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Maryland and New York hospitals are squaring off against various financial and regulatory challenges.
"Pressure is mounting on WellPoint Inc. Chief Executive Angela Braly, who faced tough questions about the health insurer's practices at its annual shareholders meeting Tuesday, before the gathering ended abruptly after a director collapsed," The Wall Street Journal reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest developments regarding legislation related to the Medicare physician payment fix.
White House officials eager to sell the most popular elements of the health reform law are focusing on four areas to try to gain votes and popularity for key lawmakers ahead of November's midterm elections.
The new health law created tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums for small businesses starting this year.
"Try after try to make vaginal creams that could repel the AIDS virus have failed. Now researchers are testing if a drug used to treat HIV infection finally might give women a tool to prevent it
BMJ News looks at how lack of access to drugs and resistance are undermining the fight against malaria.
During her opening address to the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan called for increased global efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Pana/Afrique en ligne reports. Chan also set-up several global health challenges to be addressed during the five-day meeting, according to the news service.
A Nebraska city hopes to lower health costs by requiring retirees to pay more; California officials say a hospital risked patient injuries; and Texas doctors are increasingly arriving from abroad.
Minnesota's Democratic-controlled legislature ended a budget standoff Monday that focused on Medicaid policy.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
The health law's impact on health insurance rules will affect consumers, insurers and sales agents.
A study released Monday found that intensive care patients who didn't have insurance were 21 percent more likely to die than those with insurance.
The Fiscal Times reports that a two-tiered medical system is emerging for the haves and have nots.
Four major Massachusetts health insurers are blaming Gov. Deval Patrick's rate increase caps for their first quarter losses that total more than $150 million.
Nobel-prize winner Harold Varmus, currently head of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, will begin as National Cancer Institute chief in July.
"The AARP says that manufacturer prices for brand-name prescription drugs commonly used by people on Medicare rose 9.7% for the year ending in March - the biggest annual jump since the group started tracking prices in 2002," The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reports.
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