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Aid groups in West Africa are trying out new strategies and products for treating moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) as part of a U.N.-led effort to change 30 year old policies, IRIN reports.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warned insurers that they should not blame rate increases on the new health overhaul and said companies that distort the facts could be excluded from the new health insurance exchanges and the millions of new customers they promise.
National Journal reports that Senate aides expect Republicans and Democrats to offer competing amendments to change a tax-reporting provision in the health law that raises revenue for it.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials from news outlets across the country.
Around 81 percent of employers now use some kind of wellness program, a Kansas wellness director said.
By 2015, Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicts health care costs will eat up about 10 percent of the military's budget, up from 6 percent now.
The American Hospital Association stepped up its advocacy efforts to get lawmakers to revisit a program that will reward hospitals for adopting electronic medical records by expanding its opportunities for hospital systems with multiple facilities.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a guidance released Thursday that the health overhaul mandates state Medicaid program allow terminally ill kids to get curative treatment even if they take hospice benefits, The Hill reports.
News outlets report on how primary care might be impacted by the new health law.
States address a range of health policy issues.
This week's research roundup includes studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, the Commonwealth Fund and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A new study by Dartmouth Health Atlas researchers contends that making primary care more widely accessible - one of the goals of the health overhaul - won't necessarily improve the nation's health.
An appeals court Thursday set aside a temporary injunction on federal funding of stem cell research. But the newest order is not final and the issue is likely to seesaw through the courts and Congress.
Forbes profiles "the most powerful doctor you never heard of," a Yale cardiologist who does "outcomes research" in which he measures "how well doctors are doing in the real world, outside of controlled trials--what they are doing right, what they are doing wrong and what they are forgetting to do entirely."
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the Obama administration's message to insurers warning them not to blame the new health law for insurance rate hikes.
A global food crisis does not appear to be on the horizon despite recent food price rises, but steps must be taken to regulate volatile food commodities markets, Hafez Ghanem, a top official at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
During the WHO's 63rd Regional Committee Session for South-East Asia in Bangkok on Wednesday the WHO called for enhanced "efforts at the national and international level to preserve the efficacy of antimicrobial agents through the rational use of antibiotics," Indian Express reports (Thacker, 9/9). The appeal follows the news of a Lancet study published last month which identified a gene that enables bacteria to resist most antibiotics and documented an increase in the prevalence of the gene in parts of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan (Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, 8/11).
Inter Press Service reports on the ongoing talks at World Water Week over "the widespread devastation caused to humans by polluted water."
The health overhaul and other recent legislative and regulatory changes will only modestly increase the nation's health tab through 2019, according to a government study published today.
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