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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.
Amid recent complaints that the WHO exaggerated the threat of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus, the agency announced Tuesday an upcoming independent review of the agency's handling of the pandemic, Agence France-Presse reports (1/12).
A California nonprofit meant to facilitate health information exchange has closed its doors after losing a bid to become the state's main exchange organization.
The Kansas City Star reports that Missouri led the country in 2008 in efficiency in using federal dollars to combat Medicaid fraud.
Health care fraud has become a multi-billion dollar industry
A cardiologists' lobby is suing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, claiming cuts to heart care services, especially diagnostic tests, are unjustified.
Today's selection of opinions and editorials.
"Unions tentatively struck a deal Tuesday to exempt collectively bargained healthcare plans from a tax on high-cost plans expected to be used to help raise revenue for the healthcare overhaul," CongressDaily reports.
Health care has consumed Congress for much of the past year, and lawmakers recognize that their constituents are eager for them to move on to other pressing issues.
Democrats hope a meeting with President Barack Obama Wednesday will help whittle the differences between the House and Senate bills.
New York Gov. David Paterson is trying to build a coalition of states to seek a "federal takeover of health care costs for the elderly poor who receive benefits under both Medicare and Medicaid," The Associated Press reports.
Roll Call reports that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday acknowledged there is little the GOP can do to block passage.
As House and Senate lawmakers work toward a compromise on their health overhaul legislation, various provisions remain in play.
"In the nation's capital, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is on the brink of pushing through a national health program that Democrats rank alongside the creation of Social Security and Medicare. In Nevada, that very achievement is imperiling his re-election prospects," The Wall Street Journal reports.
President Barack Obama reportedly is pushing to include national health insurance exchanges instead of state-based exchanges.
"Just as dealings with the Obama administration and congressional Democrats soured last summer, six of the nation's biggest health insurers began quietly pumping big money into third-party television ads aimed at killing or significantly modifying the major health reform bills moving through Congress," The National Journal reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest developments regarding the health overhaul's proposed health exchanges and the employer mandate.
A study from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a government-backed institution, has found that "China's 'one couple, one child' family planning policy" has resulted in a gender imbalance that is the "most serious demographic problem facing" the country, the Times of London reports.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called 2010 "the year of development" and said "he would make the drive to achieve" the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 "one of his key priorities this year," Agence France-Presse/My Sinchew reports.
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