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Tips on staying healthy from health-care workers

“In our environment, we’re exposed to communicable diseases every day,” says Martin Brown, medical director of Inova Alexandria Hospital’s emergency room. Amid coughing, sneezing and ailing patients, hospital workers fight an uphill battle to keep themselves free of colds and flu. And so they are..

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Pelosi Intensifies Pressure for Public Health Plan

Speaker Nancy Pelosi acted amid indications that she had not locked down enough Democratic votes for the proposal.

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Pelosi Intensifies Pressure on House Democrats for Government Insurance Plan

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s action came amid indications that she had not locked down the votes for the proposal.

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Amid problems, U.S. scrambles to parcel out H1N1 vaccine

The federal government’s unprecedented campaign to protect the nation against the swine flu pandemic has gotten off to a sputtering start, frustrating parents, pregnant women and others anxious to get immunized against the new virus.

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