Archives: Morning Breakouts

Eastern side of Pennsylvania has six of the 18 counties in the United States with the highest rates of thyroid cancer.

Democratic infighting about the way forward from Massachusetts' upset election could impact lawmaking beyond just health care.

House GOP Whip Eric Cantor told reporters he doesn't believe Dems got the message from the Mass. Senate election.

The Speaker of the House told reporters that Democratic leaders still were committed to approving a health bill this year.

After shrinking in 2009, the world economy is expected to grow in 2010 and 2011, the World Bank predicted in a report issued Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports in a piece that outlines the bank's predictions (Smith, 1/20).

"Wars are less deadly than they once were and national mortality rates have continued to decline even during conflicts due to smaller scale fighting and better healthcare," according to a study released Wednesday by the Human Security Report Project, Reuters reports. "The report noted that most deaths in wars result from hunger and disease but said improved healthcare in peacetime had cut death tolls even during wartime, as had stepped up aid to people in war zones."

Even before the U.S. Navy's hospital ship, Comfort, anchored off the coast of Haiti on Wednesday, patients who were injured in last week's earthquake were airlifted onto the ship to receive care, the Miami Herald reports (Clark, 1/21).

A sampling of opinions and editorials from around the country.

State organizers are creating obstacles to implementing national health care reform if it passes.

As Democrats reel from the loss of a Massachusetts Senate seat that will deprive them of the 60-vote majority needed to pass the health overhaul, two alternative legislative strategies have moved to the forefront.

"Global health projections leave little doubt that chronic diseases are rapidly overtaking infectious diseases, such as malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), as the world's biggest killers

News outlets report on some of the major players in the health care debate, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., the Senators from Iowa, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

Newly-elected Scott Brown says that he was elected because Massachusetts voters, with an already-reformed state health care system, don't want to subsidize other states.