As Federal Gov’t. Hits Debt Limit, Budget Plans Draw Attention
Politico reports that a proposed cap on discretionary spending for labor, health and human services and education programs would be felt most acutely by poor people.
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GOP Intra-Party Divisions Emerge Over Medicare Revamps
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., offered a forceful defense of his budget plan that includes a proposal to make major changes in the Medicare program after Newt Gingrich, the newly minted candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, ripped the plan.
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Early Rainy Season Brings Cholera To Cameroon’s Capital
An early rainy season has caused cholera to sweep through Cameroon's capital Yaounde, "causing more than 250 deaths in two months alone, according to the government," AlertNet reports.
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State Efforts To Protect Patients Fall Short, Group Says
The Baltimore Sun reports on the role of physician boards in protecting patients as well as how a self-referral rule is faring in the courts.
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Gingrich Focuses Attention On Aging Research
The presidential hopeful urged more investment in Alzheimer's research as a step that would lead to savings down the road. Meanwhile, The AP reports how the tight budget could pit scientific priorities against each other in a funding competition.
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Viewpoints: Gingrich Fallout; Sebelius, Matsui On Medicare Reform; Physicians On Their Rights
A selection of opinions and editorials from a rich variety of publications.
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Two GOP Judges Will Be On Health Law’s Next Review Panel
The Wall Street Journal previews some of the dynamics in play as the health law takes its next step to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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State Senators In Minnesota And Iowa Pass Abortion Measures
News outlets report on the progress of bills dealing with abortion issues in Minnesota and Iowa.
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Thirty Years Of AIDS
Georgia Health News details what it calls "an epic battle" -- the fight against AIDS.
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State Roundup: Gov. Brown Offers Revisions To Health Budget
News outlets report on state health policy issues.
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Rural Patients More Likely Than City Dwellers To Have Common Surgeries
The findings were viewed as surprising and challenge the notion that city-folk have better access to care.
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GAO Report Looks At U.S. Aid For Food Emergencies, iWatch Reports
According to a GAO report (.pdf) issued last week, "the USAID program designed for food emergencies now spends more than half of its funding to cover multi-year shortages that have become the norm. About 96 percent of the food aid supplied in 2010 went to 21 countries that have received U.S. food aid for four years or more," iWatch News reports.
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First Edition: May 17, 2011
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the debt-ceiling limit and ongoing budget talks as well as the GOP's emerging Medicare rift.
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WHO Releases Annual World Health Statistics Report
The WHO on Friday released its annual World Health Statistics report, which includes data on more than 100 indicators
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AP Reports On Global Fund’s Release Of Information On Corruption, Fund Responds
After an Associated Press story on Friday reported that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria "will make public more detailed information about money it has lost to corruption and mismanagement, but won't release other information critics have sought ... that might have made it possible to calculate how much of the money investigated is lost to corruption, or what percentage of the fund's overall disbursements are misspent" (Heilprin, 5/13), the Global Fund released a statement saying it "remain[s] fully committed to accountability for the intentions, process, funding and results of our projects."
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LCD Conference Ends With 10-Year Action Plan
The Fourth U.N. Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) closed in Istanbul on Friday "with a number of recommendations seeking to halve, from 48 to 24, the number of LDCs during the next 10 years," the Guardian's "Global Development" blog reports (Tran, 5/13).
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OPINION: New HIV Infections More Expensive Than Providing Antiretroviral Drugs To Existing Patients
In light of study findings released last week showing the risk of HIV transmission can be reduced by 96 percent if HIV-positive patients begin combination antiretroviral therapy as soon as possible, a San Francisco Chronicle editorial asks, "The evidence is clearly starting to show that it's much better to treat patients earlier, but from where will the money come?"
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Gingrich Calls GOP Medicare Voucher Plan Radical
Now that he is officially in the running to be the Republican nominee for president, Newt Gingrich made his opinions very clear while appearing on Sunday morning talk shows.
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Fits And Starts Continue For Health Law Implementation
News outlets report on a variety of aspects of the health law ranging from the IPAB and ACOs to the two states to most recently gain waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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World Health Assembly Begins In Geneva
As the 64th World Health Assembly gets underway in Geneva, the body will consider "an array of subjects pertaining to reforms of the organisation and its financing, vaccines, fake medicines, and influenza pandemic preparedness, as well as communicable and non-communicable diseases," Intellectual Property Watch reports (Saez, 5/13).
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