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A bill that would among other things extend some unemployment benefits and provide a temporary fix of Medicare payment rates to doctors hit a roadblock in the Senate Wednesday as a procedural vote to end debate on the bill failed.
Illinois will face a $750 million shortfall in the fiscal year beginning in July if Congress doesn't extend increased Medicaid funding, originally authorized as part of last year's economic stimulus.
According to two new studies, "giving pregnant and nursing women triple antiretroviral drug therapy, or treating breast-fed infants with an antiretroviral medication, can dramatically cut transmission rates, enabling moms to both breast-feed and to protect nearly all children from infection," HealthDay News/Bloomberg Businessweek reports (Goodwin, 6/16).
NPR's Morning Edition examines the Obama administration's Global Health Initiative (GHI) and efforts to combat HIV/AIDS. The $63 billion dollar "initiative preserves the Bush AIDS relief plan," known as PEPFAR, and aims "to allow patients to get care at one location rather than having to seek care at different places. For example, family planning at one facility and HIV care at another," NPR notes.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs said Wednesday that the G8 could endanger its credibility if leaders fail to fulfill several "broken multi-billion-dollar pledges" aimed at helping the developing world, Canwest News Service/Vancouver Sun reports.
Citing USAID's Feed the Future initiative as "central" to U.S. foreign policy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday announced plans to "leverage the work" of U.S. researchers to "benefit farmers in developing countries worldwide," PTI/The Hindu reports. During the 2010 World Food Prize ceremony Clinton said, "In a few decades, the world's population will grow to 9 billion people. If we are to feed the future without leveling the forests, draining the aquifers and depleting the soil of all its nutrients, we need science" (6/17).
"HIV drugs can be administered as effectively by nurses as by doctors, a finding that could yield major benefits in the fight against AIDS in Africa," according to a study published online Wednesday in the Lancet, Agence France-Presse reports.
CNN reports that actor Gary Coleman's death is highlighting the importance of who makes your end-of-life decisions and is drawing attention to the fact that having a "living will" does not always guarantee that your wishes will be carried out.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Thursday's opinions and editorials from around America.
President Obama Wednesday thanked the American Nurses Association for supporting the health reform effort, The Associated Press reports.
News outlets report on changes to veterans and military health policies.
States address a range of health policy issues.
Farzad Mostashari, a senior official in the government's health IT office, said in a speech Tuesday that the strategy for implementing federal ehealth efforts is one of "bold incrementalism."
A Heritage Foundation-affiliated conservative advocacy group, Heritage Action, will begin targeting lawmakers "at home in their districts" who fail to support the GOP-led efforts to repeal the overhaul with political ads and other tactics.
Money would include funds to help increase the number of doctors, nurses and physician assistants. Some Democrats are concerned, however, that they money won't be used for prevention programs.
News outlets report on the pharmaceutical industry and the enactment of a new requirement by the Food and Drug Administration.
"Emergency rooms in downtown Manhattan have become more crowded since St. Vincent's Hospital closed in April, but ambulances are getting patients into the remaining ERs faster than they did when the 161-year-old Greenwich Village hospital was open," Wall Street Journal reports.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Medicare could save $500 million a year by switching from one type of eye medicine to another.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the findings from a new AP-GfK poll regarding the health care law and the latest Medicare "doc fix" developments in the Senate.
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