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• 1. Co-op compromise gives White House a health option (AP)

• 2. PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care needs unmet (AP)

• 3. Hearing to air VA mistakes with hospital equipment (AP)

• 4. Australia tries tough love to heal Aboriginal woes (AP)

• 5. AIDS stabilising in SAfrica as new cases drop among youth: study (AFP)

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Co-op compromise gives White House a health option (AP)  

2009-06-14 19:10

politics

AP - As Congress begins work on putting President Barack Obama's goal of universal health coverage into law, administration officials and allies sought to sidestep an unpopular tax on existing benefits and Republicans' objection to a government competitor to private plans.

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PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care needs unmet (AP)  

2009-06-14 18:35

politics

AP - Ta'Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.

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Hearing to air VA mistakes with hospital equipment (AP)  

2009-06-14 19:44

health

AP - A congressional panel is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to disclose on Tuesday whether non-sterile equipment that may have exposed 10,000 veterans to HIV and other infections was isolated to three Southeast hospitals or is part of a wider problem.

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Australia tries tough love to heal Aboriginal woes (AP)  

2009-06-14 16:51

world

AP - Along the dusty red road that leads from the lonely airstrip into town, the signs flash by: "No alcohol," says one. "Petrol sniffing kills," admonishes another. "Don't bring gunja into our town," warns a third.

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AIDS stabilising in SAfrica as new cases drop among youth: study ...  

2009-06-09 16:03

health

AFP - South Africa's AIDS epidemic, the worst in the world, appears to be stabilising with infections among children and teenagers declining, according to a new national study released Tuesday.

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