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January 7 - 2007 Legislative Summary: Health: FDA Overhaul

January 7 - 2007 Legislative Summary: Health: Medicare Drug Price Negotiating Power

January 7 - 2007 Legislative Summary: Health: Mental Health Parity Guarantees

January 7 - 2007 Legislative Summary: Science: Stem Cell Research Funding

January 14 - Baseball Brandishes Lobbying Clout on Eve of Steroids Hearings

February 4 - An Insurers' Network Grows Into a Constituency

February 11 - Fiscal 2009 Budget: Health and Human Services

February 11 - House Votes to Extend Prohibition on Mental Health Benefits Disparity

February 18 - Cracks in a Fragile AIDS Consensus

February 18 - Indian Health Bill Amended to Block Medicaid Rules

February 25 - Army Clamps Down on Troops' Dental Coverage

February 25 - Editor's Notebook: The Cost of the Cure

February 25 - May the Best Health Plan Win

February 25 - Triggering the Solvency Debate

March 3 - Compromise Bill on AIDS Program Leads to Committee's Approval

March 3 - Food Safety: Stirring the Agency Mix

March 3 - Health Centers' Boom Muffled By the Uninsured

March 3 - Senate Passes Reauthorization of Indian Health Service Programs

March 10 - Client of the Month Club: Wrestlers Need Lobbyists Too

March 10 - Mental Health Parity Bill Lacks Backing

March 10 - Pre-Bill Stress Over Disorders

March 17 - Despite Republican Opposition, Tobacco Regulation Bill Advances

March 17 - Holding Off on Amendments, Senate Panel Reauthorizes AIDS Programs

March 17 - Telling Vitamins by the Label

March 31 - Five Questions for Richard H. Thaler, Chicago University Behavioral Sciences and Economics Professor

April 7 - House Votes to Expand Programs to Combat AIDS Spread Overseas

April 7 - Online Pharmacy Regulation Bill Passes in Senate

April 7 - Tanning Industry Tries to Turn the Heat on Critics

April 7 - Wynn's Pals, Old and New

April 14 - Doctors Group Back Off Abortion Policy

April 14 - Lawmakers Seek Delay in Bush Plan to Cut Some Medicaid Funding

April 21 - Dingell Unveils FDA Overhaul Bill Expanding Overseas Inspections

April 21 - House Panel Votes to Delay Bush Plan to Cut Medicaid Payments to States

April 21 - Industry Wants Its Scientists to Stay on FDA Panels

April 28 - Ban on Genetic Discrimination Passes Senate Unopposed

April 28 - Environmental Groups Disagree on Lead Paint Rules

April 28 - House Votes to Block Medicaid Cuts

April 28 - Senate Votes to Expand Vets' Benefits

May 5 - Ban on Genetic Discrimination Cleared

May 5 - Fast-Tracked Senate Medicaid Bill Quickly Hits GOP Resistance

May 19 - Comparison of House, Senate Supplementals

May 26 - An Array of Vulnerability

May 26 - Kennedy's Absence Felt By Colleagues and on Legislation

May 26 - Preserving the Public Trust

May 26 - Progress vs. Privacy

June 2 - Doctors Needed: Great Demand but Short Supply

June 2 - Gyms Say a Tax Break on Memberships Would Lift 'Barriers to Exercise'

June 2 - Lifetime Networks Urges Women Into Politics

June 2 - Regulation's Bigger Picture

June 9 - AARP Goes Head to Head With Doctors on Medicare Fees

June 16 - Medicare Patch Habit Too Painful to Break

June 16 - Of Prostitutes and AIDS Pledges

June 16 - Senate GOP Thwarts Medicare Measure

June 23 - NIH, Pell Grants Would Get Bumps Under Domestic Funding Draft Bill

June 23 - Once Bid, Twice Shy on Medicare Equipment Program

June 30 - House Conflicts Stall Labor-HHS Draft

June 30 - Physician Payment Bill Stalls in Senate

June 30 - Reining In Spending, 'Crowding Out' Service

July 7 - AMA Puts the Pressure On

July 14 - Democrats Prevail on Medicare Bill

July 14 - Five Questions for Kathy Hudson, Genetics and Public Policy Center Director

July 21 - Congress Overrides Bush Veto to Protect Medicare Physicians' Pay

July 21 - Just What the Doctors Ordered

July 21 - Public Health Doctors Take on Tobacco Control Bill

July 21 - Senate Backs $48 Billion AIDS Package

July 28 - $48 Billion Global AIDS Bill Cleared

July 28 - Highlights of the AIDS Measure

July 28 - House Adopts Measure Waiving Medicare Trigger

July 28 - Measure Aimed at Increasing Use of Electronic Health Care Records

August 4 - Client of the Month Club: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

September 15 - Food Fight: Sparring Over School Snacks

September 15 - House Unlikely to Hold Another Vote on Vetoed Children's Health Bill This Year

September 15 - Panel Approves Protection Measures for Elderly

September 29 - 'QI' Program to Aid Seniors Gets Backing in Senate

September 29 - House and Senate Battle Over Tax Bills

September 29 - Insurers Will Have to Cover College Students Even If They Have to Leave School for Illness

October 6 - Bailout Buoys Mental Health Parity Bill

October 6 - Issues: Health Care: An Urgent Need

October 13 - Ad Hoc Rules Guide Gene Tests

October 13 - Drugmakers' Sour Image Gets a Spoonful of Sugar

October 20 - Seeking a Promise on Stem Cells

November 3 - States Feel Pain of Medicaid Burden

November 10 - 111th Senate Committees: Finance

November 10 - 111th Senate Committees: Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

November 17 - A Battery of Tests For Health Concepts

November 24 - Five Questions for Nils Daulaire, President and CEO, Global Health Council

November 24 - Health Care: A Creeping Catastrophe

November 24 - Obama's Cabinet Starts to Take Shape

November 24 - Senate Leaders Set to Take Lead With Health

November 24 - U.S. Health Care: A Crisis, or Not?

December 1 - Daschle, by the Book

December 1 - He Wrote the Book on Health Care

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Genetic Discrimination Ban

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Global AIDS Relief

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Medicare Physician Fee Cut Prevention

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Mental Health Parity Guarantees

December 15 - Obama Picks Shinseki to Head VA, Daschle to Lead Health Overhaul