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The Canadian government started rolling out its maternal health program in Africa as Minister of International Co-operation Bev Oda embarked on a seven-day visit to Mali and Mozambique, the Globe and Mail reports (York, 8/27).
Ahead of next month's U.N. Summit in New York, a joint U.N.-NGO conference tracking the world's progress toward reaching the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) kicked off in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday, ABC News reports (8/30).
Pakistani government officials say the death toll from the country's flooding stands at more than 1,600 and it could rise significantly as flood waters recede and more bodies are identified, CNN reports (8/28). "There is no official estimate of the number of missing because mass displacements have made accounting for them almost impossible," according to Reuters (Haider, 8/29).
Flash floods have "worsened an already chronic humanitarian crisis caused by drought" in central Africa where aid agencies have warned that "10 million people are already facing severe food shortages, particularly in the landlocked countries of Chad and Niger, after a drought led to the failure of last year's crops," the Independent reports. "Now unusually heavy rains [in Niger] have washed away this year's crops and killed cattle in a region dependent on subsistence agriculture," and where only 40 percent of people affected by the food shortages are receiving aid, according to the agencies, including Oxfam and Save the Children.
Many public hospitals face increasing pressures while nonprofit hospitals face uncertain futures.
Politico reports that liberal health group Health Care for America Now is "fighting hard to help reelect lawmakers who voted for the bill - even if it means not talking about it."
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Mondays opinions and editorials from around the country.
States address a wide range of health policy issues.
"Part of the explosion in medical imaging over the past two decades may be attributable to overuse, and steps need to be taken to cut back," according to a study in the journal Radiology, MedPage Today/ABC News reports.
Diseases associated with "the frailties of men in their 60s - prostate cancer, diabetes, heart disease - lead the list of qualified Agent Orange disabilities, and the result has been an explosion in claims - and the government's liability," Politico reports.
The American Medical Association and state medical societies are supporting a proposal by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on what expenditures insurers can consider medical spending under the new health law.
One in six Americans are now taking advantage of government anti-poverty programs, including more than 50 million on Medicaid, enrollment of which is up 17 percent since the recession began in December 2007, USA Today reports.
Word of new tax credits for some small businesses continued to make the rounds in news reports this weekend, as business owners seek to make sense of the details in the health law.
Instructions for state Medicaid directors to distribute funding for electronic medical records through their programs beginning next year have been circulated by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the market challenges public hospitals are facing.
The Washington Post finds momentum growing to "modify and possibly repeal" the provision requiring businesses to file 1099 tax forms for purchases above $600. The Richmond Times Dispatch reports on young adults' insurance coverge. Florida Senate candidates speak on health law and Neb. governor warns that the costs of health overhaul could hurt schools.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius say that the initiative to fight Medicare and Medicaid fraud has produced 580 criminal convictions and recovered more than $2.5 billion, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Employees are resisting state and local government efforts to shift more health costs to workers.
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