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Nutrition, decreased environmental hazards key to preventing miscarriages, cancer, think tank says.

This country spends less than $600 million a year on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia research.

Sen. Alan Bates asked the Democratic leadership to pull his own bill modifying the prescription drug monitoring program after he discovered that SB 626 allowed county health officials and state epidemiologists to receive personally identifiable information.

The Senate Health Committee stripped a ban on flavored e-cigarettes from Senate Bill 415, and an 11th hour appeal from tobacco lobbyists about the potential loss of revenue from a ban on candy-flavored snuff and little cigars compelled the committee to move the bill to the Senate Finance and Revenue Committee for further analysis.

The libertarian measure would give patients access to unapproved drugs if they have been given less than a year to live. Patients would be on their own with the drugs and have to assume responsibility for any complications, which insurers would not have to cover.

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Bills Sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Schakowsky Will Improve Patient Care