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As families across our nation celebrate Christmas together, Democrats in the United States Senate and their ringleader, Harry Reid, have been deviously busy once again.

For progressives, the question on the health-care battle going forward is not whether they have a right to be angry, but whether they can direct their fury toward constructive ends.

Researchers have begun enrolling Memphis-area patients in a clinical trial on a drug that appears to offer the best hope yet for treating a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer that's most common among African-American women.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is fairly pleased with the final Senate health care legislation that passed on Christmas Eve, despite failing to secure approval for the public option he had been pushing for over the past several months.

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If the Senate version of the health care bill becomes law, some of the political bargains made may make you feel sick.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay : Fluzone High-Dose, a seasonal flu vaccine for people 65 and older, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency said in a news release.

When all is said and done -- and, yes, there is a bit more saying and doing to endure, which means that anything can happen -- the health-care reform legislation that President Obama now seems likely to sign into law, while an unlovely mess, will be remembered as a landmark accomplishment.

The United States Senate passed its version of national health care reform early Thursday morning.

Of the $1.27 billion Oregon is getting in federal stimulus money for health and human services, most of it - $833 million - is going to people whose medical benefits are paid by the Oregon Health Plan.

An editorial in La Opinion notes that it is ironic that a Congress that seems to be refusing to offer a public health care option, which some criticize as "socialized medicine," would extend its long arm to make decisions on behalf of women without even considering their medical needs.

Merry Christmas, but not for Nestle. It was reported on Christmas Day that earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration "reprimaned" Nestle for misleading nutritional information.

The new health-care legislation that passed the Senate on Christmas Eve is known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Republican senators attacking the cost of a Democratic health care bill showed far different concerns six years ago, when they approved a major Medicare expansion that has added tens of billions of dollars to federal deficits.

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is calling the health care bill approved by the U.S. Senate "a good bill," but one that can be improved.

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox isn't impressed with the landmark health care legislation approved in the U.S. Senate this morning, calling special Medicaid provisions aimed at securing the vote of Nebraska's Ben Nelson costly to other states and potentially unconstitutional.

On a day when many of us will be opening gifts and spending time with family the U.S. Senate passed a bill that will bring sweeping changes to the nation's health care system.

US Rep. James Clyburn was in attendance at the groundbreaking for SRS's planned Biomass Cogeneration Facility, set to open in December 2011.

Missouri's senators split over legislation overhauling the nation's health insurance system - as have the state's two leading Senate candidates.

On a party-line 60-39 vote, Senate Democrats supported the most dramatic shifts in health policy in four decades.