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A study has shown that during 2010, 12 women died every month while giving birth at the Princess Christian maternity hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, "a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates," Agence France-Presse reports.
Among the key points of contention were his proposed cuts to Medicare.
The so-called accountable care organizations are designed to encourage physicians and hospitals to better coordinate care. However, the Obama administration regulations regarding their formation have been met with stiff criticism.
The PBS NewsHour reports that the Office of the Inspector General found a lack of security control during prior audits of Medicare contractors, state medicaid agencies and hospitals.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that the number of emergency departments has been declining for the past two decades.
But even as these high-profile Republicans exchange words regarding plans to revamp the Medicare program, NPR reports that in the broader debate, both political parties have a lot at stake and claim an advantage.
A selection of viewpoints from around the country.
Senate Republicans target the law's IPAB and issue a top-10 list of its biggest problems. Meanwhile, CQ HealthBeat reports on the merits of the "imminent injury" argument that is in play in at least one legal challenge to the law.
A new law, which Maine's governor signed Tuesday, allows interstate insurance sales and insurers to set rates based on age, location and occupation.
New outlets report on state health policy issues.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about budget developments, the continuing political hijinx surrounding Medicare issues and the Obama administration's plan to offer a new path for accountable care organizations.
CMS Administrator Dr. Donald Berwick announced new programs today to 'encourage' better care coordination.
In a post on Foreign Policy's "Passport" blog, assistant managing editor Elizabeth Dickinson looks at the potential ramifications of a recent study, which found that early antiretroviral treatment in HIV-positive people can prevent transmission by 96 percent.
Haiti has a plan to vaccinate 90 percent of newborns by 2015, according to the Pan American Health Organization, but "[w]hether the plan works will depend on Haiti's ability to reverse decades of incompetent government and bad coordination among aid groups," as well as whether there will be funding, the New York Times reports.
"Innovation in development finance doesn't preclude innovation in other areas of development policy. In fact, they must go hand in hand," Jamie Drummond, executive director of ONE, writes in a post on the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog," noting findings from his group's annual report.
Robert King, the U.S. special envoy on North Korea's human rights issues, will lead an official visit to North Korea next week to assess food shortages in the country, according to a report from Yonhap news agency, Agence France-Presse reports.
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday called for a "Decade of Vaccines" in a keynote address at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, saying strengthening immunization programs against infectious diseases worldwide could save 10 million lives by 2020, Reuters reports. He said countries should aim for 90 percent immunization coverage against diseases such as polio, meningitis and pneumonia and said pharmaceutical companies should work to make existing and new vaccines affordable to developing countries, according to the news agency (Nebehay, 5/17).
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on Monday laid out her vision for reforming the international health agency in the opening address of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, saying she sees "a WHO that gives a bigger voice to the many partners working on health, but encourages them to speak with a coherent voice that responds, first and foremost, to the needs and priorities as defined by recipient countries," Intellectual Property Watch reports.
The Telegraph reports that when "UNICEF began publishing prices agreed with suppliers for a range of vaccines over the past decade, ... some companies
"Health officials on Monday celebrated a faster treatment for people who have tuberculosis but aren't infectious, after investigators found a new combination of pills knocks out the disease in three months instead of nine," the Associated Press/Seattle Times reports (Stobbe, 5/16).
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