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Global health community marks passing of U.S. Rep. Donald Payne

Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), the first African American elected to Congress from New Jersey, died of complications from colon cancer on Tuesday at age 77, VOA News reports.

8 Mar 2012

Mass. House Speaker readies proposal to slow health care cost growth to 3.7% annually

The Massachusetts House Speaker believes the state should try to halve the growth of health care costs, but he offered few details on how to do it.

8 Mar 2012

Obama fields questions on Limbaugh, 'war on women'

During his "Super Tuesday" press conference, the president talked about contraception coverage and the Rush Limbaugh flap, saying that Democrats have "a better story to tell women."

8 Mar 2012

Nature examines how funding shortfalls are hindering efforts to use drugs to curb HIV spread

Nature examines how funding shortfalls are hampering global efforts to use drugs to curb the spread of HIV, writing, "At this week's annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle, Washington, there was growing concern that financial austerity in the United States and elsewhere is eating away at the funding needed for a worldwide prevention effort."

8 Mar 2012

Tavenner: Final exchange rule release just weeks away

Modern Healthcare and CQ HealthBeat report that the final rule on health insurance exchanges will be out "very soon."

8 Mar 2012

Study: Lack of newborn care-seeking in low and middle-income countries

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Abdullah Baqui from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and colleagues systematically review studies describing newborn care-seeking behaviours by caregivers in low- and middle-income countries.

8 Mar 2012

Foreign Affairs examines how push for financial austerity is threatening global health advances

"Global health programs now teeter on the edge of disaster," Foreign Affairs writes in this feature article, adding, "The world economic crisis and the politics of debt reduction are threatening everything from malaria control and AIDS treatment to well-baby programs and health care worker training efforts." The article provides a historical overview of global health programming and funding.

8 Mar 2012

House GOP slows down efforts to pass legislation aimed at Obama contraception coverage rule

In related news, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is reportedly having "voter's remorse" regarding her decision last week to vote for similar Senate legislation - the Blunt amendement.

8 Mar 2012

Romney claims Ohio victory on Super Tuesday but Santorum continues to press health reform issues

Santorum uses election night speech to again assail the former governor's support of a Massachusetts health overhaul that some say was a template for the federal law.

8 Mar 2012

Health insurance: More covered young adults in Minn.; Mass. wonders if insured rate has hit ceiling

Health insurance coverage rates are making news in Minnesota and Massachusetts, where officials wonder if their 98 percent coverage rate is the best they can do.

8 Mar 2012

Texas plan to defund women's health program draws protest; Other abortion and contraception news

Texas' move and subsequently imminent loss of federal Medicaid money has sparked a protest. Lawmakers in New Hampshire and Minnesota are examining the federal contraception coverage requirement.

8 Mar 2012

New study to reduce racial disparity in dementia

In a new study, one Michigan State University professor will explore why in old age, blacks are much more likely to have dementia than whites.

8 Mar 2012

UNICEF asks West African governments to prepare for cholera season to prevent widespread outbreak

UNICEF's West and Central Africa Regional Office "on Tuesday appealed to western African governments to prevent a new cholera outbreak, after the disease claimed nearly 3,000 lives there last year," Agence France-Presse reports.

8 Mar 2012

Young adults, school health centers and cost-cutting: Examining elements of the health law's implementation

News outlets report on various provisions of the health law and their impact on the marketplace and access to care.

8 Mar 2012

New inexpensive medical sensor may simplify diagnosis of diseases

An inexpensive new medical sensor has the potential to simplify the diagnosis of diseases ranging from life-threatening immune deficiencies to the common cold, according to its inventors at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

8 Mar 2012

Journalists can now register for Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting

Journalists can register now for the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies taking place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston April 28 to May 1, 2012.

8 Mar 2012

Women with breast pain do not gain benefit from imaging

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that women with breast pain who receive imaging (mammograms, MRIs or ultrasounds) as part of breast pain evaluation, undergo follow-up diagnostic testing, but do not gain benefit from these additional studies.

8 Mar 2012

Roundup: Calif. county mum on probe of Medicaid managed care firm; Suit alleges substandard care for Ariz. prisoners

A Ventura County commission is trying to keep secret the details of a state-ordered investigation into the management and claims procedures of a healthcare plan designed to serve the county's neediest residents. Complaints about alleged late payments and poor management prompted the Department of Health Care Services to request that auditors step in and examine the plan's financial condition and claims practices. Gold Coast Health Plan was launched last year to switch an estimated 110,000 Ventura County Medi-Cal beneficiaries into an HMO-style healthcare plan.

8 Mar 2012

Medtech acquires Camelot Healthcare Training Institute

Camelot Healthcare Training Institute, a post-secondary nursing and allied health care education provider in Central Florida, has been acquired by Medtech College. Camelot now joins the Medtech family of schools and will become Medtech College once appropriate state approvals have been obtained.

8 Mar 2012

First Edition: March 7, 2012

Reporting for Kaiser Health News in collaboration with The Washington Post, Susan Jaffe writes: "In the latest effort to enlist seniors in the fight against Medicare fraud, federal officials have overhauled Medicare billing statements to make it easier to find bogus charges without a magnifying glass."

7 Mar 2012

Health Care News and Research

Global health community marks passing of U.S. Rep. Donald Payne

Mass. House Speaker readies proposal to slow health care cost growth to 3.7% annually

Obama fields questions on Limbaugh, 'war on women'

Nature examines how funding shortfalls are hindering efforts to use drugs to curb HIV spread

Tavenner: Final exchange rule release just weeks away

Study: Lack of newborn care-seeking in low and middle-income countries

Foreign Affairs examines how push for financial austerity is threatening global health advances

House GOP slows down efforts to pass legislation aimed at Obama contraception coverage rule

Romney claims Ohio victory on Super Tuesday but Santorum continues to press health reform issues

Health insurance: More covered young adults in Minn.; Mass. wonders if insured rate has hit ceiling

Texas plan to defund women's health program draws protest; Other abortion and contraception news

New study to reduce racial disparity in dementia

UNICEF asks West African governments to prepare for cholera season to prevent widespread outbreak

Young adults, school health centers and cost-cutting: Examining elements of the health law's implementation

New inexpensive medical sensor may simplify diagnosis of diseases

Journalists can now register for Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting

Women with breast pain do not gain benefit from imaging

Roundup: Calif. county mum on probe of Medicaid managed care firm; Suit alleges substandard care for Ariz. prisoners

Medtech acquires Camelot Healthcare Training Institute

First Edition: March 7, 2012

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