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Maryland wins $50 million Race to Top grant for early childhood programs
Maryland was one of nine states that won a federal competition Friday for early education funds intended to boost the quality of programs available to young children. The state, which has been seen as a strong proponent of early childhood programs for...Tags: Personal Income, Early Learning, Martin O'Malley, Poverty, Columbia University
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CDC to launch anti-smoking campaign
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an ad campaign to show the damage done from smoking to smokers and their families. The ads began March 19 on television, radio, online and billboards, as well as in theaters, magazines and...Tags: Online Advertising, Quitting Smoking, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Throat Cancer, Stroke
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Plan B ruling the right decision
I have to disagree as both a physician and father with Dr. Margaret Moon's opinion lambasting the ruling by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that prohibits young teens from acquiring the Plan B pill without a prescription. From a...Tags: Plan B (drug), Drugs and Medicines, HIV, General Practitioners
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Obama's Plan B decision puts girls at risk
A society is at its worst when it leaves its most vulnerable citizens exposed so that its most powerful can hide from ugly realities. In the case of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' ruling to reject the Food and Drug Administration's...Tags: Birth Control, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Plan B (drug), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Plan B is overruled
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' decision this week to overrule the Food and Drug Administration commissioner and refuse to authorize girls under age 17 to have over-the-counter access to the emergency contraceptive pill known as...Tags: Birth Control, Women's Health, Plan B (drug), Birth Defects, Acetaminophen (drug)
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Healthy Howard wins award for its health coaching
Healthy Howard Inc., which helps county residents obtain health care services, has won an award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for its health coaching program — one of the nonprofit's most controversial aspects. Every...Tags: Medical Services, Invention and Innovation, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Local Government, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Health exchanges: the missing piece
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently argued that a new health insurance exchange will help Maryland's small businesses more easily find affordable coverage ("Insurance exchanges will help Md.'s small businesses," July 28). The...Tags: Business, IBM, Small Businesses, Maryland, Elections
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Parents uneasy about swine flu vaccine
Alexandra McKinty will not be putting her 13-month-old in line for the swine flu vaccine. Madelyn, she says, has already had too many shots in her short life. And Loretta Jergensen of Parkville is worried that the vaccine wasn't adequately tested, so...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Death, Diseases and Illnesses
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Mild flu could hit harder in the fall
The number of swine flu cases in Mexico is stabilizing. In the U.S., though more people are being diagnosed with the virus, cases have been mostly mild, claiming two lives. And health officials have backed off on closing schools where students are sick....Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Death, Cinco de Mayo, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Column: Obama accelerates loss of trust
WASHINGTON — Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government...Tags: U.S. Senate, Executive Branch, Global Change, The Washington Post, U.S. Congress
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ANALYSIS-Some U.S. Republicans see new scandal in Sebelius fundraising
Reuters* Obama opponents target Sebelius solicitations for group * Approached H&R Block and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation * Health secretary: fundraising effort legal and appropriate * Probes could discourage donations to Enroll America By David Morgan...Tags: Companies and Corporations, U.S. Senate, Insurance, Health Care Reform (2009), Laws
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Analysis: Some Republicans see new scandal in Sebelius fundraising
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the White House already reeling from three major controversies, some Republican lawmakers are zeroing in on what they perceive is another possible scandal tied to President Barack Obama's landmark health reform law just as it...Tags: Companies and Corporations, U.S. Senate, Insurance, Laws, Health Care Reform (2009)
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