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Doctors in Pakistan fight to save six-legged baby boy

YoopyaApril 17, 2012August 26, 2024

by YoopyaApril 17, 2012August 26, 202406

Stricken father begged government for help; doctors plan surgery strategy Doctors in Pakistan are battling to save a baby boy born with six legs due to...

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Hugo Chavez skips summit, citing doctors’ orders

YoopyaApril 17, 2012

by YoopyaApril 17, 201201

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez skipped the Summit of the Americas for medical reasons Saturday and headed to Cuba to continue with...

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Is high spending on cancer care ‘worth it’?

YoopyaApril 10, 2012

by YoopyaApril 10, 201200

(Reuters) – With the United States spending more on healthcare than any other country — $2.5 trillion, or just over $8,000 per capita, in 2009...

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Analysis: Justice Kagan–Giving liberals a rhetorical lift

YoopyaApril 6, 2012

by YoopyaApril 6, 201201

(Reuters) – During three days of arguments over the Obama healthcare plan, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan put on a display of rhetorical firepower, reinforcing...

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Obama takes a shot at Supreme Court over healthcare

YoopyaApril 3, 2012

by YoopyaApril 3, 201207

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the Supreme Court on Monday, warning that a rejection of his sweeping...

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Obama lawyer asks Supreme Court to save healthcare law

YoopyaMarch 29, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 29, 201201

(Reuters) – The Obama administration’s top courtroom lawyer made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for the Supreme Court to save President Barack Obama’s healthcare law,...

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Obama taps public health expert for World Bank

YoopyaMarch 24, 2012January 27, 2024

by YoopyaMarch 24, 2012January 27, 2024012

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday nominated a Korean-American known for his work in fighting disease in impoverished countries...

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Paul Allen gives $300 million to expand brain research

YoopyaMarch 23, 2012

by YoopyaMarch 23, 201203

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has donated an additional $300 million to a foundation aimed at expanding research into how the brain works...

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Obesity rates rise, threaten health in OECD nations

YoopyaFebruary 22, 2012November 5, 2022

by YoopyaFebruary 22, 2012November 5, 20220204

(Reuters) – More people in developed countries are overweight or obese than ever before, dooming them to years of ill health, pushing up healthcare costs...

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New malaria method could boost drug production

YoopyaFebruary 16, 2012

by YoopyaFebruary 16, 201202

February 16, 2012 — BERLIN (AP) — German scientists have developed a new way to make a key malaria drug that they say could easily...