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This week's research roundup features studies and briefs from the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Urban Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Cochrane Library, and the Commonwealth Fund.
"The CDC says more teenagers got their recommended immunizations last year, but that there's room for improvement," The Wall Street Journal reports.
Colleges are saying the new health law could keep them from offering low-cost, limited benefit student health insurance plans, "and they're seeking federal authority to continue offering them," Kaiser Health News reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) visited Pakistan on Thursday "to assess the damage and relief efforts" as flooding continues and millions remain in need of humanitarian aid, the New York Times reports. According to the newspaper Kerry "said the United States would increase its flood aid to $150 million" (Masood/Gall, 8/19).
"Developing countries will bear 60 percent of the world's cancer burden by 2020 and 70 percent by 2030," according to a report released Thursday during the World Cancer Congress in Shenzhen, China, Reuters reports. These countries also lack the necessary "infrastructure
Marking World Humanitarian Day Thursday, several media outlets examine the uptick in violence against aid workers and efforts to protect them.
Afghanistan and nine African countries top a list measuring global food insecurity, which was released on Thursday, Agence France-Presse reports.
Single-disease initiatives in low-income countries with fragile health systems may compromise the ability of such health systems to meet the other health needs of the community, according to a study published Tuesday in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, VaccineNewsDaily.com reports (Purlain, 8/18).
Details continue to emerge regarding the health reform implementation policies endorced by NAIC at this week's Seattle meeting.
Seniors will see modest increase in Medicare drug premiums next year but benefits will also improve, federal health officials said Wednesday.
As large employers take steps to comply with the health overhaul law they are also planning to shift more health care costs to patients, according to a report by the National Business Group on Health.
Kaiser Health News examines news coverage of state health care issues.
A Maryland program is among those seeking to curb hospital violence.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger related a high-tech, futuristic vision for his state Tuesday, including a broad computer network.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials.
The New York Times reports that Johnson & Johnson has said it will "revamp its quality controls, creating a single framework for its drug, medical device and consumer health care divisions."
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that terminal lung cancer patients who received palliative care lived longer and experienced less pain.
USA Today reports that the "helicopter air ambulance industry is opposing several key safety upgrades sought by federal accident investigators even as a recent surge in crashes has killed 19 people since September."
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