The Women, Girls, and Gender Equality of the GHI: Assessment of the GHI Plus Country Strategies
This report from the Kaiser Family Foundation assesses how countries are responding to a GHI principle to address women, girls and gender equality.
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This report from the Kaiser Family Foundation assesses how countries are responding to a GHI principle to address women, girls and gender equality.
Mark Bowden, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, highlighted the "rapidly deteriorating" situation there resulting from drought and high food prices, Agence France-Presse reports.
World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director Josette Sheeran on Wednesday voiced concern about nine million people in the Horn of Africa who urgently need humanitarian aid, Bloomberg reports.
In another installment in NPR's summer-long series "Beginnings," NPR's All Things Considered aired a story on Wednesday examining how the controversial drug misoprostol is being used worldwide to save women's lives.
"Evidence 'strongly suggests' that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people," according to a study conducted by a team of epidemiologists and physicians and published in the July issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Associated Press reports. The Haitian government has recorded more than 363,000 cases of cholera more than 5,500 deaths since the outbreak began in October.
Nature News examines African countries' scientific capacity and efforts in a series of articles. "The forecast for science in Africa has brightened over the past decade. After enduring civil wars and economic crises, many countries have entered a period of rapid growth and leaders are starting to see science and technology as the keys to progress.
A judge rules that some health services should be continued.
News outlets examine a variety of state health policy issues.
In the background, political ads are heating up related to the debate over Medicare cost savings and plans to revamp the health insurance program for seniors.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials from around America.
The unanimous recommendation by this committee of cancer experts increases the likelihood that the drug will no longer be widely available for the treatment of breast cancer. Avastin, however, will continue to have the Food and Drug Adminstration's approval for use in treating certain other cancers.
The findings indicate that patients can pay widely different amounts for the same medical procedures - even in the same town.
Defining pain as "a major public health problem," the Institute of Medicine offered recommendations to make systemic and cultural changes in how pain could either be prevented or managed better.
Modern Healthcare reports that the Obama administration is supporting a temporary boost in these subsidies to help workers who have lost their jobs and, therefore, their health coverage.
In an exclusive report, the Associated Press notes an unintended consequence of that health law - some older adults could pay sharply different amounts for private health insurance. Meanwhile, CQ HealthBeat reports on some recent developments in the policy debate over the health law's maintenance-of-effort provisions.
Every week, Kaiser Health News reporter Jessica Marcy selects interesting reading from around the Web.
And on Capitol Hill, some Senate Democrats
The majority decision, issued by a three-judge panel from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, included the support of a Republican appointee to the federal bench -- the first to affirm the individual mandate's constitutionality.
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