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Health-care voting time: Battle lines
The Swampby Mark Silva As the Senate Finance Committee sets out to vote today on a health-care overhaul which supporters say will offer heatlh insurance to millions of more Americans -- with the Congressional Budget Office setting the cost at about......Tags: Politics, Consumers, Career and Workplace, Health, Insurance
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FDA urged to better police food, supplements
The SwampA new report released this morning by the influential Institute of Medicine proposes calls for the Food and Drug Administration to apply the same scientific rigor to evaluating health claims for food and nutritional supplements as it does to determining...Tags: Food Industry, Drugs and Medicines, Utah, Science and Technology, Health
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Michelle Obama's guests: State of Union
The Swampby Michael Muskal Part of the ceremony surrounding any presidential speech to Congress is who gets to be singled out and who gets invited to sit with the first family. First Lady Michelle Obama is bringing quite a crowd. This......Tags: Hanover County, Georgia, Politics, University of Chicago, Health
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Career and Workplace, Dianne Feinstein
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President Barack Obama's "An America Built to Last" State of the Union Address
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:
Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to...Tags: Government Health Care, Fraud, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Health
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Lap-Band maker needs to step up
Like most big companies, Irvine pharmaceutical giant Allergan Inc. likes to project the image of an upstanding corporate citizen. Indeed, it devotes several pages of its website to its purported good works.
Yet it's still proper to ask: When will...Tags: Politics, Food and Drug Administration, Elections, Marketing, Allergan Inc.
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Stinky L.A. smell tied to dead fish in the Salton Sea, officials say
L.A. NOWRegional air-quality managers on Tuesday said that the rotten egg odor that hit Southern California on Monday came from dead fish in the Salton Sea. Air samples collected in the Coachella Valley, near the Salton Sea and elsewhere clinched inspectors&#... -
Complaints of foul smell in Southern California fall dramatically
L.A. NOWComplaints about rotten egg odor in Southern California have dropped off considerably as officials confirmed the stench came from dead fish in the Salton Sea. The South Coast Air Quality Management District said there were far fewer complaints Tuesday... -
Foul odor in Southern California appears to be dissipating
L.A. NOWRegional air quality managers said on Tuesday they are hoping samples collected in the Coachella Valley near the Salton Sea can put to rest the mystery of the epic stink that descended over much of Southern California. Complaints about the smell,... -
Salton Sea confirmed as cause of nasty Southland odor
L.A. NOWRegional air-quality managers on Tuesday said that inspectors had cracked the mystery of the epic stink that descended over much of Southern California. They confirmed that the rotten egg odor traveled about 150 miles from the Salton Sea to Los...... -
CLC science building on track as Gov. Quinn approves funding
TribLocal - Libertyville » NewsMore than $17 million in state funds were approved Tuesday for the College of Lake County's new science building. The college has been waiting for …... -
Adams, Brown, Mica, Nugent, Posey, Webster – What have they done?
Taking Names the Blog - Orlando SentinelSunday's column focused on all six of Central Florida's Congressional reps in the U.S. House. My question for them: ”What have you accomplished this year?” No what you wanted to accomplished, wished you'd accomplished or tried to accomplish....
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