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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The global AIDS bill signed by President Bush on Wednesday sets a goal of treating more than the 2 million-patient target set in 2003, but how much more isn't clear....

President Bush triples the US budget for fighting Aids and other diseases in Africa and the Caribbean.

President Bush plans to sign a bill next week that commits the United States to spending about $40 billion over the next five years to fight AIDS overseas, a major expansion of what many consider his most successful foreign policy initiative.

President Bush sought to block a bill yesterday aimed at forestalling an 11 percent cut in payments to doctors taking care of Medicare patients, but Congress quickly overrode his veto.

WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives quickly voted to override President Bush's veto of a bill that blocked an automatic 10.6% cut in Medicare Part B reimbursement.

WASHINGTON -- The ink was barely dry on President Bush's veto of the bill that blocked a scheduled 10.6% cut in Medicare payments to physicians when the House of Representatives voted 383-41 to override it.

The Senate followed suit soon after, by a vote of 70-26.

WASHINGTON -- As President Bush's health chief, Tommy Thompson trumpeted millions of taxpayer dollars to help workers sickened by the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center, even amid complaints that his agency wasn't doing enough.

After a decade of debate, President Bush last week signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA).

It is now illegal for health insurers to raise premiums or deny coverage based on genetic information, and employees cannot be hired or fired based on their genetic information.

Analysis: The presumptive GOP nominee makes his environmental pitch.

It's an advance over President Bush, but that still doesn't make him the green candidate

Viewpoint: President Bush's new strategy for saving the world from climate change is too little, too late