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• Key Senate Committee Strikes Down Public Option
  In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate, despite bipartisan agreement that private insurers must change their ways.
• Hospitals Using Drive-Thrus For H1N1
  Fast-food places have them. Banks and pharmacies do, too. Now hospitals are opening drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics to screen and treat a swelling tide of swine flu patients. Call it McTriage. And yes, you can get Tamiflu with that — if you're sick enough to need it.
• Laser Lipo Complication Leaves Woman Brain Dead
  A Broward County woman went in for a liposuction procedure but is now clinging to life after something went horribly wrong. Her family faces the tough choice of taking her off life support.
• Pregnant Women Need Swine Flu Shot Despite Odds
  It's hard for pregnant women to escape the message: You're at extra risk from swine flu — it could trigger premature labor, hospitalize you for weeks, even kill you — so be among the first in line for vaccine next month. But many obstetricians don't vaccinate.
• Rare Double Pregnancy Surprises All
  How could a woman be pregnant with two fetuses, but not with twins? Todd and Julia Grovenburg, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, are expecting two babies, but one might be weeks older than the other. Some doctors believe it's a rare case of superfetation, a condition common in animals, but rarely seen in humans. In this case, Julia, who was already pregnant, got pregnant again.
• Lawyers: Chinese Drywall Makers May Ignore Suits
  Lawyers for homeowners and homebuilders who used drywall suspected of causing corrosion and possible health risks say they expect Chinese manufacturers to ignore hundreds of lawsuits filed against them. About 300 lawsuits in U.S. District Court in New Orleans allege a flood of defective Chinese drywall was sent to Gulf Coast states after hurricanes in 2004 and 2005. The material is known to decay, creating corrosive chemicals and fumes.
• Mass. Freshman Dies From Swine Flu At Ohio College
  He was only at college for a few weeks getting ready for the rest of his life when 18-year-old Matthew Healey died of swine flu. The Massachusetts student had just gone off to school in Ohio. A few weeks later, he came down with the H1N1 virus.
• Insurer: Woman's Bleeding Breast Not Emergency
  When is an emergency not an emergency?  Apparently, when an insurance company says it isn't.  A Bay Area woman asked CBS station KPIX-TV to investigate why her insurance company, Blue Shield of California HMO, denied her claim for a visit to the emergency room prompted by a bleeding breast.
• Oh Baby! 19-Pound Boy Draws Crowds In Indonesia
  Indonesia's heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to a hospital where the boy named Akbar — or the Great in Arabic — came into the world at a record 19.2 pounds.
• Ohio Woman Implanted With Wrong Embryo Gives Birth
  A woman who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic has given birth to a boy, her family said Friday. Sean and Carolyn Savage released a statement Friday night saying a "healthy baby boy," whom they plan to give up to his biological parents, was delivered Thursday at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo. No information about the baby or the circumstances surrounding the delivery was immediately released.