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President Barack Obama has made a last-ditch plea to Democrat lawmakers to back a bill revamping the country's health care system on a rare Saturday trip to Capitol Hill. By Philip Sherwell in New York After meeting behind...
Picture this: a six-year-old little boy, born eight weeks prematurely, suffering from heroin withdrawal symptoms because his mother was unable to stay clean during the pregnancy. He spent eight months with his mother who...
Prematurity is the greatest cause of infant death - so why is there such a chronic shortage of specialist nurses and doctors? The Coronation Street actress, who lost her own baby at 21 weeks, investigates.
Experts agree that what children eat from birth to five years old matters even more than their diet later on in childhood. Almost a quarter of UK pre-school children are overweight or obese, with about ten per cent underweight,...
Infant milk advertising is subject to stricter regulation than alcohol Breastfeeding activists say they are "dismayed" by a draft report for the food watchdog that finds few major problems with follow-on milk adverts. But the...
GOP substitute rejected; vote on the full measure is ahead President Barack Obama talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., after meeting with House Democrats about health care on...
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Democrats in the U.S. House said Saturday they had the votes needed to pass a $1 trillion healthcare bill, a Washington publication reported. Politico cited unnamed...
The Associated Press Saturday, November 7, 2009; 10:21 PM WASHINGTON -- The House has voted to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats want to compete with private insurers. The...
To say it's a big day on Capitol Hill would be an understatement. And Democrats are increasingly confident that they have the votes to make history and pass H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" tonight....
November 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Obama on Health Care Reform: 'This Is Our Moment' ABC News' Rachel Martin reports: President Obama made an 11th hour pitch to Congress today, urging members of the House to pass a...
