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This week's studies come from the Urban Institute, PLoS Medicine, Journal Of The American Medical Association, Pediatrics, The Scan Foundation, The Journal of General Internal Medicine and Medical Care.
Meanwhile, access to abortions and funding for women's health are areas of continued focus in states and localities.
President Barack Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Deauville, France, ahead of the G8 summit, ABC News' "Political Punch" blog reports.
Questions remain, however, and full implementation may take six years or more.
In the various state capitals, legislatures seek savings due to fiscal constraints.
The Boston Globe reports on Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which is one of the facilities that received one of these grants.
Meanwhile, a range of policy groups offered ideas and solutions to reduce health care spending.
A new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation found the actual impact of GOP proposals to defund the health law "unclear" because too many variables are involved in the calculation.
NPR explores the political interests actively involved in supporting Medicaid.
The traditional wariness that exists between doctors and hospitals, as well as worries related to anti-trust issues, raise questions about which players have the advantage as the specifics regarding accountable care organizations take shape.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, praised the courage and leadership displayed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., with his budget plan.
A round up of press coverage regarding a variety of health developments at the state level.
The Philippines has not been making progress in meeting its sixth Millennium Development Goal, which is halting and reversing the spread of ... HIV/AIDS..., according to the country coordinator of the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)," the Philippine Daily Inquirer reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including more on Medicare's role in this week's special congressional election in New York as well as interesting state news developments.
The results from the special congressional election in New York earlier this week have caused Democrats to see Medicare as a defining issue for the 2012 campaign. Republicans are scrambling to refine their message.
Just a day after Democrats claimed an upset win in the New York special election to fill a historically Republican-controlled congressional seat, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., held a vote on the GOP budget as a means to force Republicans to go on the record regarding the plan to revamp Medicare. Most responded by standing by it.
India on Wednesday at the conclusion of the second India-Africa summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, pledged $5 billion in aid to Africa to help the continent reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Guardian reports.
The May 26 issue of Nature explores vaccines, which the journal says "are responsible for some of the world's greatest public health triumphs." Though new vaccines for deadly diseases have been developed in the past 10 years, and more are in development, "funding is tight, and unfounded doubts about the safety of vaccines persist." The issue features stories on polio, measles, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, as well as issues surrounding vaccine rejection and hysteria about risk (5/26).
PEPFAR's recent release of its "Technical Guidance on Combination HIV Prevention" (.pdf) for men who have sex with men (MSM) "could force countries like Kenya who are strongly opposed to men having sex with men to backtrack," Nairobi Star/allAfrica.com reports.
"The oil-rich governments of Sudan and Angola are among the worst in Africa for looking after children, while poorer Tanzania, Mozambique and Niger are the best," according to a report from the African Child Policy Forum that ranked countries based on their health, education and social program budgets, Reuters reports.
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