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Question of subsidies and federal exchanges at center of latest health law court challenge

News outlets report on a variety of health implementation issues, including the latest lawsuit filed by the law's opponents. Other stories detail cost and coverage wrinkles and advances.

4 May 2013

Experts gather to lay out agenda to end childhood poverty

Pediatricians, economists, social scientists and policy experts will come together on Saturday, May 4, to address one of the greatest threats to child health - poverty.

4 May 2013

Viewpoints: Liberals refuse to acknowledge evidence of Oregon Medicaid study; Politics is roiling science in emergency contraception decisions

A familiar critique of liberal governance is that the results always matter less than its grand social ambitions. The latest evidence of this truth comes in the reaction to disappointing new findings from one of the most important public-policy experiments since the 1970s. A team of varsity health economists, mostly at Harvard and MIT, is studying the relationship between health outcomes and health insurance delivered by Medicaid (5/2).

4 May 2013

Research roundup: Surgical care at critical access hospitals; Digging into the cost of emergency medicine; Getting what you want for end-of-life care

During the past 15 years, the number of critical access hospitals – those with fewer than 25 acute care beds that receive higher reimbursements and other considerations from Medicare to help sustain them – has increased substantially, representing a quarter of all U.S. acute care hospitals in 2011.

4 May 2013

Highlights: New health care oversight laws in Md.; Texas hospitals negotiate over uncompensated care payments; Colo. considers psychiatric hospital for homeless

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed three laws Thursday that will give more protection for patients. The measures provide more state oversight of cosmetic surgery centers, pharmacies that make sterile medications and staffing agencies that find temporary jobs for health care professionals (Sun, 5/2).

4 May 2013

GOP sparring puts Medicaid expansion in limbo in several red states

News outlets report that several Republican governors who came out in favor of the expansion are battling with conservative lawmakers as legislative sessions wind down.

4 May 2013

Sen. Grassley pushes on in Medicare probe, reportedly seeks information about Sen. Hatch's aide

The Wall Street Journal writes that the Iowa Republican, who is looking into how investors got advance word of a Medicare financial policy decision, is also asking about comments by his Utah colleague's staffer.

4 May 2013

Pentagon scolds UnitedHealth for delays in military families' treatment

The Pentagon rebuked UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation's largest insurer, after military families began experiencing long delays getting medical-care referrals from the company.

4 May 2013

Obama plan for Medicare, Social Security draws ire from liberal groups

Liberal groups angered by President Barack Obama's proposed Social Security cuts say they'll take a page from conservatives' campaign playbook and work to oust Democratic lawmakers who go along with the plan.

4 May 2013

Reid adds to Capitol Hill Democrats' concerns about health law implementation

Senate majority leader becomes the latest prominent Democrat to express concerns about the roll-out of the law, placing blame on Obama administration and on Republicans for resisting adequate funding.

4 May 2013

Research finds no increased risk of abnormal heart rhythms despite FDA warning against citalopram

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's warning that high doses of the antidepressant citalopram can cause potentially serious abnormal heart rhythms might be doing more harm than good.

4 May 2013

Obama 'comfortable' with morning-after pill sales at 15

President Barack Obama said he is "very comfortable" with the Food and Drug Administration rule announced this week to make the so-called morning after pill available without a prescription to women and girls who are at least 15 -- younger than the current limit of 17.

4 May 2013

U.S. Department of Justice clears Aetna's proposed acquisition of Coventry Health Care

Aetna today announced the U.S. Department of Justice has cleared Aetna's proposed acquisition of Coventry Health Care, Inc. Aetna expects to complete its acquisition of Coventry within the next three business days.

4 May 2013

Big insurers are tentative about health law's marketplaces

Reuters reports that some of the nation's largest insurers are wary about jumping into the online marketplaces slated to open for enrollment in October. Meanwhile, CQ Health Beat tracks worries from some officials about consumer outreach.

4 May 2013

Researchers identify genetic risk factor for persistent pain after traumatic events

A new study led by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers is the first to identify a genetic risk factor for persistent pain after traumatic events such as motor vehicle collision and sexual assault.

3 May 2013

New computational method for assessing lung cancer tumors

Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida have collaborated with researchers in China, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany to devise a new computational method for assessing lung cancer tumors using CT, PET or MRI diagnostic technologies.

3 May 2013

First Edition: May 3, 2013

Today's headlines include a variety of stories about the health law's implementation, including reports about the Medicaid expansion's red state prospects.

3 May 2013

Oregon study offers insights into reach of health law's Medicaid expansion

The landmark study, which was appears in The New England Journal of Medicine, analyzed data from the Oregon Health Study, which compared low-income people in that state who had access to Medicaid with a similar population that did not. The findings offer insights into how Medicaid coverage affects overall health and health costs.

3 May 2013

Bayshore Home Health joins Hike for Hospice Palliative Care fundraiser for eighth consecutive year

Bayshore Home Health is embarking on its eighth consecutive year to raise money for local palliative care hospices across the country. Over the last seven years the home health care provider has raised over one million dollars for hospice palliative care through the annual Hike for Hospice fundraising events in communities across Canada.

3 May 2013

Stakeholders must work together on U.S. food aid reform

"Congress should put aside partisanship and turf protection as it considers bold changes to a decades-old and increasingly inefficient international food aid program," former Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), who chaired the Agriculture and Foreign Relations committees, and former Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-S.D.), who served as Senate majority leader, write in a Washington Times opinion piece.

3 May 2013

Health Care News and Research

Question of subsidies and federal exchanges at center of latest health law court challenge

Experts gather to lay out agenda to end childhood poverty

Viewpoints: Liberals refuse to acknowledge evidence of Oregon Medicaid study; Politics is roiling science in emergency contraception decisions

Research roundup: Surgical care at critical access hospitals; Digging into the cost of emergency medicine; Getting what you want for end-of-life care

Highlights: New health care oversight laws in Md.; Texas hospitals negotiate over uncompensated care payments; Colo. considers psychiatric hospital for homeless

GOP sparring puts Medicaid expansion in limbo in several red states

Sen. Grassley pushes on in Medicare probe, reportedly seeks information about Sen. Hatch's aide

Pentagon scolds UnitedHealth for delays in military families' treatment

Obama plan for Medicare, Social Security draws ire from liberal groups

Reid adds to Capitol Hill Democrats' concerns about health law implementation

Research finds no increased risk of abnormal heart rhythms despite FDA warning against citalopram

Obama 'comfortable' with morning-after pill sales at 15

U.S. Department of Justice clears Aetna's proposed acquisition of Coventry Health Care

Big insurers are tentative about health law's marketplaces

Researchers identify genetic risk factor for persistent pain after traumatic events

New computational method for assessing lung cancer tumors

First Edition: May 3, 2013

Oregon study offers insights into reach of health law's Medicaid expansion

Bayshore Home Health joins Hike for Hospice Palliative Care fundraiser for eighth consecutive year

Stakeholders must work together on U.S. food aid reform

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