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Family planning "is one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent illness and save lives in the world's poor countries," according to health experts gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at a conference sponsored by the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, GlobalPost's "Africa Emerges" blog reports.
This week's studies come from Health Affairs, the Archives of Surgery, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Institute of Medicine, The American Journal of Public Health and The Employment Benefit Research Institute.
News outlets report on developments in state health policies.
Democrats also continue to view members' support for the plan's Medicare changes, which would signficiantly alter the program's current shape, as a theme in attack ads. Case in point: the campaign against Rep. Chip Cravaack, R-Minn.
States have taken a variety of trims, from stopping payments for circumcisions in Colorado to reducing payments for rehabilitation services in Kansas to increased co-payments in California.
A small selection of opinions and editorials.
One would shield pharmaceutical companies from most lawsuits filed by people injured by taking generic drugs. The other strikes down a Vermont law that banned some commercial uses - "data mining" - of prescription data.
Gov. Chris Christie is expected to sign the landmark legislation into law quickly. It will require state workers to pay more for health and pension benefits.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how the Supreme Court sided with drug makers in two decisions.
"Gender biased sex selection, widespread in many parts of Asia, has serious and profoundly debilitating effects on the mental and physical health of women, says a report by five United Nations agencies," BMJ reports.
"Research evidence has undoubtedly been crucial in formulating countless global health policies which have saved many millions of lives," but "at the same time, we believe there are several common fallacies about its 'real world' application," Gavin Yamey and Richard Feachem of the Evidence to Policy initiative write in an Evidence-Based Medicine perspective.
After four teenage girls involved in a clinical trial in India testing vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV) died last year, the study "threatens to have a dual legacy: inflaming unfounded fears about a lifesaving vaccine and raising new questions about the management of medical research in the country," Nature News reports.
The New York Times examines the E. coli strain responsible for the recent outbreak in Germany, saying the bacteria "have a highly unusual combination of two traits and that may be what made the outbreak among the deadliest in recent history, scientists there are reporting."
The Center for World Health and Medicine, the University of Missouri-St. Louis Medicinal Chemistry Group, and the Institute for One World Health have joined forces "to develop safe and effective anti-diarrhea drugs
An inexpensive, non-invasive cheek swab saliva test for dengue has been developed by researchers in Singapore and is undergoing multi-center evaluation, SciDev.Net reports.
In a Huffington Post opinion piece, Gro Brundtland, a member of the U.N. Foundation board of directors, former WHO director general and former prime minister of Norway, discusses global progress on childhood vaccines. Brundtland discusses the upcoming launch of the U.N. Foundation's global vaccines campaign aimed at inspiring Americans "to provide children in the developing world with immunizations against deadly diseases."
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