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The new health care reform law could shift billions in Medicaid drug rebates from states to the federal government by changing how the rebates are treated, Kaiser Health News reports.
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has said he will make Alaska the 20th state to join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health reform law in order to overturn the changes to the health care system, The Anchorage Daily News/McClatchy report.
At a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs hearing on Tuesday about USAID's FY 2011 budget, several senators called for "broad changes in the culture and operations of" USAID, CQ reports.
The world is on track to meet the poverty reduction target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but sub-Saharan Africa still lags behind, according to the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2010 report, released Tuesday, VOA News reports (Hennessey, 4/20).
Agence France-Presse examines the WHO's response to H1N1 (swine flu) one year since the virus was first reported in Mexico and the U.S. "A year on, questions linger as to whether a decision by the World Health Organization to declare swine flu a pandemic, thereby unleashing the slew of health measures, was over-dramatic or even tainted by commercial interests," the news service writes.
A study by Express Scripts, a mail-order prescription drug provider, said Tuesday that an "estimated $163 billion in health care spending could be saved each year if patients took their medicines as prescribed, chose generic drugs and other low-cost alternatives, and had their prescriptions delivered by mail," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Malnutrition suffered during a woman's childhood "can adversely affect the health of her children, Harvard researchers said Tuesday," following the release of their study in developing countries, which "found that the shortest women were substantially more likely to have children who died at an early age, who were underweight or who failed to thrive, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical [Association]" (JAMA), the Los Angeles Times' blog "Shots" reports.
After a scientist found that runners' widespread habit of using ibuprofen before long races didn't help them, and may even cause more inflammation than doing nothing, a group of runners presented with the evidence still said they would continue using the drug.
Twin Huffington Post Investigative Fund articles reveal some problems with government oversight when safety issues caused by electronic medical records arise.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials
Five years ago, two cardiologists discovered that a company had been knowingly selling faulty heart defibrillators that short-circuited and failed, ending several times in the unnecessary death of patients.
States address various health care policy issue.
Medical innovators are not just looking to develop the next best technology anymore, but also the cheapest.
State and local officials in Florida, Nebraska and Arizona have examined budget-boosting plans to reduce subsidies for retired public employees, but the proposals have met stiff resistance.
The Washington Post reports that President Barack Obama seems to have put health care on the "back burner" as he focuses on financial reform and nuclear proliferation.
News outlets continue to report on Donald Berwick, President Barack Obama's nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Impact to hospitals is less than analysts expected.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports detailing how congressional Democrats plan to seek more federal regulatory control over health insurance rates.
UnitedHealth announces profits in first quarter.
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