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Obama's presidential legacy linked to Supreme Court's health law verdict

Overhauling the nation's health system has been the president's most significant legislative achievement. As a result, the Court's decision will also reflect on his effectiveness as a leader. Meanwhile, news outlets report on the White House's preparations for the decision.

29 Jun 2012

GOP leaders react to ruling by renewing pledges to repeal the health law

From Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to key House and Senate leaders, the call to repeal the sweeping health overhaul came loud and clear in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision largely upholding it.

29 Jun 2012

Amending U.S. farm bill could save money, help food aid reach millions more

In this post in the Huffington Post's "Impact" blog, one of a series "organized by the Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction to call attention to the crisis in the Sahel," Kelly Hauser, agriculture policy manager at ONE, writes that an amendment to the U.S. farm bill "could save money and lives in Africa."

29 Jun 2012

More sophisticated process needed to vet research for possible security threats

Noting that the journal Science last week published the second of two controversial bird flu research papers, in which a team led by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam created a mutated strain of the virus that spreads easily among ferrets, a Washington Post editorial writes that "this is not the end of the story. Rather, it marks the beginning of an important chapter for both science and security."

29 Jun 2012

Viewpoints: The moral underpinning of the health law; Mandate may not be critical

There was a reason - a pretty noble one, in fact - behind Obamacare, as well as several earlier proposals, Democratic and Republican, to overhaul the health-care system. As the president put it in 2009, providing near-universal coverage for Americans is "a core ethical and moral obligation." That hasn't come up much recently, as soothsayers of all stripes have been predicting how the Supreme Court will rule shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday.

29 Jun 2012

Health worker training programs working to improve women's health in Afghanistan

"Women in Afghanistan are 70 times more likely to die in childbirth than from a bullet or a bomb, according to Save the Children," CNN reports, adding that is "a grim statistic the women here are trying to change."

29 Jun 2012

ACR updates 39 appropriateness criteria topics and adds five new criteria

New and updated evidence-based guidelines to help health care providers choose the most appropriate medical imaging exam or radiation therapy for a patient's clinical condition are now available via the latest version of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria.

29 Jun 2012

Setting the scene: The Supreme Court's health law ruling

With a ruling expected soon after the justices take the bench at 10 a.m., speculation focuses not only on what its various elements will be, but how the various players will spin them.

29 Jun 2012

Stanford Medical School comment on Supreme Court ruling on health-care reform law

Today’s Supreme Court ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 advances the broad effort to extend health-care coverage and control medical costs, though it raises questions about how certain provisions of the policy will be implemented, Stanford University School of Medicine experts said. Here are some initial comments on the court’s landmark decision.

29 Jun 2012

Home care association responds to Supreme Court’s decision on Affordable Care Act

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. The following is the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) official statement, from President Val J. Halamandaris:

29 Jun 2012

Recognizing the role of the health care worker in providing family planning services

In this post in the RH Reality Check blog, Laura Hoemeke, director of communications and knowledge management at IntraHealth International, writes that it "takes a health worker, or more accurately millions of health workers, to meet the need that hundreds of millions of couples worldwide have for family planning."

29 Jun 2012

Obama, Congressional Dems claim 'victory for America' in court's health law decision

Obama quickly declared victory, praising the ruling in a statement from the White House. "Whatever the politics, today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose laws will be more secure because of this law and the Supreme Court's decision to uphold it," he said.

29 Jun 2012

Medicaid expansion: What will states do now?

News outlets explore how the high court's ruling on the health law's Medicaid expansion might play out.

29 Jun 2012

Some health system changes will move forward, regardless of the Supreme Court ruling

News outlets report that a "quiet revolution" in how care is delivered is already taking place across the country that closely tracks many of the changes advanced by the health law.

29 Jun 2012

Frontline health workers key to providing family planning services in developing countries

"Around the world, frontline health workers are often the first link to lifesaving care and supplies, and in some cases they are the only link for families and communities in rural and impoverished areas," Oying Rimon, a senior program officer in family health at the foundation, writes in this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog.

29 Jun 2012

Novo Nordisk, BRI collaborate to speed-up translational research of autoimmune diseases

Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), a non-profit biomedical research institute in Seattle, Wash., and Novo Nordisk, a global health care company headquartered in Denmark, today announced a three-year collaborative agreement to potentially speed-up translational research of the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and lupus.

29 Jun 2012

Roundup: Sole abortion clinic in Miss. sues over new law, Kansas awards Medicaid managed care contracts

The lone abortion facility in Mississippi asked a federal court on Wednesday to block a new state law that will require doctors who perform the controversial procedure to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The law, set to take effect on Sunday, threatens to make Mississippi the only U.S. state without an abortion clinic.

29 Jun 2012

Four organizations create University of Iowa Health Alliance

Four of Iowa's premier health care organizations announced today they are creating a health care alliance in Iowa and contiguous areas. The announcement was made in a statewide press conference, held today in several cities simultaneously.

29 Jun 2012

Congressman 'dissatisfied' with handling of controversial H5N1 papers calls for cohesive policy for handling 'risky' research

"Dissatisfied with the government's handling of two research papers on mutant forms of avian influenza," Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) on Wednesday "said that the lack of a cohesive policy for handling risky research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies could necessitate new laws, a situation that researchers have been trying to avoid," the Nature News Blog reports.

29 Jun 2012

Family history influences age at prodrome and psychosis onset

A family history of psychosis is associated with an earlier age at onset of both prodromal symptoms and full-blown psychosis, US research shows.

28 Jun 2012

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Obama's presidential legacy linked to Supreme Court's health law verdict

GOP leaders react to ruling by renewing pledges to repeal the health law

Amending U.S. farm bill could save money, help food aid reach millions more

More sophisticated process needed to vet research for possible security threats

Viewpoints: The moral underpinning of the health law; Mandate may not be critical

Health worker training programs working to improve women's health in Afghanistan

ACR updates 39 appropriateness criteria topics and adds five new criteria

Setting the scene: The Supreme Court's health law ruling

Stanford Medical School comment on Supreme Court ruling on health-care reform law

Home care association responds to Supreme Court’s decision on Affordable Care Act

Recognizing the role of the health care worker in providing family planning services

Obama, Congressional Dems claim 'victory for America' in court's health law decision

Medicaid expansion: What will states do now?

Some health system changes will move forward, regardless of the Supreme Court ruling

Frontline health workers key to providing family planning services in developing countries

Novo Nordisk, BRI collaborate to speed-up translational research of autoimmune diseases

Roundup: Sole abortion clinic in Miss. sues over new law, Kansas awards Medicaid managed care contracts

Four organizations create University of Iowa Health Alliance

Congressman 'dissatisfied' with handling of controversial H5N1 papers calls for cohesive policy for handling 'risky' research

Family history influences age at prodrome and psychosis onset

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