Report Examines African Government Funding For Child Development
"Tanzania, Mozambique and Niger spend the most on child wellbeing in Africa
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Capitol Hill: Upton To Lead Energy and Commerce; Dems Unveil Budget Bill, Senate Considers 9/11 Worker Health Bill
Food safety legislation will also be taken up by the House this week.
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NIH To Create New Translational Science Center
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins on Tuesday announced the agency is moving forward on plans to create a new research center focused on translational science, after NIH's advisory board voted to create the new center, Science's "Science Insider" reports (Kaiser, 12/7).
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WHO Endorses Rapid TB Test
"The World Health Organization endorsed a new, rapid test for tuberculosis Wednesday that cuts the diagnosis time for patients from months to hours," CNN reports (Gray, 12/8).
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Annual Survey Ranks States On Health, Health Care
America's Health Rankings, an annual survey produced by the American Public Health Association, Partnership for Prevention and the American Public Health Association grades states on quality of health and health care.
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India, EU Trade Agreement Will Not Restrict Ability For India Pharmaceutical Firms To Export Generic Drugs, Official Says
"India and the European Union (EU) have agreed that the comprehensive bilateral trade agreement being negotiated by the two will not result in an intellectual property regime that restricts the ability of Indian pharmaceutical firms to export generic or off-patent drugs by being far more stringent than the TRIPS [Trade-Related Aspects of International Property Rights] regime of the World Trade Organization," LiveMint.com reports in an article that describes recent debates over the agreement. "The two sides agreed to this at a meeting between Indian trade minister Anand Sharma and his counterpart in the European Commission (EC), Karel De Gucht, at Brussels on 29 November, said a senior commerce ministry official on condition of anonymity," the news service reports.
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Today’s Op-Eds: ‘Perverse’ Incentives Of Health Care; U.S. Debt And Health Costs; Elizabeth Edwards’ Legacy
Opinions and editorials from around the country.
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Texas Leaders Cut Spending For Medicaid, Wyo. Begins To Set Up State Exchange
States address a range of health policy issues.
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WSJ Investigation: A Sharp Rise In Specific Prostate Therapy Parallels High Medicare Payments
Medicare payments for IMRT, used to treat patients with prostate cancer, can reach $40,000 per person.
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Aetna To Acquire Health Information Exchange Firm For $500 Million
Aetna, one of the largest U.S. insurers, is expanding its health information technology presence with its $500 million acquisition of technology firm Medicity.
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Docs Distrust Hospitals; Americans Divided Over Health Law; Children’s Hospitals Lose Discounts On Orphan Drugs
Physicians and hospitals will need to overcome trust issues to form accountable care organizations; Americans are split over health law provisions while Sebelius promotes them; a Virginia Judge is expected to rule against health law; and drug companies are dropping discounts on orphan drugs for children's hospitals.
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Private Insurers, Employee Wellness Programs Seek To Control Costs
Private insurers control costs better than Medicare, study finds, while employee wellness programs also deduce costs.
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Arizona State Dem. Lawmakers Push For Restoring Medicaid Transplant Money
Democratic lawmakers push for the reinstatement of Medicaid transplant program in Arizona amid mounting national criticism.
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Personalized Medicine Advocates Push For Better Reimbursement System
Report calls for better reimbursement system for personalized medicine.
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Three Drug Companies To Pay $421 Million In Fraud Settlement
Roxane, Abbott and B. Braun were accused of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by inflating prices.
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First Edition: December 8, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including more details about the deal reached to avoid a scheduled cut in physician's Medicare pay
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Stars And Stripes Looks At Barriers To Scaling Up Foreign Aid
Stars and Stripes examines the challenges facing the Obama administration's push for boosting non-military foreign aid: "When President Barack Obama's national security team began campaigning this fall to expand U.S. development and diplomacy, they described a desperate need to help American troops charged with winning wars, hearts and minds in Afghanistan, Iraq and worldwide. But in Washington, foreign policy observers say the civilian cavalry won't be arriving any time soon. Despite the White House pitch, foreign aid historically has few champions in Congress, where staffers closing the year in a contentious lame-duck session say there is little public desire to spend more abroad
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Financial Times Contrasts ‘Bottom Up’ And ‘Top Down’ Approaches To Developing Country Drugs
The Financial Times contrasts the model of drug development for developing countries being used by non-profit groups like the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), which recently rolled out the MenAfriVac, to that of some pharmaceutical companies.
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Most Of World’s Poorest Still Live In Rural Areas, Despite Progress Over Last Decade, U.N. Report Says
A report from the U.N.'s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) found that approximately 350 million people living in rural areas have escaped extreme poverty over the past decade, but most of the world's poorest citizens continue to live in rural regions, the BBC reports (Melik, 12/6).
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