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Mandating help to quit smoking

Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, introduced a bill today that would require health insurers in California to...

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Warehouse heist nets $75 million in pills

Warehouse heist nets $75 million in pills

In a Hollywood-style heist, thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled inside and scored...

Workers paying more toward insurance premiums

Workers paying more toward insurance premiums

The amount California workers contributed to their employer-backed health coverage increased 83 percent...



Health care reform reveals Dems' true colors

The final outcome of the health care reform debate is uncertain - who can predict where a writhing eel will land? - but we have...

Chronicle 3.17.10 4:00 AM

College loan fix fits with health care reform

In the coming days, the House and Senate will take a critical up-or-down vote on historic health insurance reforms. Tied to them will...

Chronicle 3.17.10 4:00 AM

Pelosi: Dems will have votes to OK health care

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, surrounded by at least a dozen restless babies at a news conference Monday, declared that when she brings...

Chronicle 3.16.10 4:00 AM

ObamaCare plays on Americans' fears

As a candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama rejected "the politics of fear." Well, he won. So now he's playing the fear card to...

Chronicle 3.16.10 4:00 AM

White House doesn't have health care votes

The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Obama's health care overhaul...

Chronicle 3.15.10 4:00 AM

Alternative to surgery for heart valve studied

Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny...

Chronicle 3.15.10 4:00 AM

Ave atque vale, Tony Judt

There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14 issue of the New York Review of Books, the scholar and...

Chronicle 3.15.10 4:00 AM

Corey Haim, prescription drug abuse and you

Prescription drug abuse has exploded in the last few years. Rush Limbaugh is perhaps the most famous person...

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