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Six Finance Senators Strive For Bipartisan Compromise
As the public face of health reform devolves into a partisan fight - with one GOP Senator [Jim DeMint, S.C.] saying the reform push is President Obama"s "Waterloo," and Democrats retorting that Republicans would derail the overhaul for political gain - a group of legislators in the Senate Finance Committee has continued to strive for a compromise behind closed doors, the Christian Science Monitor reports. "If a bipartisan compromise is to clear Congress this year, its main lines are likely to emerge here."

IRIN Examines PEPFAR Funding Of IDU Programs
IRIN examines a recent comment piece in the journal Lancet that argues PEPFAR can do more to prevent the spread of HIV among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Africa (IRIN, 6/24). Although PEPFAR has helped to provide "antiretroviral therapy to 2.1 million people with HIV, almost all of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa, and has spent more than $18 billion on the continent," it has failed to reach "thousands of injecting drug users in PEPFAR countries in Africa, many of whom have HIV," according to the authors of the Lancet article (Kaiser Global Health Policy Report, 6/19).
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ImmuneRegen BioSciences Confirms Homspera's Therapeutic Anti-Influenza Effect On Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus After Oral Administration
ImmuneRegen BioSciences(R), a wholly owned subsidiary of IR BioSciences Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: IRBS), reports preliminary evidence that its selective Neurokinin 1-receptor agonist Homspera(R) is both active on oral administration and provides therapeutic effects against the current pandemic H1N1 virus infection.
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Potential Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor May Face Criticism For Comments On Gender, Ethnicity

Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor -- whose is considered to be "near the top" of President Obama"s list of potential Supreme Court nominees to replace retiring Justice David Souter -- could face criticism over a 2001 speech in which she stated that a judge"s ethnicity and gender "may and will make a difference in our judging," the New York Times reports. According to the Times, Republicans have indicated that "they intend to put the eventual nominee under a microscope," and they have expressed concern that Obama"s emphasis on judicial "empathy" suggests that he is seeking a judge who will promote liberal ideology. Some conservative commentators also have branded Sotomayor a "judicial activist" because of her remarks during a 2005 panel discussion for law students, when she said that a "court of appeals is where policy is made." However, Sotomayor also said that she is "not promoting" and "not advocating" that idea.In her 2001 speech, delivered at the Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California-Berkeley, Sotomayor questioned the notion that male and female judges would reach similar conclusions when deciding cases, though she also "sounded many cautionary notes," the Times reports. Sotomayor said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn"t lived that life." Sotomayor also said that the increasing diversity in federal courts "will have an effect on the development of the law and on judging." She said that being a woman or a minority can affect a judge"s perspective because of "experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences."However, Sotomayor also said that women and minority groups do not all share a universal perspective and that she was not referring to any specific case. Although she said that she strives to question her own "opinions, sympathies and prejudices," and aspired to impartiality, she also asked whether achieving impartiality is "possible in all, or even in most, cases." Sotomayor said, "I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice to both the law and society?" She added, "Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see." Charles Ogletree, a Harvard Law School professor and adviser to Obama, said Sotomayor"s remarks were appropriate because it is "obvious that people"s life experiences will inform their judgments in life as lawyers and judges" (Savage, New York Times, 5/15). Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You can view the entire Daily Women"s Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery here. The Daily Women"s Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company. © 2009 The Advisory Board Company. All rights reserved.


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