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Today's opinions include former Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt's thoughts on the Medicare trustee's report, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's views on Democrats' claims about the overhaul, among other things.
Health care spending falls prompting some concerns among investors, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
Authorities have arrested more than 80 people and seized 10 tons of counterfeit medicines across six East African countries, the international police agency Interpol announced Thursday, United Press International reports (8/26).
"Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika threatened to chase donors away from the southern African nation on Thursday and close newspapers for reporting that more than one million people are in need of food aid," Reuters reports.
New study finds that out-of-pocket costs can impair cancer patients' ability to afford care, AARP reports.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday condemned the mass rape of women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo and vowed U.S. help, Reuters reports (Allen, 8/26).
Doctors who say they are not religious are more likely to take steps to help end a very sick patient's life, and to discuss these kinds of decisions, CNN reports.
Cameroon will need approximately $4.8 million for its emergency response to the cholera outbreak, which has killed nearly 300 people in the northern part of the country, Agence France-Presse reports.
A Minneapolis Star Tribune business columnist details a crucial choice one engineering firm made for its future: Defense or health care?
"Flooding has displaced an additional 1 million people in Pakistan's Sindh province in the past two days, according to new U.N. estimates released Friday," CNN reports.
After being labeled as "villains" and enemies of reform by Democrats, health insurers are shifting their cash to the coffers of Republican candidates, giving GOP campaigns eight times as much money.
News outlets report on trends in the primary care workforce, including medical homes and concierge medicine.
States address a range of health policy issues.
News outlets report on hospital issues, including a Moody's report suggesting a negative outlook for not-for-profit hospitals.
This week's research roundup features studies and briefs from the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Annals of Internal Medicine and the Medical Care Research and Review.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about federal plans to step up efforts to crack down on health care fraud.
The health care overhaul remains a political weapon for Republicans in the autumn campaigns. But, health law supporters are not standing by passively.
Some employers are finding that the health coverage they buy for their employees is changing, and that the health law may be responsible.
UNICEF estimates that about 3.5 million Pakistanis only have access to contaminated water, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday in a statement, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. Approximately 2.5 million flood survivors now have access clean water (Gale, 8/26).
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