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      <title>Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill</title>
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      <description>WASHINGTON     (AP) -- Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned 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) -- A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights....</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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