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Obama will send Congress 'tough choices' budget, White House budget director says

"President Barack Obama will send Congress a 'tough choices' budget next week that would cut some of his own programs in the environment, community development and services for the poor to rein in the deficit," Jacob Lew, the White House budget director, wrote recently in a New York Times opinion piece, Bloomberg reports.

9 Feb 2011

Health care reform study offers comprehensive review of new federal law impact on Florida

A new report released today by the Collins Center for Public Policy looks beyond the pitched battles over health care reform and instead offers a comprehensive review of the new federal law and its potential impact on Florida.

8 Feb 2011

France, FAO call for greater regulation to avert food riots

France, the current chair of the G20, and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) "warned on Friday about the risk of a new global food crisis and ensuing riots, calling for greater regulation to curb speculation on commodities markets," Reuters reports.

8 Feb 2011

Journal of International Affairs examines humanitarian licensing

More students are pushing universities to make medicines more available to people in the world’s poorest countries. An article in the new issue of the Journal of International Affairs examines “humanitarian licensing.”

7 Feb 2011

Obesity rates double worldwide

The latest research has shown that obesity is on the rise worldwide and has actually doubled since 1980. On the other hand people in the developed countries have also managed to reduce their blood pressure and cholesterol levels. This comes from three new studies published online Feb. 3 in The Lancet.

7 Feb 2011

Article examines new challenges Federal Government will face when Medicaid eligibility expands in 2014

A new article released in the February 2011 issue of Health Affairs, co-authored by Benjamin Sommers, MD, PhD, of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Hirsch Professor of Health Law and Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, examines new challenges that States and the Federal Government will face when Medicaid eligibility expands in 2014, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

5 Feb 2011

Henry Schein, supplier partners, ADA to sponsor 'Give Kids A Smile Day' event

Henry Schein, the largest distributor of health care products and services to office-based dental, medical and veterinary practitioners, and its supplier partners have joined with the American Dental Association, Colgate-Palmolive and DEXIS to sponsor the ninth annual ADA "Give Kids A Smile Day."

5 Feb 2011

Vemma donates over 60,000 bottles of Vemma NEXT to K.I.D.S.

In 2010, Vemma donated over 60,000 bottles of Vemma NEXT, with a retail value in excess of $1.2 million, to Kids in Distressed Situations.

5 Feb 2011

AIDS United awards new grants to improve lives of people with HIV/AIDS

Thousands of individuals living with HIV/AIDS in low-income and/or rural areas will now receive local, high quality care, thanks to new grants awarded by AIDS United for its Access to Care initiative.

5 Feb 2011

Viewpoints: Judge Vinson's decision and Sarah Palin, Voting Rights Act; States' Medicaid 'burden;' Global fund controversy

With news coverage focused on Federal District Judge Roger Vinson's decision Monday to declare the health care reform law unconstitutional, it might be easy to miss this week's news from another federal courthouse: opponents of the Voting Rights Act have renewed their efforts to have that law declared unconstitutional, too.

5 Feb 2011

Recent releases in Global Health

"Africa should be one of the leading regions in shaping global food security policies and feeding the future instead of others shaping it for Africa. Developing practical, integrative and more small-scale solutions for agricultural inputs and outputs, farming, and for managing both land and water resources, will help Africa provide for future generations on the Continent and elsewhere," Robin Renee Sanders, the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, writes in a Huffington Post blog post.

5 Feb 2011

Poor adolescents who live in tight-knit communities less likely to smoke and be obese

Growing up poor increases a person's likelihood of health problems as an adult, but a new study led by a Cornell University environmental psychologist shows that being raised in a tight-knit community can help offset this disadvantage of poverty.

4 Feb 2011

At Global Chiefs of Mission Conference, Sec. Clinton, Shah discuss QDDR

As part of a week-long meeting with U.S. diplomats from around the world taking place in Washington, D.C., this week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday gathered with 300 U.S. diplomats from around the world to discuss "strategies to energize diplomacy and streamline development," the New York Times reports.

4 Feb 2011

Over 2 million children gain Medicaid or CHIP coverage during 2010

Two years after President Obama signed the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that more than two million more children were served by Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at some point over the past year.

4 Feb 2011

Politico looks at how proposed budget cuts could affect U.S. foreign aid, including global health funding

Politico examines how Republicans' proposed budget cuts could affect foreign aid funding. The House Republican majority has recommended combining President Barack Obama's "State and foreign aid requests with 'nonsecurity' domestic spending and to cut appropriations to 2008 levels."

3 Feb 2011

Poor adolescents with strong community get protection from risky health behaviors

Children who grow up in poverty have health problems as adults. But a new study finds that poor adolescents who live in communities with more social cohesiveness and control get some measure of protection; they're less likely to smoke and be obese as adolescents.

3 Feb 2011

Economists suggest new approach to monitor nutrition, child mortality in developing countries

In a paper published in the January issue of the journal Economics and Human Biology, a team of applied economists including William A. Masters, a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, suggests a new approach to monitoring the relationship between nutrition and child mortality in developing countries.

2 Feb 2011

FAO monthly food price index expected to remain high

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) monthly food price index for January is expected to be at a similar level to the record highs measured in December's index, Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist with the agency, said on Monday, Reuters reports. "FAO's expectation is that the January index would be very close or slightly below December," Abbassian said ahead of the release of FAO's monthly food index, which is due to be published on February 3.

2 Feb 2011

Mother’s stroke history can help predict daughter’s risk of heart attack

If you're a woman and your mother had a stroke, you may have a risk of heart attack in addition to a higher risk of stroke, according to new research on family history and heart disease published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics.

2 Feb 2011

Bill Gates argues the case for polio eradication and expanded childhood immunization

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, argues the case for polio eradication and expanded childhood immunization in his third annual letter released today. The letter, a personal account of his priorities, also calls on governments to invest in foreign aid, even in the face of a tough economic climate.

1 Feb 2011

Poverty News and Research

Obama will send Congress 'tough choices' budget, White House budget director says

Health care reform study offers comprehensive review of new federal law impact on Florida

France, FAO call for greater regulation to avert food riots

Journal of International Affairs examines humanitarian licensing

Obesity rates double worldwide

Article examines new challenges Federal Government will face when Medicaid eligibility expands in 2014

Henry Schein, supplier partners, ADA to sponsor 'Give Kids A Smile Day' event

Vemma donates over 60,000 bottles of Vemma NEXT to K.I.D.S.

AIDS United awards new grants to improve lives of people with HIV/AIDS

Viewpoints: Judge Vinson's decision and Sarah Palin, Voting Rights Act; States' Medicaid 'burden;' Global fund controversy

Recent releases in Global Health

Poor adolescents who live in tight-knit communities less likely to smoke and be obese

At Global Chiefs of Mission Conference, Sec. Clinton, Shah discuss QDDR

Over 2 million children gain Medicaid or CHIP coverage during 2010

Politico looks at how proposed budget cuts could affect U.S. foreign aid, including global health funding

Poor adolescents with strong community get protection from risky health behaviors

Economists suggest new approach to monitor nutrition, child mortality in developing countries

FAO monthly food price index expected to remain high

Mother’s stroke history can help predict daughter’s risk of heart attack

Bill Gates argues the case for polio eradication and expanded childhood immunization

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