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      <title>Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill</title>
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      <description>WASHINGTON     (AP) -- Senate Democrats on Sunday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation's troubled health care system, the moderates threatening to scuttle legislation if their demands weren't met and the more liberal members warning their party leaders not to bend....</description>
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      <title>Former NIH chief: Ignore new mammogram guideline</title>
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      <description>WASHINGTON     (AP) -- The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer....</description>
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      <title>RI bishop asked Kennedy in 2007 to avoid Communion</title>
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      <description>EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I.     (AP) -- The Roman Catholic bishop of Rhode Island said Sunday that he asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy in a 2007 letter to stop receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, because of the congressman's public stance on moral issues....</description>
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      <title>Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill</title>
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      <description>WASHINGTON     (AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings....</description>
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      <title>GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care</title>
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      <description>WASHINGTON     (AP) -- Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul....</description>
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      <title>Canadian woman loses benefits over Facebook photo</title>
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      <description>BROMONT, Quebec     (AP) -- A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun....</description>
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      <title>Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care</title>
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      <description>CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.     (AP) -- Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist....</description>
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      <title>Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group</title>
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      <title>Bishops discuss authority over Catholic colleges</title>
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      <description>BALTIMORE     (AP) -- Fallout continues from the summer controversy over the University of Notre Dame awarding an honorary degree to President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights....</description>
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      <title>Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC</title>
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      <description>ATLANTA     (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday....</description>
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