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An Alabama doctor-turned-lawmaker said on Tuesday he was abandoning his push to overturn a law requiring insurers to pay for post-pregnancy hospital stays that was inspired by and named after a former patient of his who died days after giving birth.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 03:55PM
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U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as energy and healthcare shares retreated, but the S&P 500 and Nasdaq registered their ninth straight quarterly advance.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 03:26AM
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Comcast Corp Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis will leave his position to head a new investment arm with up to $4.1 billion to invest in growth-oriented companies, Comcast said on Tuesday.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 04:00AM
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U.S. Republicans will push ahead with legislation reflecting their deep mistrust of a nuclear deal with Iran whatever the outcome of talks between Tehran and major powers in Switzerland, setting up further confrontation with President Barack Obama.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 11:50AM
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Indiana’s Republican Governor Mike Pence, responding to national outrage over the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act, said on Tuesday he will “fix” it to make clear businesses cannot use the law to deny services to same-sex couples.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 05:04AM
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By STEVE LOHR
There is evidence that letting patients see their medical files helps them take better care of themselves, but the medical establishment still resists sharing the data.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 08:00PM
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Illegal immigrants in Spain will once again be able to get free primary healthcare at doctors’ surgeries, the government said on Tuesday, doing a U-turn on an unpopular policy in a busy election year.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 07:50AM
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in a case from Idaho that private medical providers that deliver residential care services cannot sue a state in try to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates to deal with rising medical costs.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 06:13AM
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By TOM SPOUSTA
Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said this season’s team, which has used essentially eight players, has had a magical season thanks to its youthful chemistry.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 08:00PM
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The Hall thruster is part of an SEP system that uses 10 times less propellant than equivalent chemical rockets. In a recent test, engineers from Glenn and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, using a Glenn vacuum chamber to simulate the space environment, successfully tested a new, higher power Hall thruster design, which is more efficient and has longer life. “We proved that this thruster can process three times the power of previous designs and increase efficiency by 50 percent,” said Dan Herman, Electric Propulsion Subsystem lead.
Hall thrusters trap electrons in a magnetic field and use them to ionize the onboard propellant. The magnetic field also generates an electric field that accelerates the charged ions creating an exhaust plume of plasma that pushes the spacecraft forward. This method delivers cost-effective, safe and highly efficient in-space propulsion for long duration missions. In addition to propelling an asteroid mission, this new thruster could be used to send large amounts of cargo, habitats and other architectures in support of human missions to Mars.
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