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This week's research roundup includes studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, the Commonwealth Fund and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A new study by Dartmouth Health Atlas researchers contends that making primary care more widely accessible - one of the goals of the health overhaul - won't necessarily improve the nation's health.
An appeals court Thursday set aside a temporary injunction on federal funding of stem cell research. But the newest order is not final and the issue is likely to seesaw through the courts and Congress.
Forbes profiles "the most powerful doctor you never heard of," a Yale cardiologist who does "outcomes research" in which he measures "how well doctors are doing in the real world, outside of controlled trials--what they are doing right, what they are doing wrong and what they are forgetting to do entirely."
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the Obama administration's message to insurers warning them not to blame the new health law for insurance rate hikes.
A global food crisis does not appear to be on the horizon despite recent food price rises, but steps must be taken to regulate volatile food commodities markets, Hafez Ghanem, a top official at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
During the WHO's 63rd Regional Committee Session for South-East Asia in Bangkok on Wednesday the WHO called for enhanced "efforts at the national and international level to preserve the efficacy of antimicrobial agents through the rational use of antibiotics," Indian Express reports (Thacker, 9/9). The appeal follows the news of a Lancet study published last month which identified a gene that enables bacteria to resist most antibiotics and documented an increase in the prevalence of the gene in parts of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan (Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, 8/11).
Inter Press Service reports on the ongoing talks at World Water Week over "the widespread devastation caused to humans by polluted water."
The health overhaul and other recent legislative and regulatory changes will only modestly increase the nation's health tab through 2019, according to a government study published today.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine is defending his party's accomplishments on health care as he talks about Democrats as underdogs in November's elections, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday released its 2009 annual report (.pdf) highlighting some of the foundation's work over the last year, the Puget Sound Business Journal reports (Holtzman, 9/7).
A selection of opinions and editorials from news outlets across the U.S.
A nonprofit-industry trade journal has published information about contributions made by medical companies to health-related nonprofits following a request for similar information by a lawmaker.
Federal workers are not likely to see major changes to their health care plans despite adjustments being made to private plans as health reform is implemented next year, Government Executive reports.
The Wall Street Journal reports that employers are expecting their health costs to rise 5.9 percent next year after shifting some cost-sharing for health plans to employees, according to a survey by Mercer.
Legislation to provide federal medical liability coverage to volunteers at community health clinics will cost more than earlier expected.
The White House responded after the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that insurers were blaming the health overhaul for portions of their up-to-20-percent premium increases.
States address a range of policy issues.
"World powers are moving slowly toward an accord on the strategy to be embraced at a looming United Nations summit aiming to get the lofty Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] back on track," Agence France-Presse writes in an article examining the ongoing debates over how best to achieve the MDGs before the 2015 deadline.
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