In a statement, Mr. Braley called Mr. Harkin's departure "a huge loss for the people of Iowa, " praising the senator's work on health-care issues.
But it also has the potential to derail the new president's larger agenda, as campaign promises, fiscal realities and industry pressure collide--a scenario that swamped the early days of the Clinton administration's work on health care.
You know, if you look at the recent article about Senator Obama's work on health care reform in the Illinois legislature, it's a very interesting piece about how he basically did the bidding of the insurance companies during that effort.
Shulman conceded that some new employees would be required to support the agency's work on the health care bill.
Google.org Executive Director Larry Brilliant said the corporate initiative dovetails with the philanthropy's work on global health and climate change.
As more and more of us transition to integrated systems and, importantly, work on electronic health records, the measured will become the majority.
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"The president has said countless times he will work with anybody and everybody who wants to work constructively on health care reform, " Gibbs said.
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So this is not done for anything other than a few extra days to work on getting health care reform through the process, as well as keeping that important trip.
Now, if health care is near and dear to her heart, wouldn't it be the right choice or a good choice to stay in the Senate and work on the health care issue that way?
Because by taking this job, he would be basically giving that up as something she would work on - health care, domestic women's rights - I mean all the domestic issues that she has talked about on the campaign trail, that would be over.
International groups like the World Health Organizations and UNICEF have been on the forefront of public health work that focuses on treating severely malnourished children during this critical time.
And I appreciate the willingness of the Business Roundtable to work with us on health care reform.
The President spent a lot of time trying to work with Republicans on health care, only to have very few respond.
We want to work with you on health reform and making certain that we do it in an affordable, cost-effective way that is going to reduce bureaucracy, reduce government interference, and reduce costs to individuals and to taxpayers.
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Last week, IBM Research announced a pilot with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium to work on standardizing the exchange of health information among public health departments, doctors, and the CDC.
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And certainly during the eight years that I was privileged to be in the White House, I had a great deal of responsibility that was given to me to not only work on domestic issues, like health care -- and when we weren't successful on universal health care, I just turned around and said, well, we're going to get the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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"In the middle of some pretty serious wrangling, over whether the president should be removed from office or not, we were able to strike budget accords that funded the president's priorities on education, on health care, welfare to work, on the environment, " Siewert told reporters.
He told the chamber Mr Brown turned up to a Labour debate on 13 March to support a Lib Dem amendment calling for a summit of health professionals to work out a new set of health reforms based on the Coalition Agreement.
"Democrats, Republicans, and health care stakeholders must work together on real reform to give Americans better access to affordable health care, but that's not happening in Washington, " Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement.
It is also receiving funds from the National Institutes of Health to work on an anthrax vaccine.
We're going to need to work on making access to mental health care at least as easy as access to a gun.
The president expects the Senate to have begun work by then on a national health plan that expands coverage while holding down rising health-care costs.
Finally, I realized there are no promises on health or work.
"Those who will be most hurt by the Bolivian government's decision are the Bolivian citizens who have benefited from our collaborative work on education, agriculture, health, alternative development, and the environment, " it said in a statement.
As director of the White House Office on Health Reform, DeParle will work with Sebelius as the president's point person coordinating outreach to Congress on the administration's ambitious health care reform agenda.
There is more work we can do on the public health side and the treatment side.
Other work, collected by Circadian Information, a consultancy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, suggests people who work on shifts also suffer more ill health.
Two out of three people in Kenya's capital say that congestion has a negative impact on their work, family and health, IBM reports.
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