WSJ: Biotech Generics Battle Heats Up
The Journal reports on a battle - stemming from one word in the health overhaul - in which billions of dollars might be at stake.
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The Journal reports on a battle - stemming from one word in the health overhaul - in which billions of dollars might be at stake.
National Journal reports on a new study that disputes recent claims regarding the demise of employer-sponsored insurance.
The newspaper's publisher filed suit in order to gain access to a confidential database arguing that the information it contains is crucial to rooting out fraud and abuse in the Medicare program.
Reuters reports on new research that concluded that paying doctors financial rewards to meet certain quality targets made no difference in patient outcomes regarding treatment of people with high blood pressure.
A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that though people are polarized on the health law itself and efforts to repeal it, less support exists surrounding GOP plans to defund the measure.
News outlets report on how the health law's Independent Payment Advisory Board is the focus of negative attention from numerous vantage points.
A selection of opinions about health care from around the country.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including details of how health policy fit into the President's State of the Union address.
"A joint venture between U.S. drugmaker Merck and Britain's Wellcome Trust charity said on Monday it is working on an oral rotavirus vaccine designed to be cheaper and easier to use than current shots," Reuters reports. "Hilleman Laboratories, an India-based joint venture set up on a not-for-profit basis in 2009, said the vaccine will aim to protect against diarrhea-causing rotavirus infections and will be based on thin strips or granules that dissolve in the mouth and can be easily transported, stored and administered."
The Washington Post examines plans for reforming USAID, noting some of Administrator Rajiv Shah's comments during a recent speech at the Center for Global Development. "'This agency is no longer satisfied with writing big checks to big contractors and calling it development.' Those challenging words, spoken last week by [Shah], were just one part of his speech forging a new direction for an agency that has been in the backwater of U.S. foreign and national security policies for years. With little more than a year on the job, the 37-year-old medical doctor and research scientist, who once handled the $1.5 billion vaccine fund for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, criticized development programs designed to be 'extended in perpetuity while goals remain just out of reach,'" the newspaper writes.
A British government report, released on Monday, says the current system aimed at ensuring global food security needs to be "radically redesigned," the BBC reports. "The report is the culmination of a two-year study, involving 400 experts from 35 countries," the news service writes (Ghosh, 1/24).
Al Jazeera examines the toll pneumonia and diarrhea take on children living in developing countries and how the GAVI Alliance is working to help improve health outcomes among children through the distribution of pneumonia vaccines around the world.
Reclaiming public support for the health overhaul will be one of President Barack Obama's challenges in tonight's State of the Union address.
Stanford researchers concluded that on 19 of 20 quality measures, electronic health records offered no clear benefit.
Modern Healthcare reports on how various sectors experience different challenges as they move toward ACOs.
States in today's roundup include Texas, California, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona and Massachusetts.
Of the record amount of funds recaptured from health-care fraud cases, $2.86 billion will be funneled back into the Medicare trust fund.
The Los Angeles Times reports on this trend, in which social media is becoming a tool for insurers.
Some House Republicans view abortion as a possible means to undo aspects of the health law. But, at the same time, some conservative states are beginning to "warm to" the law's Medicaid provisions related to family planning.
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