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First Edition: April 26, 2013

Today's headlines include reports that some Democratic senators have concerns about the health law's roll out as well as other news about the measure's implementation.

26 Apr 2013

Viewpoints: GOP rebranding effort spurs revolt; will health law help or hurt Democrats in next campaign?

When even a key architect of Obamacare says the law's implementation will resemble a "train wreck," it is clear that its biggest remaining supporters need to finally level with the American people about what's in store - starting with President Barack Obama.

26 Apr 2013

Fla. lawmakers close in on Medicaid expansion deal

Florida lawmakers are closer to a deal that would OK a Medicaid expansion there -- the state would use federal funds to cover more vulnerable residents while providing childless adults and adult parents with state money to buy private insurance.

26 Apr 2013

Bipartisan interest emerges in exempting lawmakers, Capitol Hill staff from required participation in health exchanges

News outlets also report on whether health exchanges will end insurance monopolies; on efforts to address possible "churning" between Medicaid and the new insurance marketplaces; and the money states spent to decide against running their own exchanges.

26 Apr 2013

States continue tussling with Medicaid expansion plans

CQ HealthBeat reports that even in jurisdictions that opt not to pursue the Medicaid expansion, the number of people who are left without insurance coverage will not be as large as expected. Meanwhile, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe signed his state's private insurance option plan into law while debate is ongoing in Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida and South Dakota.

25 Apr 2013

Global experts highlight strategies to immunize more children

In advance of World Immunization Week, global experts are highlighting strategies to further advance progress on the Global Vaccine Action Plan that was endorsed by the World Health Assembly, 2012.

19 Apr 2013

Implementation issues: Actuaries under the microscope, tax subsidy projections and finding money for high-risk pools

Health law backers question the predictions of insurance "rate shock," because they are made by actuaries who have close ties to the industry.

19 Apr 2013

IDRI, Medicago announce positive Phase I clinical trial results for avian flu pandemic vaccine

IDRI, a Seattle-based non-profit research organization that is a leading developer of adjuvants used in vaccines combating infectious disease, and Medicago Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles, today reported positive interim results from a Phase I clinical trial for an H5N1 Avian Influenza VLP vaccine candidate.

18 Apr 2013

Hospitals push hard for Medicaid expansion

Stateline reports that with billions at stake, hospitals are lobbying to change the minds of state lawmakers opposed to this health law provision.

18 Apr 2013

Private sector involvement, measuring results are key to ending poverty

Noting two global development goals recently proposed by World Bank President Jim Kim -- "to end extreme poverty, with a target reduce the global extreme poverty rate to three percent by 2030" and "to promote shared prosperity, fostering income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population in every country" -- Nigel Twose, director of International Finance Corporation's newly created development impact department, writes in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, "While many threats remain -- including, most notably, the risk that climate change will reverse past gains -- today many developing countries can realistically aspire to end extreme poverty within a generation."

17 Apr 2013

Mozambique launches New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

Paul Weisenfeld, assistant to the administrator at USAID's Bureau for Food Security, writes in the Feed the Future blog about the recent "official launch of Mozambique's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Maputo."

17 Apr 2013

Focus on early childhood critical to new development framework

"UNICEF's latest report [.pdf] on child nutrition, launched at the Dublin Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, Climate Justice hosted by the Mary Robinson Foundation and Irish Government, revealed that every year 2.3 million children under the age of five still die of malnutrition and 165 million children are stunted as a result of not receiving enough nutritious food within the first 1,000 days of life," British Member of Parliament Ivan Lewis, the shadow secretary of state for international development, writes in a Huffington Post U.K. "Politics" opinion piece.

17 Apr 2013

U.N. secretary general calls for renewed focus on MDGs as deadline nears

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday "rallied the United Nations community in a Call to Action, capping off a week of activities to spur accelerated progress in the 1,000 days to the end of 2015 -- the target date for achieving the eight anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)," the U.N. News Centre reports (4/12).

16 Apr 2013

Study reports 41% reduction in colorectal mortality rates for African Americans

A study analyzing the impact of the Delaware Cancer Consortium, the state's cancer control program, reports a 41 percent reduction in colorectal mortality rates for African Americans.

16 Apr 2013

Production of synthetic artemisinin an attack against farmers currently growing the plant

"On Thursday, the founder of Amyris Biotech triumphantly announced production of 70 million doses of the anti-malarial compound artemisinin," Jim Thomas, research program director for ETC group, a technology watchdog that works with farmers' organizations, writes in The Guardian's "Poverty Matters" blog.

16 Apr 2013

University of Manchester team to identify ways to improve maternal, child health in East Africa

Manchester midwives are to lead a major research project to improve midwifery services for women and babies in six East African countries.

16 Apr 2013

Global commitment needed for polio eradication

"I have spent my career seeking to understand and tackling deadly viruses, from ebola to HIV. But polio stands out because, unlike these diseases, we already hold the key to its eradication: effective vaccines," Peter Piot, director and professor of global health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, writes in The Guardian's "Poverty Matters" blog.

15 Apr 2013

Poverty News and Research

First Edition: April 26, 2013

Viewpoints: GOP rebranding effort spurs revolt; will health law help or hurt Democrats in next campaign?

Fla. lawmakers close in on Medicaid expansion deal

Bipartisan interest emerges in exempting lawmakers, Capitol Hill staff from required participation in health exchanges

States continue tussling with Medicaid expansion plans

Global experts highlight strategies to immunize more children

Implementation issues: Actuaries under the microscope, tax subsidy projections and finding money for high-risk pools

IDRI, Medicago announce positive Phase I clinical trial results for avian flu pandemic vaccine

Hospitals push hard for Medicaid expansion

Private sector involvement, measuring results are key to ending poverty

Mozambique launches New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

Focus on early childhood critical to new development framework

U.N. secretary general calls for renewed focus on MDGs as deadline nears

Study reports 41% reduction in colorectal mortality rates for African Americans

Production of synthetic artemisinin an attack against farmers currently growing the plant

University of Manchester team to identify ways to improve maternal, child health in East Africa

Global commitment needed for polio eradication

Blog features guest posts discussing Rally for Medical Research

Obesity epidemic in the Asia Pacific region: an interview with Prof Drexel, European Society of Cardiology

Medicaid expansion: Stiff resistance in South, Fla. Gov. Scott blasts watered-down plan

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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