Archives: Morning Breakouts

Target is expanding its presence in the medical clinic business with eight new clinics.

News outlets report on the international counterfeit drug market.

"Thousands more health-care workers, from doctors to nurses to physical therapists, will be needed in the coming decade in Florida and across the country to treat the increasing number of older Americans - particularly the enormous baby boom generation," the Orlando Sentinel reports.

While some in the GOP are talking "repeal" or "defund," others are trying to campaign with a more "nuanced" approach.

"President Obama on Friday defended the Democrats' healthcare law, saying the enormous expansion of insurance coverage made an increase in healthcare spending inevitable," The Hill reports. But the AP finds a shift in the president's tone.

Inter Press Service examines how women's "low status" can contribute to the development of obstetric fistulas in women in "East, Central and Southern Africa."

"World powers have reached an accord, after weeks of tough talks, on a document to be adopted at a Millennium Development summit this month for which [U.N.] Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is seeking billions of dollars of new funding," Agence France-Presse reports.

The 20th World Water Week Friday issued a statement calling on the forthcoming High Level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals to pay more attention to water and sanitation at its concluding session," Xinhua reports.

Aid groups in West Africa are trying out new strategies and products for treating moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) as part of a U.N.-led effort to change 30 year old policies, IRIN reports.

Around 81 percent of employers now use some kind of wellness program, a Kansas wellness director said.