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• Financial crisis may worsen mental health woes
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA - The global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with poverty and unemployment, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday. Hundreds of ...
• McCain vs. Obama: A tale of two different health plans
No matter which candidate wins the presidential election in November, employers’ involvement in health care will undergo fundamental changes if the next president’s proposals are approved by Congress. Republican presidential candidate and U.S ...
• Calif. told to find $250 million for prison health
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration to say whether California has the $250 million needed to start an $8 billion overhaul of the prison health care system. U.S. District Judge Thelton ...
• Obama ad pushes health care
The Obama campaign goes after McCain on health care, painting the Republican’s claims on the issue deceptive and calling an element of his plan “the largest middle class tax increase in history.” “On health care, John McCain promises a tax ...
• Pa. widow sues U.S. over Iraq vet's suicide
It echoes other lawsuits nationwide over VA mental-health services, despite legislation President Bush signed in November ordering improvements. The family of Marine Jeffrey Lucey, also 23, has a federal suit pending in Massachusetts over his June ...