Archives: Morning Breakouts

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., will stand in the way of a proposal to attach a drug reimportation proposal to his food safety bill, "which he claims could derail the whole food safety effort," The Hill reports.

Federal lawyers filed a brief in support of San Francisco's requirement that employers contribute to a city plan for providing health care, saying the Supreme Court need not rule on the issue.

Some small businesses may get financial help as part of the health overhaul that could cover up to 35 percent of companies' premium costs for insuring employees in the form of new tax credits.

"The World Bank said on Friday it has written off $36 million of Haiti's remaining debts to the lender with the help of contributions from 13 countries," Reuters reports. Haiti owed money to the bank's International Development Association (IDA), the fund for the "poorest borrowers," the news service writes.

Canada has told other G8 countries that it "is willing to put about $1 billion toward maternal and child health

The 25th Africa-France Summit, a two-day gathering "aimed at developing better business relations between" the regions began Monday in the French city of Nice, All Headline News reports. According to the news service, 38 African leaders and 250 business executives have gathered for the summit, that is expected to feature discussions on "the problems of climate change, piracy, terrorism" as well as "the demand of African countries' for a bigger say in the UN Security Council and the G20 forum" (Gagelonia, 6/1).

Medtronic initiative comes as officials are increasingly probing ties between industry and doctors, the Wall Street Journal reports.