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Giving women vitamin A supplements does not reduce maternal death rates or improve the health of infants, according to a study published Tuesday in the Lancet, the New York Times reports.
Anthony Lake, who "has been a foreign policy advisor to several Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates," has officially become the executive director of UNICEF, Agence France-Presse reports (5/2). Lake was sworn into office Monday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the U.N. headquarters in New York, according to a UNICEF article (5/3).
News outlets report on issues affecting physician practices.
A case that was brought before the Supreme Court yesterday decided that federal doctors could not be sued in the case of a detained prisoner's death from neglect.
A health law program that will go into effect next month will steer $5 billion to buttress employer-sponsored health plans for retirees who are not yet old enough to qualify for Medicare and have no other options for buying coverage.
The government is offering to make major investments in physicians' e-health, but doctors aren't all lining up.
CongressDaily reports that the Congressional Budget Office says that freezing Medicare payment rates to doctors would likely cost nearly $276 billion through 2020.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including stories about parts of the new health law dealing with long-term care, high risk insurance pools and early retiree health insurance.
HHS Releases Requirements For Web Portal For State Insurance Options
Politico reports that establishing high-risk insurance pools, the first major decision after the enactment of health care reform, "has come and gone with the decisions so far made mostly along party lines."
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers also are dealing with the fallout from the health overhaul debate as they face midterm election challenges.
PlusNews/IRIN examines what the global adult mortality data, released Friday in the journal Lancet, suggests about HIV/AIDS. According to the news service, the study, based on an analysis of adult mortality rates between 1970 and 2010 in 187 countries, revealed: "HIV was key to reversing the worldwide decline in mortality from 1970 to 1990. Even though worldwide mortality is still about 26 percent lower than it was 40 years ago, there are regional imbalances. In sub-Saharan Africa, hard hit by HIV, mortality is at levels not seen in developed countries such as Sweden since the 1700s."
CQ examines the challenges involved with passing the Obama administration's FY 2011 "budget request for the State Department and foreign operations." Though eight former secretaries of state recently urged Congress not to cut foreign aid, "lawmakers and aides involved in the appropriations process say that getting President [Barack] Obama all the money he wants will be a really tough sell."
Along with the release of a WHO-UNICEF guide on medicines for children, the U.N. agencies on Friday said the guide "exposed dangerous shortfalls" in medicines designed for children and called for more research into treating children, Reuters reports. "While effective medicines exist to fight disease and treat life-threatening conditions like malnutrition, formulations suitable for children are often difficult to source," Francisco Blanco, UNICEF's chief of medicines and nutrition, said, according to the news service.
News reports explain how tax provisions in the health law would affect individuals, employers, and even Congress.
Hospitals and other systems in the Baltimore area are "buying practices, forming management agreements or structuring joint ventures with primary care practices that cannot afford to buy necessary electronic health records systems, hire more support staff or add another physician" in a bid to help primary care doctors lower their overhead, the Baltimore Business Journal reports.
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