Archives: Morning Breakouts

The Atlantic examines the emergence of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis around the world, with a look at the situation in South Africa. "[T]he resurgence of tuberculosis is not limited to South Africa. India and China have the largest numbers of tuberculosis cases, and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been found in nearly every country, with XDR [extensively drug resistant]-TB in at least 57 countries," according to the article.

In a New York Times magazine preview, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is quoted as saying he was 'double-crossed' by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., on the health bill.

News coverage today include profiles of various personalities in the national health picture.

Senior House Democrats and President Obama negotiated for more than 8 hours Wednesday to hash out health agreement.

The Federal Trade Commission is hoping to ban the practice in which drug companies pay their generic counterparts to delay the release of generic alternatives to popular pharmaceuticals.

The House Republican leader is holding out hope that they can defeat Democrats health overhaul effort.

President Barack Obama met through the day with congressional leaders in an effort to produce a compromise between House and Senate legislation.

As he's shepherded the sweeping health overhaul plan through the United States Senate, a sometimes "hoarse and hacking," weary Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is also facing a tough reelection fight at home.

The House Republican leader is holding out hope that they can defeat Democrats health overhaul effort.

Rescue teams and aid groups headed to Haiti on Wednesday to offer help and "assess damage from a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake that crippled the island nation, severing communications with the outside world and crumbling countless buildings," the Miami Herald reports (Charles et al., 1/13). Tuesday's "earthquake was the worst in the region in more than 200 years and left the country in a shambles," according to the New York Times (Romero/Lacy, 1/13).

As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Rodham Clinton travels to Papua New Guinea Wednesday, the Associated Press examines how she will continue to press for "'women empowerment,' a signature issue of her nearly one-year tenure as top U.S. diplomat.'"

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has launched "a major drive to improve agriculture" in Afghanistan, McClatchy/Miami Herald reports. During an airborne tour of the country's Helmand province on Tuesday, Vilsack delivered the "message: If you grow wheat, vegetables and pomegranates instead of poppies, the United States will help you reap the financial benefits." Vilsack said, "This is by far the number one non-military priority here in Afghanistan" (Day, 1/12).

The Associated Press examines the decision by two U.S. nonprofit groups seeking to increase production of the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), Plumpy'nut, to file a lawsuit against the French organizations that hold the product's U.S. patent.