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A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine reported Monday that "it may be possible to lower costs in the U.S. system without hurting patients" after the study found little difference in outcomes between hospitals with longer patient stays versus shorter ones.
Government efforts to root out Medicare scams in Miami are proving successful, according to prosecutor. Doctor sentenced in Los Angeles for scheme to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal.
Cut of more than 21 percent in payments is scheduled to take effect in a week. Congress in the past has intervened to stop such reductions but recent attempts to do so have failed.
News outlets report on the drug industry's involvement in doctor training programs and its role in shaping the health care overhauls pending in Congress.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including details of President Obama's revamped health reform proposal and how Democrats, Republicans and the insurers are reacting to it.
President Obama's new health overhaul proposal drew criticism from same Republican congressional leaders he has invited to attend Thursday's White House health summit.
President Obama warned this weekend that both Republicans and Democrats should be careful not to turn this week's health care summit into "political theater" but to work to find common ground on the issues.
News outlets continued to report on the science discussed as the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), which ended Friday in San Francisco.
The major earthquake in January in Haiti could have killed as many as 300,000 people, an estimate that includes bodies buried in the rubble, Haitian President Rene Preval said on Sunday at a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Mexico, Reuters reports.
A "controversial" study, released on Sunday, "suggests international rules that bar potentially infectious tuberculosis patients from flying are too stringent and airline passengers are really at little risk from catching TB from a fellow traveler," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports. The paper is being published in the March edition of Lancet Infectious Diseases (Stobbe, 2/21).
Researchers speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting on Saturday discussed how a strategy to promote universal voluntary HIV tests and early antiretroviral treatment for patients living in high-risk areas might "derail the spread of [HIV/]AIDS, a battle where a successful vaccine remains elusive," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports. "Called 'test-and-treat,' the goal is to catch new [HIV] cases early and administer therapy to reduce the amount of virus in patients' systems in an effort to prevent them from spreading the illness," the news service writes.
PBS' "Religion & Ethics" looks at the U.S. government's "long history of trying to help poor countries get out of poverty. Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has given or loaned 150 countries more than a trillion dollars worth of aid, not counting military assistance or the work of private charities and nongovernmental organizations, many of them faith-based. We wondered what the lessons are in all this experience for, as they say, 'fixing Haiti.'"
Kaiser Health News presents a sampling Of Monday's opinions and editorials from around the United States.
News outlets report on some of the major figures in the health care overhaul debate, including Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.
News outlets report on nursing workforce issues, including a push for an expanded role for nurse practitioners, supervision of nurse anesthetists and a trend toward delayed retirement.
Meanwhile, California may be the next battle ground involving a tax on sugary soft drinks.
As the Obama Administration seizes on a California insurer's 39-percent rate hike earlier this month in order to rally new support for a health overhaul, that insurer's top executive is preparing to go before Congress.
Department of Veterans Affairs seeks to help female veterans who experience multiple struggles when they come home and address the backlog in disability claims.
States, facing strapped budgets, make trims in Medicaid that leave many in California with out dental coverage. New York, Louisiana and Virginia looking at trimming Medicaid budgets.
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