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Women who develop diabetes during pregnancy give birth to healthier babies if they are aggressively treated, concludes a large new study that helps bolster the case for testing all pregnant women for this condition. The study, by Australian researchers, is the first to show that treatment can help avoid serious …

WASHINGTON – Sen. Dick Durbin (search) went to the Senate floor late Tuesday to offer his apologies to anyone who may have been offended by his comparison of treatment of detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Cambodia’s Pol Pot. “More than …

WASHINGTON – Two Republican and two Democratic representatives pushed a non-binding resolution on Thursday that would require an Iraq exit strategy by the end of this year with implementation beginning by October 2006. “After 1,700 deaths, over 12,000 wounded and $200 billion spent, we believe it is time to have …