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Shortage of doctors affects rural U.S.
Jul 20 2007 11:37PM (CT)
GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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Shortage of doctors affects rural U.S.
Jul 20 2007 11:37PM (CT)
GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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Shortage of doctors affects rural U.S.
Jul 20 2007 11:37PM (CT)
GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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Prom gives cancer patients some normalcy
Jul 20 2007 6:03PM (CT)
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - The music wafted out of the ballroom and down the hallway as the prom-goers broke away for portraits against a printed backdrop of a medieval castle.
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Armstrong to hold cancer forums in Iowa
Jul 20 2007 4:36PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lance Armstrong is pushing his cancer fight into presidential politics. The cancer survivor, activist and seven-time winner of the Tour de France announced he will hold presidential candidate forums on cancer next month in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Armstrong to hold cancer forums in Iowa
Jul 20 2007 4:36PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lance Armstrong is pushing his cancer fight into presidential politics. The cancer survivor, activist and seven-time winner of the Tour de France announced he will hold presidential candidate forums on cancer next month in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Indonesia to increase funding for AIDS
Jul 20 2007 4:29PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia will increase the amount of money it spends on fighting AIDS by 75 percent over the next three years, with the major focus on hardest-hit Papua province, the welfare minister said.
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Businessman pleads in steroids case
Jul 20 2007 4:28PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to illegally distributing steroids and human growth hormone, admitting he paid doctors to write unnecessary prescriptions for hundreds of patients they never met or examined.
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Man to leave hospital with heart device
Jul 20 2007 4:27PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - It took a record nine months in intensive care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, but a Kansas man will be back home Saturday, thanks to an experimental heart-assist device that keeps his heart pumping.
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Doctors leaving poor countries in need
Jul 20 2007 1:41PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - While many foreign doctors are drawn to the United States to treat underserved poor and rural areas, some experts and health officials say the physicians are needed more at home.
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Audit: D.C. overpaid Medicaid firms $97M
Jul 20 2007 11:58AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The District of Columbia risks losing federal funds because it has overpaid contractors almost $100 million for medical services, an audit found.
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