Insurers make pitch for health coverage mandate - AOL
Lawmakers have signaled their intent to craft health care legislation early next year, and the insurance industry's support would make passage easier. That legislation is expected to closely track the proposals of President-elect Barack Obama ...
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Winona Ryder rushed to hospital after suspected overdose - News.com.au
The British Airways jet was forced to make a priority landing ? 22 minutes before the expected time of arrival ? and the Edward Scissorhands star reportedly had her stomach pumped at Hillingdon Hospital, West London. Winona ? who is thought to ...
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HIV tests yet to be routine in hospitals - Seattle Times
WASHINGTON ? Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists said Thursday. States that once required ...
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30-day age limit for Neb. safe-haven law advances - Times West Virginian
LINCOLN, Neb. ? A 30-day age limit in the Nebraska safe-haven law appears headed for final approval. The state Legislature voted 41-6 Wednesday to give second-round approval to the limit. A final vote is expected Friday and then the bill will go to ...
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Former Colleague Endorses Holder - Intelligencer
President-elect Barack Obama has informally selected Washington attorney Eric Holder as his top choice to be the next attorney general - and at least one local jurist who knows Holder approves. William Wilmoth, an attorney with the Wheeling office of ...
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Bed shortage forces L.A. County mental health staff to rely on police - Los Angeles Times
Alarmed by reports that Los Angeles County mental health staff -- hobbled by a countywide shortage of beds for the mentally ill -- are increasingly forwarding emergency calls to police, commissioners overseeing the department on Thursday asked that a ...
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Kanawha health chief post offered to Nashville doctor - Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The Charleston-Kanawha Board of Health offered its executive director's job Thursday to a Vanderbilt University professor with a public health background. Dr. Rahul Gupta, an assistant professor of internal medicine at Vanderbilt ...
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Md. health officials track flu with e-mail queries - Baltimore Sun
You're all achy, coughing and feverish. Work is out of the question, but you're not sick enough to see a doctor. How nice it would be if someone checked in to ask how you're feeling. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene won't send ...
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Writer calls for 1 health plan - Billings Gazette
HELENA - If America wants to revamp its ailing health care system, it has many models to choose from around the world - and other countries do it better because they have one system for all citizens, writer T.R. Reid told a health forum here Thursday ...
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Not much of tobacco money aids health care - Seattle Times
In 2006, Alaska desperately needed cash to complete a museum featuring a mummified bison and other natural wonders of the frozen north. So the state dipped into its share of the landmark 1998 tobacco settlement. The billions that began flowing from ...
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