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Cigna third quarter adjusted income from operations increases to $325 million

Cigna Corporation today reported third quarter 2011 results that included strong revenue and earnings from each of our ongoing businesses, reflecting continued effective execution of the fundamentals supporting our long-term growth strategy.

29 Oct 2011

NIH awards NYUCN $7.56M grant to study HIV risk among heterosexuals

New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) received a five-year, $7.56 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a peer-driven intervention to seek out heterosexuals at high risk for HIV in their communities, test them for HIV, and link them to care in a timely fashion if they are found to be HIV infected.

29 Oct 2011

Advocates call for supplementary budget to address shortage of health workers, midwives in Uganda

"The shortage of health workers in Uganda is a 'crisis,' says the Minister of Health, and activists say expectant mothers are bearing the brunt of the country's staffing deficiency," IRIN reports.

29 Oct 2011

Merck third quarter global sales increase 8% to $12.0 billion

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced financial results for the third quarter of 2011.

29 Oct 2011

World Bank, experts discuss findings, approaches and policy implications of conditional cash transfer program evaluations

A Center For Global Development "Global Health Policy" blog post reports that the World Bank this week "brought a distinguished group together to discuss new findings, evaluation approaches and policy implications" of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, writing "Although 75 percent of published evaluations on CCT programs are sourced from Latin America, newer CCT programs in Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Nigeria are beginning to document, analyze and report results."

29 Oct 2011

Meriter to join Wisconsin Heart & Vascular Institute

Effective January 1, 2012, Wisconsin Heart & Vascular Institute will join Meriter Medical Group. The practice, which includes 16 cardiologists, vascular surgeons and mid-level providers who are highly trained specialists with experience in all areas of cardiovascular care, will be renamed Meriter Wisconsin Heart. Meriter Medical Group will thus have grown from 68 providers to 116 in less than 2 years, an increase of 71%.

29 Oct 2011

U.N. calls for concerted efforts on food security issues; Australia drives food security as Commonwealth meeting theme

"United Nations officials on Thursday called for concerted efforts to ensure the world's fast-growing population has enough food, stressing that global food production will have to double by 2050 when the planet is expected to host one billion inhabitants," according to the U.N. News Centre.

29 Oct 2011

Viewpoints: The right amount of health care spending; protecting jobs in hospitals; Wal-Mart's signal about employer coverage

Unfortunately, few people really understand how much we spend on health care, how much we need to spend to provide quality care, and the difference between the two. Do we spend too much? Would cutting costs require rationing, or worse, death panels?

29 Oct 2011

Aspen Healthcare installs EVault backup and recovery appliances

i365, Inc., A Seagate Company, today announced that Aspen Healthcare, a private health care provider operating four medical facilities throughout the UK, has replaced its tape-based backup solution with EVault Plug-n-Protect backup and recovery appliances.

28 Oct 2011

Oregon, Calif. Governors wrestle with public employee's health benefits

Oregon Gov. Chris Gregoire has asked government workers to consider health care benefit cuts. Meanwhile, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing an overhaul of the structure of benefit packages.

28 Oct 2011

New study highlights range of health law's Medicaid expansion estimates

The study, which was posted in Health Affairs online, makes clear the unknowns that surround this piece of the health law's implementation.

28 Oct 2011

USAID's FWD campaign launches with PSAs on crisis in Horn of Africa

"One month after [USAID] announced the FWD (famine, war, and drought) public awareness campaign at the Social Good summit, they officially launched the campaign across the country though celebrity public service announcements (PSAs) developed with the Ad Council," according to a post in the Department of State's "DipNote" blog.

28 Oct 2011

GAVI Alliance brings life-saving pneumococcal vaccine to Nicaragua

In this post in PBS NewsHour's blog "The Rundown," senior correspondent Ray Suarez reports on his time in Nicaragua with the NewsHour's global health unit for the national rollout of a pneumococcal pneumonia immunization campaign.

28 Oct 2011

Providing free health care more complex than usually thought

Over the last years, many low and middle-income countries have removed user fees in their health care sector. Researchers from Africa, Asia, Northern America and Europe have studied these policies; their findings are gathered in a supplement of the scientific journal Health Policy & Planning, coordinated by Bruno Meesen from the Antwerp Institute of Tropical medicine.

28 Oct 2011

First Edition: October 28, 2011

In today's headlines, reports about the health law's public support, the latest on the super committee and news about the cost of Medicare Part B premiums.

28 Oct 2011

NYUCN receives NCSBN grant for research into patient safety in nursing homes

New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) received a two-year, $299,990.00 grant from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Grant (NCSBN) to research the "Impact of an Internationally Educated Nurse Workforce on Patient Safety Processes and Outcomes in Nursing Homes."

28 Oct 2011

Study: Many older Ontarians are not visiting dentists regularly

Forty-five per cent of Ontarians 65 years and older did not see a dentist in the last year, increasing their risk of chronic diseases and a reduced quality of life , a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital, Women's College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES) shows.

28 Oct 2011

USAID's Bureau for Global Health awards Envision project to RTI

Since the 2006 launch of USAID's Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Control Program, which is managed by RTI, "more than 447 million NTD treatments have been provided to more than 82 million people," the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' "End the Neglect" blog reports.

28 Oct 2011

Three economic indicators linked with high risk of stroke

People living in poor countries or countries that spend proportionately less on health-care are about 30 per cent more likely to have a stroke, a new study shows.

28 Oct 2011