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Leaning toward reconciliation, Obama aide says By Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post  |  March 1, 2010 WASHINGTON – Raising the prospect of a “simple up-or-down vote’’ on the health care… Read more »

Betty Sparks, RN (left), chairperson for the emergency preparedness task force of the Massachusetts Nurses Association and an operating room nurse at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Mass., encourages all nurses –… Read more »

Democrats lay path to pass bill in majority vote By Lisa Wangsness and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff  |  February 26, 2010 WASHINGTON -President Obama and congressional leaders gathered for an… Read more »

Commonwealth Care program faced budget cutback last year By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff  |  February 26, 2010 Massachusetts’ exclusion of thousands of legal immigrants from state-subsidized health coverage is unconstitutional… Read more »

Join with nurses from across Massachusetts at the MNA Lobby day on Wednesday March 31st to spread the message that Nurses are not punching bags! Hundreds of nurses from across… Read more »

Julia Raneri, Acupuncturists Without Borders’ Haiti operations manager, performs a treatment for a patient in Port-au-Prince’s General Hospital. Waves of medical teams have poured into Haiti since a powerful earthquake… Read more »

By Erica Werner and Alan Fram, Associated Press  |  February 25, 2010 WASHINGTON – The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to repeal the health insurance industry’s exemption from federal antitrust oversight,… Read more »

By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff  |  February 25, 2010 The state’s largest independent doctors group is curtailing referrals to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a move it says is… Read more »

Johan Spanner for The New York TimesIstanbul has a program to secure its schools against earthquakes. Above, construction at the Atakoy Lisesi school.