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Catholic university in Ohio drops student health plans
By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
A Catholic university in Ohio has become the first college to drop its student health plans in the wake of the Obama administration’s requirement that employee and student plans include all FDA-approved birth control. Published May 15, 2012 Comments
Mass. Senate to tackle health care payment plan
By Bob Salsberg - Associated Press
Gov. Deval Patrick praised lawmakers Tuesday for tackling the high cost of medical care in Massachusetts while expressing reservations about some aspects of cost containment legislation, including a proposal to create a new state agency responsible for monitoring health care expenditures. Published May 15, 2012 Comments
Clock ticking with new plan to fight Alzheimer’s
By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press
The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer’s Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease. Published May 15, 2012 Comments
Honolulu girl, 8, credited with finding woman, 83
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An 8-year-old Honolulu girl is being credited with helping locate a missing elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s. Published May 15, 2012 Comments
Chimps help Chicago zoo vet study their hearts
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More than a third of deaths in adult captive chimpanzees are caused by complications of heart disease, and veterinarians don’t know why. Published May 15, 2012 Comments
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House GOP works with Romney on health care
By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
House Republican leaders are quietly working with Mitt Romney's campaign to fashion a unified GOP health care platform to replace President Obama's health law, according to lawmakers involved in the effort.
Kelly Clarkson: Young cancer patients' 'Stronger' video a big hit
By Manuel Valdes - Associated Press
A video featuring cancer-stricken children, their nurses, doctors and parents lip-synching and dancing to the popular Kelly Clarkson song "Stronger" has become an online sensation.
Obese Ohio boy, 9, sheds 50 lbs, is returned home
By John Seewer - Associated Press
A 9-year-old boy removed from his mother's custody after his weight ballooned to more than 200 pounds returned home slimmer with a free gym membership, exercise equipment and even a new scale.
Advocates: HIV prevention pill could save lives
By Lindsey Tanner - Associated Press
A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of reach and too costly for many who need it.
Report: Suspect billings at 2,600 drugstores
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press
It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them. A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in a single year, part of a pattern of questionable billings at 2,600 drugstores nationwide uncovered by federal investigators in a report Thursday.
CDC: Half of young adults get sunburned
By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press
Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year, a government survey found — a sign young people aren't heeding the warnings about skin cancer.
FDA panel backs first pill to block HIV infection
By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press
The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS.
FDA: Kids' medical tests need child-size radiation
By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press
The government is taking steps to help ensure that children who need CT scans and other X-ray-based tests don't get an adult-sized dose of radiation.
Health care law's prevention money called 'slush fund'
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
After weeks of debate over whether the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by President Obama's health care law, affects women's health, Republicans are airing additional complaints about the pool of money and how states and communities have used the fund to support a string of questionable initiatives.
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