Penn. Official Urges Bill To Prohibit ‘Health Profiling’ And Limit Rate Hikes; Nev., Ariz. Wrestle With Rising Costs For Public Employees’ Benefits; McCollum Releases Health Plan
States address a range of health policy issues.
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Enrollment Jump Helps UnitedHealth Group Profits Soar 31 Percent
Health insurer UnitedHealth Group reported a second quarter profit jump of 31 percent as enrollment in the insurer's Medicare and Medicaid plans went up, The Associated Press reports.
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Sec. Of State Clinton Addresses Afghan Women’s Rights During Visit To Kabul
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "used part of her address to a key conference in Kabul on Tuesday to defend Afghan women concerned that peace efforts with the Taliban could jeopardise their rights," Agence France-Presse reports.
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AU Pre-Summit On Gender Concludes
The African Union (AU) Pre-Summit on Gender concludes Wednesday after three days of discussion about how African countries could improve progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targeting women and children's health, the Independent reports.
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Calif.’s Anthem Blue Cross President Resigns Following Sharp Criticism Of Rate Increases
Leslie Margolin was heavily criticized after Anthem announced rate increases of up to 39 percent last winter. Those increases were later scaled back when state officials determined that errors had been made in the calculations.
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First Edition: July 21, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including specific examples of what could happen at the state level if Congress doesn't extend enhanced federal Medicaid funding.
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AIDS 2010: Number Of HIV-Positive Patients On ARVs Grew To 5.2M In 2009 With 10M Still In Need, WHO Says
"The number of HIV-positive people receiving antiretroviral drugs [ARVs] for their infections jumped by more than a quarter in 2009, growing from 4 million to 5.2 million, the World Health Organization said Monday at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna," the Los Angeles Times reports (7/19).
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Sec. Of State Clinton Stresses Importance Of Science And Innovation For Development
"Innovation, science [and] technology must again become fundamental components of how we conduct development work," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a "high-level meeting of international development and science experts" last week, reports SciDev.net.
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Obama Resubmits Berwick Nomination To Senate, Kagan Responds To Health Law Concerns
Just two weeks after President Obama bypassed Congress to set to work his pick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services until the end of 2011, Obama again submitted the nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick to the Senate.
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Washington Post Examines Haiti Rebuilding Challenges
The Washington Post examines the international effort to rebuild Haiti after the January 12 earthquake.
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Insurer Earnings Strong, But New Health Law May Take Toll
News outlets report on how the new health law may be affecting insurer earnings.
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Doctor, Nurse Roles Considered As Shortages Take Hold
News outlets report on trends among the health professions, including physicians in private practice and the primary care shortage.
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Doctors Criticize Insurers Over Rankings
Doctor groups are slamming insurers for increasingly using rankings "to steer patients toward certain physicians based on cost or quality," The Wall Street Journal reports.
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HHS Seeking Suggestions For Online Inventory Of Comparative Effectiveness Research
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking suggestions on what to include in a national database of comparative effectiveness research that will be available to the public online, the Kansas Health Institute News Service reports.
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Rate Of Women Getting Mammography Screenings Stalls; Colorectal Cancer Screenings Remain Underused By Medicare Patients
The CDC finds that one-fifth of American women ages 50 to 74 are behind schedule on getting a mammogram screening.
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Health Experts And Republicans Push For Biosimilar Drug Clinical Trials
Some view the absence of mandatory clinical trials as a step toward compromising the safety and effectiveness of these products.
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