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Sen. Arlen Specter said at a Senate hearing Thursday that Congress should move on allowing the government to fund human embryonic stem cell research "to avoid giving a final say on the issue to a conservative Supreme Court," The Associated Press reports.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
The Congressional Budget Office predicts savings will grow another $14 billion through 2012 as more generics come onto the market.
States around the country face a range of health policy challenges.
Some companies and patients have complained that once a product goes through a long FDA approval process, it must then be reconsidered by Medicare.
This week's research roundup includes studies from the Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Institutes of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news outlets, including headlines about a Census Bureau report that found the ranks of the uninsured have swelled to 50.7 million Americans.
Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN), a voluntary public health driven alliance of state-owned and private vaccine manufacturers from developing countries, now intends to strengthen its collaboration with Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization (GAVI) to increase its bandwidth in immunization for the developing countries.
Media outlets continued to look ahead to next week's U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Summit, with a focus on two of the central themes to be addressed at the meeting
Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan, "sought to highlight Washington's aid efforts Wednesday during his first visit" to the country since the severe floods hit, the Associated Press reports. "Holbrooke stressed that U.S. support is focused on saving lives, rather than winning hearts and minds or pushing Pakistan to step up operations against al-Qaida and the Taliban."
Politico reports that Democratic candidates are spending three times more - nearly $1 million - in advertising against health reform than for it.
The Hill reports that leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee have offered a bipartisan bill to allow the Department of Health and Human Services to exclude corporate executives from Medicare if their companies were convicted of fraud.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Thursday's health care opinions and editorials from around America.
The medical device industry is speaking out against a proposed increase in Federal Drug Administration regulation.
States address a range of policy issues.
"Seattle is known for taking its health expertise to the developing world. Now some fruits of that work are coming back to address health issues locally," The Seattle Times reports.
The New York Times reports that "concerns are rising about their financial stability, entrance fees and how the fees are used, and reduced services."
News outlets report on rural hospitals in Minnesota, a new insurer contract for a Florida hospital and possible restrictions on a pending for-profit hospital system in Massachusetts.
Waxman says that the controversial Medicare bidding program for medical equipment should proceed.
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