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Health law allows more young adults to get health care - but with cost implications

A study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute offers insights regarding the impact of the health law's provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents' health plans.

15 Apr 2013

In the wake of Obama's budget, signs of optimism and discontent

Even as House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., expressed cautious optimism about some aspects of President Barack Obama's budget plan, others, like Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., took a harder line against it. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will take to Capitol Hill to defend her agency's budget request.

15 Apr 2013

Health exchange cost estimates go up

Meanwhile, uncertainty continues about the premium price tags consumers will pay if they purchase health insurance from these online marketplaces. Also, debate heats up about how the Obama administration hopes to offset the set-up costs.

15 Apr 2013

New survey shows health-care industry's supply chain lags behind retail industry supply chain

A new survey by researchers at the University of Arkansas indicates that the health-care industry's supply chain lags behind the retail industry supply chain and could benefit significantly from adopting several of retail's best practices.

15 Apr 2013

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

While most Southern states resist expanding Medicaid under the health law, Virginia appoints its final voting members to a commission that will oversee expansion there.

15 Apr 2013

First Edition: April 12, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about a new study measuring how the health law has expanded young adults access to care.

12 Apr 2013

White House releases FY14 budget request

"The Obama administration released its fiscal year 2014 budget on Wednesday," Devex's "Pennsylvania Ave." blog reports (Lieberman, 4/11).

12 Apr 2013

U.S., Chinese researchers developing vaccine for H7N9 avian flu virus; Some question speed of case reporting

"Less than two weeks after Chinese officials released the genetic sequence of a new type of bird flu [H7N9], U.S. vaccine experts are well on the way to making a vaccine to protect people against it," NBC News's "Vitals" blog reports (Fox, 4/10).

12 Apr 2013

White House FY14 budget request includes expected changes to food aid program

President Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion FY 2014 budget request on Wednesday, Agence France-Presse/GlobalPost reports (4/10).

12 Apr 2013

U.N. Secretary General, Pope Francis discuss joint efforts to attain MDGs

"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Pope Francis underlined a joint effort to attain peace, social justice and the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] worldwide in the first meeting between both leaders since the new pontiff was appointed in March," Devex's "Development Newswire" reports.

12 Apr 2013

Tailoring national HIV programs to better meet people's needs

"The features of the global HIV epidemic vary by country, often by community and patient, and it's important to understand these distinctions so that we can design programs to meet people's needs and strengthen their access to treatment and prevention," Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, writes in the foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog.

12 Apr 2013

Opinion pieces urge continued support for Global Fund

This week, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria gathered representatives from donor and implementing countries in Brussels, Belgium, to formally launch its 2014-2016 replenishment process.

12 Apr 2013

New process to create malaria drug artemisinin should provide stable supply, reduce cost, researchers report

"U.S. scientists on Wednesday said they had used baker's yeast to make a key ingredient of malaria drugs, a feat that could iron out fluctuations in supply caused by sourcing the chemical from a Chinese herb," Artemisia annua, Agence France-Presse reports (4/10).

12 Apr 2013

Health Care News and Research

Health law allows more young adults to get health care - but with cost implications

In the wake of Obama's budget, signs of optimism and discontent

Health exchange cost estimates go up

New survey shows health-care industry's supply chain lags behind retail industry supply chain

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

First Edition: April 12, 2013

White House releases FY14 budget request

U.S., Chinese researchers developing vaccine for H7N9 avian flu virus; Some question speed of case reporting

White House FY14 budget request includes expected changes to food aid program

U.N. Secretary General, Pope Francis discuss joint efforts to attain MDGs

Tailoring national HIV programs to better meet people's needs

Opinion pieces urge continued support for Global Fund

New process to create malaria drug artemisinin should provide stable supply, reduce cost, researchers report

Gunman attacks police officers guarding polio vaccination team in Pakistan; One killed

Global Fund concludes 2-day conference in Brussels

New index measures political commitment of 45 developing countries to address hunger, malnutrition

Study: About 3% of Australia's doctors account for nearly half of all complaints

Blogs, press releases respond to Obama administration's FY14 budget request

FY14 budget request has mixed implications for foreign aid, humanitarian programs

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