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Meet the Senate's Powerful and Progressive Policy Wonk, Ron Wyden

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joe Conason - May. 21 (Special Report) - Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one of the Senate's more serious and diligent members. Over the years on Capitol Hill, he has watched the Republican Party veer constantly further rightward, and yet he continues to believe against all evidence that bipartisan legislative cooperation is possible -- even likely.

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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau - May. 19 (Comment) - Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

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Kenya launches universal HPV vaccine access to youths

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

africanews.com - By George Okore - May. 18 (News Report) - As the world celebrates the Cervical Cancer Week, Kenya has taken a leap of faith by launching universal distribution of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine, expected to treat cervical cancer- the most dangerous disease among womenfolk worldwide.

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The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jonathan Chait - May. 10 (News Analysis) - Changes in the way we think about the world are not “news” in the classic sense — they occur gradually, without discrete events to signal them. But they matter. Two such developments have come together recently, both reported in the New York Times. The f

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Prices Cut for HPV Cervical Cancer Vaccines for Neediest

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - May. 09 (News Report) - The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose, eventually making it possible for millions of girls to be protected against a major cance

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Why Obamacare is oversold

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert J. Samuelson - May. 09 (Opinion) - It’s the great moral imperative behind the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”): People should not be denied health care because they can’t afford insurance. Health status and insurance are assumed to be connected, and opponents have often been cast as moral midgets, willing to condemn the uninsured to unnecessary illness or death. The trouble is that health status and insurance are only loosely connected. This suggests that Obamacare may result in more spending and health services but few gains in the public’s ...

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Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jeffrey Young,Chris Kirkham - May. 08 (News Report) - When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690. Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center charges only $7,044 for the same treatment, according to a massive federal database of national health care costs made public on Wednesday.

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How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jia Lynn Yang, Tom Hamburger, Dina ElBoghdady - May. 07 (Comment) - On the same morning a congressional staffer told investors in a private call that odds were improving for a government decision that would help medical insurers, trading spiked in a major health-care company. ...

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Obstacles for Pregnant Women Seeking Dental Care

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Catherine Saint Louis - May. 07 (Opinion) - Well: Obstacles for Pregnant Women Seeking Dental Care

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What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ROSS DOUTHAT - May. 05 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Columnist: What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do

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Prude or prudent? The debate over access to Plan B

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Kathleen Parker - May. 04 (Opinion) - They lost me at the word “women.” As so often happens in contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly younger) to buy the “morning-after pill” without adult supervision are false on their premise. ...

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Is a new study of Medicaid a game changer?

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - May. 03 (Fact Check) - On May 1, 2013, the New England Journal of Medicine published a landmark study with important implications for President Obama’s health care law -- and, in a much less far-reaching way, some of our recent fact-checks. The topic: Medicaid, the government-run health insurance program for the poor. Under Obama’s law, states can get federal dollars to enroll their uninsured residents in Medicaid. Some politicians argue that taking the federal money now leaves the state on the hook for long-term fiscal commitments it can’t afford. On April 8, we fact-checked a claim by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that went beyond the ... >>More

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Study Finds Health Care Use Rises With Expanded Medicaid

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ANNIE LOWREY - May. 02 (Research) - Study Finds Health Care Use Rises With Expanded Medicaid

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Drug Agency Lowers Age For Next-Day Birth Control

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Pam Belluck - Apr. 30 (News) - The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would make the most widely known morning-after pill available without a prescription to girls and women ages 15 and older, and also make the pill available on drugstore shelves, instead of keeping it locked up behind pharmacy counters.

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TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Deanna Pan - Apr. 29 (Investigative Report) - 1773 The first patient is admitted to the Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Williamsburg, Virginia. The rebuilt Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Williamsburg. Wikipedia 1841 Boston schoolteacher Dorothea Dix visits the East Cambridge Jail where she first sees the horrible living conditions of the mentally ill. Believing they could be cured, Dix lobbies lawmakers and courts for better treatment until her death in 1887. Her efforts lead to the establishment of 110 psychiatric hospitals by 1880. Dorothea Dix Wikipedia 1887 On assignment for New York World , Nellie Bly feigns lunacy in order to be admitted to the Women"s Lunatic Asylum on New York"s Blackwell"s Island. Her exposé, " Ten Days in a Mad-house ," detailing the appalling living conditions at the asylum, leads to a grand jury investigation and needed reforms at the institution. Wikipedia 1907 ...

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Girl, 14, forced to become pregnant with donor sperm bought by mother

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Caroline Davies - Apr. 29 (Special Report) - Judge describes 'wicked and selfish' motive of using daughter to provide parent with a fourth child A mother forced her 14-year-old adopted daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm to provide a baby for her after she was prevented from adopting any more children, it can be revealed. The daughter, a virgin, is believed to have miscarried at 14, but went on to have a baby at 16 after regularly inseminating herself with sperm bought over the internet by her "domineering" mother because she was too scared to refuse. Details of the shocking case have emerged in a previously secret court judgment, which can be reported today for the first time and which raises serious questions over loopholes in international adoptions and the regulation of the global traffic in gametes. The adoptive mother, who cannot be identified for fear of identifying her daughter and grandchild, is now serving a five-year prison sentence after admitting child cruelty. In a high court judgment deciding welfare ...

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Generic Drugs Are Actually Not the Same as Name-Brands, Thanks to FDA Malfeasance

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Charles Seife, Rob Garver - Apr. 28 (News Report) - in 2011, the Food and Drug Administration determined that a major laboratory had committed such “egregious” research violations that years’ worth of its tests — many comparing generics to name-brand drugs — were potentially worthless. The FDA has required drug manufacturers to redo many of the tests from that lab, owned by the now-defunct Cetero Research. But a ProPublica investigation shows that the agency took little action to prevent consumers from taking medicines the FDA no longer knew for sure were safe or effective.

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Chris Nogy, Arkansas Republican, Floats Idea Of Shooting Lawmakers

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:01:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post News Team - Apr. 21 (News Analysis) - Chris Nogy, the husband of a Republican Party official in Arkansas, suggested it was a shame that voters couldn't just threaten to shoot GOP state legislators who voted for the state's Medicaid expansion.

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Problems at Pa. abortion clinic point to lack of facilities oversight

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Brady Dennis, Sandhya Somashekhar - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - There was no shortage of red flags about what was allegedly going on in the three-story brick building on a bustling stretch of Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia. A routine inspection of Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic had turned up problems as early as 1989, according to official reports. More recently, hospital workers and attorneys had repeatedly contacted state health officials with disturbing reports about women who had contracted the same venereal disease after visiting the clinic; a 14-year-old girl who had had an illegal abortion at 30 weeks of pregnancy; and a 41-year-old Virginia woman who had died after an abortion. ...

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Obamacare Subsidies Target Young, Working People: Report

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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Report on US Meat Sounds Alarm on Resistant Bacteria

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Stephanie Strom - Apr. 17 (News Analysis) - Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on ‘Superbugs’

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China's bird flu death toll rises to 16, government warns of spread

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Apr. 17 (News Report) - China's bird flu death toll rises to 16, government warns of spread

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Breast Cancer Drugs Urged for Healthy High-Risk Women

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Denise Grady - Apr. 16 (News) - Breast Cancer Drugs Urged for Healthy High-Risk Women

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FDA finds widespread safety issues at compounding pharmacies

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lena H. Sun - Apr. 12 (Investigative Report) - Months after tainted steroid shots made by a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy triggered the worst drug disaster in decades, federal inspectors have found dozens of potentially dangerous safety problems at about 30 other specialty pharmacies, known as ...

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High Drug Cost Spells Health Risks For Poor And Uninsured: Report

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jeffrey Young - Apr. 09 (Research) - Uninsured people and those with low incomes are the most likely to go with prescription drugs they need because of cost -- and it could be harming their health, according to survey results published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesd

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