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Arkansas incumbent, widely considered one of the most vulnerable members of Congress, uses television ads highlighting her support of the federal health care law, The Associated Press reports.
Hospitalists, the fast-growing medical speciality, coordinate care in a hospital and can help reduce length of hospital stays, The New York Times reports.
The health insurer WellPoint has announced guidelines for using comparative effectiveness studies to pit drugs against one another and determine which works best.
A $5 billion fund to create high-risk pools in the states as part of the health overhaul may fall short of meeting the needs of uninsured people with health problems if state and federal officials closely monitor the program.
The Associated Press reports that a $15 million Medicare fraud case in California has ended as the last of 17 defendants was sentenced this week to 30 months in prison.
Report suggests that states will get big benefits for relatively little cost, but some states are still worried about coming up with that modest increase in funding.
Despite the new health law's requirement that young adults be able to stay on their parents' health plans until the age of 26, some recent college students are facing a gap in coverage, NPR reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organization, including a study about the federal government's funding level for high-risk pools as well as congressional Democrats' ongoing struggle to extend the COBRA benefit subsidy and to prevent a scheduled cut in Medicare payments to physicians.
The conclusions of this comprehensive study rebut concerns and protests by governors that the health law's Medicaid expansion will be a state budget buster.
The legislation's price tag is one of the issues viewed as a hurdle to securing the necessary votes for passage.
BMJ News examines details of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel agreed upon last Friday by WHO Member States during the World Health Assembly (WHA) that "discourages countries from actively recruiting from poor nations facing critical staff shortages."
BMJ News examines how the World Food Program (WFP) has started consulting with members of the business, humanitarian and military sectors in an effort to ensure aid reaches the world's hungry, particularly those in regions hit by natural disasters or other volatile environments.
The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee passed a $2 billion aid package to assist with Haiti's rebuilding from the January 12 earthquake, Agence France-Presse reports (5/25).
The Royal Society of Canada, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and other scientific research organizations from around the world released a statement (.pdf) on Tuesday with recommendations for G8 countries on how to improve the health of women and children worlwide, the Toronto Star reports.
McConnell criticizes flyers' message that new law will "preserve and strengthen" Medicare, and notes that the administration lambasteded Medicare Advantage plans during the debate on the overhaul when they sent flyers to their members that urged opposition to the plan.
KPBS reports on researchers' efforts to develop novel methods to protect women from HIV infection that have been examined at the International Microbicides Conference (M2010) in Pittsburgh this week. In sub-Saharan Africa, one of the region's hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, "six out of ten adults living with the virus are women," KPBS writes. The piece names several factors that increase women's vulnerability to HIV transmission in the region and the need "for protection [against HIV] that women can use discreetly," such as microbicides.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of today's opinions and editorials from around the country.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the Atlanta Technical College is expanding its health information technology program because demand for graduates is expected to grow by 20 percent through 2018.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
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