Archives: Morning Breakouts

ProPublica reports that the relationship continues between societies that represent medical specialists and certain corporate interests.

USA Today reports on the specifics of these cases and this step in the process.

A wide variation in the dosages and forms of medicines prescribed by private physicians to patients with tuberculosis (TB) in developing countries could lead to the development of more drug-resistant strains of the bacterial infection, according to a study published online Wednesday in PLoS One, the Financial Times reports (Jack, 5/4).

Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) on Wednesday "urged a halt to an aid program for flood victims in Pakistan in the wake of revelations that slain al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden lived there unperturbed for years," Agence France-Presse reports.

Haiti's cholera outbreak, which started last October, "was caused by a South Asian strain that contaminated a river where tens of thousands of people wash, bath, drink and play," a report (.pdf) from an independent U.N.-appointed panel said on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. "Although many have blamed the epidemic on U.N. peacekeepers from South Asia working in Haiti, the report issued by the panel declined to point the finger at any single group for the outbreak, saying it was the result of a 'confluence of circumstances'" (5/4).

But the Federal Trade Commission found an "unprecedented" increase in drug industry deals to delay the availability of these cheaper drugs.

In other House action, the chamber approved another bill related to stripping funds from the health law. This one targeted money for a program in last year's health care law providing for construction of school-based health clinics.

The states filed a motion Wednesday with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. In the background, individual states continue action to block the law's implementation.