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The WHO will convene a meeting of its emergency committee later this month to assess whether H1N1 (swine flu) has peaked, Keiji Fukuda, the special adviser to the WHO's director general for pandemic influenza said Thursday, Bloomberg reports. "While the flu continues to spread in parts of the world, notably northern Africa, eastern Europe and eastern Asia, infection activity is declining, [Fukuda] said," according to Bloomberg (Serafino, 2/11).
A whistle-blowing nurse, who reported a doctor's error, is acquitted in Texas.
States struggle with strapped budgets and Medicaid cuts.
A coalition of more than 150 humanitarian groups expressed "concern" in a letter Thursday that more than half of the U.S. government's disaster-assistance program budget has been pledged to help Haiti, which they say could mean cuts for aid to countries such as Sudan or Somalia, the Washington Post reports.
Acceptance of genetically modified (GM) crops in agriculture will help bolster global food security as the world faces population growth and the potential effects of climate change, Nina Fedoroff, science and technology advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and colleagues write in an article published in a special issue of the journal Science, the Times of London reports.
Today's collection of opinions and editorials.
Lawmakers tackle policy issues at the state level, including a Wyoming state senator who is pushing for health care reform and Mississippi's governor who banned over-the-counter (OTC) drugs containing pseudoephedrine.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that two Seattle-area doctors are accused of stealing millions from Medicare through fraudulent billing.
Two polls were released about American attitudes about health coverage and costs.
Community Health Centers are providing a growing number of newly uninsured with primary and preventive care and are being tested by the growing patient load, MarketWatch reports.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's relationship with President Obama is becoming strained over roadblocks Democrats are seeing on legislation and treatment some Democrats view as "cavalier" from the White House, Politico reports.
The Obama administration makes health information technology grants in an effort to improve health care efficiency and quality.
Thousands of Californians are leaving federal health care benefits unclaimed.
Politico reports that the planned Feb. 25 health care summit between Democrats, Republicans and President Obama "gives the GOP a venue to accomplish something it hasn't been able to do since President Barack Obama took the oath of office: Sell voters on Republican solutions to big problems."
Today's research roundup features studies from RAND and the journals Health Affairs, JAMA, Cancer, Hormones and Cancer and Journal of Traumatic Stress.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the continuing flap regarding Anthem Blue Cross' planned rate hike and more coverage of the proposed health summit to take place later this month.
Drug and health products industries spent nearly $267 million on federal lobbying.
The parent company of Anthem Blue Cross blamed the current recession and rising health care costs for the planned increase.
The measure also would postpone for seven months a scheduled cut in Medicare physician payments.
Heavy rains hit earthquake survivors in tent camps in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, "bringing a warning of fresh misery to come for the 1 million people living on the streets," Reuters reports. "While the rain could wash away some of the dust from the hundreds of collapsed structures in the stricken city, it could also worsen a fierce blight of mosquitoes," according to Reuters, which reports that Haiti is struggling to get all the earthquake survivors out of make-shift tents and into more substantial shelters (Loney, 2/11).
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