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  • Hospitals Hope To Make Primary Care Docs Salaried Employees

    The Washington Post reports on this trend, which could have a concrete impact on they way medical care is delivered. If the health care system is to be reshaped into a team-oriented care continuum -- an objective outlined in one of the health law's central intitiatives -- primary care physicians would be key to the effort.

  • Groups Rev Up Behind Their Causes, Revisit Health Law Positions

    As Tea Partiers roll through Iowa on a bus tour, single-payer advocates rally outside the annual convention of the health insurer trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans. Meanwhile, as the American Medical Association's House of Delegates meets in Chicago, its members will revisit the organzation's position on the individual mandate. In the background, some of the physician organization's members blame the AMA's declining ranks on the position it took in support of the health law.

  • First Edition: June 20, 2011

    Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about new trends in the health care marketplace.

  • Five Food Security Priorities For The G20

    Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, outlines five priorities for G20 leaders to endorse at the upcoming summit in a Guardian "Poverty Matters Blog" post.

  • Global Health Council Conference Panel Discusses Country Ownership

    "The Global Health Initiative [GHI] will focus more heavily on countries' own goals for development, explained Amie Batson, deputy assistant administrator for Global Health at USAID at a panel at the Global Health Council Conference on Thursday," GlobalPost's "Global Pulse" blog reports.

  • Report Outlines Lessons From AIDS Advocates

    A new report from the consulting firm HCM Strategists and the nonprofit group FasterCures "analyzes the factors that helped patient advocates drive research into and drug development for [HIV/AIDS], and tries to figure out whether there are lessons to be learned for other disease advocates," the Wall Street Journal's "Health Blog" writes.

  • Important To Fund The GAFSP Now

    In a Guardian opinion piece, Lael Brainard, under-secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury, writes about the importance of funding the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) and investing in small farmers in the developing world.

  • Cooperation Needed To Fight NCDs, U.N. Officials Note

    Speaking Thursday at an informal civil society hearing that is a precursor to the first-ever high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), top U.N. officials "stressed the need for governments, the private sector and civil society to work together and more effectively to address cancers, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases, which account for nearly two thirds of global deaths each year," the U.N. News Centre reports (6/16).

  • Food Prices Projected To Rise Over Next Decade, FAO/OECD Report Says

    Food prices are likely to continue to rise over the next decade, "putting the poor at an increasing risk of malnutrition and hunger," according to a joint report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Associated Press/Washington Post reports (6/17).

  • HPV Vaccine Shows Success In Young Australian Women, Study Says

    "A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, triggered by the human papillomavirus (HPV), has helped reduce the number of teenage girls developing abnormalities in their cervix by as much as 50 percent in a study in Australia," according to a report published Friday in the Lancet, Reuters reports.

  • House Passes Agriculture Spending Bill

    "The House on Thursday afternoon approved the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act by a 217-203 vote," The Hill's "Floor Action Blog" reports. A day earlier, the House "rejected several amendments from Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) to cut the Food for Peace program, the International Food for Education and Child Nutrition program, and make further cuts to [the Women, Infants and Children program]," the blog notes (Kasperowicz, 6/16).