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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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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.
The NCD Alliance, which represents about 2,000 health organizations from around the world focused on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), "on Thursday accused the United States, Canada and Europe of harming efforts to fight cancer, diabetes, heart and other diseases because they will not agree to set United Nations targets," Reuters reports (Kelland, 8/18). The first-ever U.N. High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of NCDs is scheduled for September 19-20 in New York.
"Actress, singer and humanitarian Mandy Moore recently led a bipartisan delegation of congressional staffers on a trip to Cameroon to promote foreign aid and disease prevention there," Foreign Policy's "The Cable" reports.
VOA News examines the ethics of conducting clinical drug trials in developing countries, particularly in Africa. Several international ethical frameworks outline guidelines for clinical trials, "including the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki and the WHO's Good Clinical Practice Guidelines," but they are not mandatory, the news service writes.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is providing approximately $65 million to Pakistan's government to provide polio vaccination campaigns in the country, "one of the most difficult fronts against the disease as global health organizations risk missing their goal of stopping polio globally the end of 2012," the Wall Street Journal reports. "If Pakistan achieves certain goals with the money, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will repay the loan to Japan, according to officials briefed on the plan," according to the newspaper (Guth, 8/18).
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
"Insecticide-treated bednets, whose use is being widely promoted in Africa to combat malaria, may paradoxically be linked to local resurgence of the disease," according to a study published in the Lancet on Thursday, the Independent reports. "Growing resistance to a common insecticide used against mosquitoes, combined with falling immunity among the population as transmission declined, appears to have triggered a rebound in the disease," the news agency writes (Laurance, 8/18).
News outlets report on a variety of state health policy issues.
The findings of new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that only one in five malpractice lawsuits results in a payout. The authors conclude that the truth behind these numbers is complicated.
Since the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the health law's individual mandate, some experts are wondering if Dems did enough to protect the measure from legal challenges.
The health sector has provided job growth even in the economy's darkest days, but it now may be showing sluggishness.
Every week, Kaiser Health News reporter Jessica Marcy selects interesting reading from around the Web.
Though the president maintains the need for Medicare and Medicaid to be part of the deficit panel's considerations, he underscored the importance of avoiding "drastic cuts" to these fast-growing entitlement programs.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about a new HHS proposed rule that would help consumers do comparison shopping for health plans.
Part of the health law, these rules will lay out, among other things, a new standard form that will provide consumers who are shopping for health coverage with policy details, such as deductibles and specific costs for certain medical circumstances.
In Minnesota, though, party-based challenges are emerging to Gov. Dayton's exchange plan. Also, Politico reports that, even though the health law allows for a federal exchange as a fallback plan if states don't develop their own, no funding exists for these federal activities. On the other hand, the law provides almost unlimited resources to support states' efforts.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, calls the measure discriminatory because it does not limit coverage of men's health issues.
News outlets report on a variety of state health policy issues.
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