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Health care finally passes: What will it mean for Blacks?
Category: Health Written by NNPA News Service
WASHINGTON (NNPA) —It finally passed. The health care bill for which President Barack Obama has vehemently fought almost since Day One at the White House has finally passed both houses of Congress and was headed to his desk for his signature March 23.
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| HAPPY 11-YEAR-OLD— Marcellus Owens of Seattle, left, and others look on as President Barack Obama signs the heath care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 23.
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As Congressional Black Caucus Members celebrated the 219-212 vote, the president put the historic moment in perspective Sunday evening:
“Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America’s workers and America’s families and America’s small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here, in this country, neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they’ve worked a lifetime to achieve.”
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Health care timeline
Category: Health Written by Associated Press
by R. Alonso-Zaldivar
WASHINGTON (AP)—When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare law in 1965, seniors got their health insurance cards less than a year later.
When President Barack Obama finally gets to hold a signing ceremony for his health care overhaul, the major expansion of coverage for uninsured workers and their families won’t come until 2014—after the next presidential election.
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Protect yourself from cervical cancer
Category: Health Written by NNPA News Service
(NNPA)—Cervical cancer is in many ways unlike other cancers. It strikes women in midlife when they are often taking care of families. Cervical cancer is also one of the few types of cancers that is caused by a virus.
Fortunately, cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers and also, when caught and treated early, one of the most curable cancers. Now is the perfect time to educate yourself about this disease and what you can do to protect yourself.
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Transplants cure kidney failure, type 1 diabetes
Category: Health Written by NNPA News Service
by Sandra Jordan
(NNPA)—Nathan Brass of St. Louis gets up early to get in his exercise before class at Florissant Valley Community College, where he is studying to be a dietician.
Nutrition is important to him, because it is an important element to overall good health and one way he can give back to others. Brass knows about giving because he has been given a lot—almost four years ago he received a new kidney and pancreas from the same donor.
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SIDS Cribs for Kids honors women achievers
Category: Health Written by Courier Newsroom
Sudden Infant Death Services of Pennsylvania, held their fifth Annual Women of Achievement Awards Dinner at The Omni William Penn Hotel on William Penn Avenue, Downtown.
SIDS of PA, is a voluntary health organization whose mission is to provide support to families, friends and communities affected by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or other infant death.
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| PROUD AWARDEE—From left: Jean Bryant, founder of Miss Black Teenage Pageant, Judith A. Bannon, executive director of SIDS, and Brenda Waters of KDKA-TV.
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