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Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller said this week that his family took benefits Medicaid and a state program for low-income children and pregnant women despite his criticism of entitlement programs, The Associated Press reports.
The Fiscal Times reports that Democrats are trying to decide whether they should run for re-election on health reform or against it.
Are the limited benefit plans known as "mini-meds" worth their salt?
Low levels of influenza were seen through the summer, the CDC reports, but officials still urge people to get a flu shot. The vaccines cover swine flu and two other strains.
A federal judge in Michigan ruled Thursday that the new health law is constitutional. Opponents say they will appeal.
This week's research roundup includes studies from Health Affairs, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund.
Today's early morning highlights include stories on a federal court decision in Michigan that supports the individual mandate in the health overhaul law, some of the campaign arguments over that law and a report about why your doctor won't respond to an e-mail.
ABC News on Wednesday announced "a yearlong project to focus attention on the diseases and health conditions that afflict the world's poorest people," the Associated Press reports (10/6).
The global economy has affected HIV/AIDS prevention research, so "scientists and those who fund them are struggling to set priorities among several competing research methods that could slow the spread of the disease, which causes about 2.7 million new infections worldwide a year," CQ HealthBeat reports. The article looks at the "tension among those searching for effective vaccines and those who are concentrating on other prophylactic methods. With more and more lines of inquiry showing promise, scientists may be victims of their own success."
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of health care opinions and editorials from around the U.S.
Top Senate Democrats call for greater protection of seniors in Medigap plans while the Medicare Advantage shopping seasons starts.
The U.S. on Wednesday announced that it will contribute $120 million to the Haiti Recovery Fund, the New York Times reports. Cheryl Mills, chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, announced the funding during the third meeting of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) (Sontag, 10/6).
The Obama administration has granted dozens of waivers that will allow companies and insurers - most notably McDonald's - to continue offering health benefits that do not meet new health law requirements, an effort to mitigate criticism and keep these organizations from exiting markets or dropping coverage for workers altogether.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has "urged more funding" for the GAVI Alliance, to help achieve its childhood vaccine targets and the related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), TopNews reports. "Let us commit to improving health for children, women and men everywhere," Ban said Wednesday at a GAVI replenishment meeting in New York (Mukherjee, 10/7).
The World Health Organization (WHO) "has warned that 2.5 billion people are at risk" of dengue fever, "which has 'grown dramatically in recent decades," Agence France-Presse reports. WHO officials cite higher temperatures, growing populations and international travel for the "rapid rise in urban mosquito populations" and rise in dengue. Seventy percent of the at-risk population is in Asia, the WHO said.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a new guideline to ease the delay in prescriptions for nursing home residents.
The Associated Press reports that global prescription drug sales should rise 5 percent to 7 percent next year, "reaching at least $880 billion, fueled by new drugs and rising sales in developing countries, according to drug data firm IMS Health."
States address a wide range of health policy issues.
A senior health official has promised insurers "discretion" - especially for "smaller" and "newer" plans - in pending regulation that will require them to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on health services.
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