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Britain’s House of Commons has rejected a proposal to bar abortion providers from counseling women about their decisions on whether to terminate their pregnancies. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

McDonald's Corp spurned calls to assess the impact of its food on childhood obesity, and said its trademark clown Ronald McDonald would be hawking Happy Meals to kids for years to come. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

Voters in Zurich overwhelmingly rejected on Sunday proposed bans on assisted suicide and "suicide tourism" — foreigners traveling to Switzerland to receive help ending their lives. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

AARP today voiced its opposition to legislation that would eliminate the Medicaid Maintenance-of-Effort (MOE) requirements included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that is being considered in the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. The legislation, H.R… View full post on Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News From Medical News Today

Saudi authorities have rejected claims that holy Zamzam water from a spring inside the Grand Mosque complex of Mecca is polluted and stressed there were no health risks. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

Insuring Your Health: Insurers Sometimes Reject Neonatal Intensive Care Costs In her latest Kaiser Health News consumer column, Michelle Andrews writes: “Many expectant parents are pretty savvy these days about making sure that their obstetrician and the hospital where they plan to have their baby are in their health insurance network… View full post on [...]

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson ruled that the federal health reform law’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, agreeing with plaintiffs in a Virginia lawsuit that the mandate exceeds Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce, the New York Times reports (Sack, New York Times, 12/13)… View full post on Health Insurance / Medical Insurance [...]

NPR’s Shots Blog: “When a little-known GOP Congressman-elect who campaigned against the new health law demanded that the benefits of his new federal health plan start immediately, it was an irresistible opening for some.” A new ad by the left-leaning Americans United for Change urges Andy Harris, R-Md… View full post on Health Insurance / [...]

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The Kansas City Star: “Missouri law now contains a direct challenge to the federal health care law passed earlier this year. Primary voters approved Proposition C by a wide margin Tuesday. … The measure is intended to invalidate in Missouri a key element of the federal health care law passed by Congress and signed by [...]