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CongressDaily reports that Republicans are busy tying their health reform repeal hopes to big gains in the midterm and 2012 elections.
Several states have passed or are considering bills to tighten abortion regulations.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine details primary care doctors' chores, such as answering phone calls and e-mails, refilling prescriptions, reviewing lab work, that are seldom paid for. The situation could get worse with large numbers of uninsured patients looking for physicans under the new health law.
The Wall Street Journal reports on the closing of St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and the prospects for workers to get new jobs.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including stories about aspects of the new reform law such as high risk pools.
WellPoint, the U.S. health insurer with the biggest membership, announced Wednesday that its first-quarter earnings rose 51 percent compared to last year and were boosted by a mild flu season.
G8 countries should make use of low-cost, effective tools to prevent hunger, disease and premature deaths among women and children in developing countries, Bev Oda, Canada's international cooperation minister, said on Tuesday. Leaders defended Canada's pledge not to fund abortions in the developing world.
"Conditions in Zambia's prisons are so overcrowded and medical care so inadequate that they are breeding grounds for disease and pose a serious threat to public health, says a new report by Human Rights Watch, produced in association with the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa and the Prisons Care and Counselling Association," BMJ News reports. "Researchers report that similar conditions prevail in much of Africa, where prisons risk becoming reservoirs of HIV and drug resistant tuberculosis"(Moszynski, 4/27).
Sierra Leone is launching a program to provide free health care for mothers and children in an effort to reduce high maternal and child mortality rates, Ernest Bai Koroma, the country's president, said on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports (4/27).
"As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins mark up today of the first foreign affairs authorization bill in five years, all eight living former U.S. Secretaries of State have written a letter [.pdf] urging Congress not to cut the international affairs budget," Politico's Laura Rozen writes on her blog.
Late Tuesday, China's State Council lifted a decades-old restriction that banned foreigners with HIV/AIDS from entering the country, Reuters reports. The amended rules, which appear on the government website, also lift a travel ban on foreigners with other sexually transmitted diseases and leprosy.
At the start of his bipartisan debt commission meeting, the president said everything was up for discussion, including provisions of the new health law, Medicare and Social Security.
WellPoint will put into effect this week a health overhaul provision preventing insurers from canceling policies - a practice known as rescission - except in fraud cases, even though the change isn't required until September.
Insurers can meet the requirement in the new health overhaul law for minimum spending on patient care by deducting new taxes and relabeling expenses related to improving "health care quality" as medical costs, rather than administrative ones, according to an April 24 memo from an expert at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Wednesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
A Los Angeles area free clinic is overwhelmed with demand for dental services, while a North Carolina County may cut dental coverage for adult Medicaid recipients.
In other state news: Oklahoma legislature overrides governor's veto of abortion bills; Kansas considers tax on nursing home beds; Florida wrestles with crackdown on pain pills.
Thirteen more lines of human embryonic stem cells are now officially eligible for federal funding since approval by the National Institutes of Health.
The courts tackle a range of legal actions related to drug makers.
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