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    • Washington Post- Behind Cancer Guidelines, Quest for Data
    • Washington Post- Let's stick with mammograms
    • SEBELIUS STATEMENT ON NEW BREAST CANCER RECOMMENDATIONS
    • Washington Post- Breast exam guidelines now call for less testing
    • Indy Star- Vera Bradley Foundation to give another $10M to IU cancer center
    • Health Bill Garners Endorsements
    • Washington Post- FDA initiative targets drug prescription, dosing errors
    • Pink Sheet- CER And Personalized Medicine Are "Synergistic" - FDA's Woodcock
    • New York Times- A Place Where Cancer Is the Norm
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    • New York Times- For N.I.H. Chief, Issues of Identity and Culture
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    • New York Times- Where Cancer Progress Is Rare, One Man Says No
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    • Washington Post- Dodd Decides Against Taking Over Senate Health Committee
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    • New York Times- Daschle Has Ear of White House and Industry
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    • New York Times-10 Steps to Better Health Care
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    • AP- Dodd has prostate cancer
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    • NPR- Health Effects Of Comparing Care: No Easy Answers
    • Newsweek- ‘The Cause of My Life’... Inside the fight for universal health care.
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    • LA Times-Healthcare overhaul effort moves forward without Kennedy
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    • The FDA as a Public Health Agency
    • Pink Sheet- House Comparativeness Effectiveness Bill includes “Physician Out” Clause
    • NCI- Comparative Effectiveness Research Stirs Excitement as Well as Debate
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    • AACI, AACR, ASCO, and Friends host Hill Day 2009, and Honor Senator Arlen Specter
    • Power for patients: Comparative effectiveness research will help people make better health choices
    • Sebelius Confirmation Expected Today
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    • Comparative effectiveness research panel holds first session
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    • Houston Chronicle- Now’s time to reinvigorate country’s War on Cancer
    • Washington Post- After Cancer, Lawmaker Urges Tests
    • Dow Jones- Roche's Herceptin Extends Life In Aggressive Stomach Cancer
    • Comparison Shopping for Medicine
    • Obama to tap Hamburg to run FDA
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    • The Scientist - Flat funding for NIH in 2009
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    • The Huffington Post- Why Healthcare Can’t Wait
    • New York Times - Specter, a Fulcrum of the Stimulus Bill, Pulls Off a Coup for Health Money
    • The Hill - Dem ‘family politics’ blocks Dean at HHS
    • The Scientist - Biomedical research is ripe for a stimulus
    • Washington Post- I'm Battling Cancer. How About Some Help, Congress?
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    • RPM Report-FDA Commissioner Update: Announcement Timing Provides Clues
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    • New York Times - Medicare Widens Drugs It Accepts for Cancer
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    • Boston Globe - The Great Promise of Personalized Medicine
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    • Capitol File- Two Views One Goal
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    • A Note From Ellen Sigal and Marlene Malek
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