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• Nurses Group Among Protestors At NATO Summit
  What's being called the first official protest of NATO kicked off Friday in downtown Chicago, where an estimated 1,000 nurses are expected to gather. They're calling for a "Robin Hood Tax" whereby Wall Street earnings are taxed to help relieve inadequacies in healthcare.
  
  
• Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Fracking 'Gag Rule'
  A new law grants doctors access to information about trade-secret chemicals used in natural gas drilling. Doctors say they need the information to treat patients who may have been exposed to chemicals. But the law also says doctors can't tell anyone else — not even other doctors — about what's in the formulas.
  
  
• Embattled Hospital Debt Collector Taps Politicians For Defense
  Accretive Health, under fire for how it collects on health care debts, is fighting back. The company has lined up some political luminaries, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, to press its case.
  
  
• Poll: Americans Show Support For Compensation Of Organ Donors
  Federal law bans payments for organs. But about 60 percent of Americans support health care credits as compensation for organ donors, the NPR-Thomson Reuters Health Poll finds.
  
  
• Cost Of Cancer Pills Can Be Hard For Medicare Patients To Swallow
  How some insurers pay for treatments means that cancer pills can wind up costing a patient more than an IV. Some states have passed laws to make sure that patients don't have to pay more to take pills. But those laws don't apply to Medicare.
  
  

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