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          <title>Heavy Doses</title>
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          <description>Brett Chase covers health care for Portfolio.com and writes the blog Heavy Doses.</description>
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               <title>Walgreen's Transformation </title>
               <description>Pact with Caterpillar is just first of many corporate deals Hal Rosenbluth is pursuing. &amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/7oG-kqfvlOI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:22:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Walgreen's Transformation </promo_title>
               <promo_text>Pact with Caterpillar is just first of many corporate deals Hal Rosenbluth is pursuing. &amp;nbsp;
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               <title>Democrat Blasts Blue Dogs </title>
               <description>Frustration boils over as California's Pete Stark criticizes the conservatives in his party over health reform.&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/xhBCgcVuOGU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:46:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Democrat Blasts Blue Dogs </promo_title>
               <promo_text>Frustration boils over as California's Pete Stark criticizes the conservatives in his party over health reform.&amp;nbsp;
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               <title>Kennedy Puts Focus on Brain Cancer</title>
               <description>Groups that raise money for disease research and care hope senator's death helps their efforts. &amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/m9whrcKyhlc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:22:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Kennedy Puts Focus on Brain Cancer</promo_title>
               <promo_text>Groups that raise money for disease research and care hope senator's death helps their efforts. &amp;nbsp;
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               <title>McCain: 'Doing Nothing' on Reform Isn't the Answer</title>
               <description>The Arizona Republican, who led his party to a White House defeat in 2008, opposes the government insurance plan but says the health care system must be fixed.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/ITk3-sVWWUk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:36:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>McCain: 'Doing Nothing' on Reform Isn't the Answer</promo_title>
               <promo_text>The Arizona Republican, who led his party to a White House defeat in 2008, opposes the government insurance plan but says the health care system must be fixed. </promo_text>
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               <title>Kennedy Fights for Health Care Till the Very End</title>
               <description>A champion on reform is gone, leaving Democrats without his leadership and his vote.&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/5yJ-947nkMs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:27:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Kennedy Fights for Health Care Till the Very End</promo_title>
               <promo_text>A champion on reform is gone, leaving Democrats without his leadership and his vote.&amp;nbsp;
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               <title>Employers Brace for Swine Flu </title>
               <description>Companies are making plans in case swine flu wipes out a big chunk of their workforce.&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/k3amyuMz_8E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:50:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Employers Brace for Swine Flu </promo_title>
               <promo_text>Companies are making plans in case swine flu wipes out a big chunk of their workforce.&amp;nbsp;
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               <title>Shutting Down Town Hall </title>
               <description>Trying to avoid looking bad on CNN and YouTube, many Democrats are skipping meetings with voters on health reform&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/CpASpwy1Bx0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Shutting Down Town Hall </promo_title>
               <promo_text>Trying to avoid looking bad on CNN and YouTube, many Democrats are skipping meetings with voters on health reform&amp;nbsp;
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               <title>Health Debate: Pants On Fire!</title>
               <description>Web sites PolitiFact, FactCheck call politicians, others out on health reform fibbing.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/oVcjDpK69sA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:30:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Health Debate: Pants On Fire!</promo_title>
               <promo_text>Web sites PolitiFact, FactCheck call politicians, others out on health reform fibbing. </promo_text>
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               <title>Getting Grandma Riled Up</title>
               <description>GOP aims to get seniors on board to oppose President Obama's health reform plan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/jk5knjMA9Mg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:09:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Getting Grandma Riled Up</promo_title>
               <promo_text>GOP aims to get seniors on board to oppose President Obama's health reform plan.&amp;nbsp;
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               <title>Warner Chilcott Strikes Deal for P&amp;G Drugs</title>
               <description>Irish drugmaker to pay more than $3 billion for consumer-products giant's prescription-medicines business.&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeavyDoses/~4/GiTs1ndu2TA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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               <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:22:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <promo_title>Warner Chilcott Strikes Deal for P&amp;G Drugs</promo_title>
               <promo_text>Irish drugmaker to pay more than $3 billion for consumer-products giant's prescription-medicines business.&amp;nbsp;
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