Posts Tagged ‘Care’

Slain doctors brought medical care to Afghanistan (AP)

In this undated photo released by Kay Shaw of Global Dental Relief, a Denver-based group that sends teams of dentists around the globe, Dr. Thomas Grams, 51, formerly of Durango, Colo. is shown. Grams was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 along with five other Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton, Shaw said. (AP Photo/Global Dental Relief) NO SALESAP – Members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan brought some of the first toothbrushes and eyeglasses villagers had ever seen and spent no time talking about religion as they provided medical care, friends and aid organizations said Sunday.


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Mayor: I don’t care where money to build Ground Zero mosque comes from

Mayor Bloomberg said he doesn’t know where the planners of the proposed mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero will get the money to build — and he doesn’t care.

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States respond in health care overhaul lawsuit (AP)

Missouri state Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, left, gathers with supporters of Missouri's Proposition C to watch election results Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in Town and Country, Mo. Sen. Cunningham was the driving force behind getting the proposed law, which would prohibit governments from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for paying health bills entirely with their own money, through the Missouri Senate. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP – Twenty states and the nation’s most influential small business lobby plan Friday to file their response to the government’s attempt to dismiss their lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.


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Va. health care reform lawsuit clears 1st hurdle (AP)

AP – Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care reform law cleared its first legal hurdle Monday as a federal judge ruled the law raises a host of complex constitutional issues.

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AP-GfK poll shows gains for health care overhaul (AP)

Graphic shows poll results on public opinion about health careAP – The patient is alive and kicking. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds public support for President Barack Obama’s new health care law has risen to its highest point.


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‘We care about the small people’: BP boss apologizes to Obama

After four grueling hours, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg came out of a White House faceoff with President Obama on Wednesday as the sorriest oil baron Washington has ever seen.

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Poll: Money is a huge consideration in pet care (AP)

This March 5, 2009 photo provided by John Eisele for Colorado State University shows Dr. Jane Shaw, assistant professor of Clinical Sciences and director of Argus Institute, with her dog Cliff, at the Argus Institute, Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo.    (AP Photo/Colorado State University, John Eisele)  NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP – When a vet told Nancy Gates that her dog Arabella had heart problems, needed surgery and it would cost $500, she had no choice but to put her pet down.


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