it can feel like nothing's on T.V. (iStockphoto.com) Even with 1,001 channels, it can feel like nothing's on T.V. (iStockphoto.com) Even with 1,001 channels, it can feel like nothing's on T.V. (iStockphoto.com) -...
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Tue, Mar 16 2010 11:50 AM
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Obama Graded On Lessons Learned From Clintons
By Joanne Silberner It's one of life's great lessons: out of pain can come change. The health overhaul effort has been nothing if not painful, just like the Clintons' failed health overhaul effort back in '93-'94. Someone other than...
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Wed, Mar 17 2010 1:13 PM
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Revised Health Overhaul Would Cost $940 Billion In First Decade
By Scott Hensley So how much is the rejiggered version of health care overhaul going to run us? Try $940 billion over the first 10 years, according to information coming from House Democrats this morning. The Congressional Budget Office has apparently...
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Thu, Mar 18 2010 8:01 AM
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President Obama Presses For Overhaul At George Mason
By Scott Hensley With a House vote on health overhaul shaping up for Sunday, President Obama is stumping hard to win support for the package. He's giving another health speech at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, just outside Washington. We'll...
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Fri, Mar 19 2010 9:17 AM
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Vote Count On Overhaul Is Our Madness
By Julie Rovner So my cell phone rings the other day, and I jump for it. But it's not a source. It's my 20-year-old nephew, calling from college. "Who do you have in your brackets," he asks, with the sense of urgency normally reserved...
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Fri, Mar 19 2010 2:50 PM
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States Opposed To Insurance Mandate Prepare Lawsuits
By Scott Hensley Under the health overhaul plan that looks all but set to become federal law soon, just about everyone will have to have insurance coverage, or pay a penalty. Most Americans would need to line up insurance, starting in 2014, or get slapped...
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Mon, Mar 22 2010 1:25 PM
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