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Hospitals deal with patient safety and quality issues, including more expected emergency room visits under reform.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about a vote by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on a key recommendation related to health reform implementation.
Among other things, Americans cut back on trips to the doctor's office because of the recession, according to a new study.
The Washington Times examines how the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), which dispenses U.S. foreign aid "meant to help reduce global poverty by stimulating economic growth," deals with countries that initially pass screening tests, but are later suspected of corruption. The article looks specifically at Senegal, which is scheduled to receive "$540 million over five years [through MCC] to help farmers increase their productivity by improving the irrigation system and rehabilitating roads to help get products to market." The story examines several recent questionable expenditures by Senegal's government, such as the building of a $24 million bronze statue in capital of Dakar.
The World Bank on Monday "pledged to reroute money from other projects to provide $900 million in emergency funding to help Pakistan" with its flood recovery efforts, the New York Times reports (Ellick, 8/17).
A new study shows "that surgery can be safely performed in areas with minimal resources and little or no sophisticated technology," the Los Angeles Times' "Booster Shots" blog reports. The study, published in the Archives of Surgery, examines "almost 20,000 surgical procedures completed in resource-limited areas from 2001 to 2008" by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Roan, 8/16).
Virginia has created a task force to slow health costs and implement health care reform even as the state government is involved in a lawsuit to stop the health law's individual mandate.
HHS awards $1-million grants to state insurance regulators to aid in their oversight of health premium increases.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials from news outlets across the country.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
NPR reports that the Food and Drug Administration is about to make changes to drug information - often filled with technical medical jargon - to help consumers understand the risks and benefits of the drugs they take.
The New York Times reports that the recession has caused people in the United States to cut their use of the health care system "much deeper than in countries with universal health care systems," a new report says.
Community activists and former staffers of the now-shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City filed a lawsuit Monday saying the facility was brought down by mismanagement including things like golf outings that drew bills in excess of $250,000.
A new CNN polls has found that health care remains a big issue for voters ahead of November's midterm elections with more than 80 percent of respondents saying it was very or extremely important to them.
The Wall Street Journal reports that pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions will buy United BioSource, a business that conducts safety and comparative effectiveness research, for $730 million.
American Cancer Society report says cancer "costs more in productivity and lost life than AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases that spread person-to-person."
Cancer, expected to emerge as the leading cause of death worldwide this year, is also the world's top "economic killer," according to an American Cancer Society/LIVESTRONG report the group will present during a global cancer conference in China this week, the Associated Press reports.
Insurer Cigna has become a leader in the industry's lobbying push to define what counts as medical care under new health reform rules governing medical spending.
The early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest on federal funding to help states regulate rising health insurance premiums and more information about the costs of cancer.
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