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A new diagnostic tool that shortens the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from eight weeks to two hours should be made available to vulnerable populations according to a WHO expert, Reuters reports.
Politics are swirling around various provisions in the new health law, including HHS rules for high-risk health insurance pools, the Independent Payment Advisory Board for Medicare and children's insurance.
A Florida judge "blocked a proposed [state] constitutional amendment that targets the federal health-reform law, saying Florida Republican lawmakers included wording in the proposal that would mislead voters," according to Health News Florida and other news outlets.
States address a range of health policy issues.
States experience Medicaid cuts, struggle to balance budgets.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's opinions and editorials from across the country.
David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "defended the administration's new plans against critics who say the watered-down rules miss an opportunity to lower costs and improve patient care," The Salt Lake Tribune reports.
News outlets report on hospital issues in the Nashville area and San Francisco.
Since Congress chose not to extend a subsidy for COBRA coverage in its recently passed unemployment insurance measure, a mulitude of people who lost their jobs since June 1 will face higher insurance costs.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, a vote on Medicaid assistance for states is planned for next week and legislation is announced to create a federal demonstration program to test the cost effectiveness of medical-legal partnerships.
Program has linked 5,600 people to a "medical home" that helps oversee care but officials acknowledge that patients are not consistently maintaining a relationship with a doctor and often skip appointments.
This week's research roundup includes studies and briefs from the Urban Institute, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Archives of Internal Medicine, the Annals of Family Medicine and the Commonwealth Fund.
A Senate panel Friday voted in favor of legislation that would disallow brand name drug companies from paying generic brands to keep off the market.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a report about the administration's new high-risk pool regulations and how they address abortion coverage
Rising premiums prompt California legislators to take action, but the extent to which is debated.
"[H]umanitarian watchdog Development Initiatives outlines some of the needs, responses and funding trends" in humanitarian aid over the past decade in its 2010 Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report, IRIN writes in an article that examines the organization's findings.
Media outlets continued to reflect on news from the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, which attracted over 19,000 participants from 193 countries to Vienna last week, according to the conference blog.
This year "India has reported the lowest number of polio cases in [the] January-June period ... in a decade," PTI/ZeeTV reports. Twenty-four cases were detected between January and June this year, compared to 151 in the corresponding 2009 period, and 317 in January-June 2008 (7/29).
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