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Supporters of Obama's healthcare law kick off outreach campaign
WASHINGTON — A coalition of presidential campaign veterans, healthcare companies and community activists will kick off a months-long push on Sunday to prepare millions of Americans to sign up for insurance this fall under President Obama’s...
Tags: Judges, Healthcare Laws, Medicaid, Education, Elections
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Pennsylvania girl who got on adult donor list gets lung transplant
The critically ill 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was at the center of efforts to allow children younger than 12 to receive adult lungs was in surgery undergoing a transplant on Wednesday. Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, was...
Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Feds to comply with NY morning-after pill ruling
From the Associated PressThe federal government on Monday told a judge it would reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. The Department of Justice, in the latest development in a...Tags: Plan B (drug), Women's Health, Family Planning, Judges, Health Treatments
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Obama administration reverses course on Plan B pill
The Obama administration dropped its long-standing opposition to over-the-counter sales of a controversial morning-after pill Monday and decided to permit consumers of any age to buy Plan B One-Step without a prescription. In papers filed in federal...
Tags: National Government, Judges, Government, Food and Drug Administration, Birth Control
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Philadelphia rulings on dying children spur debate on transplants
A second dying child has been given a chance to get a transplant of adult lungs, the latest step in a debate over a policy that has raised medical and legal questions. Javier Acosta, 11, has been placed on the official list to receive an adult lung...
Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, Judges, Tropical Storms, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Pennsylvania girl given opportunity for adult lung transplant
A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl has been given a chance at a transplant that could save her life after a judge ordered that the desperately ill child be added to the list of those hoping to receive an adult lung. The case, involving Sarah Murnaghan,...
Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, Lotteries, Tropical Storms, Lung Transplants, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Medicare financial outlook improves, but problems still loom
WASHINGTON — The federal government projected Friday that Medicare's main trust fund would not run in the red until 2026, two years later than projected last year, in part because of slower growth in healthcare costs. Prospects for the Social...
Tags: Retirement, Parties and Movements, Congressional Budget Office, Orrin Hatch, Economy, Business and Finance
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Medicare outlook improves as healthcare costs grow more slowly
WASHINGTON — In another indication of the impact of slowing healthcare costs, the federal government Friday upgraded its assessment of the financial health of the Medicare insurance program for the elderly and disabled. Medicare’s main trust...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Congressional Budget Office, Health Insurance Cost, Economy, Business and Finance, Mitt Romney
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The rules of organ transplant vs. a dying little girl
Was U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius being rigid and cruel when she refused an exception to the rules so a 10-year-old girl could receive a lung transplant from an adult? The girl, Sarah Murnaghan, was placed on the adult...
Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lung Transplants
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GOP slams fundraising, other efforts to promote Obama health law
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...
Tags: Judges, Lamar Alexander, Healthcare Laws, CVS Corp., George W. Bush
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Judge again rejects limits on emergency contraception
In yet another scathing critique of government health officials, a federal judge refused Friday to stay his order making emergency contraceptives available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. Calling government efforts to restrict the...
Tags: National Government, Judges, Government, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, Food and Drug Administration
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Obama administration moves to get more enrolled in health insurance
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced Thursday that it would provide millions of dollars to community health centers to help them enroll Americans in health insurance programs next year under the president’s health law. The move comes...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Health Insurance
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