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Dr. Bethesaida Tafari Habte, primary clinician for Well Women Clinic, discusses health care with U.S. Air Force veteran Wendy Haylor at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsburg, W.Va. (Photo by Ron Agnir / AP)

Women’s distrust of VA hard to shed

Female vets are making less use of VA health services than their male counterparts, even though they face comparable health problems.

Star Tribune

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Military and veteran’s health care

KaiserEDU.org

Cancer drug shortage arrives

Drug shortages have been an ongoing problem in the U.S. But the federal Food and Drug Administration is seeing “a record number of shortages” this year.

Anchorage Daily News

Coping with chronic myelogenous leukemia

WebMD

Clinton: GOP must go beyond politics and push to ratify START

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Senate Republicans to ratify a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, calling it in the national security interests of the United States and its allies.

CBS News

Blog:

Obama, Medvedev discuss arms deal

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Obama invokes Reagan in START bid

Reuters

Catholics debate Pope’s condom remarks

The U.N. AIDS agency welcomed the pope’s comments but cautioned they were only a first step toward making the use of condoms acceptable among Catholics.

ABC News

Pope on use of condoms: book excerpt

BBC

Pope: Condoms to prevent AIDS may be OK

CNN

Holiday shoppers stay up late

Instead of stressing deep discounts, which can take a big bite out of profits, retailers are trying less expensive methods to spur sales, like longer store hours.

NPR

NATION

Obama considers giving lobby speech to court business

President Barack Obama is considering giving a speech in January to the Chamber of Commerce, a major business lobby, as part of a new outreach to corporations, a White House official said.

Reuters

Rendell weighs bill to expand self-defense law for shootings

In essence, the governor must wade into a debate between supporters who call it a “stand your ground” bill and opponents who label it a “shoot first” measure.

Philadelphia Inquirer

POLITICS

Obama under pressure over 9/11 terror trials

Republicans have demanded that President Barack Obama scrap plans to try the organizers of the 9/11 attacks in civilian courts.

Guardian

Is the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal DOA?

The window for action on reversing the ban on gays in the military is quickly closing, and the path to undoing the 17-year-old law is riddled with roadblocks.

Politico

New lawmakers must raise cash for 2012 while paying off debt

Several newly-elected lawmakers are facing double the fundraising pressure — preparing for the 2012 election and paying off the 2010 campaign debt.

The Hill

HEALTH

Doubling frequency of dialysis may help kidney failure patients

Kidney failure patients who double the number of weekly dialysis treatments typically prescribed had significantly better heart function, overall health and general quality of life, new research indicates.

HealthDay

Merck continues push for new drugs to fight heart disease

The drugmaker’s investment in cardiovascular disease became evident when it released new data supporting development of an experimental drug for treating troublesome cholesterol levels.

Star-Ledger

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Holy Redeemer Catholic Church to install relic of Mexican saint

It’s only about an inch long, a sliver of bone encased behind glass in a gold-plated vessel. But for thousands in Detroit, a tiny relic of a slain Mexican priest has great meaning from which they draw inspiration.

Detroit Free Press

Christian teachers at Muslim school gain insight into religion

It‘s a typical morning at New Horizons Academy, a private day care and school at the Islamic Center of Des Moines. But for two teachers, classes here are like nothing they’ve experienced before.

Des Moines Register

EDUCATION

School board pushes to add gays to school policies on bullying

The Minnesota School Board Association is advising school districts across the state to expand their harassment and violence policy to include gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.

Star Tribune

Economists want to stop teachers’ degree-related bonuses

Every year, American schools pay more than $8.6 billion in bonuses to teachers with master’s degrees, even though the idea that a higher degree makes a teacher more effective has been mostly debunked.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

SPORTS

Derek Jeter‘s agent: Yankees ‘baffling’

The Yankees have reportedly made Jeter an offer for three years and $45 million. But Jeter is seeking a deal lasting at least four years and preferably longer.

ESPN

Leshoure, Illini drop Wildcats at quirky Wrigley Field match

If football comes to Wrigley Field again, Mikel Leshoure wants to be there. “I think that would be fun,” he said. Particularly after a performance like this.

Sports Illustrated

Illini beat NU at Wrigley

Chicago Sun-Times

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Robert Reich):

Obama must oppose tax cuts for rich

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Jack Kelly):

Bernanke’s folly

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Dennis Anderson):

Photos are a fine vintage

Star Tribune

Column (Chris O’Brien):

How state and local government layoffs threaten the economy

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D.):

Politics and you: Solution or problem

Inspiration Deficit Disorder

(Psychology Today)

Column (David Katz, M.D.):

Caffeinated booze: Bad news for bad brews

Huffington Post

Column (Peter Duffy):

Actually, Glenn Beck is not Father Coughlin

The New Republic

Blog (Leonard Sax):

Are teen girls texting too much?

(Psychology Today)

Sax on Sex

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GOOD NEWS

Iraq war veteran walks across US to help comrades in need

Just home from Iraq in August 2009, former U.S. Army Spc. Troy Yocum was inspired by a fellow veteran who needed assistance and decided to literally take steps to help.

USA TODAY

With little to give, drug court students offer pennies to others

On Thanksgiving, the students, who are working on turning around their own lives, hope to give a boost to others who are down on their luck.

Salt Lake Tribune

Victims don’t have to navigate courts alone

The waiting rooms are just one way the Dakota County Attorney‘s Office aids thousands of victims and witnesses every year in its victim-witness program, one of Minnesota’s first.

Star Tribune

WORLD

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