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Dentists Of Mercy: Free Middletown Clinic Helps People With Pain But No Insurance

UPDATE: The Saturday Clinic has reached capacity.

Joshua Kerwin dreads the dentist so much that he went more than a decade without seeing one, even as his teeth decayed and ached.

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Details of the health care overhaul plan shaped by Obama and Democrats in Congress

President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for House votes as early as next week. Democrats are awaiting cost assessments from the Congressional Budget Office that…

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Billion-dollar battle shaping up over Medicaid

The biggest budget battle likely to play out in Tallahassee this spring turns on Republican lawmakers’ deep resentment of President Barack Obama’s stimulus bailout and their drive to reform Florida’s beleaguered Medicaid program.

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Samuel Miranda Jr. — Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital in Allentown reaches 10-year milestone

T en years ago, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, responding to the requests of local acute-care hospitals, began providing a new level of care to a unique segment of patients. The Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital was the first long-term acute care…

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Broward governments urged to consolidate services

With plummeting tax collections and ballooning budget deficits, local governments across Broward County are being urged to explore consolidating services and outsourcing duties to private industry to save money.

Business executives are warning that…

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Advice on prenatal care now can land free on moms’ cell phones

Aiming to cut down on the high number of premature births in Maryland and across the nation, a new program will offer words of advice for pregnant women and new mothers in a place that will be hard to miss: their cell phones.

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Tickets Available For President’s Visit to Strongsville

WASHINGTON — President Obama will be in Strongsville Monday, March 15, to discuss health care insurance reform at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center.

The trip will be President Obama’s third in the span of a week to discuss health…

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Obama’s bid to remove senators’ projects from health care bill runs into political reality

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.

The Senate-approved health measure lawmakers hope to…

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New Oral Treatment Effective than Lotions in Eradicating Lice

A new oral treatment is more effective in eradicating lice as compared to any prescription lotion for the scalp, French

Using Home Testing Kits can Increase Cervical Cancer Diagnosis

A new research has suggested that more high risk cases of human papilloma virus (HPV) could be detected by offering home