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Meanwhile, results from a three-decade Swedish study found that women who have mammograms have a lower death rate from breast cancer - a finding that some say may ease recent controversies around the screening procedure.
The findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, tracked the rates of patients who were accepted by physicians -- including those with private insurance and with Medicare.
The group turns to a federal district court as it seeks to have a new Kansas budget provision overturned.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around America.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports from the states about action on public employee benefit reforms and Planned Parenthood funding.
"Scientists, health workers and community outreach officials in India believe they're finally on the cusp of a major milestone, the defeat of polio throughout the country," the Los Angeles Times reports.
GlobalPost on Sunday published two articles examining family planning and maternal mortality in Malawi.
A new GAO report (.pdf) examines international food aid. "GAO recommends that Congress consider eliminating the 3-year waiting period for foreign vessels that acquire U.S.-flag registry to be eligible to transport U.S. food aid. Further, the USAID Administrator and the Secretary of Agriculture should develop a benchmark for 'reasonable market price' for food aid sales; monitor these sales; improve market assessments and coordinate efforts; and conduct postmarket impact evaluations," according to a summary of the report (6/23).
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan "on Friday signed an agreement to better coordinate international development aid during a meeting [in Washington] between the two countries' top diplomats," Agence France-Presse reports.
About 450,000 children, displaced by severe flooding in the southern Philippines, could face an outbreak of diarrhea and pneumonia, Vanessa Tobin, UNICEF's representative in the Philippines, said on Sunday, Agence France-Presse reports.
More than 18,000 cases of cholera have been recorded in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince since the beginning of May, an increase that may be related to "the beginning of the rainy season and the flooding that hit the capital," according to Tarik Jasarevic, a WHO spokesperson, Agence France-Presse reports.
"Given the competing factors of America's growing international interests and shrinking resources to engage on the global arena, the federal government must take a more critical look at how best to deliver accountable, transparent, and sustainable development aid to countries in need and ask itself how best to support our national security, economic, and humanitarian goals.
The number of adults with type 2 diabetes has doubled worldwide over the last three decades, rising from 153 million in 1980 to 347 million, "a sign that the epidemic will impose an ever-greater cost burden on health systems," according to a study published on Saturday in the Lancet, the Wall Street Journal reports (Naik, 6/27).
"Brazil's one-time food security minister, Jose Graziano da Silva, was elected Sunday director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. agency tasked with reducing world hunger at a time of near-record high food prices," the Associated Press reports (Winfield, 6/26).
Global food insecurity that has left almost one billion people hungry could become a "permanent disaster" and endanger millions of lives, former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan said, Bloomberg reports (Javier, 6/27).
Even though the threat of default looms, Democrats and Republicans remain split over the possibility of tax increases and cuts to programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
In an effort to explore what the administration termed a "critical public policy problem" - a shortage of primary care physicians - a team of "mystery shoppers" will be recruited to find out how hard it is to get care when it is needed.
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