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    Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances (AP)

    FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2006 file photo, Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. There is no easy fix. Medicare and Social Security will go broke sooner rather than later because of the recession. With millions of baby boomers beginning to leave the work force, the cost of these popular benefit programs threatens to swamp the government in debt in the coming years if nothing is done. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, FILE)AP - There is no easy fix.


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    Sun, 24 May 2009 14:12:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health lobbyist has great sway (AP)

    FILE - In this May 11, 2009 file photo, America's Health Insurance Plans President and Chief Executive Officer Karen Ignagni, speaks to reporters at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - If anyone could make or break President Barack Obama's health care agenda, it might be Karen Ignagni.


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    Sun, 24 May 2009 17:47:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Kuwait: 18 swine flu infected US troops have left (AP)

    People wear medical masks while walking past a hospital in Taipei May 22, 2009. REUTERS/Pichi ChuangAP - All 18 U.S. soldiers infected with swine flu have recovered and left this oil-rich ally of Washington, a Kuwaiti health official said Sunday.


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    Sun, 24 May 2009 08:30:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Obama committed to moving ahead on health care (AP)
    AP - President Barack Obama says it's going to be very difficult to push a major health care overhaul through Congress. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 18:11:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Kuwait: Swine flu cases detected among US soldiers (AP)

    US military personnel listen to a speech at Camp Arifjan, 60 kms (35 miles) south of Kuwait City in 2008. Kuwait has detected swine flu among US soldiers who passed through the Gulf emirate in transit, a health official said on Saturday, adding that there are no cases among Kuwaitis.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AP - Several swine flu cases have been detected among U.S. soldiers passing through Kuwait, officials said Saturday.


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    Sat, 23 May 2009 18:17:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Obese Ind. woman's body hauled away by wrecker (AP)
    AP - A 750-pound woman who died in her bed was covered with a carpet and pulled out of her apartment on the mattress in view of neighbors, then hoisted onto a flatbed wrecker to be taken to the county morgue. Marion County Coroner Frank Lloyd Jr. says he's investigating why a contractor with equipment capable of handling obese corpses was not used, and he has apologized to the family. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 May 2009 20:28:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Drug May Lessen Amputation Risk for Diabetics (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- The chances of having to have a limb amputated because of diabetes were reduced by 36 percent when people with type 2 diabetes were given the drug fenofibrate to lower their blood fat levels, new research has found. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 03:49:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Health Tip: Thwarting Head Lice (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Head lice are tiny, parasitic bugs that live in the hair and scalp, and are most common in school-aged children. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 03:49:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    New Research Sheds Light on Breast Cancer Prognosis (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies have found that levels of the protein caveolin-1 found in stromal connective tissue near a breast cancer tumor can accurately predict a patient's prognosis and may provide a pathway to future treatments. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 03:48:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Many Black Women Refuse Breast Cancer Treatments (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Almost 25 percent of black women with advanced breast cancer refuse the chemotherapy and radiation treatments that could save their lives, a new study finds. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 03:48:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Health Tip: Be More Comfortable During Childbirth (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Few women would say childbirth is easy. The amount and type of pain depends on the woman herself, her baby's size and its position, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 03:49:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Clinical Trials Update: May 22, 2009 (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com and CenterWatch: -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 03:48:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Among Obese Diabetics, Sleep Apnea May Be Common (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- People who are obese and have type 2 diabetes often have undiagnosed sleep apnea as well, a new study has found. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 03:48:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    South Korea says American has swine flu (AP)
    AP - Authorities in South Korea say tests have confirmed that an American citizen in the country has swine flu. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    US moving closer to swine flu vaccine (AP)

    In this photo taken April 27, 2009, Victor Calderon, General Director of Granjas Carroll de Mexico, stands next to pigs at one of the company's farms on the outskirts of Xicaltepec in Mexico's Veracruz state. Scientists are returning to La Gloria, a pig-farming village in the Veracruz mountains where Mexico's earliest confirmed case of swine flu was identified. They hope to learn where the epidemic began by taking fresh blood samples from villagers and pigs, and looking for antibodies that could suggest exposure to previous swine flu infections. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Inching closer to a swine flu vaccine, the government is beginning to analyze two candidates for the key ingredient to brew one.


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    Fri, 22 May 2009 22:15:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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