Thousands Of Minnesota Nurses Strike For One Day
More than 12,000 nurses walked off the job at hospitals in the Minneapolis area Thursday in a contract dispute about nurse-patient ratios and pension benefits.
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First Edition: June 11, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations include reports that the federal government will begin handing out $25 million in grants to reduce medical malpractice lawsuits, that health industry leaders are pressing the White House to step up its role in promoting health care innovation and details of a nurses' one-day strike in Minnesota.
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Senate Dems Point To Medicare Rebate Checks To Improve Health Law’s Image
Meanwhile, some GOP lawmakers are expressing opposition to a targeted Medicare doctor payment provision included in the tax extender bill.
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Due to KHN staff training, the Daily Report will not be published today. Check First Edition for today’s health policy headlines and look for the report again on June 11.
Due to special staff training, the KHN Daily Report will not be published. Check First Edition for today's health policy headlines.
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First Edition: Senate Democrats Continue Pursuit Of Support For Jobs Bill — Which Includes Medicare Doc ‘Pay Fix’ And Help For States With Medicaid Costs
Kaiser Health News provides highlights from today's headlines, including various state level health policy developments and the latest on the pending jobs bill.
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WHO Director-General Responds To Criticisms Over Agency’s H1N1 Response
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on Tuesday rejected recent criticisms that her decisions to declare H1N1 (swine flu) a pandemic were impacted by her advisers' link to the pharmaceutical industry, the Associated Press reports.
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Women Deliver Conference Concludes
The Women Deliver conference concluded on Wednesday, as attendees "celebrated benchmark achievements in reducing maternal and infant mortality and faced stubborn failures at the same time," Womens eNews reports. Advocates were "able to savor success stories in countries such as Sri Lanka and Malawi ... But the Women Deliver conference also offered a forum for tales of women still dying [from] preventable childbirth deaths and of inadequate access to family planning services for 215 million women worldwide," the news service writes (Kramer, 6/10).
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Global Fund Releases Mid-Year Results for HIV, TB, Malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced mid-year results for HIV and TB treatment as well as for insecticide-treated net (ITN) distribution, Sify News reports. According to the report, by mid-2010 Global Fund-financed programs have:
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First Edition: Obama Appeals To Seniors; Senate And Jobs Bill; Berwick Controversy Continues
News outlets followed President Obama's speech about health reform, Reid's confidence on passage of the jobs bill with the Medicare "doc fix" and a judge barred thousands of nurses from striking.
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USAID’s Policy Bureau Takes Shape
Plans for USAID's new Bureau of Policy Planning and Learning are moving ahead, Foreign Policy's blog, "The Cable" reports.
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Gates Foundation Announces 5-Year, $1.5 Billion Commitment For Maternal, Child Health
During the Women Deliver conference on Monday Melinda Gates announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "will spend $1.5 billion over the next five years on maternal and child health, family planning and nutrition in developing countries, a pledge that signals a new focus for the foundation known for concentrating on vaccines and AIDS," the Wall Street Journal reports (Jordan, 6/7).
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UNITAID Concerned About Infant HIV Medication Shortage, Drug Company Says Supply Is Sufficient
Bristol-Myers Squibb's plans this month to close its plant in Meymac, France, that manufactures "the last therapeutic option" for HIV-positive babies has drawn criticism from UNITAID, Reuters reports. In an open letter published in the Lancet (.pdf), UNITAID writes that "[c]losing this factory means that 4,000 to 7,000 babies currently enrolled in treatment plans in developing countries through UNITAID could be left without the medicines they need."
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In The News: Senate And Jobs Bill; Obama Appeals To Seniors; States’ Medicaid Squeeze; Beyond COBRA
News outlets previewed President Obama's planned visit to a senior center to tout health reform, several columns looked at insurance issues, doctors say electronic medical record goals are unrealistic and military treatment of traumatic brain injuries is investigated.
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U.N. Secretary-General, Sec. Of State Clinton Address Women Deliver Conference
Governments worldwide should work with the U.N. on a joint action plan to significantly improve the health of women and children around the world by 2015, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a speech at the opening of the Women Deliver conference on Monday in Washington, DC, Agence France-Presse reports.
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