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In 2011, tuberculosis killed 1.4 million people worldwide, almost as many as died from HIV/AIDS. And death isn’t the only damage TB does.
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The nation’s top patent court issued a deeply divided opinion May 10 on how to determine if software is eligible for legal protection, reflecting the broader debate that has split the computer industry.
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Margaret George, a retired widow raising her three young grandchildren in a trailer in Whispering Ranch, Arizona, says her family wouldn’t survive without federal help to pay for electricity.
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The Obama administration is enlisting the help of community health clinics to promote the 2010 health- care law in a $150 million effort to make sure uninsured people are aware of new medical coverage options available Oct. 1.
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U.S. hospitals are charging prices that can be thousands of dollars different for the same medical procedures, even within the same towns, according to federal data released today.
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West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin said for the first time that he will expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
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A study in 1,316 premature infants has drawn a reprimand from U.S. officials who say parents of the babies weren’t adequately advised of “reasonably foreseeable risks,” including blindness and death.
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Salomon Melgen, the Florida political donor at the center of a criminal probe, said he and Senator Robert Menendez are “like brothers” who spoke weekly, yet his companies never benefited and he broke no laws.
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The Catholic group Priests for Life can’t challenge a federal mandate that employers’ health insurance provide coverage for birth control, a judge ruled.
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A report by federal health care inspectors in November said the U.S. nursing home industry overbills Medicare $1.5 billion a year for treatments patients don’t need or never receive.
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