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1. 3/30/2012 12:01:00 AM FCC Seeks to Aid Broadband-Enabled Rural Healthcare, Gillett Says
   published by State Telephone Regulation Report
   The FCC, which has reformed some of its other USF programs, will continue to work toward completing all of its reform efforts, including reform of the rural healthcare program, Wireline Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett said at a Broadband Breakfast Club briefing March 20. The FCC wants to simplify and streamline the process and reduce the administrative costs of...
   
2. 3/28/2012 11:30:00 AM Studies from Georgetown University Hospital Have Provided New Data on Thyroid Cancer
   published by Biotech Week
   In this recent study, researchers in Washington, District of Columbia conducted a study "To effectively treat differentiated thyroid cancer with radioiodine it is necessary to raise serum thyrotropin levels either endogenously by thyroid hormone withdrawal or exogenously by administration of recombinant human TSH. The aim of our study was to compare the...
   
3. 3/26/2012 12:01:00 AM Cheney surgery reopens debate on age
   published by Telegraph-Herald (Dubuque, IA)
   Doctors say it is unlikely that former Vice President Dick Cheney got special treatment when he was given a new heart at age 71 that thousands of younger people also were in line to receive. Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Health in La Jolla, Calif., wrote on Twitter. Cheney received the transplant Saturday at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., the same...
   
4. 3/26/2012 12:01:00 AM Cheney got no special favors, heart experts say
   published by Star-Ledger (NJ)
   "The ethical issues are not that he had a transplant, but who didn't," Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Health in La Jolla, Calif., wrote on Twitter. Cheney received the transplant Saturday at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., the same place where he received an implanted heart pump that has kept him alive since July 2010. "We have done several patients...
   
5. 3/25/2012 5:31:00 PM Dick Cheney's transplant reopens debate about age
   published by Associated Press
   CHICAGO-- Doctors say it is unlikely that former Vice President Dick Cheney got special treatment when he was given a new heart at age 71 that thousands of younger people also were in line to receive. Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Health in La Jolla, California, wrote on Twitter. Cheney received the transplant Saturday at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls...
   
6. 3/25/2012 1:50:00 PM Doctors doubt favoritism in Cheney transplant
   published by Associated Press
   CHICAGO-- Doctors say it is unlikely that former Vice President Dick Cheney got special treatment when he was given a new heart that thousands of younger people also were in line to receive. Cheney was recovering Sunday at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia. Allen Taylor, cardiology chief at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said Sunday that...
   
7. 3/21/2012 12:01:00 AM FCC Seeks to Aid Broadband-Enabled Rural Healthcare, Gillett Says
   published by Washington Internet Daily
   The FCC, which has reformed some of its other Universal Service Fund programs, will continue to work toward completing all of its reform efforts, including reform of the rural healthcare program, Wireline Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett said at a Broadband Breakfast Club briefing Tuesday. The FCC wants to simplify and streamline the process and reduce the...
   
8. 3/21/2012 12:01:00 AM FCC Seeks to Aid Broadband-Enabled Rural Healthcare, Gillett Says
   published by Communications Daily
   The FCC, which has reformed some of its other Universal Service Fund programs, will continue to work toward completing all of its reform efforts, including reform of the rural healthcare program, Wireline Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett said at a Broadband Breakfast Club briefing Tuesday. The FCC wants to simplify and streamline the process and reduce the...
   
9. 3/19/2012 12:01:00 AM BroadbandCensus.com - Discussion
   published by Washington Daybook
   Health IT and Broadband Investments, "as part of the Broadband Breakfast Club. PARTICIPANTS: Sharon Gilett, chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission; Eric Brown, president and CEO of the California Tele-Health Network; Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association; Michael Sims, CFO of Delaware Health...
   
10. 3/17/2012 1:32:00 AM Local musician, athlete loses battle with cancer
    published by Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA)
    March 17-- Andre Catlett has always seemed larger than life-- and in more ways than one. A former football standout at James Monroe High School, Catlett had an impressive stature. In 2010, Catlett told The Free Lance-Star: "You hear' cancer' and you think' death.' You don't hear a lot of stories about people surviving 10 years."
    
11. 3/16/2012 11:59:00 PM Local musician, athlete loses battle with cancer
    published by Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA)
    March 16--* AUDIO: Click here to listen to some of Big Cat's songs. Andre Catlett has always seemed larger than life--and in more ways than one. A former football standout at James Monroe High School, Catlett had an impressive stature.
    
12. 3/14/2012 3:52:00 PM Rep. Payne remembered for quiet effectiveness
    published by Associated Press
    Donald Payne was a modest man who favored quiet persuasion over bombast, qualities that didn't detract from his effectiveness as an advocate for the most vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad, former friends and colleagues recalled at his funeral Wednesday. Former President Bill Clinton called Payne, who died last week of colon cancer at age 77, "a dear friend" who "...
    
13. 3/14/2012 2:28:00 PM Clinton: Rep. Payne 'made me a better president'
    published by Associated Press
    Donald Payne was a quiet but dogged friend of his constituents at home, as well as those who suffer from hunger and deprivation abroad, former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday at the New Jersey congressman's funeral. A who's who of current and former politicians attended Payne's funeral at Newark's Metropolitan Baptist Church, a place the 12- term...
    
14. 3/13/2012 8:32:00 AM World's Largest Embolization Meeting, GEST 2012 U.S., Features Latest Therapies
    published by Associated Press
    /FROM PR NEWSWIRE DALLAS 888-776-3971/. TO HEALTH, AND MEDICAL EDITORS:. NEW YORK, March 13, 2012/ PRNewswire/-- Embolization for benign.
    
15. 3/7/2012 12:01:00 AM U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, first black congressman for N.J., dies at age 77
    published by Trenton Times (NJ)
    Born into poverty in 1934, Payne began life in a cramped Newark apartment with no indoor plumbing. In 1988, Payne became the first African-American to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Congress-- an office to which he was elected 12 times and held for 23 years. Payne, who represented the 10th Congressional District, announced less than a month ago that he was being...
    
16. 3/7/2012 12:01:00 AM FROM ROOTS OF POVERTY TO HALLS OF CONGRESS
    published by Star-Ledger (NJ)
    Born into poverty in 1934, Payne began life in a cramped Newark apartment with no indoor plumbing. In 1988, Payne became the first African-American to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Congress-- an office to which he was elected 12 times and which he held for 23 years. Payne, who represented the 10th Congressional District, announced less than a month ago that he was...
    
17. 3/6/2012 7:57:00 PM US Rep. Payne, known for Africa work, dies at 77
    published by Associated Press
    Donald Payne, a leader in US-Africa policy and one of the first American officials to speak out on the situation in Darfur and South Sudan, died Tuesday. He was flown back home to New Jersey on Friday from Georgetown University Hospital in Washington as his health took a sudden turn for the worse, his brother William said. Donald Payne, the first black congressional...
    
18. 3/6/2012 4:11:00 PM US Rep. Donald Payne dies at age 77
    published by Associated Press
    He was flown back home to New Jersey on Friday from Georgetown University Hospital as his health took a sudden turn for the worse, his brother William said. In Washington, he was remembered for his work as a defender of human rights, both at home and abroad. During an April 2009 visit, mortar shells were fired toward Mogadishu airport as a plane carrying Payne took off...
    
19. 3/4/2012 12:01:00 AM Jackson/Maybury
    published by Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
    Rubie Sue Maybury and Neil Lewis Jackson were married May 28, 2011, at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. The Rev. The bride is a graduate of Cedarville University, SUNY Upstate Medical University and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The groom is a graduate of Union University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
    
20. 3/3/2012 12:01:00 AM Fighting cancer, Rep. Payne flown back to New Jersey
    published by Trenton Times (NJ)
    Donald Payne Sr. may have taken a turn for the worse in his battle with colon cancer. Payne, 77, was flown by medical transport from Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston yesterday morning. "Anybody who has cancer has good days and bad days," said his brother, former Assemblyman William Payne. "
    
21. 3/3/2012 12:01:00 AM Fighting cancer, Rep. Payne flown back to Jersey
    published by Star-Ledger (NJ)
    Donald Payne Sr. may have taken a turn for the worse in his battle with colon cancer. Payne, 77, was flown by medical transport from Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston yesterday morning. "Anybody who has cancer has good days and bad days," said his brother, former Assemblyman William Payne. "