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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

Providers push for new payment systems

Health care providers increasingly are embracing payment systems -- based on ideas such as bundled payments, accountable care organizations and medical homes -- that reimburse based on treatment as a whole rather than the fee-for-service model.

16 Apr 2013

Nebraska, Florida contemplate elements of health law's Medicaid expansion

Supporters of Nebraska's effort to implement the health law's Medicaid expansion have signaled their willingness to include certain cost safeguards to advance the plan. Meanwhile, a new report finds savings for Florida taxpayers could result from a health law provision regarding federal funding for the "medically needy" and the expansion.

16 Apr 2013

Obama budget plan would raise Medicare costs for higher-income seniors

The Associated Press examines how President Barack Obama's budget proposal would increase Medicare costs for some seniors while other news outlets report on reactions from the left and right.

16 Apr 2013

GWCI launches e-learning series to raise awareness of ongoing health care needs of cancer survivors

In collaboration with the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the George Washington University Cancer Institute is launching the Cancer Survivorship E-Learning Series for Primary Care Providers on April 15, 2013.

16 Apr 2013

FDA finds violations at 28 drug compounding pharmacies

The FDA has found safety violations at 28 of 29 compounding pharmacies that are supposed to be producing sterile drugs.

16 Apr 2013

Does ICU remote monitoring save lives, money?

High in a Manhattan skyscraper near Grand Central Terminal on a recent Tuesday, 80 critically ill patients in intensive care units scattered from Georgia to New Jersey were being monitored, remotely, by a doctor scanning a dozen computer screens.

16 Apr 2013

12 evidence-based principles to improve contraceptive counseling of adolescents

New research by Professor James Jaccard, Ph.D., and Nicole Levitz, M.P.H., of the New York University Silver School of Social Work and its Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) has led them to suggest 12 evidence-based principles that can be used to improve contraceptive counseling of adolescents in U.S. health care clinics, doctor's offices, and health service organizations.

16 Apr 2013

Aging of America means not enough home-care workers

A labor shortage is worsening in one of the nation's fastest-growing occupations - taking care of the elderly and disabled - just as baby boomers head into old age.

16 Apr 2013

Medicaid gamble in Ore. could make it national leader, or cost millions; Other state Medicaid news

A Medicaid experiment could make Oregon a leader in controlling costs and improving care in the program -- or it could cost the state millions in penalties.

16 Apr 2013

Abortion-rights supporters worry strict new rules could shutter Virginia abortion clinics

Newly passed regulations adopted Friday in Virginia will require many abortion clinics there to undergo costly renovations, a move that opponents say is aimed at forcing the clinics closed.

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

UnitedHealthcare pushing congress to open up federal workers' health program

At a congressional hearing yesterday, UnitedHealthCare executives said that Blue Cross Blue Shield dominates the FEHB market too much.

15 Apr 2013

New nanosponge safely removes dangerous toxins from bloodstream

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstream - including toxins produced by MRSA, E. coli, poisonous snakes and bees.

15 Apr 2013

First Edition: April 15, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about the Medicare provisions in the budget plan released last week by President Barack Obama as well as previews of the Supreme Court's consideration of arguments regarding whether human genes can be patented.

15 Apr 2013

Accessing CSIS iTunes University course

The Center for Strategic & International Studies' "Smart Global Health" blog provides a brief tutorial on accessing the center's "Global Health Policy in the Second Obama Term" iTunes University course on a mobile device as well as through iTunes (4/11).

15 Apr 2013

Blog features guest posts discussing Rally for Medical Research

The Global Health Technologies Coalition's "Breakthroughs" blog this week featured three guest posts addressing this week's Rally for Medical Research in Washington, D.C.

15 Apr 2013

Cholera epidemic in Haiti expected to worsen with onset of rainy season, lack of funds

"Nearly 2.5 years after it began, Haiti's cholera epidemic is getting worse, not better, and efforts to treat the sick are desperately short of funds, say aid groups on the ground," The Lancet reports.

15 Apr 2013

Development experts praise proposed changes to food aid program in FY14 budget request

"Civil society groups [in the U.S.] are praising parts of President Barack Obama's newly unveiled [FY 2014 budget request], saying it appears to build on momentum gathered in recent years toward a robust overhaul of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the country's main foreign aid agency," Inter Press Service reports.

15 Apr 2013

Loyola University Health System to celebrate Nurses Week in May

Loyola University Health System will celebrate Nurses Week May 5-10. This event takes place each year just prior to May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. The theme for the week is "Caring Comes Naturally."

15 Apr 2013