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USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah was in Seattle on Tuesday to speak at the annual Life Science Innovation Northwest conference, the Seattle Times' blog, "The Business of Giving," reports. The blog outlines the Obama administration's global health and development goals, including the six-year $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI), as well as some of the challenges facing Shah at USAID.
The FDA is drafting new guidelines for testing and approving multidrug cocktails for life-threatening diseases, the Wall Street Journal reports. "Many diseases, such as AIDS, tuberculosis and cancer, require multidrug combinations. Such drug cocktails can prevent the development of drug resistance, because the microbe or cancer cell needs to undergo more mutations to escape several drugs than to escape just one. By attacking the disease in different ways, drug combinations also improve the chances of therapeutic benefit," the newspaper reports (Schoofs, 3/18).
Agriculture ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean came together Tuesday to discuss strategies aimed at eradicating hunger and poverty by 2025, Xinhua/People's Daily Online reports.
Both the substance and process of the Democratic plan is taking shape.
A pilot crop insurance project, recently launched in Kenya, aims to compensate small-scale farmers when crops fail in an effort to break the cycle of poverty, the Business Daily reports. While crop insurance is widely used in the developed world, cost has been a major barrier to offering it to small-scale farmers in the developing world. In addition, "micro-insurance, particularly for agriculture, has largely failed because it offered no immediate benefit to farmers," the newspaper reports (Mbogo, 3/18).
President Obama and Democratic leaders continue to round up votes for the health overhaul.
Money in the health care debate funds the large amount of television advertising about health reform and might also be affecting Congressional fundraising.
CNNMoney reports that doctors are increasingly choosing not to accept Medicaid patients as the payment system - and an increasing number of Medicaid patients - means they're losing money treating patients.
Health insurance firm WellPoint delivered on only about one-fifth of a $30-million pledge to help the uninsured.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
In other states, a report shows Utah residents being squeezed by declining wages and higher health costs and a Delaware newspaper reports on difficulty of comparing prices for generic drugs.
As health care reform bills are still pending in Congress, many outlets are reporting on policy issues that the bills would address.
A report released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the rise in the level of uninsured middle-class people in the last eight years.
In an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, the president said he was not worried about the 'procedural' debate in the Democratic push to pass a health bill.
Catholics increasingly support health care reform legislation.
A court case has revealed that the insurer Fortis, now called Assurant Health, automatically targeted customers diagnosed with HIV with fraud investigations geared toward finding reasons to revoke their coverage.
The Congressional Budget Office is straining under the burden of health care requests as Democrats move toward releasing a reconciliation bill, "a stressor that may have contributed to the recent incorrect scoring of a draft House provision," Politico reports.
Last year about $184 million in prescription drugs were stolen in the U.S. Theives generally hit cargo in trucks or containers, although warehouses are sometimes targeted.
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