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This week's studies come from The Archives of Internal Medicine, The Journal Of General Internal Medicine, The National Institute For Health Care Management, The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Thirty years have passed since the first reported case of AIDS, and "we now have an unprecedented opportunity, based on solid scientific data, to control and ultimately end the AIDS pandemic," after decades of the idea being "a distant aspiration because we lacked sufficient evidence-based tools to convert the hope to reality," Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, writes in a Science editorial.
In other state news, state legislatures seek to block local public health and nutrition regulations.
The Lancet reports on Japan's "daunting task of rebuilding hundreds of damaged health facilities" four months after an earthquake and tsunami hit the country. "When the tsunami ripped houses from their foundations and sent cars and other debris miles inland, it also caused widespread damage to the health infrastructure in a region already struggling to fund health services for its large elderly population," the Lancet writes.
"The Atlanta-based CDC is expanding its involvement in cases of illness overseas, from helping track the source of the highly toxic E. coli outbreak in Germany to homing in on the cause of cholera in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake," in an effort "to stop epidemics before they can reach the United States," Reuters/MSNBC.com reports.
As a federal judge halts enforcement of a S.D. law requiring a three-day waiting period and counseling for women seeking abortions, Kansas abortion providers head to federal court to challenge tough new licensing requirements.
IRIN examines an 18-month project in Kenya testing a maize treatment aimed at controlling "a deadly fungus, aflatoxin," which has the potential to cause cancer, immune system suppression, growth retardation, liver disease and death among the "literally billions of people in the developing world" who are chronically exposed to the fungus.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
Legal experts are parsing the judge's opinion for clues to what may happen if the case goes to the Supreme Court.
As part of the health law, federal spending will be determined partly by patients' view of the facility and their care.
Federal program will pay for Avastin for breast cancer and Provenge for prostate cancer.
Americans approve of minor cuts to help trim the federal deficit, but are much less likely to favor major cuts, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation tracking survey.
New federal rules, designed to help insure safety, go into effect today limiting first-year residents to 16-hour shifts. Meanwhile, an academic medical center in Denver is setting the standard for patient safety.
Key task force endorses bill to exclude fees paid to brokers from insurers' calculations of their administrative costs. Under the health law, insurers must hold administrative costs under 20 percent, and brokers fear the companies will cut their commissions to meet that mark.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about sleep deprived medical residents, decisions by Medicare officials on covering two expensive drugs and states struggling with budget cuts.
In an Al Jazeera opinion piece, the first in a two-part series, Khadija Sharife, a journalist and visiting scholar at the Center for Civil Society, examines how multinational drug companies control markets.
Health officials in northeast Thailand plan to screen residents over the age of 30 for fluke worms, which can be cured with one tablet of praziquantel or lead to fatal bile duct cancer in 10 to 20 years if left untreated, Reuters reports.
In a PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases editorial, Peter Hotez of the Sabin Vaccine Institute outlines the diplomatic benefits of fighting NTDs in developing countries. He discusses why the State Department and USAID should be involved and outlines how they could work to expand NTD control.
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