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A draft outline of a surgeon general's report on global health overseen by a Bush administration political appointee in 2005 extolled the administration's efforts to improve health care in Iraq and Afghanistan and promoted an initiative to detect terrorism-related health threats on the U.S.-Mexico...
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The coming split between one of the region's largest doctor groups and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is making some senior citizens nervous and has sparked a marketing battle between Harvard and rival Tufts Health Plan.
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Scores of patients at the V.A. hospital in Albany were put at risk, and employees say bigger concerns were dismissed by officials.
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USA - HHS Secretary Tommy G Thompson announced that the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Justice today filed a friend of the court brief in support of Florida&#39;s lawsuit against a company accused of increasing the price
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Ray Oliva went into the spare bedroom in his home in Kelseyville, Calif., to wrestle with his feelings. He didn't know a single soldier at Walter Reed, but he felt he knew them all. He worried about the wounded who were entering the world of military health care, which he knew all too well. His own VA hospital in Livermore was a mess. The gown he wore was torn. The wheelchairs were old and broken....
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Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated, benefits reduced and promotions forgotten.
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The Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress are fighting over who will have the most influence over writing rules on health and safety issues. While the dispute is not as dramatic as the ones over fired prosecutors and wartime surveillance, the stakes are high.
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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Michael Leavitt is President Bush&#39;s choice to replace Tommy Thompson as the new US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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The violence unleashed at a mental health office on the Upper East Side reminded other professionals of the dangers inherent in a career spent helping people.
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A leading public health group opposed President George W. Bush's surgeon general nominee on Wednesday, a day before Dr. James Holsinger, already under fire by Democrats and gay rights groups, faces a tough Senate confirmation hearing.
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St. Joseph&#39;s Regional Health Care will eliminate a 24-bed mental health ward at the former London psychiatric hospital, its management at odds yesterday with workers over whether the reduction will harm the mentally ill.
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Many private workers are returning home with combat-related mental health problems, but their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated.
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Doctors and lawyers who represent victims aren&#39;t going to declare peace just because voters put a few things in the state&#39;s constitution.
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By JOSIE HUANG Staff Writer  On paper, the high school senior, the Republican state senator and the operating room nurse appear to have little in common.
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LEBANON, N.H. -- It took Laurie Tostenson years of mopping floors, washing sheets and "screaming twice as loud" as the men around her before she managed to change her janitors' scrubs for a blazer befitting a supervisor at New Hampshire's largest hospital.
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Under pressure to withdraw troops from Iraq, the White House this week will try to iron out differences among top U.S. officials over how large a force the U.S. military can sustain into next year, a key Republican senator said on Sunday.