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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Four divisive issues could dash President Barack Obama’s hopes of overhauling health care: cost, creating a government-run plan, taxing workers’ benefits and penalizing employers that don’t offer coverage.
These are potential dealbreakers as Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress work to revamp the system to cover the nearly 50 million [...]
Written on June 30, 2009 | Posted in
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – A 50-year-old woman with life-threatening cancer became the third Australian with swine flu to die on Wednesday, as Indonesia and Cambodia reported their first confirmed cases.
The Australian fatality is the fourth swine flu-related death in the Asia-Pacific region. The Philippines reported a patient with the virus died on Monday.
The Australian woman [...]
Written on June 24, 2009 | Posted in
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By AMY FORLITI
Associated Press Writer
SLEEPY EYE, Minnesota (AP) – A 13-year-old boy with cancer who fled Minnesota to avoid chemotherapy said he is angry a judge has ordered him to continue the treatment because doctors say it has significantly shrunk the size of his tumor.
Daniel Hauser was not in court Tuesday when the judge issued [...]
Written on June 24, 2009 | Posted in
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By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – In its annual report on world drug use, the United Nations concludes that global markets for cocaine, opiates and marijuana are holding steady or in decline.
Yet about 28 million people are heavy drug users likely to be physically or psychologically dependent on drugs, the report said.
Opium cultivation in [...]
Written on June 24, 2009 | Posted in
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) – Even as President Barack Obama and the insurance industry move toward open confrontation over the role of government in health care, his administration is telling lawmakers to keep pushing for a bipartisan deal.
Obama on Tuesday dismissed as “not logical” the insurance lobby’s assertion that a [...]
Written on June 24, 2009 | Posted in
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By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – In its annual report on world drug use, the United Nations concludes that global markets for cocaine, opiates and marijuana are holding steady or in decline.
Yet about 28 million people are heavy drug users likely to be physically or psychologically dependent on drugs, the report said.
Opium cultivation in [...]
Written on June 24, 2009 | Posted in
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GENEVA (AP) – The World Health Organization says three more countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have reported their first cases of swine flu.
WHO says Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and the island nation of Cape Verde have become the latest countries to report cases to the global body.
South Africa last week was the first in the region to [...]
Written on June 24, 2009 | Posted in
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By ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democrats are pushing forward with a partisan health care bill even as a key Senate Democrat labors to achieve an elusive bipartisan compromise on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priority.
The action on both sides of the Capitol comes with lawmakers mindful of next week’s July 4 congressional [...]
Written on June 23, 2009 | Posted in
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By DINA CAPPIELLO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – One contributor to global warming – bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants – is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and Democrats in the House of Representatives to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Cow burps.
Belching from the nation’s 170 million cattle, sheep and pigsproduces [...]
Written on June 22, 2009 | Posted in
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand expects a big increase in swine flu cases in the coming months, a health chief said Sunday, as infections from the virus continued to climb across the Asia-Pacific.
New Zealand was the first country in the region to announce a confirmed case in late April, but health authorities say [...]
Written on June 21, 2009 | Posted in
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