VA unveils plan to expand outpatient care for veterans
Vice President Al Gore and VA Secretary Jesse Brown announced reforms to ease VA access, shift 20 percent of inpatient care to outpatient over two years, and allow Medicare use for treatment. The package includes means testing simplification, Medicare pilot programs for higher income veterans, and privatization of some support services.
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Jim Abrams
Associated Press
Ashington
Veterans Affairs Department
al Gore
Jesse Brown
Gore
Arid
Brown
John Sommer
The
American Legion
Treasury
IRS
Defense VM Department
Acne in teens and care tips from Children's Mercy Hospital
A public service column explains acne as a normal adolescent issue caused by hormones, not foods, and offers practical skin care routines. Expert Vidya Sharma outlines daily cleansing, avoiding picking, reducing facial touching, proper hair and clothing choices, and the role of a physician when persistent.
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Vidya Sharma
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
Sharma
Children's Mercy Hospital
Vermont specialty foods boom in a land of indulgence
In Montpelier and across Vermont the food scene thrives with cheeses from Cabot and Grafton, chocolates, sausages, and Ben & Jerry’s low fat yogurts. Officials tout the industry’s growth while warning indulgence can raise health concerns, as locals enjoy a romantic Vermont label and nationwide gifts.
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Intpelier
Ashe
Statehouse
Shawn Banfield
Montpelier
Vermont
Gov Ménard- Dean
Agriculture Department
Dean
Jan Carney
Ben & Jerry
Banfield
William Shouldice TI
Fatty Foods
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc
Chrysler to fix air bags and hood latches
Chrysler Corp will inspect and fix driver side air bags on about 70,000 1995 Jeep Cherokees built from June 1994 to early February due to a missing arming lever. It also recalls 175,000 late 1994 to early 1995 Dodge Ram pickups to replace a secondary hood latch bracket that may not fasten properly. There are no reported incidents.
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Auburn Hills
Mich
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Breakthrough decodes entire Hemophilus influenzae genome
New York report says scientists decoded the complete 1,830,121 base DNA sequence of Hemophilus influenzae, the first free living organism to have its genome fully mapped. Dr. J Craig Venter led the private effort at the Institute for Genomic Research in Gaithersburg, with support from private funds.
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New York
New York Times
Frederick R. Blattner
University of Wisconsin
the Times
American Society For Microbiology
J. Craig Venter
National Institutes of Health
Venter
Institute For Genomic Research
Gaithersburg
Science
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