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China has long way to go on health reforms
Beijing - Chinese authorities released a long-awaited health reform action plan...
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Health Insurance Unaffordable in the US for 1.6 M People in 2007/2008
When it comes to health insurance things don’t look very good for Americans. According to a...
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Intel and GE team up on telemedicine
New York - Going to the doctor could become a thing of the past for many people if the telemedicine...
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Walgreen To Provide Free Care For Unemployed
Walgreen Co., the nation’s largest drugstore chain, and its Take Care Health Systems...
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Hurricane Katrina Tied to Dramatic Increase in Heart Attacks
Tulane University research has shown that Hurricane Katrina has contributed to a dramatic rise in...
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Blacks at Higher Risk of Heart Failure than Whites
According to one of the first long-term studies to look at heart failure in younger adults,...
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Religious Cancer Patients More Likely to Get Aggressive End-of-Life Care
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association notes that religious...
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Survey Ranks States Depending on Wellness
A survey focusing on the wellbeing of the American citizens gave marks to regions and states of the...
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Obama nominates Sebelius as US health secretary
Washington - US President Barack Obama nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as health...
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Humana On Medicare Rate Calculations
Humana Inc is "closely analyzing" all aspects of the planned fiscal 2010 payment rates...
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Cigarette Tax May Save Some Lives
The new federal law represents a great winning ticket for the health advocates because a bigger...
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The Economic Downturn Causes Lay-Offs For Dental Offices
Due to the current economic recession, more and more families are losing dental insurance or facing...
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Stimulus Bill, Health Care Reform, Crucial Issues on Obama’s Agenda
Health care reform and the controversial stimulus bill continue to be crucial issues on...
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Octuplet Mom Followed by Quadruplet Mom
In spite of the fact that Dr. Michael Kamrava is under investigation by the American Society For...
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IBM Helps Google In An Effort To Put Personal Health Data Online
It looks like Google and IBM will team up in order to help get personal health data online, as the...
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Delphi Seeks to Cut Health Benefits for Retirees
Auto supplier Delphi Corp. has sought U.S. Bankruptcy Court permission to eliminate health care...
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Most Cancer Patients Can’t Afford Medical Care
According to a report released February 5 by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Cancer...
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Most Children Take Vitamins, But They Don’t Really Need Them
According to a newly released study, most children who take vitamins don’t really need them....
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Senate Approves Health Bill for Children
The Senate on Thursday approved the bill designed to provide health insurance to more than...
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Medicare Decides to Expand Coverage for Cancer Drugs
Doctors and patients who need Medicare reimbursement for certain experimental treatments...
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Recent Studies Should Discourage Smokers
Recent studies show quite some interesting things about smokers and smoking. A West Virginia...
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China’s Government Plans to Spend $124 Billion on Health Care Reform
China’s government announced the decision to spend more than $120 billion over the next...
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UnitedHealth Group Agrees to Pay $350 Million in Health Care “Fraud”
UnitedHealth Group announced on Thursday its decision to pay a record $350...
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House Passes Bill to Expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program
The bill that would extend coverage for four million uninsured children is one of the top...
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Child Health Plan Backed Up By Senate
The large majority of Americans get their health insurance from their work place, those who are...
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The Senate to Vote on Extra Health Coverage for Poor Children
The House on Wednesday voted to expand The Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover an...
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UnitedHealth Settlement Resolves Litigations with Health Plan Members, Healthcare Providers
UnitedHealth Group Inc., which on Tuesday agreed to pay $50 million to establish a new database...
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Children’s Health Program Goes to Senate for Approval
The bill intended to expand healthcare for children in low-income families is expected to breeze...
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Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Peanut Butter
The outburst of salmonella that affected approximately 410 people in 43 states, and is believed to...
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WellPoint Suspends Enrollment Of New Members In Medicare Health Plans
WellPoint, parent company to Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin, and one of the largest...
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After 37 years, police nab LA's "worst serial killer"
Los Angeles - Police in Los Angeles identified a 72-year-old insurance adjuster Thursday as the...
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Sebelius confirmed as US health secretary amid swine-flu scare
Washington - Kathleen Sebelius was approved by the US Senate as health secretary Tuesday,...
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House approves new controls on tobacco in United States
Washington - The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved tougher anti-smoking controls in...
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Obama launches media blitz ahead of G20, at home and abroad
Washington - US President Barack Obama took his economic prescriptions to a global and domestic...
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US seeks powers to take over non-financial firms in wake of AIG
Washington - US authorities need broad new emergency powers to take over non-financial firms whose...
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Obama backs Geithner, rules out resignation
Washington - US President Barack Obama backed his embattled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and...
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US House backs 90-per-cent tax on bail-out bonuses
Washington - Spurred on by public ire over bonuses paid at firms that received government...
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US Congress to vote on 90 per cent tax on bail-out bonuses
Washington - Spurred on by public ire over bonuses paid at firms that received government...
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Obama presses budget plan on California trip
Los Angeles - US President Barack Obama pushed his plans for economic recovery Wednesday on a...
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Obama to nominate new health secretary
Washington - US President Barack Obama will nominate Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as health...
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PCA Fills for Bankruptcy Protection
Peanut Corporation of America has already filed for bankruptcy protection and will soon begin to...
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Expansion of Health Care for Children Signed into Law
Four million more children in the United States will have their health insurance covered thanks...
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Obama Expands Child Health Care Coverage to 11 Million
President Barack Obama signed Wednesday a bill to expand publicly funded health care for children...
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House Expected To Approve Children’s Health Bill Today
The House on Wednesday is expected to approve the expansion of the State Children’s Health...
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Senate Approves Health Bill For Children
The Senate on Thursday approved the bill designed to provide health insurance to more than...
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Legal Immigrant’s Children in Louisiana to Be Covered by SCHIP
Lawmakers in Louisiana consider revising the state’s health insurance program for children...
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Salmonella Outburst Linked To Peanut Butter
The outburst of salmonella that affected approximately 410 people in 43 states, and is believed to...
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Hawaiian Unemployed People Can’t Afford Health Insurance
Health insurance has a become a big issue as more and more people are laid off due to the financial...
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Barack Obama’s Health Reform Gets Vote Of Confidence
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Obama’s Health Care System Reform Plans Draw Mixed Reaction
President-elect Barack Obama’s plans of reforming the U.S. health care system passed an...
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Blue Shield Agrees To Reimburse
Blue Shield has been involved in a controversy recently, regarding medical coverage in an already...
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Obama’s Health Care Reform May Not Work
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Obama Lends an Ear to Americans' Health Care Issues
Monday, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Barack Obama’s nominee as health and human...
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Obama Names Tom Daschle As Health Care Leader
President-elect Barack Obama reasserted his pledge to overhaul the nation's healthcare system when...
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Hillary Clinton - from rival to Obama's top US diplomat
Washington - She was Barack Obama's chief challenger in the dramatic two-year neck-and-neck race...
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The Cathedral Church Of St. John The Divine Is Now Open
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New...
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Healthy Habits Finally Pay Off: Cancer Rates Start Declining In The US
New cancer cases and deaths have started to decline for the
first time in both American men and...
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Fourteen Felons Granted Clemency In the 12th Hour Of Bush's Term
In addition the more high-profile commute of rapper John
Edward Forte’s sentence, President George...
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U.S. Government Paying For Unapproved Drugs
Analysis of federal data conducted by the Associated Press has
revealed that the United States...
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It’s Time You Chose Your Part D Plan
Until December 31, Medicare Part D is offering an “open-enrollment” period, meaning that seniors...
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Good News for Unemployed: Walgreens Offers Them Free Care
Have you lost you job recently? If you’re among “yes” people, then you have one...
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Anna Nicole Smith’s Boyfriend, Doctors Charged with Conspiracy
Ana Nicole Smith’s longtime boyfriend and two doctors were charged on Thursday for giving the...
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Police recover painting by German 15th century master
Oslo - Norwegian police said Wednesday they have recovered a painting by German master Lucas...
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Octomom Is Eager To Take Her Children Home
Nadya Suleman told TV host "Dr. Phil" McGraw on Tuesday that she fears Kaiser Permanente...
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Johnson&Johnson Sued by the United States
The United States has sued the Johnson&Johnson company for marketing the heart drug...
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Octuplet Mom Followed By Quadruplet Mom
In spite of the fact that Dr. Michael Kamrava is under investigation by the American Society For...
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Octuplets Grandma Unaware Of Daughter’s Insurance Money
The California woman, who became famous after giving birth to eight babies in late January, is...
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Good Things Only Happen To Good People
…or at least this is the story I’m going to relate further.
Brittiny and...
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Church Offers More Details on Haggard Case
The New Life Church, which fired its founding pastor Ted Haggard back in 2006 under...
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Senate Expected to Approve Kids' Health Insurance Program
Senators continued to debate the reauthorization of a bill to expand the State...
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The Growth Rate in Health Care Spending in US Lower
The increase in health care spending in the US was the smallest since 1998 due to the growing use...
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Everybody Is Expecting Obama’s Health Care Reform
It’s not a secret to anyone that healthcare in the U.S. is currently flawed. Healthcare...
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Obama Chooses Tom Daschle For Secretary Of Health
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senator Tom Daschle for Secretary of Health and...
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“Leverage” Shows the Bright Side of Con-Artists
In the new television series “Leverage,” scheduled to
premiere Sunday night at 10 on TNT,...
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Vermont Ranked Healthiest State, Louisiana Least Healthy
Health continues to be an important issue for the United States,
as recent studies have shown that...
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Many Physicians Would Quit
Almost 50 percent of primary-care doctors surveyed said they would seriously think about working in...
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It’s Time to Pick a Medicare Drug Plan that Meets Your Needs!
Sign up period for Medicare Part D
started Saturday. This is the time for you to decide and to...
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3,800 UTMB Workers to Lose Their Job
Some US
institutions have not been able to catch up with things after the Hurricane
Ike. One of...
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Barack Obama’s Health-Care Reform May Help Many
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Michael Jackson Foregoes Neverland
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop has lost ownership of his
erstwhile kingdom, the Neverland Ranch...
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March Of Dimes Gives U.S. A “D” In Terms Of Premature Birth
In an assessment of premature births in each U.S. state, the
March of Dimes gave the nation a D on...
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Most States Get Ds for Preterm Birth Rate
The United
States’ high rate of premature births has earned the
state a D, according to the...
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Shocking Preterm Birth Rate In The United States
The rate of premature birth in the United States has reached an alarming 12,7 percent, although the...
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British Girl Bravely Refused Heart Transplant
Hannah Jones was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 4 years old. Chemotherapy put her into...
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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Obama vs. "Pushing Daisies”
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's half-hour campaign commercial is scheduled to run...
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Electric bikes "silently" taking over the city
The familiar cluttering sound of motorbike scooters that has reigned in southern European for more...
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CDC: Merck’s Rotateq Lowered Cases of Rotavirus by 80 Percent since Approval
Rotateq, the vaccine against rotavirus, has reduced the number of illnesses by at least two-thirds...
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OHSU: 9 Million Kids Have No Health Insurance Coverage in the US
While US
presidential candidates’ debate over health care is making headlines all over
the world,...
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Harvard Gene Project Posts DNA Data of 10 Volunteers Online
Hoping to give medical research a big push forward, the Harvard University Medical School made the...
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World
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China announces human rights action plan
Beijing - China has published an action plan to protect the rights of its citizens, including...
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Obama angry over AIG's huge bonuses, vows to block them
Washington - US president Barack Obama Monday added his anger to mounting criticism of the...
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Octuplets Mom Received Disability Payments
Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets last month, was apparently injured in...
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Sleeping At The Wheel Can Prove Fatal
Munich - Driving when drowsy is a feeling that every motorist knows. The danger is greatest on long...
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Philippines Propose Global-Warming Insurance Funds
According to the Philippines Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change Secretary...
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Storms lash Australia's east coast
Sydney - Australia's east coast received its biggest downpours in decades Thursday, confounding...
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Supertanker Seizure Ups Stakes In Piracy Battle
Nairobi - Somali pirates achieved a new milestone in their seemingly unstoppable rise this weekend...
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EU Leaders to Agree on Financial Rescue Plan
Brussels - European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Wednesday were set to rubber-stamp a...
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Barack Obama Versus John McCain: The Health Care System Round
With the presidential
campaigns nearing the end and the elections on November 4,
2008...
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As Stock Markets Plunge, US Candidates Duel over Way Out
Washington (dpa) - As the financial crisis erodes the retirement nest eggs of millions of...
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After Years Of Effort, Mental Health Legislation Finally Passes
After 12 years of effort to pass legislation requiring insurance companies to cover mental...
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Obama To Launch Multifaceted Attack On McCain’s Health Care Plan
Barack Obama launched an attack on John McCain’s health care plan Saturday and focused its...
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McCain, Obama push for speedy action on financial plan
Washington - The US presidential candidates on Tuesday spent the day after a 700-billion-dollar...
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Bush Raises Spectre of Painful Recession without Rescue Plan
Washington - A somber US President George W Bush painted a frightening picture of soaring job...
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Obama and McCain on U.S. Health Care
There are very few issues on which both U.S. presidential candidates agree. One of those issues is...
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US Campaign Rhetoric Shows Resurgent "Culture Wars"
San Francisco - The United States might be fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but back on home...
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Medicare Payment Error Rate Higher Than Said
The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services denounced Medicare for...
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Caylee's Mom Was Released from Florida Jail on $500k Bond
Casey Anthony, the mother of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony, was released today from the...
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College Presidents Sign Petition to Lower Drinking Age
More than 100 fellow college and university presidents have
stirred a national debate on drinking...
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Hospital Executives Detained For Using Homeless People In Medical Fraud
FBI discovered an alleged fraud scheme involving federal Medicaid and state Medi-Cal health...
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"By the Time You Foreclose on My House, I'll be Dead” and She Did It!
A Massachusetts woman was so downhearted because of the imminent foreclosure of her home and her...
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Dolly May Turn Hurricane and Hit Coastal Texas, Oil Price Up 1$
Tropical Storm Dolly could strengthen to a hurricane and it is very probable that it will make...
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Michael Savage Continues Autism Discussion, Maintaining His Point of View
When you have the opportunity to inform people on certain
subjects, the worst thing to do is to...
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Barack Obama’s Speech at the La Raza Convention
Sunday, Barack Obama spoke to about 2,000 members of the
National Council of La Raza, a Latino...
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Medicare Pay Cuts on Senate Republicans’ Hands
Whether the elderly continues to receive medical care
under the Medicare program will be decided...
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Congress Nears August Break, Activity Crippled by Partisan Attitude
As elections are nearing, lawmakers are more partisan than ever and the two parties are almost...
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Democrats Blame Republicans For Medicare Bill Rejection
Democrats rushed Friday to blame republican senators for voting against a Medicare bill that would...
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House Passes Bill Blocking Medicare Cut for Doctors
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed
legislation to block a July 1...
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Three Murderers Executed in Japan
The Justice Ministry said that three murderers, who were
convicted, were executed Tuesday. The...
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The Health Care System Needs A Good Treatment
The health care plans in the United States
have become one of the main issues debated in the...
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Business
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CEO says AIG needs no more bail-outs, for now
Washington - American International Group Inc (AIG), the troubled global insurance giant that...
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US seeks dramatic expansion of financial regulatory powers
Washington - President Barack Obama's administration, in a massive overhaul of the US financial...
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Lloyds insurer hit by profit slump as claims rise in 2008
London - Insurers Lloyds of London Tuesday announced 50-per-cent slide in pre-tax profits in 2008...
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US unveils trillion-dollar toxic-asset rescue bid
Washington - The United States will use both private and public funds to buy up...
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Tata's Nano set for commercial launch Monday
New Delhi - Tata Motors' Nano, said to be the world's cheapest car, was set to be launched in the...
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AIG, Obama under fire as Congress, public take aim
Washington - The US Congress tapped into growing public ire over bailed-out insurance giant AIG's...
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Congress wants AIG bonuses back; AIG head rebukes suicide remark
Washington - The US Congress Wednesday tapped into growing public ire over bailed-out insurance...
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AIG gets more US aid after 100-billion-dollar loss
American International Group Inc (AIG) will get access to another 30 billion dollars in government...
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Medicare Decides To Expand Coverage For Cancer Drugs
Doctors and patients who need Medicare reimbursement for certain experimental treatments...
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BofA Gets New $ 20 Billion Lifeline
The United States government approved a new lifeline of 20 billion dollars Friday to Bank of...
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UnitedHealth Agrees To Update Its Database
Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Tuesday agreed to pay $50 million to establish a new...
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Yahoo Takes On Carol Bartz As New CEO
The economic crisis has been taking its toll on the United States in more ways than one. One of...
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Investors to buy failed US bank IndyMac
Washington - A group of private investors is to buy US bank IndyMac, which was seized by...
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Wine Experts Say Bordeaux Is Safe Port In Economic Storm
Hong Kong - Wine experts may disagree on most things, but one thing they all appear to agree...
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US government rescues Citigroup; stocks soar
Washington - The US government's decision to rescue banking giant Citigroup sent stocks soaring...
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Half-price BMW, Anyone? South Africa Feels The Squeeze
Johannesburg - When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was...
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Dutch ING Group receives 10 billion from government support fund
Amsterdam - Bank and insurance company ING Group is to receive 10 billion euros (13.4 billion...
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EU approves rescue package as Brown inspires EU summit
Brussels - The European Union approved its own financial rescue package at a summit that saw...
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Japan Sucked Ever Deeper into Financial Maelstrom
Tokyo - Never before has the Japanese economy been buffeted so severely by financial sources...
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Ford Makes Driving A Little Bit Safer For Teens
Earlier this week, Ford Motor Co. presented its new system
developed to help parents gain a little...
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Hypo Real Estate chief pressed to quit
Berlin - As Germany sought to calm the public with a "decisive" pledge about savings...
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BNP Paribas pays 14.5 billion euros for troubled Fortis
Paris - French bank BNP Paribas will pay 14.5 billion euros (19.7 billion dollars) to take over the...
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Citigroup goes to court over Wachovia takeover
Washington - In another surprise development in the takeover race for the fourth-largest US bank, a...
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EU Leaders to Meet as Finance Crisis Exposes Deep Divisions
Paris - As leaders from the four EU members of the G8 group of leading industrial nations prepared...
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EU Urges US Lawmakers to Approve Rescue Plan
Brussels - United
States lawmakers were required by the
European Commission to assume their...
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Uncertainty as House rejects financial bail-out
Washington - In a shocking
development Monday that plunged the United States back...
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Medicare Drug Premiums Expected To Rise In 2009
Premiums for Medicare drug coverage will rise an average 24
percent for elderly and disabled...
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US Congress finalizing breakthrough finance plan
Washington - Congress on Sunday was on the threshold of
sealing a controversial...
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Bush's Republicans in revolt over finance rescue plan
Washington - US legislators worked behind closed doors
through Saturday seeking agreement on a...
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Feds seize Washington Mutual in largest-ever US bank failure
New York - The fallout from the largest-ever US bank failure rippled through markets on Friday...
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People
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US octo-mother has TV reality show deal on horizon
Lost Angeles - Nadya Suleman, the US single mother of 14 children including recently-born...
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Nadya Suleman Rejects $1 Million Porn Flick Offer
Well, I bet you did not expect this.
Octomom Nadya Suleman has rejected $1 million, as...
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Octomom Scared Hostpital Won’t Release Her Babies to Her
Talking to TV host “Dr. Phil” McGraw on Tuesday, Nadya Suleman revealed that her...
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Nick Cannon Thinks “America’s Got Talent”
Nick Cannon is taking over America’s talent.
The 28-year-old musician and actor will serve...
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‘Girls Gone Wild’ Creator Joe Francis Sent Back To Jail
Founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” empire Joe Francis was placed under arrest Monday...
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Heath Ledger’s Life Insurance Case Wraps Up
The lawsuit involving Heath Ledger’s $10 million life insurance policy is close to an end...
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Jeremy Piven Talks About His Mercury Poisoning
Actor Jeremy Piven, who pulled out of David Mamet’s Broadway play...
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Divorce Settlement Requires Madonna to Pay $76 Million
Madonna and her ex-husband Guy Ritchie have finally reached
a divorce settlement that requires the...
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Health Ledger's Daughter Matilda To Inherit His Estate Eventually
It's been long enough since Heath Ledger passed away and his fortune is nearly settled, with the...
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Yankees Star Alex Rodriguez's Divorce From Wife Cynthia A Done Deal
Setting an example for all celebrity couples getting a divorce, American baseball player Alex...
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Don LaFontaine, Voice Of Movie Trailers, Dies At 68
Don LaFontaine, whose voice we all know from most of Hollywood’s movie
trailers, died Monday at...
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Actor Shelley Malil Pleads Not Guilty On Attempted Murder Charge
Shelley Malil, the American actor famous for his comedic
role in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,"...
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Epitome Of Soul Music, Isaac Hayes, Passes Away
The Black Moses of the soul and R&B music passed away on
Sunday. Isaac Hayes died at the age...
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High Profile Lawyer Scruggs Sentenced to Five Years
The prominent class-action Mississippi lawyer, Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, was sentenced to...
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Another Singer Arrested For DUI: Young Jeezy
Another singer charged with driving under the influence and
speeding: Young Jeezy, who...
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Yves Saint Laurent Remembered As A Revolutionary Designer
Yves Saint Laurent, the revolutionary and most influential
designer in French couture in the last...
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Jackson's Neverland Saved from March 19 Auction
Michael Jackson managed to reach a refinancing deal and saved his famous Neverland, the 2,800-acre...
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Former Democratic Ohio Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, Dead At 90
Former Democratic Senator Howard M.
Metzenbaum, a well-known champion of workers and consumers,...
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Hulk Hogan's Wife Seeking Half of Assets
Linda Bollea, wife of pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan, filed for divorce last Wednesday and is seeking half...
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Actor Dick Wilson aka ‘Mr. Whipple’ Dies
One of the best known personalities in TV advertising, Dick Wilson, who played "Mr....
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Britney's Driving Record Almost Cleared
The hit-and-run charges stemming from Britney Spears’ August accident were dropped after she...
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Character Actor Charles Lane Dies at 102
Charles Lane, an actor since the 1930s who celebrated his 102nd birthday this year, died Monday in...
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De Niro Fights Insurer Over 2003 Cancer
The cancer he was diagnosed with in 2003 still haunts Robert
De Niro, despite he’s full...
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Rapper Eve Charged With DUI
Previously arrested for driving under the influence after she crashed her car into the center...
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