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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With most Americans ambivalent about President Barack Obama's signature healthcare overhaul or openly hostile to it, next Tuesday's elections could have a big impact on the reforms, experts said on Wednesday.Major Republican gains could mean years of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans who were worried about the safety of the swine flu vaccine are still worried and it may not be easy to convince them to get themselves or their children vaccinated, researchers said on Tuesday.About 60 percent of parents ...

Americans divided over health care bills; fine print on costs worries many peopleIt's the cost, Mr. President. That's creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to close the deal with a handful of Democratic doubters in the ...

Dr. Robert Blendon, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.. Related: Executive Briefing for Corporate and Governmental Decision Makers More than 200 corporate and government leaders came together at Harvard Medical School in ...

Opposition to health care overhaul drops, but Americans remain divided over plansThe fever has broken. An even split is welcome news for Democrats, a sharp improvement from September, when 49 percent of Americans said they opposed the congressional proposals and just 34 ...

Businesses, including food industry, unprepared for possible swine flu outbreakMany American businesses are unprepared to deal with widespread employee absenteeism in the event of an outbreak of swine flu, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study released Wednesday.The survey ...

Thanks to swine flu, there's a little less hugging and kissing in the United States.About one in 10 Americans have stopped hugging and kissing close friends or relatives because of concerns about swine flu, according to a survey released Friday ...

Americans' reactions to the outbreak of the H1N1 flu, aka the swine flu, may have trended lately toward being annoyed, but nearly half were also concerned five days ago that they or their family might actually get sick. A survey by the ...

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