Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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Ryan's Tax Rate Drop Would Require Lawmakers to Consider Favored Breaks
Bloomberg
By Richard Rubin - Wed Apr 06 04:00:14 GMT 2011 The fiscal plan outlined by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan calls for reducing the top individual and corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 25 percent, which would require lawmakers to consider ...
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Senate Passes Change to Health Law
New York Times
By AP WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent the White House its first rollback of the new health care law on Tuesday, a bipartisan repeal of a tax reporting requirement that was widely unpopular with businesses. The Senate voted 87 to 12 to repeal a ...
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Doctor says she confronted ill boy's mother
Boston Globe
By Brian R. Ballou LAWRENCE — The doctor who treated a boy who later died after his mother allegedly stopped giving him life-saving medication testified yesterday that she confronted the woman about how she was handling the cancer-stricken boy, ...
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Boston Globe
Estrogen pills found to lower cancer risk
Boston Globe
By Tara Parker-Pope NEW YORK — In a finding that challenges the conventional wisdom about the risks of some hormones used in menopause, a major government study has found that years after using estrogen-only therapy, certain women had a markedly ...
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US researchers develop blood pressure-lowering device
Xinhua
LOS ANGELES, April 5 (Xinhua) -- People with resistant hypertension may someday use a device instead of drugs to control their blood pressure, according to study findings published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on ...
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US teen pregnancy rate record low in 2009
Xinhua
BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The teen pregnancy rate in the United States declined to a record low in 2009, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) said Wednesday. In 2009, around 410000 teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth in the United States, ...
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Xinhua
New drug for bacterial infections wins support
Los Angeles Times
By Andrew Zajac, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON--An antibiotic developed by a San Diego pharmaceutical firm received a government medical panel's backing as a treatment for diarrhea caused by increasingly common bacterial infections often ...
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Method to determine least CT dose for kids
UPI.com
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 5 (UPI) -- Researchers in Sweden say they have developed a method to determine the lowest possible dose of CT scan radiation for children while still getting a good image. In her thesis, medical physicist Kerstin Ledenius of ...
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Big Apple may copy toy ban
San Francisco Chronicle
Forget same-sex marriage and universal health care. The latest San Francisco export to grab the attention of politicians around the country is the infamous Happy Meal toy ban. Now it's traveled to the Big Apple, where New York City Councilman Leroy ...
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Indian guru Sai Baba 'improving'
BBC News
The condition of one of India's most revered spiritual leaders, Satya Sai Baba, is showing "signs of improvement", his doctors say. Thousands of devotees in the state of Andhra Pradesh have gathered outside a hospital where he was admitted last week ...
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BBC News
Allergies Affecting Many Laredoans
KGNS
By KGNS News Are you dealing with watery eyes and an itchy throat? Every year around 60 million people across the country suffer from allergies and specialist said those numbers keep climbing. As the winds kick up during these next couple of weeks you ...
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Perhaps new athlete-death stats will prompt new look at screening costs
Los Angeles Times
By Marissa Cevallos, HealthKey More athletes are fatally collapsing on basketball courts, in swimming pools and on playing fields than once thought, new research has found, with 1 in 44000 NCAA athletes dying of sudden cardiac death per year. ...
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Los Angeles Times
Patrick urges action on health bill
Boston Globe
By Liz Kowalczyk Governor Deval Patrick, hoping to propel his proposal to curb medical costs, urged lawmakers and the health care industry yesterday to stop "wringing hands about how complex this is'' and move quickly to pass legislation to change how ...
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UMC suspends only kidney transplant service in West Texas
LubbockOnline.com
By Kellie Bramlet University Medical Center Health System has suspended its kidney transplant program, the only one in the region. "We are taking a complete review of the program and looking at all aspects of how it operates," said Greg Bruce, ...
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