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The WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific meeting continued with leaders discussing regional immunization goals, public health emergencies, TB control, and the health effects of urbanization, multiple news outlets report.
New studies examine end-of-life care and its cost.
Democrats are mostly not dealing with the new health law in their advertisements as they campaign for the mid-term elections, where even those in the party who voted against the law are facing an uphill battle.
The WHO "said on Thursday that it was aiming for 'complete control' by 2015 of tropical diseases that affect one billion impoverished people" and kill an esitmated 534,000 people each year, Agence France-Presse reports (10/14).
Politico reports that Richard Foster, the actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, has found in an analysis that the health law will mean increased costs for seniors in Medicare Advantage plans.
The 2010 World Food Prize recipients "say it's no time for the United States to back off a historic pledge to invest in boosting the production of the world's poorest farmers," the Des Moines Register reports (Brasher, 10/14).
Reuters examines the global effort to eradicate polio and how failure to eliminate the disease could affect future global health undertakings. "Global health and vaccines experts say they have polio 'on the ropes,' but are frustrated that the goal of eradicating it continues to elude them more than 20 years after they set their sights on it. They fear failure could crush trust in other major disease projects such as fighting malaria, HIV or measles," according to the news service.
Today's headlines examine the Obama administration's efforts to work with insurers to keep coverage options for children, the latest campaign news on the health overhaul and a major government crackdown on a Medicare fraud ring.
Kaiser Health News offers a selection of opinion columns from other news outlets.
The Washington Post reports that District of Columbia officials are wrestling with how to serve a large set of Medicaid beneficiaries who will have mental health coverage for the first time.
Various groups including military groups, the Committee for Quality Assurance and lawmakers examine cost and quality in healthcare.
States address a range of health policy issues.
Researchers seek an answer to why there is a racial gap in breast cancer care, and others are alerting minority communities to seek help immediately when signs of stroke occur.
The four largest for-profit health insurers -- Aetna Inc., Humana Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc., and WellPoint Inc. -- "on average denied policies to one out of every seven applicants based on their prior medical history," according to a congressional investigative report released yesterday
As the World Health Summit continues in Berlin, some media outlets wrote about the discussions taking place.
The WHO's Stop TB Partnership "laid out a new plan [.pdf] on Wednesday to combat tuberculosis and the nearly 2 million deaths it causes each year," Reuters reports (Herskovitz, 10/13).
At issue in the case argued before the Supreme Court Tuesday are parents who believe vaccines have injured their child and a 1986 federal law that barred most lawsuits against vaccine makers while establishing a compensation system for families.
Global agriculture officials and as many as 60 farmers from around the world this week at the annual World Food Prize symposium in Des Moines, Iowa will focus on the challenges facing small farmers, the Associated Press reports.
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