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FCC opens effort to boost broadband to nation

Regulators opened a debate on Wednesday on how the United States, trailing many industrialized countries in access and adoption of high-speed Internet, can extend the technology to low-income and other under-served areas.

Jennifer Lopez wins cybersquatting case at UN agency

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American singer and actress Jennifer Lopez has won a cybersquatting case against a U.S. web operator who registered two Internet addresses that used her name for commercial profit, a U.N. agency said on Thursday.

Obama sets up formal office for healthcare reform

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President Barack Obama set up an executive office for healthcare reform at the White House on Wednesday, saying the overhaul was one of the biggest priorities for the first year of his presidency.
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Congress approves budget plans, long road ahead

The Democratic-controlled U.S. Congress on Thursday approved budget blueprints embracing President Barack Obama's agenda but leaving many hard choices until later and a government deeply in the red.
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Obama asks fellow Democrats to back budget plans

President Barack Obama lobbied fellow Democrats on Wednesday to support major initiatives in his $3.55 trillion budget proposal and the White House played down differences as lawmakers sought to trim the plan to reduce long-term deficits.
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House Democrats try to pare Obama 2010 budget

President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday proposed slimming down his fiscal 2010 budget to $3.45 trillion from $3.55 trillion amid bipartisan concerns about it exploding the deficit.
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Obama grappling with AIG bonus fallout

President Barack Obama is grappling with the AIG bonus furor by both accepting responsibility for the government's failure to head off the payments and blaming it on the big mess he inherited.
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E-prescribing to soar with new spending: study

As many as 75 percent of U.S. doctors will be writing electronic prescriptions within five years, thanks to new federal spending to encourage e-prescribing, according to a forecast released on Monday.
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E-prescribing to soar with new spending

As many as 75 percent of U.S. doctors will be writing electronic prescriptions within five years, thanks to new federal spending to encourage e-prescribing, according to a forecast released on Monday.
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Wall Street gets boost from healthcare

U.S. stocks climbed for a third day on Thursday, rising more than 2 percent to session highs after Standard & Poor's cut General Electric's ratings by just a single notch and signaled no further downgrades loomed, while data suggested some stabilization in consumer spending.
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Geithner blames budget woes on Bush administration

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday blamed soaring budget deficits partly on failure by the former Bush administration to make needed investments in energy security and healthcare.
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Obama announces changes to US healthcare

President Baraka Obama announced changes to the healthcare system on Monday, appointing two key officials, including a new Health and Human Services secretary.
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Health sector losses take Wall Street lower

Stocks fell in volatile trade on Thursday as investors sold off shares of healthcare companies such as Merck & Co on worries that President Obama's budget proposal will strangle profits.
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Stocks rise as financials offset healthcare

The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 rose on Thursday as news the Obama administration could request more money to shore up ailing banks sent financial shares higher, offsetting declines in healthcare companies. Banks, whose health has been a concern for investors and pulled the market to 12-year lows on Monday, were a standout. Shares of Bank of America gained 8 percent to $5.5...
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Tom Daschle withdraws as cabinet nominee

Former senate leader, Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination to be President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services secretary on Tuesday, saying he did not want to be a distraction.
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Obama's Cure for Crisis: Hard Work, Basic Values

President Barack Obama began his administration taking a humble stance in the face of major economic and wartime crises facing the nation but called on Americans to meet challenges through hard work and values such as sacrifice and responsibility.
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Merck's Pricing of AIDS treatment in Mexico is criticized

An AIDS healthcare foundation urged Merck executives to change the company's pricing and access policies as it announced a new campaign in advertisement that criticizes an increase of up to six times the price of its AIDS drug Stocrin in Mexico and other middle-income countries.
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Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Shares rose 80% after Glaxo offers $720 Million

Shares of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals rose as much as 80.46 percent to $22.07 in after trading hours on Tuesday in the New York Stock Exchange as healthcare group GlaxoSmithKline Plc. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sirtris for $720 million in a cash tender offer of $22.50 per share.
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Healthcare Locums profits up 135%

Healthcare Locums Plc has reported a 108 per cent growth in sales for the full year 2007, from £65 million to £135 million. The company said that its organic like-for-like profit growth rate was up to 21 per cent, a rise from the rate of 16 per cent in 2006.

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