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Congress must intervene before June 1 to stave off dramatic cuts in Medicare payments for physicians and to continue the COBRA benefit subsidy for unemployed workers.
An increase in the number of injection drug users (IDUs) in eastern and southern Africa stands to harm efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region, warned experts gathered at the World Forum Against Drug conference in Sweden on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports.
According to an annual ONE report, which tracks progress on aid commitments made at the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, the G7
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday is expected to mark up a bill that would "authorize $3.5 billion in reconstruction funds for Haiti over five years" and would also require USAID "to submit a long-term reconstruction plan to Congress as well as mandate the president to appoint a senior policy coordinator for Haiti," The Hill reports (Bogardus, 5/23).
The tax "extenders" bill which would stave off the Medicare reimubursement rate cut to doctors facing resistance on and off Capitol Hill.
Obama administration officials asked a judge to dismiss Virginia's health reform lawsuit on the grounds that the state does not have standing to sue over the requirement that individuals will be required to buy health insurance.
Researchers on Monday at the International Microbicides Conference (M2010) in Pittsburgh continued to present data on HIV prevention research, Reuters reports. The news service outlines several prevention methods being researched, including an intravaginal ring that over time releases two antiretrovirals (ARVs)
The East African examines the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program, a 10-year research collaboration between the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) that aims to help rural communities address these three issues (Butunyi, 5/24).
A proposal to allow UnitedHealth Group shareholders to make suggestions about executive pay was voted down by the same shareholders it would have empowered at the firm's annual meeting Monday.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of today's opinions and editorials from around the country.
The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles an early adopter of the medical home model.
A plan from Gentiva Health Services to buy Odyssey HealthCare for almost $1 billion would create the largest U.S. provider of home health and hospice care, The Associated Press reports.
The New York Times reports that young people - representing nearly one-third of the 46 million uninsured in America - stand to "reap substantial benefits" from expanded coverage for them in the new health law.
State budget challenges are slowing efforts to expand children's health program.
States around the country are debating how to deal with health costs and tight budgets.
Reuters reports that 150 academic researchers touring the nation to make recommendations on diuretics and best and cheapest practices for blood pressure medicine have reported a 23 percent increase in patients who get the recommended drugs, "twice the increase in the U.S. over the same period."
A federally-funded health information training program is now underway.
News outlets report on efforts to define medical expenses as opposed to administrative expenses when it comes to the mandated medical loss ratios in the new health law.
"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Monday that it will soon send Medicare beneficiaries a special mailing on 'the immediate benefits they may see' from the health care overhaul law," according to CQ HealthBeat.
The Obama administration warned the health care industry Monday that it "won't hesitate to block mergers that threaten to stifle competition," The Associated Press reports.
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