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Now Republicans’ Obamacare repeal effort gets real

Having cleared a major procedural hurdle, the Senate Republican push to repeal Obamacare will heat up as Democrats and Republicans begin 20 hours of debate on amendments to re-shape the House-passed legislation.

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UC Davis to co-lead $14.7 million study of dementia in U.S. Hispanics

A UC Davis neurology researcher will share the lead in a $14.7 million study examining causes of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia among Latinos in the United States.

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Conservatives know the Senate repeal effort has only just begun

Leaders of influential conservative organizations took a moment to cheer the Senate’s vote to advance efforts to repeal Obamacare on Tuesday—but there is sober recognition that Republicans remain sharply divided over the details of that process.

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A fading past after a dementia diagnosis

People diagnosed with dementia try to hold back the deteriorating effects of the illness while protecting their precious memories.

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Hantavirus survivor’s dad says Bodie living quarters scrubbed as son lay in his room

As Citrus Heights resident Spencer Fry lay in his room trying to recover from a fever caused by hantavirus, he heard his coworkers thoroughly cleaning the living quarters outside his room.

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Hantavirus infection strikes Citrus Heights man who was working at California state park

Newly minted Sacramento State graduate Spencer Fry took a seasonal job at Bodie State Historic Park because the old ghost town seemed like a treasure trove to an anthropology major, his parents say, but his summer of discovery was cut short when he contracted hantavirus.

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GOP and Dems start talking about compromise health bill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has mentioned working with Democrats if he can’t muster enough support to advance his ObamaCare replacement legislation. After seven years of Republican attacks on the Affordable Care Act, however, that might be difficult.

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UCSF doctor talks about contracting, surviving hantavirus

In this Aug. 30, 2012, video interview, Dr. Charles Chiu, who directs the University of California, San Francisco-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, discusses hantavirus, a potentially fatal virus transmitted by rodents such as deer mice. Other rodents, including house mice, are rarely if ever carriers of the virus. The video has been edited by The Sacramento Bee.

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5 things to know about hantaviruses

Hantaviruses are a rare but potentially deadly group of viruses carried by some mice, rats and other rodents.

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California stem cell agency researching cures for brain cancer afflicting McCain

California’s taxpayer-funded stem cell agency, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is researching cures for the type of aggressive brain cancer that U.S. Sen. John McCain has been diagnosed with.

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Why Sacramento’s Western Health Advantage is further expanding Bay Area coverage

Western Health Advantage, the managed-health plan founded by Sacramento and Solano County doctors in 1996, is expanding its coverage into the Bay Area.

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As healthcare debate rages, consumers ask, ‘What about me?’

Confused by the ongoing health care debate about the repeal of the Affordable Care Act? You’re not alone. We try to clear things up for the casual observer and people worried about their own marketplace coverage.

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California hits nerve by singling out cardiac surgeons with higher patient death rates

California reports which surgeons have the highest mortality rates among patients, but some surgeons on the list say they simply take on riskier cases.

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Moran now says he’ll move to repeal Obamacare, but wants ‘open’ process to replace

Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas says he'll vote to proceed to debate on a Obamacare repeal-only bill, the day after his opposition left Senate Republicans’ bill to replace Obamacare all but dead.

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Republican lawmakers desperately search for something to agree on

The GOP needs a big win and its inability to score by the August recess marks one of the few times in four decades that a new president has failed to use his honeymoon period to achieve a major legislative victory.

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McConnell’s new tactic on Obamcare repeal could devastate health insurers

The collapse of the Better Care Reconciliation Act has forced Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to try and pass a delayed repeal of Obamacare. But the same forces that doomed the BCRA are at play in the effort to pass a straight repeal bill.

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First Republican to propose bill repealing Obamacare now helps save it

Sen. Jerry Moran, the first congressional lawmaker to formally seek Obamacare repeal, helped save the seven-year-old law Monday night by saying he’d oppose the Senate Republican alternative

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GOP health bill nears demise, but Democrats’ unity masks their own dangerous divide

Democrats are showing uncommon unity in fighting Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But the discipline masks a deep and fundamental divide within the party over single payer health care that could complicate Democrats’ efforts to gain ground in the 2018 election and beyond. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has long championed the issue.

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Senate GOP’s healthcare problem is not Trump

One big reason Senate Republicans are having trouble uniting around a plan to overhaul the nation’s health coverage is that many just don’t get along.

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U.S. health system has worst access for the poor among 11 wealthy nations, study finds

The U.S. has the worst rate of health care access for the poor compared to 10 other wealthy nations, a new study finds.

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