Health care reform meets political reality on Capitol Hill
Utah and Oklahoma residents tell how health care costs and gaps affect families as they urge reform. Deaf blind son Travis, a wheelchair user Becky Ogle, and Arkansan volunteer Jo Ann Cayce confront limits of coverage and access while lobbying for universal insurance and long term care.
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Capitol Hill
Bountiful
Utah
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Okla
Jo Ann Cayce
Thornton, Ark
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Stephanie Carlson
Senate
Travis
Becky Ogle
Congress
Project Accessibility
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Ms. Ogle
Blue Cross
Ogle
Senate Finance Committee
FDA eyes six month ban on uncooked Gulf oysters
The FDA proposes a six month ban April to October on uncooked oysters from Florida Louisiana and Texas to curb vibrio vulnificus deaths. If adopted at the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference next month the rule would allow only shocked oysters with warning labels cautioning fully cooked consumption.
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Food and Drug Administration
Florida
Louisiana
Texas
Interstate
FDA
Gulf Coast States
Tacoma
Wash
Gulf Coast
Thomas J. Bully
Office of Seafood
Dogs may spread Lyme disease as dogs spread bacteria to ticks
SOUTH KINGSTOWN Rhode Island AP researchers at the University of Rhode Island found dogs can transmit the Lyme disease bacteria to ticks as readily as mice. Experts caution ticks prefer mice, and advise dog owners to use repellent and keep pets in tick free areas. Lyme causes flu like symptoms and can affect heart joints and nerves.
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Thomas Mather
Center For Vector-Borne Disease
University of Rhode Island
DeBakey links genetics to artery disease in preliminary study
Houston surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey reports preliminary findings from data on 4,000 patients over four decades suggesting genetic damage, not cholesterol, as a leading cause of atherosclerosis. The study, presented at a Glasgow symposium, questions cholesterol as a sole risk factor and notes many artery blockages lack identifiable factors.
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Michael DeBakey
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Glasgow
Scotland
The
Houston Post
Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor
Julie Fix
American Heart Association
United States
Christopher White
Health Care International Medical Center
D. Bakey
Promi
Clinton defends free vaccine plan amid congressional doubt
President Clinton backs the free immunizations for children program, saying it is sound and on track, but lawmakers and GAO auditors raise questions on timetables and execution. A Burlington distribution center faces scrutiny while only four of 15 vaccine contracts are signed and 70,000 participants remain to be recruited.
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Congress
General Accounting Office
GAO
CDC
Appropriations Subcommittee On Labor, Health, Human Services and Education
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