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MD Anderson, Rice share cancer drug commercialization grant
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[Houston Chronicle] - By Todd Ackerman The state cancer program has given two Houston academic institutions a $20 million grant to accelerate the availability of life-saving treatments. The grant, to be shared by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Rice
Providers try to fill women's health program gap
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[Houston Chronicle] - By Todd Ackerman "We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women to have health care services," Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, shown on Tuesday, said. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison on Thursday added to the
Abbott sues US over women's health funding
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[Houston Chronicle] - By Todd Ackerman and Peggy Fikac In his latest legal action against the federal government, Attorney General Greg Abbott Friday filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the Obama administration from ending federal funding of a key Texas health program for
Tobacco control programs work, says study
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[Houston Chronicle] - By Todd Ackerman US tobacco-control programs prevented nearly lung cancer deaths in the last quarter of the 20th century, but more than three times as many could have been spared had the entire population stopped smoking in 1965, according to a
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