Quinn budget would cut state HIV funding for third straight year

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The majority of these cuts will be made to the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program, or ADAP, which provides medications to people with the disease, according to the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. HIV funding has already been cut over the last two years …
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Arizona foster-care mental-health bill gains

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As introduced, the measure would have transferred authority and funding for mental-health and drug-abuse treatment to the DES, which runs Child Protective Services and the state's foster-care system. But the bill's sponsor, Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, …
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New 'bead' treatment for heartburn

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PHOENIX, March 7 (UPI) — The Mayo Clinic in Arizona has a new treatment for select patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, commonly known as heartburn, officials say. Dr. Kristi Harold said the treatment involves a minimally invasive procedure …
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