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CMA announces winners of Canada's premier health journalism awards

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is proud today to announce the recipients of the 2011 Media Awards for Health Reporting, Canada's premier health journalism awards.

20 Sep 2011

GlobalPost examines GHI in Kenya

As part of its special report "Healing the World," GlobalPost examines how the Obama administration's Global Health Initiative (GHI) is affecting U.S. health-related work in Kenya.

20 Sep 2011

ADHD symptoms might affect adaptive abilities, quality of life for children with ASD

Research supported by the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network (ATN), demonstrating that symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity worsen quality of life for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), was presented today at the Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

20 Sep 2011

Mammography rates among immigrant women remain lower than the native-born

Fewer immigrant women receive mammograms than native-born American women, according to Penn State researchers, who note that more immigrant women are getting mammograms now than a decade ago.

20 Sep 2011

Viewpoints: Controlling entitlement spending; irrationality of bashing health overhaul; need for changes to state workers' benefits; Va. abortion rules

Entitlement spending - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the rest - is the long-term problem. … But Social Security is the easy case. Medicare and Medicaid have much bigger problems. The rise in their spending is fueled by the aging population and ever-more-expensive advances in medical care. Their problems cannot be solved with taxes unless American workers want government to take an ever-increasing share of their pay.

20 Sep 2011

No room for Medicare patients

When I went into solo practice of internal medicine in 1981, it was very easy to get a doctor to see a Medicare patient. All I had to do was make a phone call. A courteous receptionist answered. If the doctor couldn't come to the phone right away, I could count on a prompt callback.

19 Sep 2011

Feds OK Mich. request to reduce premium costs for state's pre-existing condition insurance plan

Other news reports related to health law implementation include the latest on a push by the Department of Health and Human Services for state insurance exchange partnerships, speculation about the measure's essential benefits rule and efforts on Capitol Hill to block the law's funding.

19 Sep 2011

Republican candidates are unabashed in opposition to 'Obamacare' but stay quiet on Medicare's drug plan

The Associated Press reports that, even with their emphasis on deficit reduction, most of the GOP presidential candidates don't seem to be talking about the Medicare drug program, a massive entitlement with future unfunded costs of about $7 trillion, as much as the 2010 health law.

19 Sep 2011

Propublica: Docs appear to avoid penalties, sanctions in suits against medical drug and device companies

This report notes that despite payments by drug and device companies, none of the more than 75 doctors named as participants were sanctioned.

19 Sep 2011

New wave of disabilities strains school's resources for children with special needs

For educators, (chronic fatigue syndrome) is merely one of an expanding group of "hidden disabilities" increasingly being diagnosed in children, conditions that are debilitating but often not visible, including fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivities, Crohn's disease and migraines. ...

19 Sep 2011

Emergency health workers: A strategy to prevent health problems

Emergency medicine carries a deep aura of romance in America, with its first-responder traditions of adrenaline, acuity and bravery.

19 Sep 2011

Prevalence of diabetes increases 30% over last four years in urban India

The prevalence of diabetes in urban India is accelerating at a rapid rate and now stands at 5.5 percent (just under 20 million people), compared with 4.6 percent in 2007 - equivalent to a 30 percent increase in actual population numbers over the last four years - according to new research by GfK HealthCare's Roper Global Diabetes Group. Moreover, a full 10 percent of these patients have been diagnosed in the past 12 months.

19 Sep 2011

Mayo Clinic recruits patients in Texas; Ga. hospitals' building boom

In state hospital news, Dallas Morning News reports on an advertising campaign by Minn.'s Mayo Clinic and two Georgia news organizations report on developments in the industry there.

19 Sep 2011

'Super committee' members have received $1.6 million from 'bundlers'

These contributions, which have been given over the past year to several members of the panel, come from defense, health care and tax interests.

19 Sep 2011

Cigna launches national ad campaign geared to individual insurance consumers

Cigna Corp. is starting a national ad campaign Monday crafted to appeal to individual consumers, a sign of the industry's growing focus on a segment that is set to expand substantially under the health-overhaul law.

19 Sep 2011

First Edition: September 19, 2011

Today's headlines offer information about how Medicare and Medicaid will fare in President Barack Obama's deficit-reduction plan.

19 Sep 2011

UAW says new pact with GM preserves health benefits

The United Automobile Workers and General Motors said late Friday that they had reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract. ... The union declined to give details but said the agreement included improved profit-sharing and "significant improvements to health care benefits".

19 Sep 2011

Obama deficit plan to have cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and a tax hike for millionaires

President Obama on Monday will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings as middle-income taxpayers, according to administration officials. With a special joint Congressional committee starting work to reach a bipartisan budget deal by late November, the proposal adds a new and populist feature to Mr. Obama's effort to raise the political pressure on Republicans to agree to higher revenues from the wealthy in return for Democrats' support of future cuts from Medicare and Medicaid.

19 Sep 2011

Increase in hospital births helps lower neonatal mortality rate in China, study says

A campaign that began in 2000 encouraging women in China to give birth in hospitals instead of at home helped cut the nation's neonatal mortality rate by 62 percent between 1996 and 2008, according to a study by researchers from Peking University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, BBC News reports.

17 Sep 2011

Roundup: San Diego launches new HIV testing effort; Study finds economy hurt by Mass. health law; Texas schools turning to safe sex curriculum

The Centers for Disease Control says 20 percent of Americans with HIV don't know they're infected, and those people are responsible for about half of all new infections. A new effort in San Diego is trying to reduce those numbers by making HIV testing more widespread.

17 Sep 2011

Health Care News and Research

CMA announces winners of Canada's premier health journalism awards

GlobalPost examines GHI in Kenya

ADHD symptoms might affect adaptive abilities, quality of life for children with ASD

Mammography rates among immigrant women remain lower than the native-born

Viewpoints: Controlling entitlement spending; irrationality of bashing health overhaul; need for changes to state workers' benefits; Va. abortion rules

No room for Medicare patients

Feds OK Mich. request to reduce premium costs for state's pre-existing condition insurance plan

Republican candidates are unabashed in opposition to 'Obamacare' but stay quiet on Medicare's drug plan

Propublica: Docs appear to avoid penalties, sanctions in suits against medical drug and device companies

New wave of disabilities strains school's resources for children with special needs

Emergency health workers: A strategy to prevent health problems

Prevalence of diabetes increases 30% over last four years in urban India

Mayo Clinic recruits patients in Texas; Ga. hospitals' building boom

'Super committee' members have received $1.6 million from 'bundlers'

Cigna launches national ad campaign geared to individual insurance consumers

First Edition: September 19, 2011

UAW says new pact with GM preserves health benefits

Obama deficit plan to have cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and a tax hike for millionaires

Increase in hospital births helps lower neonatal mortality rate in China, study says

Roundup: San Diego launches new HIV testing effort; Study finds economy hurt by Mass. health law; Texas schools turning to safe sex curriculum

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