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Article reveals that psychotropic medications, which alter the brain's chemistry, are often dispensed sloppily, without rigorous or regular review, by general practitioners with little expertise in the area.
News outlets report on state health policy developments in Georgia, California, Missouri, New Jersey, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Oregon.
Medicare spending growth is slowing, even as enrollment rises, The Washington Post reports. Meanwhile, several large Medicare Advantage plans turned a mighty profit in 2011, despite the volatility of the larger economy.
Editors at the journal Science have retracted a study that linked a virus in mice to chronic fatigue syndrome in humans after the Cleveland Clinic said some data came from a contaminated lab.
News outlets report on a variety of hospital issues.
House Republicans question the tax-exempt group's involvement in the sales of health insurance products.
A roundup of hospital news from around the country.
The chairman of the Senate HELP Committee wants the HHS inspector general to investigate whether a $1 million federal grant was misused.
Nurses at one hospital in New York are planning a walkout in January unless they can hammer out an agreement with leaders there. In California in the meantime, nurses who staged a one-day walkout Thursday over a contract dispute and staffing issues will not be allowed back to work today, officials said.
The state's Democratic House members urge HHS to reject the Perry administration request to give Texas insurers more time to meet medical loss ratio standards in the health law.
"Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into a $433 million contract awarded by the Health and Human Services Department to purchase a yet-to-be-approved smallpox drug" known as ST-426, CQ HealthBeat reports. "The lawmakers raised questions about several issues, including the cost of the contract"; "asked for evidence supporting the assumption that the [FDA] will approve the ST-426, which was one of the requirements of the contract"; and "requested documents describing the actual threat of smallpox, the cost of the contract, and the decision to award it" by January 11, the news service notes (Ethridge, 12/21).
IRIN reports how "[a]n exchange between two leading world officials on how trade affects food insecurity in countries has helped focus attention on the stalled Doha trade talks." A debate between Olivier de Schutter, the U.N. Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the right to food, and Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), "has reopened issues around the Doha talks which have been going on, in stop-start mode, for the last 10 years," IRIN writes.
Across Africa, "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people suffer brutal attacks, yet cannot report them to the police for fear of additional violence, humiliation, rape or imprisonment at the hands of the authorities. We are expelled from school and denied health care because of our perceived sexual orientation or gender identity," Frank Mugisha, 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureate and executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, writes in a New York Times opinion piece. He adds, "When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this month that the United States would use diplomacy to encourage respect for gay rights around the world, my heart leapt."
A selection of editorials and opinions about health care policy from around the country.
The House GOP leadership's agreement to a Senate proposal averts a 27 percent paycut to doctors scheduled to take effect in January. The deal delays the cut until March 1, and lawmakers hope to hammer out an agreement on a longer-term fix to the payment formula before then.
In this analysis, "IRIN discussed with aid agencies and Sahel food security analysts the subtleties of getting early warning messages right in such situations." According to the news service, "Food security in the Sahel this year is part of a 'persistent and predictable reservoir of chronic acute food insecurity,' [experts] say, 'in a predictable portion of the region's population,' and requires long-term structural aid not short-term fixes." In addition, "much of the malnutrition in the region is caused by other factors: poor water quality, low-quality health care, poor sanitation and poor feeding practices," IRIN writes. The article includes quotes from numerous food security experts (12/23).
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