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"Delegates at a special U.N. meeting about high food prices Friday blamed the hikes on speculation, futures markets and national responses to crop failure," the Associated Press/Moscow Times reports (9/27).
A second poll, this one from the Kaiser Family Foundation, finds public support for the health law regained some favor.
As some vulnerable Dems struggle to maintain their independence from the party's health reform agenda, the law inspired some challengers to step forward and run for congressional seats.
The Obama administration's health officials have stepped up rhetoric condemning health insurers for abandoning the child-only market because of new health law requirements, but at the same time say they may ease the way for those firms to resurrect those plans.
States around the country confront various health issues.
The Chicago Tribune reports that health care bills for an average employee is slated to climb more than $486 next year, a 12.4 percent increase from this year, according to a study by Hewitt Associates released last week.
During the past decade, the New England Journal of Medicine twice published studies showing arthroscopic surgery and nothing were equally effective treatments for knee pain.
A selection of opinion and editorials from news outlets across the country.
Congress "is considering" a $3 million pilot program, that "would establish a Women Veterans and Service Members Joint Health Resource Center in South Jersey." And, UCLA is producing videos of war injuries "prepare military doctors for the wounds they will see when they deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq."
The New York Times' Patient Money column examines the importance of vaccines for adults.
The Washington Post reports on the growing field of government health IT.
A West Virginia program using community health centers drives down emergency room visits.
Doctors are facing hard times as more copays and health deductibles go unpaid by patients struggling in the recession.
Senate Republicans ask for accountants to explain reform's effects on Medicare Advantage.
The limits are applied to these treatments despite their growing popularity, with an estimated $33 billion spent annually on complementary and alternative therapies.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports and speculation about how the new health law could be impacted by the midterm congressional elections.
Less than six weeks before the midterm election, news outlets covered public opinion and politics.
College health plans "have managed to sidestep, at least for now, the regulatory clampdown that has sent hospitals, insurers and corporations scrambling," The Wall Street Journal reports.
New CDC study finds that despite public health campaigns, only 26 percent of Americans eat vegetables three or more times a day, The New York Times reports.
As a number of provisions of the new health law took effect this week, supporters and opponents geared up for the midterm elections.
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