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Votes For — Or Against — Health Overhaul No Help For Many Dems
Voting no on the health overhaul helped some Democrats survive last night’s Republican onslaught, but many other fell to GOP challengers.
Michigan BCBS Sued For Second Time Over Hospital Contracts
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is being sued for a second time in two weeks for allegedly pressuring hospitals to sign “most favored nation” contracts that required them to charge competing insurers higher rates.
Pharma In Asia-Pacific Region Becomes More Active In R&D, Study Finds
In recent years, pharmaceutical companies in the Asia-Pacific region have ramped up their clinical trial activity, patent challenges of brand name drugs and their development of new products, according to report released Tuesday by CMR International, a Thomson Reuters business, Reuters reports.
“Global food prices rose in October” and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Price Index increased “for the fifth month in a row,” the FAO said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The index is at its highest level since July 2008.
During Stop In Papua New Guinea, Secretary Clinton Promotes Women’s Rights
As part of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s two-week Asia-Pacific tour, Clinton stopped in Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Wednesday to “promot[e] human rights and women’s empowerment in a South Pacific nation suffering from an epidemic of rape and police brutality,” the Associated Press reports (Lee, 11/3).
First Edition: November 3, 2010
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports tracking the GOP’s sweeping electoral gains and beginning to explore what this power shift might mean for the future of the health law.
Decisions On Health Law’s Fate Start Today As GOP Seems Poised For Gains
Republicans say they’ll try to roll back the health law Democrats passed just seven months ago.
Races Sometimes Hinging On Health Law Issues Go Down To The Wire
Time is up as voters head to the polls today.
Today’s Op-Eds: Birth Control Coverage, ‘Free’ Medical Care, Profitable Nursing Homes
Opinions and editorials from around the country.
IRIN Examines MSF’s Concerns Over U.S. Food Aid For Malnourished Children Under Age 2
IRIN examines the recently launched 1,000 Days campaign and concerns expressed by Medecins Sans Frontieres’ (MSF) Emi MacLean that most of the $2 billion the U.S. spends on food aid is for corn soya blend, which lacks animal-source food and is not ideal for children under age 2 or children who are moderately malnourished.
Tests Show Haitian Cholera Strains Match Ones From South Asia, CDC Says
Tests have shown that the strain in Haiti’s cholera outbreak is similar to cholera strains found in South Asia, the CDC said on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports (11/1).
The U.S. is committed to working “closely together to help meet the challenges facing Cambodia and all of Southeast Asia,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged Monday during a stop in Cambodia as part of her Asia-Pacific tour, that United Press International reports (11/1).
Health IT: Apps; Competitive Contracts; Electronic Medical Records
Indian companies vie for health IT contracts; new apps facilitate portable health data; Wisconsin and San Francisco set up networks for electronic medical records
UK Watchdog Agency To Lose Power To Reject New Drugs
The British government is expected to strip the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, or NICE, of its ability to reject new drugs.
Guardian’s Katine Project Coverage Concludes
The Guardian concluded its three-year Katine project in north-eastern Uganda, which “tracked the implementation of a development project focusing on five aspects of deprivation: health, education, water and sanitation, livelihoods and governance,” the newspaper writes. Together with the help of Barclays, Guardian readers, Amref and CARE International, the newspaper covered “an extraordinary picture of the ups and downs, strains and stresses of a development project” (Bunting, 10/30).
News outlets report on health care ballot initiatives in today’s election.
Study Finds Benefits Of Dental Therapists In Alaska, Insurance Commissioner Steps Down In Conn.
States address a range of health policy issues.
Health Reform Law: Tax Credits May Boost Coverage; Rationing Still Hot Word
A health law tax credit will boost the portion of businesses with between 3 and 9 employees from 46 percent last year to 59 percent this year, researchers say.
