Archive for July 23rd, 2009

  • US: 160M doses of swine flu vaccine due in Oct. (AP)

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    Workers at one of the 19 National Pandemic Flu Service call centers in London, Thursday, July 23, 2009, answer calls from people concerned about swine flu. Authorities estimate the number of swine flu cases in Britain has doubled in the last week to about 100,000. The figure is based on a limited number of lab samples as well as the number of people seeking treatment from doctors. Britain's department of health said Thursday that 840 people have been hospitalized with swine flu and 63 are in intensive care. There have been 31 swine flu deaths. Officials have instructed people not to go to a doctor if they have symptoms but instead to visit a new swine flu Web site or call a flu hot line, staffed by people with no medical training. (AP Photo/Richard Pohle/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVEAP – The U.S. may have as many as 160 million doses of swine flu vaccine available sometime in October, even though manufacturers worldwide are having serious trouble brewing shots, federal health officials said Thursday.

  • Experts debate proposed ‘big brother’ medical council

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    The Obama administration is touting a provocative proposal to give a medical advisory council the power to help decide the scope of coverage that would be eligible for reimbursement under Medicare.

  • No health care vote before August break, top Democrat says

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate said Thursday the chamber won’t vote on a health care reform bill until after the August recess.

  • Obama to unveil $4 billion school improvement plan (Reuters)

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    U.S. President Barack Obama (R) reacts as Brandon Patterson asks him a question from the audience during a town hall meeting on health care at Shaker Heights High School near Cleveland, Ohio, July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters – President Barack Obama is set to announce on Friday a competition for $4 billion in federal grants to improve academic achievement in U.S. schools, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

  • Senate sides with Obama, defunds jet engine (AP)

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    FILE - This June 22, 2009 photo released by the U.S. Navy shows an Air Force F-22 Raptor executing a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Gulf of Alaska. The Senate voted Tuesday to halt production of the Air Force's missile-eluding F-22 Raptor fighter jets in a high-stakes, veto-laden showdown over President Barack Obama's efforts to shift defense spending to a next generation of smaller, single-engine F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. (AP Photo/US Navy - Ronald Dejarnett, File)AP – The Senate voted Thursday to eliminate spending on a jet engine program the defense secretary says is superfluous, moving in step with Obama administration assertions that it is time to stop spending military dollars on programs that are not needed.

  • Alternate F-35 engine dropped from Senate bill (Reuters)

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    Reuters – The U.S. Senate on Thursday handed President Barack Obama another victory on defense spending when it stripped funding for an alternate fighter-jet engine the Pentagon has said it does not want.

  • Obama returns to Chicago (Politico)

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    Politico – SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio – President Obama left the Cleveland area and an afternoon of health care reform events for two Democratic National Committee fundraisers in Chicago, where he struck a defensive and at times defiant tone about his top priority.

  • Standoff between ‘funny lady’ Clinton, North Korea gets personal

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    North Korea’s rhetoric toward the United States has always had a certain bizarre, over-the-top quality to it. Under the Bush administration it labeled Undersecretary of State John Bolton “human scum.”

  • ‘Birthers’ won’t let go of Obama claim

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    Claims by "birthers" that the president is foreign-born and therefore illegal have resurfaced with assists from talk show host Rush Limbaugh and CNN's Lou Dobbs.Six months after Barack Obama’s inauguration, a persistent and noisy legion of doubters won’t let go of an already debunked claim — that he is actually a foreign-born, illegal president.

  • Obama takes a stand on race — in a divisive case (AP)

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

    In this photo taken by a neighbor Thursday July 16, 2009 Henry Louis Gates Jr. center, the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, is arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Police say they were called to the home of Gates after a woman reported seeing a man try to pry open the front door. (AP Photo/Demotix Images, B. Carter) MAGS OUTAP – Making his first foray into a divisive racial issue, President Barack Obama sided with Henry Louis Gates Jr. after the black scholar’s arrest by a white police officer, a striking departure from Obama’s “post-racial” impartiality.

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