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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a "slow-moving catastrophe" that could overwhelm even the richest countries without action to address their underlying causes, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Non-communicable Disease Control in Moscow on Thursday, the U.N. News Centre reports.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday announced 88 new $100,000 grants for "unusual" global health research projects, the Associated Press reports (Blankinship, 4/28).
News outlets examine what's behind the activity during recent town-hall meetings -- is it organic or is it rooted in Washington political theatrics.
In other news related to the health law, NPR reports that emergency room doctors predict that the health law will worsen ER crowding.
Also in the headlines, health news reports from Arizona, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Colorado and Florida.
Meanwhile, a new insurance market trend is picking up steam as one of the nation's largest employer-benefits consulting firms announced that it will launch a private exchange for large companies.
Alexian announces a merger with St.Louis-Based Ascension Health while a war of words continues between Community Health and Tenet. Also, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is finalizing the specifics of a new hospital reimbursement method that will link payment to patient satisfaction.
News outlets also report on restrictive legislation advancing in the Florida and Kansas legislatures. Meanwhile, funding issues related to Planned Parenthood continue to receive attention.
Today's research comes from the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Commonwealth Fund, The Kaiser Family Foundation, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Center for Studying Health System Change, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.
Today's commentaries come from The Wall Street Journal and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how independent groups and activists are taking positions on the Ryan plan for the budget and Medicare.
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah this week announced the agency has transformed its Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT) Women in Development Office into a new Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Devex reports (Leonzon, 4/27).
Democrats are going on the offensive and using the controversial Republican plan to overhaul Medicare to seize the political moment.
NPR reports that the answer to how the public is reacting to plans to transform the Medicare program depends on precisely how the question is posed. Meanwhile, different polls are finding varying impressions among Americans. A Gallup poll released Wednesday found the public evenly divided over how to handle the budget, but a Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll found that seniors seem to prefer Medicare as it is.
"A drought in the Horn of Africa, triggered by the same La Nina episode that caused massive flooding in Australia last year, is plunging millions of pastoralists closer to food insecurity," Greenwire/New York Times reports in a story looking at how the drought is affecting several areas in the region.
China's latest census shows that the proportion of elderly people in the country has increased, while the proportion of young people dropped signficantly, but "leaders are refusing to relax strict family planning controls that are part of the cause," the Associated Press reports (4/28).
News outlets report on the state's effort to shift care for Medicaid enrollees to managed care and how this move will impact specific populations such as pregnant women.
In a policy paper issued Wednesday, the seniors lobby detailed how the proposal to transform this state-federal health care program for the poor into a block grant would, among other things, have an especially negative impact on low-income elderly people and people who depend on long-term care services.
State news highlights also come from Connecticut, Wisconsin, California and Kansas.
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