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February 2005
02/18/05 Amidst Urgent HIV Crisis, Schumer Blasts Feds for Shortchanging HIV Funding – New Fed Budget Cuts for HIV Prevention Couldn’t Come at a Worse Time
02/15/05 Schumer: Oxford Will Expand Medicare Advantage Program To Westchester County With No Premium

January 2005
01/18/05 With Hepatitis C Dramatically Growing on Long Island; Schumer Lays out Plan to Stop it in its Tracks

October 2004
10/10/04 Schumer: Feds To Blame For Flu Vaccine Shortage; Announces Plan To Solve Crisis And Urges U.S. To Implement Immediately
10/07/04 Schumer - Talent Sickle Cell Disease Bill Passes Senate-House Conference

July 2004
07/15/04 Schumer Fights Proposed Trade Agreement with Australia That Could Cost New Yorkers Millions for Prescription Drugs Each Year

June 2004
06/21/04 Schumer and Jim & Jill Kelly Unveil New 4-point Plan to Screen Newborns for Diseases
06/08/04 Schumer to Meet with VA Secretary Principi Tomorrow to Discuss Fate of Canandaigua VA Hospital

May 2004
05/31/04 Schumer Urges New Drug Shopper Website That Could Save NYers Millions by Revealing Wide Disparities Between Drug Stores' Prices
05/19/04 Schumer, McCain and Hollings Ask FTC to Probe Key HIV/AIDS Drug Price Hike
05/10/04 Schumer: Oxford will Expand Medicare + Choice Program to Rockland and Orange Counties with No Premium
05/12/04 US Senate Passes Schumer Sickle Cell Bill To Provide New Sickle Cell Research Center and 40 Local Clinics
05/03/04 Senators to HHS Secretary Thompson: Government Drug Price Negotiation Should Be Used More Broadly

March 2004
03/15/04 Senators Urge President to Protect Medicare Official from Retaliation
03/15/04 Schumer Reveals: LI Medicaid Mills Trap Ex-addicts in Dangerous Conditions, Cheat Them of Treatment & Blight Neighborhoods

February 2004
02/26/04 NAACP Endorses Schumer's Sickle Cell Disease Legislation
02/22/04 Schumer Reveals: 50 Illicit Internet Sites Are Selling Dangerous Drugs to New Yorkers Without Prescriptions
02/11/04 With Recommendation on VA Hospital to Be Released this Week, Schumer Makes Final Pitch for 50 Psychiatric Beds
02/11/04 Schumer: $6 Million Coming to NY's Institute for Cancer Prevention for Groundbreaking New Research into Cancer-Alzheimer's Link
02/06/04 Schumer: New Law Could Create New Health Care Options for Many New Yorkers
02/02/04 Schumer, Sweeney: New US Ephedra Ban Doesn't Go Far Enough – Ephedra Copycats Dodge Ban and 15 Ephedra Clones Already on Sale in NY
02/02/04 Schumer: Thousands of Western NY Seniors Will See $250 Cuts in Annual Medicare HMO Costs in 2004
02/01/04 Schumer Warns That New Ephedra Ban Doesn't Do Enough – 15 Ephedra Clones That Dodge Ban Already on Sale in New York

January 2004
01/26/04 Schumer: Long Island Seniors Will See $75-$100 Cuts in Month Medicare HMO Costs in 2004

 
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