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The rate of drug-resistant staph infections acquired in hospitals has dropped as the U.S. has stepped up prevention efforts to fight the deadly condition, The Associated Press reports.
The U.S. will give an additional $20 million to aid Pakistan, bringing the total amount of flood assistance to $55 million, Mark Ward, acting director of the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, told reporters at a press briefing Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reports.
Following the WHO's decision on Tuesday to declare the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic over, several news outlets reviewed the emergence of the virus around the world, exploring how some of the lessons learned from H1N1 could assist the WHO's handling of future outbreaks.
An international study finds HIV patients want their doctors to pay more attention to their other health conditions exacerbated by HIV or its treatments.
Donald Berwick, who was recently appointed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without a Senate hearing, did not list on his ethics disclosure forms donors who contributed up to $5 million to the think tank he ran before his appointment.
Nurses and other medical professionals increasingly become targets of violence.
Republicans continued to push repeal efforts, with the latest proposal gaining support from the party's congressional leaders.
Boston Catholics have asked Pope Benedict to intervene in the sale of Caritas Christi Health Care, a nonprofit Catholic hospital, to Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm, despite pledges that the hospital will retain its "religious identity."
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that President Obama signed into law a $26 billion state aid package that includes $16 billion in federal Medicaid assistance.
Top insurance executives pulled in nearly $200 million in compensation last year.
House lawmakers interrupted their August recess to return to Washington today to consider the funding measure, which was approved last week by the Senate.
The administration continues uphill effort to sell senior citizens on the health overhaul.
Commentators also discuss emergency room overcrowding and insurance mandates.
"World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan announced Tuesday the end of the [H1N1] swine flu pandemic, more than a year after it was declared," Agence France-Presse reports. "The world is no longer in phase 6 of influenza pandemic alert. We are now moving into the post-pandemic period," Chan said during a virtual press conference from Hong Kong, according to a WHO press release.
Upcoming Medicare cuts to hospitals will have a bigger negative impact on nonprofit facilities than their for-profit counterparts.
As rains and flooding in Pakistan continue, "the U.S. is racing to provide basic human needs, like makeshift housing," the Christian Science Monitor reports in an article looking at how the U.S. disaster response is being shaped by "the global battle with militant Islam."
After more than a decade of development, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has started clinical trials to test a vaccine to protect against the dengue virus, a product researchers hope may one day "help prevent a disease to which 2.5 billion people are exposed," CIDRAP News reports (Roos, 8/9).
Merck, the second biggest international drug maker, is being investigated by two U.S. federal agencies for potentially breaking anti-bribery laws in foreign countries.
The New York Times reports that one in five Americans visited the emergency room in 2007, whether they were insured or not, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
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