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The food safety office of the WHO on Thursday announced that the bacterium responsible for the E. coli outbreak in Europe is a strain never seen before in humans and could mean "the infection could prove unusually difficult to bring under control," Nature News reports (Turner, 6/2).
"The Congressional Research Service released a report last month, a copy of which Fox News exclusively obtained, showing that in fiscal year 2010, the latest year that data was available, the U.S. handed out a total of $1.4 billion to 16 foreign countries that held at least $10 billion in Treasury securities," FoxNews.com reports.
More money, less waste and smarter programmes are urgently needed to consolidate precious gains in the war on AIDS and HIV, UNAIDS said" in a report released on Thursday ahead of the disease's 30th anniversary and the beginning of the U.N. High Level Meeting on AIDS, Agence France-Presse reports.
In his Washington Post column, Michael Gerson writes about British Prime Minister David Cameron's approach to budget cuts.
Overall employment in Cuba's health system fell 14 percent in 2010 to about 282,000 jobs, compared with 330,000 during the previous year, according to a report from the country's National Statistics Office, the Associated Press/Washington Post reports.
MSNBC.com examines a recently launched USAID program that is like a "mash-up of a corporate Peace Corps and 'The Apprentice.'"
A selection of viewpoints from around the country.
News outlets report on health policy issues in state legislatures around the country.
Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney continues to aim criticism at the health law signed by President Barack Obama while former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has not yet announced an intent to seek the GOP nomination, slammed the state law that Romney backed.
The new law, which had some Republican support, sets up a Web-based market for individuals and small businesses to purchase insurance.
This pair of stories offers insights - based on interviews and a hearing held by the House Small Business Committee - about how physicians are faring as they try to move toward digital systems.
State lawyers say they must obey a law signed by the governor last month that bars funding to clinics offering abortions. Medicaid officials warned this week that denying payments for covered health services was illegal and could endanger all federal Medicaid payments to the state.
News outlets report on various criticisms and defenses of these key provisions of the health overhaul.
This week's studies come from Health Studies Research, The Urban Institute, The Commonwealth Fund, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs.
The Washington Post reports on the general agreement expressed by the Justice Department and both plaintiffs in the two Virginia lawsuits currently pending against the health law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that House Democrats are pressing President Barack Obama not to cave on Medicare as budget talks continue.
A key issue for the judges to determine is whether the plaintiffs have legal standing to sue after one said she recently purchased coverage from her employer. The case was initially brought by the Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center.
The dispute emerged between Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis, and President Barack Obama as Ryan urged Obama not to engage in Medicare "demagoguery." The president responded by listing conservatives' attack points.
An estimated 2,500 young people are infected with HIV every day worldwide, and young women and adolescent girls are most at risk of contracting the disease because of biological and social factors, according to a report released on Wednesday by a group of U.N. agencies, RTT News reports.
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