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  • Merck ponders next step for troubled heart drug

    By Marilynn Marchione - Associated Press

    Officials at drugmaker Merck & Co. say they will take more time to decide what to do about an experimental blood thinner that gave disappointing results in a second big study. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • In this photo taken Thursday, March 15, 2012, Doreen Watson-Beard walks from her neighbor's yard en route to her home in Leesburg, Fla. Watson-Beard, 49, is one of the millions of Americans living with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

    Dementia’s youngest victims defy stereotypes

    By Matt Sedensky - Associated Press

    The number of Americans suffering from early onset dementia is growing as the baby boom generation ages. Published March 23, 2012 Comments

  • **FILE** House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, speaks Jan. 31, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

    House repeals part of health care law

    By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

    The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to repeal a Medicare cost-cutting panel that was part of President Obama’s health care overhaul, delivering a carefully-timed blow to his signature accomplishment one day before the two-year anniversary of his signing it into law. Published March 22, 2012 Comments

  • Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (left) and University of Miami President Donna Shalala, who had Mrs. Sibelius' job in the Clinton administration, discuss the still-divisive Affordable Care Act at a community health center in Miami. (Associated Press)

    On second anniversary, health care divide grows

    By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

    President Obama’s health care overhaul marks its second anniversary this week, and from the way Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are talking about it, you would think they are looking at two entirely different laws. Published March 21, 2012 Comments

  • A new Israeli law aims to ease the pressure on young girls who want emulate the country's skin-and-bones models - pressure often resulting in dangerous eating disorders - by banning underweight models from local advertising. (Associated Press)

    Israeli law cites super-thin models as bad examples

    By Diaa Hadid and Daniella Cheslow - Associated Press

    Told she was too fat to be a model, Danielle Segal shed a quarter of her weight and was hospitalized twice for malnutrition. Now that a new Israeli law prohibits the employment of underweight models, the 19-year-old must gain some of the weight back if she wants to work again. Published March 21, 2012 Comments

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  • Mom appeals for survivor benefits for kids born after dad's death

    By Jesse J. Holland - Associated Press

    Should babies conceived using the frozen sperm of their deceased father get his Social Security survivor benefits? The Supreme Court grappled with that question Monday in the case of Florida twins whose benefits claim was rejected by the government. Their mother used her husband's frozen sperm to conceive them after his death.

  • Teen's death shows perils of helium

    By Daniel Jackson - The Washington Times

    Loriann and Justin Earp thought they were sending their daughter, Ashley Long, to the usual neighborhood sleepover when a popular party prank took her life. Ashley inhaled helium - something any 14-year-old girl might do to make her voice sound like a cartoon character - and died when the gas burst her lungs.

  • Feds release health overhaul blueprint for states

    By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

    Tackling a huge logistical challenge, the Obama administration Monday released an ambitious blueprint for states to match up uninsured Americans with coverage that's right for them under the health care overhaul law.

  • Legal precedents to clash as health care law goes to high court

    By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

    As President Obama's health care law heads for an epic Supreme Court showdown this month, the administration and its opponents are struggling to convince the court that it can rule in their favor without upsetting years of precedent or opening the door to all sorts of mischief.

  • Feds release guidelines for 'health exchanges'

    By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

    The Obama administration released more than 600 pages of guidance on Monday outlining a flexible framework for how states should go about setting up insurance exchanges under the new health care law.

  • $100 or $1,000? Wide price range for birth control

    By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

    Birth control that you must take every single day? A more goof-proof option that costs a lot upfront but then works for several years? Or something in between? A woman's choice may come down to her wallet.

  • Poll: Health overhaul unpopular, but not as feared

    By Jennifer Agiesta and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

    Nearly two years after President Obama signed landmark legislation to cover the uninsured, a new poll finds his health care overhaul is neither better liked nor better understood.

  • Report: Work needed to curb youth tobacco use

    By Michael Felberbaum - Associated Press

    More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. surgeon general's office said in a report released Thursday.

  • U.S.: More work needed to stop youth tobacco use

    By Michael Felberbaum - Associated Press

    More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday.

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