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Cancer patient with swine flu dies in HK
article 2009-09-12 | Author: StaffHong Kong health authorities say a 56-year-old lung cancer patient infected with swine flu has died. The city's death toll now stands at 13.The Queen Mary Hospital said in a statement late Friday that the man tested positive for the H1N1 virus last week after being hospitalized for ......
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Kennedy is gone, but health care still his issue
article 2009-09-10 | Author: Laurie KellmanSen. Edward M. Kennedy is gone, but his words echoed through the House chamber Wednesday as President Barack Obama tried to prod recalcitrant Democrats and Republicans into finishing the late senator's life work — overhauling the nation's health care system."'Soon, very soon, affordable health coverage will be available to all, ......
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Sen. Kennedy sent letter on health care to Obama
article 2009-09-10 | Author: StaffSen. Edward Kennedy expressed confidence that a health care overhaul would pass this year in a letter delivered posthumously to President Barack Obama.In his speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, Obama said Kennedy's letter was among many he had received from "Americans counting on us to succeed."The ......
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Kerry says he'll carry on Kennedy health care push
article 2009-09-03 | Author: Steve LeblancSen. John Kerry said Wednesday he would take up one of Sen. Edward Kennedy's key political fights, pledging to the thousands who attended his town hall meeting to push for the health care overhaul championed by his longtime Democratic colleague.More than 2,000 people turned up for Kerry's first public meeting ......
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Excerpts of Kennedy letter to pope and response
article 2009-08-30 | Author: The Associated PressExcerpts of the letter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy that President Barack Obama delivered to Pope Benedict XVI earlier this year and an account of the pope's response, as read by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington:"Most Holy Father I asked President Obama to personally hand deliver this ......
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Obituaries in the news
article 2009-08-05 | Author: StaffCharles GwathmeyNEW YORK (AP) — Charles Gwathmey, an architect known for his influential modernist home designs and famous clients like director Steven Spielberg, has died. He was 71.Gwathmey died of cancer Monday in Manhattan, said his stepson, Eric Steel.The architect formed the firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates with Robert ......
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10-year-old SoCal girl copes with breast cancer
article 2009-06-04 | Author: StaffTen-year-old Hannah Powell-Auslam is trying to remain brave as she copes with a rare form of breast cancer."I feel like a kid inside but sometimes I feel like an adult, when I'm always at the hospital," Hannah told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview that aired Wednesday.The ......
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Reid joins Biden, Pelosi in misstatements
article 2009-05-20 | Author: Laurie KellmanSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference — including the fragile health of the chamber's most senior members.The Nevada Democrat reported that one of them, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was absent because he ......
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Arrest ordered for mom of boy, 13, resisting chemo
article 2009-05-20 | Author: Amy ForlitiThe mother of a 13-year-old boy who has refused cancer followed a court order and got his tumor X-rayed this week. The doctor said it had grown and that Daniel Hauser needed to be seen immediately by a specialist.Instead, Colleen Hauser and her son ......
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Sunshine, big crowds greet Rose Parade
article 2009-01-02 | Author: Solvej SchouSpectators who claimed their spots for the Rose Parade hours before it began were rewarded Thursday with spangled dancers paying tribute to Broadway, a lush garden wedding flanked by sari-clad models representing India's Bollywood film industry and a giant robot with a surprise under his hat.A 49-foot-tall mechanical man named ......