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Health reform plans, pricing released in Calif.
Californians are finally getting to see what "Obamacare" means for them. President Barack Obama's health care overhaul made a big leap Thursday when California's health insurance exchange announced the plans and the prices that will be offered to those buying individual coverage. Some of the state's largest individual health insurers, ...
Hobby Lobby tests birth-control coverage mandate
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argued ...
Family hopes billboard helps find kidney donor
A Michigan family hopes an electronic billboard along Interstate 75 will help find a kidney donor. Jerry Millen of Livingston County's Hartland Township is seeking a potential donor on behalf of Virginia Millen, his mother. The message is to run for a week starting Monday near the northbound exit to ...
Medical marijuana issue clears Ohio ballot board
A proposed constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana and certain uses of hemp has cleared Ohio's ballot board. The panel's approval Thursday sends the issue into its signature-gathering phase, with a 2014 vote most likely. The deadline for this fall's ballot is July 6. Proponents of the Ohio Cannibis Rights Amendment ...
Ill. Senate approves health-coverage exchange plan
The Illinois Senate agreed Thursday to create a state-governed "health insurance exchange" where individuals and small businesses could shop for coverage as required by President Barack Obama's health law. Lawmakers voted 37-19 to establish the Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace and send the bill back to the House for further consideration. ...
4 of 8 California condors died from lead poisoning
Authorities say lead poisoning killed half of the eight California condors that died last winter in Arizona and Utah. The Idaho-based Peregrine Fund says two other condors suffered fatal trauma possibly caused by a predator between last December and February and two carcasses were unrecoverable. Condors encounter lead when eating ...
2 Ind. hospital systems cutting jobs, other costs
Two Indiana hospital systems said Thursday that they are cutting an undisclosed number of jobs by July 1 because of increasing economic and competitive pressure on the health care industry. St. Vincent Health, an Indianapolis-based network of 22 hospitals, and St. Mary Health of Evansville said restructurings of their workforces ...
McDonald's can't shake criticism about nutrition
McDonald's once again faced criticism that it's a purveyor of junk food that markets to children at its annual shareholder meeting Thursday — including some sharp remarks from a 9-year-old girl. The world's biggest hamburger chain has been looking to keep up with changing tastes as people increasingly opt for ...
WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus
International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday. Dr. Margaret Chan, in a blunt warning to the U.N. agency's ...
Alabama mystery illness solved: it's common flu
Health officials investigating a cluster of mysterious illnesses in Alabama closed their investigation Thursday after determining the illnesses were unrelated and no new bacteria or viruses were involved. The investigation involved 10 people who became sick and were admitted to hospitals in Dothan and Luverne in southeast Alabama. Two died, ...
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