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Healthcare.gov: It Could Be Worse
On October 1st, the first day of the government shutdown, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Healthcare.gov, a four-hundred-million-dollar online marketplace designed to help Americans research and purchase health insurance. In its first days, only a small fraction of users could create an account or log in. [...] Read More »
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How the Shutdown Is Devastating Biomedical Scientists And Killing Their Research
The federal shutdown’s effects on science and medicine are many. There’s halted food safety inspections, kids with cancer who won’t be able to join clinical drug trials, and suspension of disease outbreak monitoring. Conservation studies have been thrown into disarray and at least one NASA Mars mission is at risk of being delayed for years. Read More »
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If Shutdown Persists, VA Will Cut Off Claims Payments To Vets On Nov. 1
If the government shutdown persists until late October, the Veterans Affairs Department will cut off disability, pension, compensation and education claims to 5.18 million veterans, surviving spouses and children on Nov. 1, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told a hearing of the House VA Committee Wednesday. Read More »
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Lapse In Chemical Security Effort Cited As Another Reason To End Shutdown
The Obama administration is adding the closure of the Homeland Security Department's chemical security program to its list of reasons why Congress should end the partial government shutdown that began last week. Read More »
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Los Alamos, Sandia Labs Prepare To Shut Down Amid Budget Impasse
New Mexico's two national laboratories are preparing to freeze their nonessential activities in less than two weeks in the event the federal government shutdown is still in place. Read More »
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NBC/WSJ Poll: 60 Percent Say Fire Every Member Of Congress
Throw the bums out. That’s the message 60 percent of Americans are sending to Washington in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, saying if they had the chance to vote to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, including their own representative, they would. Just 35 percent say they would not. Read More »
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New Salmonella Outbreak In Chicken Resists Antibiotics
A salmonella outbreak linked to raw chicken from California involves several antibiotic-resistant strains of the disease and has put at least 42% of the victims in the hospital, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. Read More »
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Obama Administration Decides NSA Spying Is ‘Essential,’ But Oversight Of NSA Is Not
While the National Security Agency (NSA) has largely escaped the government shutdown, the panel investigating NSA spying practices has effectively been frozen. Politico reports that as of Friday, the five-member Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies lost its staff to the furlough associated with the government shutdown. Read More »
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ONC Delays Launch Of Blue Button Connector Until Late February
The US Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT is slowing its rollout launch of a website meant to encourage patients to take a more active role in their own care. Read More »
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Op-Ed: There’s A Leadership Void In Addressing Critical Geospatial Issues
Last month, nearly 1,000 global government and industry representatives from around the world attended a Mexico-hosted conference on the economic, societal and governmental benefits of geospatial technology. Notably absent were U.S. government officials. [...] Read More »
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Salmonella And The Shutdown: CDC Furloughs Harm Public Health
Food expert Marion Nestle asks whether government-shutdown-mandated furloughs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hampered its response to the salmonella outbreak at Foster Farms. Read More »
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Shinseki Wants A Budget For The VA
Veterans will still receive medical and hospital care no matter how long the federal government is shut down, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki told lawmakers, but funding for benefits and other programs may run out in November, threatening veterans’ financial health. Read More »
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Shutdown Imperils Costly Lab Mice, Years Of Research
The government shutdown is likely to mean an early death for thousands of mice used in research on diseases such as diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer's. Read More »
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Shutdown Leaves Program Feeding Women And Infants In Lurch
Among those affected by the chaos of the government shutdown are 9 million low-income women and children who may be worrying where next week's meal is going to come from. Read More »
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Shutdown Of DHS Chemical-Security Program Prompts Strong Words
The Homeland Security Department's chemical-security program ceased most operations this week as a result of the federal shutdown, prompting concerns about how the government will improve security in the wake of this year's fatal explosion in Texas. Read More »
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