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"Reduced worker productivity, poor health and lost education caused by malnourishment" is costing poor nations $450 billion a year, according to a report by the aid agency ActionAid, Agence France-Presse reports (9/13).
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday announced that "nearly 140" world leaders are planning to attend next week's U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Summit in New York, where they will discuss ways to help countries reach the targets by 2015, the Canadian Press reports (Lederer, 9/13).
A federal judge is slated to preside over a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the health law beginning Tuesday in Florida.
The Guardian on Tuesday launched a new website that will cover global development issues, such as hunger and infant mortality, according to an introductory note on the site (Bunting, 9/14).
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah recently told agency staff "of the creation of the new USAID Office of Budget and Resource Management (BRM), to be led by his senior budgetary advisor Mike Casella," Foreign Policy's blog, "The Cable," reports.
States address a range of policy issues.
Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson will head a national nursing home trade group after he leaves office in January.
A number of health law provisions are scheduled to kick in Sept. 23, including a ban on lifetime caps on health benefits, a practice some insurance plans use to restrain costs.
Report in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that less than half of the doctors who got $1 million or more from device makers reported that when publishing studies in medical journals.
The number of people enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program is expected to jump dramatically while proposals that would potentially affect the program will likely stall until the economy improves.
Rapid growth in the number of applicants for Social Security disability benefits has soared between 2008 and 2009, threatening the solvency of the program.
Labor unions are living up to their pledge to target and spend campaign dollars against Democrats who voted "no" on health reform, The Hill reports.
In his first big speech as Obama's top Medicare official, Donald Berwick called on insurers to join in a "full partnership" with his agency to achieve a health system with lower costs that doesn't withhold care from anyone or risk harming patients.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about a speech by the new CMS director and the run up to Sept. 23 - the day several health overhaul provisions take effect.
AllAfrica.com reports on a "fellowship hosted by the U.N. Foundation" last week "to educate the media about progress that has been made on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) thus far and what still needs to be done before the 2015 target date for achieving them."
"Doctors and AIDS activists on Friday urged African governments to fulfill a decade-old pledge to spend more of their own money on health if they want international help in fighting AIDS," the Associated Press reports.
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