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Cameroon will need approximately $4.8 million for its emergency response to the cholera outbreak, which has killed nearly 300 people in the northern part of the country, Agence France-Presse reports.
A Minneapolis Star Tribune business columnist details a crucial choice one engineering firm made for its future: Defense or health care?
"Flooding has displaced an additional 1 million people in Pakistan's Sindh province in the past two days, according to new U.N. estimates released Friday," CNN reports.
After being labeled as "villains" and enemies of reform by Democrats, health insurers are shifting their cash to the coffers of Republican candidates, giving GOP campaigns eight times as much money.
News outlets report on trends in the primary care workforce, including medical homes and concierge medicine.
States address a range of health policy issues.
News outlets report on hospital issues, including a Moody's report suggesting a negative outlook for not-for-profit hospitals.
This week's research roundup features studies and briefs from the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Annals of Internal Medicine and the Medical Care Research and Review.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about federal plans to step up efforts to crack down on health care fraud.
The health care overhaul remains a political weapon for Republicans in the autumn campaigns. But, health law supporters are not standing by passively.
Some employers are finding that the health coverage they buy for their employees is changing, and that the health law may be responsible.
UNICEF estimates that about 3.5 million Pakistanis only have access to contaminated water, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday in a statement, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. Approximately 2.5 million flood survivors now have access clean water (Gale, 8/26).
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius argues that stimulus investments in health IT are leading to a sea change. Other opinions detail concerns with prescription drug abuse, the AMA's role in the overhaul and more.
States address a range of health policy issues.
A Scientific American series examines how recent scientific advances can guide future efforts to thwart HIV/AIDS and also looks at the epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) and injecting drug users (IDUs).
A national debate over the federal budget and debt is getting closer to the forefront.
Medicare expands coverage for tobacco-related counseling to "two cessation counseling tries each year," the Hill reports.
The retail prices for brand-name drugs rose more than 8 percent last year, when there was no inflation. Drugmakers say prescription prices are in line with medical inflation.
In the first of a three-part series on primary care, NPR reports on doctors who choose to stay in solo practice.
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