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"G20 farm ministers meet in Paris on Wednesday to review steps to curb food price volatility amid doubts France will win unanimous backing for a cornerstone proposal to tighten regulation for commodity markets," Reuters reports.
Research released yesterday offered a very different view than a controversial McKinsey & Co. survey released last week regarding the impact the health law would have on employer-based health coverage.
As a result of the health law, many early retirees may in 2014 be eligible for Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor. This expansion, which is being termed a "glitch" and is drawing significant Republican reaction, could mean that early retirees with household incomes up to $64,000 would qualify.
The labels, which represent the first change in these warnings in 25 years, are required under a federal law that was passed in 2009 and must be displayed on cigarette packaging and advertisements by September 2012.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
The two companies have hit an impasse as the Walgreen Company charges that the pharmacy benefits manager does not pay enough to fill prescriptions.
News organizations in Florida, Colorado and Louisiana report on developments in state Medicaid issues.
Former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty has vowed to bring back the term "Obamneycare" while Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor, ambassador to China and the latest to throw his hat into the GOP presidential nomination race, explained his position on the individual mandate.
The LA times reports on how restaurants are trying to revamp favorite dishes so that they have fewer calories and redesign menus to balance high-calorie choices with healthier options.
News outlets report on a variety of state health policy issues.
Meanwhile, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick takes a message about accountable care organizations on the road, selling the model in Minneapolis to nurses, doctors and other health professionals.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said the goal of trimming $2 trillion from the federal budget in the next 10 years will not be enough to change the rate of growth of the nation's debt. In the background, negotiators continue to "bear down" on the remaining "serious" issues.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including an exclusive AP report detailing a "twist" in the health law that would allow millions of middle class Americans -- mainly early retirees -- access to Medicaid.
Recent improvements in health indicators in the Democratic Republic of Congo, "[i]n no small part,
The WHO on Tuesday released its first-ever HIV guidelines on men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people, which "urge[s] governments to ensure gay men get equal access to HIV prevention and treatment services," the Associated Press reports.
Inter Press Service examines the challenges associated with Sierra Leone's plan to provide free health care for some members of the population.
"That 2.6 billion people live each day without a proper toilet is shocking," Willem-Alexander, the Prince of Orange who is also chair of the U.N. Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, writes in an opinion piece in the Hurriyet Daily News, which marks the launch of a U.N. effort to build political will for sanitation.
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