Senate Debates Patients Rights Fight in Congress
The Senate began debate on long delayed patients rights legislation amid partisan clash. Majority Leader Daschle pressed for passage while House Republicans floated a state court suit loophole proposal that could limit the bill. Debate highlighted a GOP split over adding new patient lawsuit rights as senators consider emergency access, specialist direct care, overnight stays for mastectomies, and trial cost coverage.
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Washington
Senate
Tom Daschle
GOP
Daschle
D-S.d
Don Nickles
R-Okla
House
Juneteenth Celebrated Across America In 1865 Freedom Spirit
Americans mark Juneteenth as a day of freedom from 1865, with Texas learning of emancipation two years after Lincoln’s Proclamation. Texas officials recognize it as a holiday. nationwide events grow. The House passed a commemorative resolution 415 to zero as festivals took place in Atlanta Denver and Pine Bluff Arkansas.
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Dallas
Texas
Lincoln
Galveston
Austin
Fennis Scott
Kwame-Osagyefo Kalimara
Morehouse College
Atlanta
U.S. House of Representatives
Denver
Pine Bluff
Ark
Robert Granger
Czech slave labor fund pays first Czech victims
The $4.3 billion Prague backed fund sent about 10,000 compensation payments to Czech republic survivors, including 2,434 former concentration camp workers and 7,566 forced laborers. Payments total $186 million with 84,000 applications filed and an Aug. 11 deadline that may be extended to reach about 100,000 claims.
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Prague
Czech Republic
Europe
Jewish Claims Conference
International Organization For Migration
Jan Sechter
Sechter
Dagmar Buresova
Bone density linked to higher breast cancer risk in elderly women
Researchers report that older women with high bone density are about twice as likely to develop breast tumors. They caution the density is a predictor, not a cause, and note study limits to older women and need for further validation.
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Washington
Journal of the
National Cancer Institute
Joseph M. Zmuda
University of Pittsburgh
Zmuda
Carmen Rodriguez
American Cancer Society
Rodriguez
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