Contraception Could Be Free Under Health Care Law Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law (The Associated Press).

AP Enterprise: Doc Help Make Pot Available In CA Fourteen years since Californians passed the first-in-the-nation medical marijuana law, pot is not just for the sick. Hundreds of medical marijuana doctors, operating without official scrutiny, have helped make it available to nearly anyone who wants it (The Associated Press).

Ruling Clears Path For Caritas Deal A Massachusetts judge cleared the way Friday for the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management L.P. to assume control of Boston's Catholic hospital system and convert it to a for-profit company in a deal valued at $895 million (The Wall Street Journal).

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