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Health news: Wimpy politician edition


Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., held a tame town hall meeting Tuesday. (WLS)

    RELATED: Officials wimping out in Illinois (Daily Herald)

CDPH: Plenty of swine flu (ahem, H1N1 Novel Flu virus) vaccine to go around (WLS)

Lily's Law: Quinn signs diabetes registry law, sparked by UCMC diagnoses (Science Life)

Chicago's birth certificate process just got easier (Trib)

Chicago's low-income children become sexually active at 12 (Sun-Times)

Chicago hosted a LGBT health summit last week (Windy City Times)

Great Lakes fish and diabetes connection? (WBEZ)

UIC gets depression research grant (Trib)

MetroSouth is recovering from economic downturn (SouthtownStar)

VA center works on a PR blitz (Trib)

Facebook: Down with Whole Foods! Schmich: Hold on a sec... (USAT/Trib)

David Axelrod's health care dilemma. (Politico)

Money-making specialities are leading to a shortage of primary care docs (USAT)

Reform debate: Enter the vets (HuffPo)

Swine Flu U: College students get lessons on the virus (Trib)

Is Obama giving up on the public option (Sun-Times)

Weight-lifting helps out breast cancer survivors (Daily Herald)

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