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"If the moral test for a society is the way in which it treats its most vulnerable citizens, then the release of a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) marks a sad day for South Africa," a Lancet editorial states.
Based on responses to a survey conducted by the National Business Group on Health, large employers are bracing for cost increases and will likely pass the added burden on to their employees.
According to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change, the pattern isn't new but is picking up speed in the quest to increase market share and revenue.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
For the second time in one month, representatives of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held an emergency meeting on Thursday in Rome "to take stock of the humanitarian disaster" in the Horn of Africa, the Guardian reports (Tran, 8/18). The officials "called for a twin-pronged approach to tackle the food crisis, stressing immediate relief and the strengthening of the resilience of affected communities to enable them to cope with future shocks in the drought-prone region," the U.N. News Centre reports (8/18).
Meanwhile, the group may ask federal court to release federal funds in Kansas.
News outlets report on a variety of state health policy issues.
The report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services found that the number of children eligible but not enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program fell. Meanwhile, HHS also awarded $40 million in grants for more outreach.
Medicare costs grew at their slowest pace in six years, according to Standard & Poor's Healthcare Economic Indices.
This week's studies and reports come from the Government Accountability Office, the Journal Of General Internal Medicine, New England Journal Of Medicine, Harvard Medical School's Department Of Health Care Policy, Health Affairs, the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The signal indicates a need for real cuts from discretionary appropriations without budget gimmicks.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a range of reports looking ahead to the work of the deficit 'super committee' and other budget news.
A team of researchers has "identified 17 potent antibodies whose discovery opened up valuable pathways in the search for an AIDS vaccine," Agence France-Presse reports (8/17). The researchers "at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the Scripps Research Institute, the biotechnology company Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences Inc., a LabCorp company, report in the current issue of Nature" that the antibodies are "capable of neutralizing a broad spectrum of variants of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS," according to a joint press release (8/17).
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's high-profile launch of his campaign for the GOP nomination for president means fresh scrutiny on his record and platform regarding health issues.
During a visit to the Somali capital of Mogadishu, U.K. International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell on Wednesday pledged an additional $41.5 million in aid to Somalia, to be distributed through UNICEF, BBC News reports. The funding will enable UNICEF "to provide supplementary rations for up to 192,000 people
"Health workers often treat patients for malaria even when a test indicates a different cause of the illness," a behavior seen across sub-Saharan Africa "that worries many health experts," PRI's The World reports. "Prescribing malaria medication to patients who don't need it wastes precious resources in a country already dealing with drug shortages
"We were deeply perturbed to learn that the negotiations for the Outcomes Document of the U.N. High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), a mere month or so away, had stalled because member states failed to reach consensus," Nalini Saligram, CEO of Arogya World, and Sandeep Kishore, an MD/PhD candidate at the Cornell/ Rockefeller/ Sloan-Kettering Institute, write in a Huffington Post opinion piece.
The proposed regulations, issued Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, are designed to make sure insurers and employers provide consumers with "plain English" information about health insurance coverage to empower them to make informed choices.
In other news related to the health law's implementation, policy analysts offer their views of the challenges ahead for the creation of accountable care organizations.
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