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We were rather bullish on it before, but a government-run insurance option is now dead in the water. This very brief and innocuous-sounding Roll Call story is basically its obit. Democratic moderates, uneasy with Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) choice...

According to the Dec. 3, 2009 Associated Press article, " USADA hoping to curb steroid-laced supplements ," by Eddie Pells, what used to be called designer steroids available only to topflight athletes looking for an edge, are now so common...

Reid later backed off, however, and decided to not to include the provision in the Senate healthcare bill.   But other Democrats have set their sights on the profitable industry as lawmakers look for innovative ways to curb healthcare costs...

Senators have voted to safeguard coverage of mammograms and preventive screening tests for women under any health care overhaul legislation. The 61-39 vote Thursday on an amendment by Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of...

Senate debate on a sweeping healthcare overhaul stumbled toward gridlock on Wednesday, with frustrated Democrats considering new procedural moves after Republicans blocked votes on the first amendments. On the third day of a divisive debate, Democrats threatened to keep the...

The cable networks and other news organizations like to pretend there is some doubt, some suspense, as to the outcome of the health care bill including the public option. There isnt. But they act like there is some doubt for...

A new mutation of the swine flu, H1N1, a variant, in which the virus uses D225G as a receptor binding domain, causes bleeding in the lungs. Another H1N1 mutation results in the resistance to treatment with antiviral medication. With flu...

The report is, to put it mildly, shocking. Who would ever have expected to learn that 1 in 6 children in the USA go to bed hungry? The US President Barack Obama had promised to eradicate childhood hunger. A Government...

The USPSTF (U.S. Preventative Services Task Force ), an independent panel of primary care & prevention experts, has put out new guidelines for the frequency of mammograms for women in the 40-50 age group. For the first time since 1989,...