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As has been the trend in some recent health care fraud cases, the physicians were not the ringmasters. Instead, the indictments allege that they were fronts for others - primarily immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
"North Korea announced on Wednesday that it would suspend its nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors to monitor activities at its main nuclear complex," a move "signal[ing] that North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-un, is at least willing to consider a return to negotiations and to engage with the United States, which pledged in exchange to ship tons of food aid to the isolated, impoverished nation," the New York Times reports. Some "analysts said the agreement allowed Mr. Kim to demonstrate his command and to use his early months in power to improve people's lives after years of food shortages and a devastating famine," the newspaper writes (Myers/Choe, 2/29).
The legislation would cut six weeks from the time women can have an elective abortion, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
A federal judge has ruled that the government can't require cigarette labels to carry graphic images to discourage smoking on constitutional free speech grounds. The case could ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.
A report released Wednesday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., noted that more than 47 million people live in places where it is difficult to access dental care.
The former Nebraska governor and senator made his announcement Wednesday. Democrats view his candidacy as a hopeful development in their efforts to retake the upper chamber, but some pundits say his policy positions - such as his belief that that health law didn't do enough - might not be popular within his state.
Some states are not considering the symptoms that brought the patients to the hospital, the doctors charge. In other Medicaid news, Texas is looking at several options for Medicaid reform, Pennsylvania looks at human service program cuts, Wisconsin Democrats seek to stop reductions there and Minnesota officials respond to criticism from Sen. Charles Grassley.
The New York Times reports that the Republican presidential field is scrambling to create differences among themselves.
A selection of health policy stories from around the country, including Colorado, California, Kansas and Arizona.
Speaking at the American Society for Microbiology's (ASM) Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Ron Fouchier, the leader of the team at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands that genetically altered the bird flu virus, making it transmissible between ferrets and "touching off public fears of a pandemic, said ... that the virus he created was neither as contagious nor as dangerous as people had been led to believe ..., prompt[ing] the United States government to ask that the experiments be re-evaluated by a government advisory panel that recommended in December that certain details of the work be kept secret and not published," the New York Times reports (Grady, 2/29).
The campaign issued a clarification Wednesday after comments made by GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to an Ohio reporter about the contraception-related Senate amendment. Romney's camp clarified his support for the amendment.
Only weeks after the U.N. declared an end to the famine in Somalia, regional climate scientists meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, at the 30th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum have said preventive measures should be taken to stem the effects of drought that likely will return to Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa over the next three months, IRIN reports. USAID's "FEWS NET said people should expect erratic rain in southern Somalia and southeastern Kenya" and will "be releasing a detailed outlook in the coming weeks," the news service notes. But "[o]ne of the problems highlighted was the lack of linkage between early warning and early action. 'There is no framework that allows the trigger of funds when the early warning bell is sounded,' said one aid worker," IRIN writes (2/29).
Her surprise retirement also underscores what some say is a rift within the GOP between conservatives who demand allegience to bedrock principles and those concerned with courting swing voters.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the U.S.
The Associated Press reports on how consumers can navigate insurance choices while waiting for the more user-friendly summaries called for by the law.
This week's selection of intriguing weekend reading includes articles from Slate, the Los Angeles Times, American Medical News, Salon, Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, BBC and Medscape.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation's February poll, opinions tracked party affiliation more closely than gender. Meanwhile, the public remains skeptical of the health law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that set the stage for the Senate's scheduled vote on a measure sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., that would allow employers and insurers to opt out of provisions in Obama's health care law to which they object on religious or moral grounds.
"For mental health to gain significant attention, and funding from policymakers globally, it is not enough to convince people that it has a high disease burden but also that there are deliverable and cost-effective interventions -- according to South African researchers writing in this week's PLoS Medicine," a PLoS press release reports, adding, "Mark Tomlinson and Crick Lund from the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health based at the University of Cape Town argue that global mental health must demonstrate its social and economic impact." According to the press release, the authors "discuss a framework to help understand why some global health initiatives are more successful in generating funding and political priority than others" (2/28).
In this post in IntraHealth International's "Global Health" blog, Editorial Manager Susanna Smith responds to an editorial published in the Lancet earlier this month that "issued a dire warning to the international medical community" about the use of medicine as a weapon of war in Syria, writing, "It is just the latest in a series of reports from across the Middle East on how medical care and medical professionals and facilities are being used to inflict politically motivated violence." She adds, "The U.N.'s condemnation of this type of violence in Syria specifically is one step in the right direction, but it is high time the international medical community speaks out against the overt violations of medicine's covenant with society, violations that are clearly a strategic weapon on the part of these political regimes" (2/27).
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