Archives: Morning Breakouts

The British government is expected to strip the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, or NICE, of its ability to reject new drugs.

The Guardian concluded its three-year Katine project in north-eastern Uganda, which "tracked the implementation of a development project focusing on five aspects of deprivation: health, education, water and sanitation, livelihoods and governance," the newspaper writes. Together with the help of Barclays, Guardian readers, Amref and CARE International, the newspaper covered "an extraordinary picture of the ups and downs, strains and stresses of a development project" (Bunting, 10/30).

A health law tax credit will boost the portion of businesses with between 3 and 9 employees from 46 percent last year to 59 percent this year, researchers say.

Seniors play a powerful role in the midterm election; AARP provides an interactive guide on voting.

Kenneth Lin, a staff member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, quits over a cancelled meeting that was supposed to examine prostate-cancer screening.

On Friday, UNICEF and the Kenyan government announced a partnership aimed at preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV by providing HIV-positive mothers with packs of medicines they can easily administer to themselves or their babies at home, IRIN/PlusNews reports. According to the news service, the "'mother-baby pack' contains antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) and antibiotics that women can easily administer themselves at home to reduce the risk of infecting their babies and is colour-coded to make it easy to use even for illiterate mothers; each colour shows which drugs are to be taken during pregnancy, during labour and after delivery" (10/29).

As the GOP seems poised to make major gains in Congressional seats, politicians and news outlets are speculating what that would mean for the new health law.

Candidates push their final messages for Tuesday's elections, while the debate over the health care overhaul still reverberates in some districts.

WHO will continue to support efforts to boost polio eradication efforts in Pakistan, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said recently during talks with Pakistani health officials, the Associated Press of Pakistan reports. Chan was in the country to review health relief operations in Pakistan's flood-affected areas.

After the recent publication of the Lancet series on malaria eradication, IRIN examines the debate over control versus eradication, stating the findings of some of the studies.

Several media outlets looked ahead to President Barack Obama's scheduled visit to India later this week, as part of his Asia-Pacific tour.