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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Friday appealed to international donors to join them in an effort to fight medicine theft, SAPA/News24 reports.
"It's not only biologists, philanthropists and donor governments who are needed to make vaccine projects in poor countries work. Financial engineers
A federal court judge in Virginia issued a decision Monday striking a key element of the health care law - the individual mandate. This ruling marked the first time a court decision invalidated a part of the sweeping overhaul.
Yesterday's court decision triggered a wave of analysis, speculation, posturing and predictions about what health reform's future will hold.
States confront a variety of health policy issues.
A panel studies efforts to convert the records kept by the nation's doctors and hospitals to electronic health records.
States across the country continue to face challenges related to their Medicaid budgets and their abilities to provide care to a growing population of poor and disabled people.
News outlets explore different issues related to Medicare, including the impact the physician payment system has on patients' access and the particular challenges posed by people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid.
News outlets track how the health law is impacting seniors and older working-age adults.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll finds the public remains divided on the health law.
Today's opeds come from news outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports detailing yesterday's ruling by a federal court judge in Virginia that strikes at a key part of the health law.
A federal court judge in Virginia issued a much-awaited ruling, declaring the "indivdual mandate" provision unconstitutional.
"The European Union and India resolved a dispute over generic drugs on Friday which should remove obstacles to Indian drugs manufacturers exporting products to the developing world, officials said," Reuters reports in an article that describes the customs regulations previously in place that led "to numerous seizures of generic drugs shipments in transit from India to countries in South America via Europe."
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, "on Friday urged President Barack Obama's administration to suspend direct aid to Haiti's government and visas for its top officials until it ensures a fair and democratic outcome to disputed national elections," Reuters reports.
"A new vaccine against the most deadly forms of pneumonia, one of the world's biggest killers of children, [was] launched in Nicaragua [on Sunday] as part of an effort to prevent 700,000 deaths in poorer countries by 2015," Reuters reports (Kelland, 12/10).
"Africa is struggling to turn local discoveries into drugs and other health care inventions," according to studies published in Science and BMC International Health and Human Rights, Nature News reports (Nordling, 12/12).
News outlets report on a number of Capitol Hill developments, including the latest failed attempt to repeal the 1099 reporting provision in the health overhaul.
States tackle a number of health policy challenges.
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