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Lazarus: Patients' choices narrower, yet cost of insurance rises
It's hard enough having a serious condition like cancer or kidney failure. It's even worse, some might think, when your health insurer says you have to buy your medicine from the pharmacy of its choice — or pay the full amount for expensive life-...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Insurance, Employment Opportunities, Satellite and Cable Service
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My favorite moments of 2012
Years ago when I was a student at Northwestern University, a handful of executives at America Online came to my class and explained that you, I and everyone we know would soon find ourselves pleasantly stranded on "information islands." We nodded,...
Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Taylor Swift, Keegan-Michael Key, Politics, Clint Eastwood
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Tony Plakas: Stereotypes were always a barrier in fight against AIDS
After 30 years, the fight against AIDS has turned an important corner. A week ago, a task force which advises the U.S. government on preventative medicine proposed doctors offer HIV tests to all people ages 15 to 64. Prior recommendations suggested...Tags: World AIDS Day, Viral Diseases and Infections, HIV, Medical Procedures and Tests, Science and Technology
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GOP may hurt rights for the disabled
WASHINGTON -- President-unelect Rick Santorum made his triumphant return to the Capitol on Monday afternoon and took up a brave new cause: He is opposing disabled people. Specifically, Santorum, joined by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, declared his wish that...
Tags: Birth Defects, Republican Party, Treaties, Politics, Physical Disabilities
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Broadway review: Mormons, missionaries and music
If any show could make the case that you can have fun with absolutely anything in the oft-painful run of human experience — AIDS, genocide, genital mutilation, poverty, religion, "The Lion King" — then that show is "The Book of Mormon," the...Tags: Comedy (genre), Music Theater, The Book of Mormon (musical), Theater, Andrew Rannells
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'The Scientists: A Family Romance' by Marco Roth
Woody Allen's Manhattan movies, particularly "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) inhabit the same liberal, Jewish, Upper West Side life as Marco Roth's affecting memoir "The Scientists," which evokes that world of intellectuals, Oriental rugs and a postwar...Tags: Woody Allen, Manhattan (New York City), Upper West Side, Science and Technology
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Trump reveals $5 million charity offer for information from President Obama
In a much-hyped announcement, real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump pulled yet another flashy move on Wednesday offering a monetary incentive in exchange for private information from President Barack Obama's past. Trump, in a stunt...
Tags: American Cancer Society, Politics, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Television Industry
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Tony Plakas: Gays finally getting seat at table in Washington
Last week, Tammy Baldwin was sworn in as the first openly gay U. S. senator. If you've ever had the privilege to hear Tammy Baldwin speak in person, you may hear her confess Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first female Vice Presidential...Tags: Criminal Laws, Matthew Shepard, U.S. Senate, Politics, HIV
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Five things to watch for in Tuesday's debate
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off Tuesday in the second of their three debates, this one in a town hall-style setting in which they'll take questions from likely voters. The stakes couldn't be higher: Obama must get...
Tags: Family Planning, Republican Party, George H.W. Bush, ABC (tv network), Political Fundraising
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20 years of walking for her son
Do not suggest a wheelchair. It doesn't matter that Mae Smith is 86. She plans to do this Sunday's AIDS Run & Walk Chicago on her feet, just as she has done every year — every single one — since her son Ron died 20 years ago. Smith is a...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Halloween, Arthritis, Burger King, Pneumonia
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Fred Hersch: Despite struggles, a great pianist flourishes
The formidable jazz pianist Fred Hersch was diagnosed with H.I.V. in 1986, developed AIDS and openly discussed it in the early 1990s and suffered a two-month coma in 2008 as a result of pneumonia (though that was not due to his disease). In light of...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Entertainment, Music Industry, Michelle Obama, The New York Times
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Will Pennsylvania regulate tanning parlors, but not tattoo joints?
Friday's letter to the editor could not have come from a more qualified source. Dr. Stephen Purcell of Upper Macungie Township is a physician at Advanced Dermatology Associates, based in Allentown with branch or satellite offices in Bethlehem, Kutztown...Tags: Skin Conditions, Allentown, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Tuberculosis
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