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Insurers had until Sept. 23 to cover young adults up to age 26 on their parents' policies, several companies have announced plans to begin sooner, to avoid a coverage gap.
Coverage for the uninsured, whether they work for a small business, want long-term care or buy individual policies, is in the news.
Pharmaceutical companies raised prices sharply last year ahead of new charges in the health law, including increased Medicaid rebates, but new charges reduced industry profits.
News outlets report on the effectiveness of several drugs to treat and prevent breast cancer.
The U.S. military will end its formal earthquake relief mission in Haiti on June 1, but some assistance will continue after that, Lieutenant General Ken Keen said on Monday, Reuters reports.
The Food and Drug Administration is calling for greater oversight of at-home medical equipment.
The Drug Enforcement Administration will back away from its limits on what drugs doctors can prescribe online.
Global funding for malaria reached $1.7 billion in 2009, a "ten-fold" increase since 2004, and the production of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) worldwide rose to 150 million last year, according to a report, released Monday, from UNICEF and the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership, which also highlighted the need for additional funding, Agence France-Presse reports (4/19).
Colorado's governor will sign an order establishing a board of health policy advisors to guide the transition to national health reforms.
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A group of health experts gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, to kick off a continental conference on maternal and child health, VOA News reports (Heinlein, 4/19).
Hundreds of new medical marijuana dispensaries have cropped up in Denver, Boulder and other Colorado cities, causing the state to stop accepting walk-up applications from people seeking cards that allow them to buy the plant.
Reuters reports on the recent efforts by India's government to expand welfare programs throughout the country: "Since helping the Congress party win re-election last year, welfare has fast become the government's knee-jerk answer to policy dilemmas as it tries to ease food inflation, help growth trickle down to the poor, and win hearts and minds in" the country, the news service writes.
Using the new health overhaul law, scam artists hawk try to sell consumers fake insurance policies. Consumer advocates warn "there is no government health insurance program called ObamaCare, and federal employees aren't out selling it door to door or by telephone," the Miami Herald reports.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reached agreement with 7 of the country's 8 states on a health overhaul which shifts power from states to the national government.
"Bridging the cultural chasm between physicians ... and traditional healers is seen as essential for improving care on tribal lands, where hospitals and clinics struggle to keep doctors," The Associated Press reports. Provisions in the new health bill focus on recruiting and retaining health care providers.
States struggle to balance budgets and control Medicaid costs.
Hospital administrators worried about their bottom lines are waiting to see the consequences that health care reform will have on their organizations, the Kansas Health Institute News Service reports.
A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine examines U.S. News & World Report's hospital rating system and finds that reputation does not track closely to objective quality measures.
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