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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.
At an event on Friday in Seattle, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah discussed foreign aid efficacy and ways "to streamline the federal agency and to help make the whole U.S. aid budget easier to understand and track," the Associated Press/Seattle Times reports. Shah said that the Obama administration is concerned about foreign aid transparency and its effectiveness, adding: "The president continues to live up to the overall commitment to develop foreign assistance."
Global vaccine sales "grew by a healthy 16 percent last year, when sales shot up to $22.1 billion, healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information reported Friday," according to Associated Press. Kalorama is also forecasting sales "will rise at a compound annual rate of 9.7 percent during the next five years," (Johnson, 8/14).
"The growing burden of cancer in developing countries could be reduced without expensive drugs and equipment, scientists said on Monday, but it requires a global effort similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS," Reuters reports in an article that examines a study published in the Lancet by a group of American scientists who have created the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries (GTF.CCC).
News outlets report on states' efforts to implement various aspects of the federal health reform law, including preventing discrimination and setting up high-risk pools.
Political activity is surrounding health reform issue, including Medicare, the campaign trail or at the Seattle meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Depending on the state, health departments around the country are posting, preparing to post or deleting hospital infections data.
In Roanoke, Va., one company owns the city's two hospitals and six others in the region of 250,000 residents, commanding the area's largest economic engine and a workforce that includes 550 doctors.
States address a wide range of health policy issues.
The vision of a fully wired health system - the goal of a push by doctors, hospitals and the federal government - is coalescing at a Michigan hospital.
The Food and Drug Administration is considering revoking its approval of a last-ditch breast cancer drug over the debate on "medical spending and effectiveness that flared during the battle over health-care reform," The Washington Post reports.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Monday's opinions and editorials from across the country.
Restaurant workers - who account for up to 6 million of the nation's uninsured - will have new options for health coverage even before the overhaul kicks in with subsidies and new exchanges in 2014.
Massachusetts hospitals face slashed payments from Medicare and Medicaid while Michigan hospitals invest in technology.
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