House Dems release health care outline (Politico)
Politico - The proposal would create a public insurance option.
Politico - The proposal would create a public insurance option.
AP - For years, landowners have gotten paid for not farming. Now they may get paid for not cutting down trees.
AP - President Barack Obama pushed urgently Thursday for passage of legislation to confront global warming, billing it as a job-creating machine rather than the costly “job killer” Republicans denounced. He telephoned wavering Democrats on the eve of what could be a historic House vote.
AP - Senators working to give President Barack Obama a comprehensive health care overhaul said Thursday they had figured out how to pare back the complex legislation to keep costs from crashing through a $1 trillion, 10-year ceiling.
AFP - Weight-loss surgery that curbs food intake by stitching up parts of the stomach or small intestine reduces the risk of cancer in obese women by more than 40 percent, according to a study released Thursday.
Reuters - Sinus infections may cause more than 20 percent of all cases of toxic shock syndrome in children, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Reuters - Nearly half the HIV-positive U.S. adolescents and young adults are unaware of their infection, and less than a quarter of sexually active high school students are tested for the virus, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) — A new cancer drug called
olaparib worked well in an early clinical trial against breast, ovarian
and prostate cancers in individuals who were genetically vulnerable to
developing these malignancies.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) — New research suggests a
relationship between low levels of omega-3 fatty acids and an increased
risk of depression in heart patients.
Time.com - Growing evidence suggests that social activity is associated with preserving mental and physical fitness in older age
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) — Despite having one of the
highest rates of obesity in America, the poor are less likely to undergo
weight loss surgery than obese people who are better off financially, new
research shows.