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Carter Blames Ted Kennedy For Delay In Passing Health Bill
Former president tells “60 Minutes,” “The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed.”
Global Child Mortality Declines By One-Third Since 1990, U.N. Report Says
The number of children who die before age 5 has declined by one-third since 1990, Reuters reports.
Ahead of the U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) summit, the Financial Times’ Alan Beattie analyzes the effects of tightening aid budgets on development program funding, emphasizing how such changes are resulting in a push for increased measures to assess the effectiveness of aid.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Director Michel Kazatchkine on Thursday repeated his appeal for emerging countries to scale up their contributions to fight the three major diseases, Agence France-Presse reports.
Study Finds Mothers’ Education Levels Affect Child Mortality
A study published in the journal Lancet on Friday found that “a mother’s education level has a huge, if indirect, effect on the health of her children,” the Washington Post reports.
Census Bureau: Recession Fuels Record Number Of Uninsured Americans
Based on data released yesterday, nearly every demographic and geographic group nationwide posted an increase in the uninsured rate.
The federal judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by 20 states against health reform released a schedule this week that lays out how the case will proceed, The Hill reports.
Health Premiums Rise As States Consider How They’ll Implement Reforms
Reuters reports that health insurance premiums rose 7 percent in 2009, even as the number of people with coverage fell.
Lawmakers Debate Action On Stem Cell Research, Public Health Bills
Sen. Arlen Specter said at a Senate hearing Thursday that Congress should move on allowing the government to fund human embryonic stem cell research “to avoid giving a final say on the issue to a conservative Supreme Court,” The Associated Press reports.
Today’s Opinions: Recession’s Impact On The Uninsured; Repeal of Health Reform? Then What?
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday’s opinions and editorials from around the country.
CBO Finds Generic Drugs Save Medicare $33 Billion In 2007
The Congressional Budget Office predicts savings will grow another $14 billion through 2012 as more generics come onto the market.
States around the country face a range of health policy challenges.
FDA And Medicare To Test Joint Decision-Making On Medical Products
Some companies and patients have complained that once a product goes through a long FDA approval process, it must then be reconsidered by Medicare.
This week’s research roundup includes studies from the Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Institutes of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
First Edition: September 17, 2010
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news outlets, including headlines about a Census Bureau report that found the ranks of the uninsured have swelled to 50.7 million Americans.
Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers To Strengthen Alliance With GAVI
Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN), a voluntary public health driven alliance of state-owned and private vaccine manufacturers from developing countries, now intends to strengthen its collaboration with Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization (GAVI) to increase its bandwidth in immunization for the developing countries.
Media outlets continued to look ahead to next week’s U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Summit, with a focus on two of the central themes to be addressed at the meeting
