USDA EXPANDING PROGRAM TO FIGHT RURAL POVERTY
FILE – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks at Maine Medical Center, in this March, 14, 2013 file photo taken in Portland, Maine. Vilsack was expected in South Carolina on Tuesday…
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HIGH COURT WEIGHS DRUG COMPANIES’ GENERICS POLICY
By JESSE J. HOLLAND and LINDA A. JOHNSON FILE – In this Aug. 12, 2011 file photo, Jeremy Lazarus, president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA) speaks in Portland, Oregon.…
HEART REPAIR BREAKTHROUGHS REPLACE SURGEON’S KNIFE
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE In this Monday, March 11, 2013 photo, Atlanta cardiologist Dr. Spencer King holds a replacement heart valve during a demonstration at an American College of Cardiology conference…
AMPUTEE VETERAN HELPS TRAIN TROOPS FOR WAR
By JULIE WATSON In this Dec. 10, 2013, photo, a U.S. Navy corpsman pulls an actor to safety during a training mission at Strategic Operations where “reality based training” is…
APNEWSBREAK: EX-SURGEON GENERAL JOINS E-CIG BOARD
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM Several different versions of the NJOY electronic cigarettes are shown in Richmond, Va., Friday, March 22, 2013. Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, who highlighted the dangers…
ND LAWMAKERS DEFINE LIFE AS STARTING AT CONCEPTION
By JAMES MacPHERSON North Dakota Republican Sen. Margaret Sitte poses for a picture at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Friday, March 22, 2013. The Bismarck Republican is the…
GA. LAWMAKERS OK CRACKDOWN ON SO-CALLED PILL MILLS
By KATE BRUMBACK FILE – In this June 14, 2012 file photo, a suspect is loaded into a DeKalb police prisoner transport van during a “pill mill” raid by dozens…
MEDICAL MARIJUANA FACILITY PARTNERS WITH RAPPER
Tony Butler, 28, of Flint, poses for a portrait on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, in his store “The Green Oasis”, a medical marijuana dispensary, in Otisville, Mich. The Michigan medical…