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This entire week, I have been preoccupied with womens health issues as media have focused on the health of national women leaders. Friends, allies and admirers of former President Corazon C. Aquino are praying for her as she struggles for life at the Makati Medical Center.

Quinn fires head of health board (Chicago Sun-Times)

Gov. Quinn has fired a high-ranking employee who oversaw a state board that is the gatekeeper for hospital and other health-care construction projects throughout Illinois. Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board Executive Secretary Jeffrey Mark was dismissed quietly Tuesday -- the same day the General Assembly and Quinn signed off on a plan to kill the five-member board and replace it with a ...

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