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Ahead of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization's (FAO) special meeting on global food prices Friday, U.N. officials said they expect Russian grain company executives to attend, the Associated Press/Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
Donors made 291 commitments worth more than $6 billion at this year's Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting, which wrapped up on Thursday, Reuters reports. "The value of [CGI] pledges for economic empowerment, education, environment, energy and health was $3 billion less than 2009, but the organization said that in previous years one or two big commitments represented a disproportionate share of the whole," the news service writes. "Since 2005, nearly 2,000 commitments have been made valued at $63 billion" (Nichols, 9/23).
Today, pundits looked at health spending, the GOP's pledge to repeal the health overhaul, and a role for government in the health system that more may agree on.
Insurers are fleeing the market for children-only health plans because of a new requirement that force them to take on new policy holders, even if they are already sick.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report Thursday that found one in five gay men are HIV-positive.
The bills passed during this flurry of activity were not controversial and gained passage by voice votes.
States address a wide range of health care policy issues.
Millions of seniors could see double-digit premium hikes in their Medicare drug plans, news outlets report. At the same time, coverage in the doughnut hole will improve.
The insurance industry looked on Thursday with some trepidation as state regulators released draft regulations for what the industry must do to meet new health law requirements that firms spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on patient care.
GOP announces its "Pledge to America," which outlays their political philosophy and key objectives.
A bill has been proposed in Congress that would establish standards for student-athletes who get concussions.
Some critics worry that a congressional school lunch legislation could end up reducing food stamp benefits.
This week's research roundup includes studies from Health Affairs, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Annals of Family Medicine, the Kaiser Family Foundation, The Heritage Foundation and the Institute of Medicine.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including more reports regarding the health reform provisions that took effect yesterday and more details on the GOP's "Pledge To America."
The three-day U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ended Wednesday with world leaders "adopting a declaration agreed [to] earlier this month, which promised intensified efforts by the 192 U.N. member states to achieve the world body's so-called Millennium Development Goals by 2015," Reuters reports (Worsnip/Wroughton, 9/22).
During a U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) address in New York on Wednesday, President Barack Obama outlined "changes in how the United States will pursue international development" and "urged wealthy countries ... to maintain development assistance to poor nations," the Washington Post reports.
In advance of Friday's special meeting, convened by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), CNN examines the current state of food security around the world and the outlook over the next few years.
A growing number of companies are putting more emphasis on philanthropic investments, former President Bill Clinton and business leaders said on Wednesday during the second day of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in New York, Reuters reports.
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