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        "title": "PPACA debate snags Senate pharmacy bill",
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        "prettyDate": "November 12, 2013",
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        "summary": "A year after a meningitis outbreak from contaminated pain injections killed at least 64 people and sickened hundreds, Congress is ready to increase federal oversight over compounding pharmacies that custom-mix medications.",
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        "title": "FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkiller",
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        "prettyDate": "October 24, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.",
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        "title": "Companies offer benefits to transgender workers",
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        "prettyDate": "October 24, 2013",
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        "summary": "EMC, which has 60,000 employees, is one of a growing number of Fortune 500 companies expanding their health care benefits to meet the needs of workers who have \"gender dysphoria,\" the medical term for those who identify themselves as the opposite gender that they were assigned at birth.",
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        "uri": "/2013/05/06/fda-wants-cancer-warnings-on-tanning-beds/",
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        "prettyDate": "May 06, 2013",
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        "summary": "Indoor tanning beds would come with new warnings about the risk of cancer and be subject to more stringent federal oversight under a proposal unveiled Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.",
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        "uri": "/2013/01/14/flu-season-puts-businesses-and-employees-in-a-bind/",
        "title": "Flu season puts businesses and employees in a bind",
        "byline": "Matthew Perrone",
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        "prettyDate": "January 14, 2013",
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        "summary": "Nearly half the 70 employees at a Ford dealership in Clarksville, Ind., have been out sick at some point in the past month. It didn't have to be that way, the boss says.",
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        "prettyDate": "January 10, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Food and Drug Administration is requiring makers of Ambien and similar sleeping pills to lower the dosage of their drugs, based on studies suggesting patients face a higher risk of injury due to morning drowsiness.",
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        "title": "FDA investigating possible energy drink-related deaths",
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        "prettyDate": "October 23, 2012",
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        "summary": "The highly caffeinated Monster Energy Drink has been cited in five deaths and one non-fatal heart attack, according to reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating.",
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        "uri": "/2012/09/26/save-money-with-smart-open-enrollment-changes/",
        "title": "Save money with smart open enrollment changes",
        "byline": "Matthew Perrone",
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        "prettyDate": "September 26, 2012",
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        "summary": "Employers will soon be offering workers their yearly opportunity to make changes to their health care benefits. All too often this open-enrollment period has required combing through pages and pages of confusing insurance terms.",
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        "uri": "/2012/08/07/sec-hits-pfizer-with-bribery-charges/",
        "title": "SEC hits Pfizer with bribery charges",
        "byline": "Matthew Perrone",
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        "prettyDate": "August 07, 2012",
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        "summary": "Pfizer has agreed to pay the federal government $60 million to settle allegations that its employees bribed doctors and other foreign officials in Europe and Asia to win business and boost sales.",
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        "uri": "/2012/05/08/fda-review-favors-first-drug-for-hiv-prevention/",
        "title": "FDA review favors first drug for HIV prevention",
        "byline": "Matthew Perrone",
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        "prettyDate": "May 08, 2012",
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        "summary": "A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS.",
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