Florida Public Hospitals A Likely Target For New Governor; Two People Appointed To Create Calif. Health Exchange
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Obama Signs Law To Help 9/11 Workers
While on vacation in Hawaii, President Obama signed into law legislation to cover the medical care costs of 9/11 rescue workers.
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Senator Eyes Plan To Ease Prescription Drug Shortages
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., plans to introduce legislation in the new Congress to address a shortage of some cancer drugs and other meds.
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LA Times: Exploring The Fairness Of Wellness Incentives
Many large employers offer health insurance premium discounts if their employees take such steps as quittin smoking.
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First Edition: January 3, 2011
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including forward looking reports about the health law's possible impact in 2011 as well as early plans for the new Congress.
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GOP Vows House Will Vote On Repeal Of Health Law Before State Of The Union
Rep. Fred Upton, who will head the House Energy and Commerce Committee, says Republicans' priority is reversing health law passed by Democrats last year.
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New Year Triggers Several Key Provisions Of Health Law
News outlets examine how consumers will be affected by changes that go into effect today.
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Insurers Report That More Small Businesses Are Offering Health Benefits
The Los Angeles Times reports: "Major insurers around the country are reporting that a growing number of small businesses are signing up to give their workers health benefits. ... An important selling point has been a tax credit that the nation's new healthcare law provides to companies with fewer than 25 employees and moderate-to-low pay scales to help offset the cost of providing benefits."
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GOP Prepares To Battle Possible Obama Efforts To Make Health Changes Through Regulation
The Hill reports that House Republican leaders will use budgetary strategies and other efforts to fight regulatory action by the administration. Meanwhile, the New York Times highlights a new strategy in the court fight on the health law.
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Many Baby Boomers Fear They Will Not Be Able To Rely On Medicare
Even as the first of the Baby Boom generation is preparing to move into Medicare, a new AP poll shows that 43 percent of them fear the program may not last through their lifetimes.
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Obama Administration Sets Regulation For Controversial End-Of-Life Benefit
The New York Times reports a new Medicare regulation will allow payments to "doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment."
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Top Development Advisor At State Department Tapped To Be USAID’s New Chief Economist
"Steve Radelet, who joined the State Department last January to be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top advisor on development, is moving over to USAID to be their first Chief Economist since the 1990s," Foreign Policy's blog "The Cable" reports.
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IANS/Sify News Reports On International Aid Response To Haitian, Pakistani Disasters
"Nearly 260,000 people died in earthquakes, floods, typhoons, heatwaves, fires and landslides in 2010
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MedPage Today Examines Recent Developments, Trials Underway In HIV Prevention
MedPage Today examines recent HIV prevention developments, in a 2010 year in review piece, beginning with the announcement at the International AIDS Conference in July that a microbicide gel used by women before and after sex reduced HIV infection by 39 percent.
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U.N. Food Official Highlights Food Security Challenges In World’s Most Populous Nation
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food Olivier De Schutter said Thursday that recent food price spikes in China, "in the world's most populous nation," underscore the country's food security challenges resulting from decreasing amounts of arable land, Agence France-Presse reports. Significant land degradation is also hindering China's agricultural output, De Schutter said as he wrapped up a visit to China. "The recent food price hikes in China are a harbinger of what may be lying ahead," he said in a statement. "This situation should encourage China to move towards more sustainable types of farming," De Schutter added (12/23).
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Report Examines Infant, Child Feeding Practices In 33 Countries
A report (.pdf), released Wednesday, on breastfeeding practices in 33 countries found that out of 78 million infants born each year, about 42 million do not receive an optimal amount of breastfeeding, IANS/Sify News reports (12/22).
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Scientific American Examines Efforts To Increase Influenza Virus Monitoring In Pigs To Prevent Pandemics In Humans
Scientific American examines how, in an attempt to improve early recognition of viruses that could give rise to pandemics in people, such as last year's H1N1 swine flu, scientists are looking to better understand "the viruses that infect the estimated 941 million domesticated pigs around the world." However, as the article notes, "[i]ntensive monitoring of pig viruses is unlikely to come any time soon
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Financial Times Examines How Brazil’s State-Run Drug Sector Is Engaging In Partnerships At Home, Abroad
"Dilma Rousseff had barely been confirmed as Brazil's new president in November when she made her first foreign visit, to Mozambique," which "included a symbolic stop-off at a pharmaceutical factory that is under construction in preparation for opening in 2014.
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