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House Passes ‘Protect Life Act,’ Controversial Anti-Abortion Funding Bill [VIDEO]

Abortion rates higher in countries with stricter anti-abortion laws
Congress passed the Protect Life Act Thursday evening. The bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa), is an attempt to bar federal funds from going towards health care plans that cover abortions. The bill, HR 385, prohibits women who are under the Affordable Care Act to purchase health insurance plans that cover abortion, even though most health insurance plans do in fact cover abortions.
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WHO Says World TB Cases Decline For First Time

The number of people getting sick with tuberculosis has dropped for the first time, while the death toll from the disease reached its lowest level in a decade, helped by progress in countries like China, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
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Book of Life Revealed, Issues Remain How to Read It

Researchers deciphered the human genome, the book of life 10 years ago, a landmark that ushered in the era of personalized medicine, not yet a hoped-for wide-sweeping reality.
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Respiratory Arrest, Tumor Caused Steve Jobs' Death

According to records made public on Monday, Apple Inc. co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), died of a respiratory arrest that was caused by a pancreatic tumor.
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Did Cancer Pain Killers Cause Steve Jobs' Respiratory Arrest?

Steve Jobs' died of respiratory arrest caused by pancreatic tumor at about 3 pm on Oct.5 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif., his death certificate revealed. His occupation was filed as entrepreneur in high tech business.
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Jury hits Teva, McKesson, Baxter in Propofol case: report

A Nevada jury ordered a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd unit and two other healthcare companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages to a group of colonoscopy patients who claimed they contracted Hepatitis C from vials of the sedative Propofol, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

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