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  • Researchers At South Korean Lab Make Advance In Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases

    VOA News reports on a scientific breakthrough, which researchers call a "game changer" for developing new drugs, developed at Institut Pasteur Korea [IPK], a South Korean branch of the 124-year-old French research institute that is developing new drugs to combat diseases mainly affecting developing countries, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). "Combining imaging technology and biotechnology, scientists are now able to witness infections as they occur, in real time," VOA writes.

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  • Feds Use Doctrine To Pursue Federal Food and Drug Law Violations

    Use of the "responsible corporate officer doctrine" allows federal officials to hold health care executives personally and criminally responsible for corporate violations. Meanwhile, in other news related to health care fraud and abuse, a number of states have reached settlements with firms accused of defrauding the Medicaid program.

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  • Intrauterine Devices May Lower Risk Of Cervical Cancer Among Users, Study Shows

    Contraceptive intrauterine devices (IUDs), also called coils, "might actually protect women against developing cervical cancer even though they don't stop the infection that commonly leads to the disease," according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Lancet Oncology, Reuters reports. "The results show that coil use did not affect the risk of [human papillomavirus (HPV)] infection, but was linked to a markedly lower risk of cervix cancer for both major types of the disease -- reducing the likelihood of developing squamous-cell carcinoma by 44 percent and adenocarcinoma or adenosquamous carcinoma by 54 percent," the news agency writes.

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  • U.N. Report Highlights Innovations Aimed At Improving Maternal And Child Health

    PBS NewsHour's blog "The Rundown" examines a "report from the U.N.'s Every Woman, Every Child Innovation Working Group, out in the Lancet Monday, [which] looks at some of the promising and innovative projects" aimed at improving maternal and child health. "More than 350,000 women die each year around the globe from complications of childbirth, and three million children die in the first month of life," according to the blog (Miller, 9/12). The report "was prepared as part of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's 'Every Woman Every Child' Initiative, a global strategy for improving women and children's health, launched last year," according to a U.N. Foundation press release (9/12).

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  • Famine In Somalia Testing Advancements In Coordination Of Care, Food Aid

    The Washington Post examines how high rates of malnutrition among Somali children -- approximately 36 percent under age five are malnourished and almost 16 percent are severely malnourished, according to Somalia's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit -- are "the biggest test yet of recent improvements in assessing and treating malnutrition, changes that range from the coordination of care to the ingredients of food aid."

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  • Ghana Health Official Urges Media To Help Change Negative Perceptions About Pregnancy

    Speaking at a workshop on maternal morbidity and mortality in Korofidua, Ghana on Thursday, which was organized for journalists in the region, acting Eastern Regional Director of Health Services Larbi Addo challenged the media to help change negative perceptions about pregnancy and child-bearing in an effort to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the country, GhanaWeb reports. "He said the campaign to reduce maternal mortality was a shared responsibility and asked the media to support the health sector in educating the public on the subject," the news service reports.

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  • Heavy Rains, Flooding Exacerbating Cholera Epidemic In West And Central African Countries

    A cholera epidemic in West and Central Africa, which is being worsened by heavy rains and flooding, has already caused nearly 40,000 cases this year in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, killing almost 1,200 people in the countries adjacent to the Lake Chad Basin, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), VOA News reports.

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  • Indian State Of Jammu And Kashmir Avoids Grim AIDS Predictions

    When the only community health care center providing medical and psychosocial care for people living with HIV/AIDS in India's northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir "closed down [six months ago] for lack of patients, it was a sure sign that the north Indian state had beaten back dire forecasts," Inter Press Service reports.

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  • First Edition: September 13, 2011

    Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a report that new Census data is expected to show that working-age people are losing ground in terms of their health insurance coverage.

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  • Some States Lag In Health Law Implementation Efforts

    The Washington Post reports that some states are progressing at a slow pace - either because of political or practical issues - and the federal government may take on a bigger role as a result. Meanwhile, The New York Times offers a surprising tale of how implementation efforts in New York are facing a GOP revolt, despite the state's popular Democratic governor and large number of uninsured residents. Also, Oklahoma's congressional delegation backs the state's request for a waiver from the health overhaul's MLR requirement.

    By khnweb