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"Kristalina Georgieva, the European commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis response, arrived in Niger on Wednesday to see at first hand the extent of food shortages" in the country and announced the European Union (E.U.) "is doubling its humanitarian aid to the Sahel to nearly
"In a move that is likely to raise the ire of HIV/AIDS activists, maternity clinics in [Harare] are conducting compulsory HIV/AIDS tests on pregnant women before they can register for delivery," the Zimbabwean reports, adding, "Scores of pregnant women in the high-density suburb of Glen-Norah told this newspaper that they were being asked to bring their spouses [to be tested] if they wanted to register to deliver their babies." According to the newspaper, "The Zimbabwean visited [a clinic] in Glen-Norah where workers confirmed they had turned away 'a few' people so they could bring their spouses for testing."
"Artemisinin, a crucial drug in the global fight against malaria, could soon become cheaper and easier to make, thanks to researchers who have found a better way to synthesize the compound," Science NOW reports, providing an overview of the research published in Angewandte Chemie on Monday. "'The impact of this is hard to overestimate,' says Jack Newman, an industrial chemist at Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, California, who was not involved in the work," the news service writes. Newman added that "the supply chain to make artemisinin has been a huge problem," the news service notes.
Partners HealthCare and the Tufts Health Plan have renegotiated their contract that will lower Tufts' reimbursements to Partners by $105 million to save money in Massachusetts. In the meantime, an insurer/provider fight in Georgia is growing, and there is marketplace news from Oregon and Colorado.
Medical mistakes increased in Minnesota hospitals in 2011, but the number of "adverse events" that led to serious patient harm or death fell, a new report says. In addition, nationwide, postsurgical deaths decreased despite the number of surgeries being up overall, Medscape reports. Michigan and Connecticut, however, are struggling with patient quality issues.
Although Mitt Romney wasn't present, the other Republican presidential hopefuls challenged his abortion stance. Meanwhile, with South Carolina's GOP presidential primary vote fast approaching, the Republican candidates are stepping up their ads and their efforts take the spotlight.
The researchers reported that osteoporosis more slowly than anticipated and women with a normal scan at 65 do not need to be retested for more than a decade.
The advocacy group says states are not doing enough to stop smoking.
These findings from the Congressional Budget Office, based on 20 years of efforts to shift the program, are a blow to ongoing Medicare projects as well as a key component of the health law.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation that would eliminate the health law's Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act. Though the Obama administration stopped the program's implementation last year, many Republicans still want to remove it from the books.
In New York, California and Maryland, reactions were varied to the governors' spending plans.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 29 states have streamlined their programs, with most taking advantage of federal incentives to use new technology.
News outlets report on a variety of health policy issues across the country.
Medicaid news from Florida, Washington state, Kansas and Idaho.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
This week's articles come from Washington Monthly, CNN, Governing, American Medical News and Columbia Journalism Review.
"After a period of substantial decline, the global abortion rate has stalled, according to new research from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization (WHO)" published in the Lancet on Wednesday, a Guttmacher press release reports. "Between 1995 and 2003, the overall number of abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15-44 years) dropped from 35 to 29" but, "according to the new study, the global abortion rate in 2008 was virtually unchanged, at 28 per 1,000," the press release states. "This plateau coincides with a slowdown, documented by the United Nations, in contraceptive uptake, which has been especially marked in developing countries," according to the press release. "The researchers also found that nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, ... almost all unsafe abortions occur in the developing world," and "restrictive abortion laws are not associated with lower rates of abortion," the press release adds (1/18).
The Los Angeles Times' "Booster Shots" blog features an interview with Otto Yang, a professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, who speaks about drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and the implications of a highly drug-resistant strain found in India. Yang said, "Obviously [the drug-resistant TB] could be devastating if it spreads, because treatment options are so limited. So far it seems not to have been as contagious as other strains, possibly because the mutations required to make it drug-resistant also make it a little less virulent" (Brown, 1/18).
"Cote d'Ivoire remains in great need of humanitarian assistance nine months after the end of the bloody post-election violence that displaced tens of thousands of people, a senior United Nations relief official said today, urging donors to continue their generosity to the West African country throughout this year," the U.N. News Centre reports. "Considerable needs remain in several areas such as protection of civilians, restoration of means of livelihood, shelter, access to basic services and voluntary return and reintegration of displaced persons and refugees," Catherine Bragg, assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and deputy U.N. emergency relief coordinator, said following a three-day visit to the nation, according to the news service (1/18).
"Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has shut down two major medical centers in the Somali capital Mogadishu after two of its aid workers were shot dead by a former colleague last month, the international medical aid agency said on Thursday," AlertNet reports. The closure of the two 120-bed centers, the largest of MSF's 13 projects in Somalia, cuts in half the organization's presence in the capital, the news service notes, adding that the centers have treated thousands of malnourished children and provided vaccinations or treatments to tens of thousands more patients since August 2011 (Migiro, 1/19).
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