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Indiana Planned Parenthood to stop taking Medicaid patients

The state cut funding in May but the clinics had been using $100,000 in contributions to help defray costs of seeing Medicaid patients.

22 Jun 2011

Viewpoints: GOP Reps. on health law; Medicare & life expectancy; Georgia insurance exchange progresses

After a recent meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama and Republican House Members, we asked the president to meet with the GOP Doctors Caucus to discuss concerns that we have about how the health care law will affect our patients.

22 Jun 2011

First Edition: June 21, 2011

In today's headlines, the latest on the debt-reduction talks, the next chapter in the saga surrounding a McKinsey insurance survey and the details of the Obama administration's effort to tout the health law's prreventive care benefits.

22 Jun 2011

Guardian examines cervical cancer in Africa

The Guardian examines how Africa is handling cervical cancer, which is the second most common cancer among women on the continent.

21 Jun 2011

U.N. official calls for additional food aid for North Korea

Valerie Amos, head of the U.N. Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, on Friday "plead[ed] with international donors to overlook political difficulties in the face of a humanitarian crisis" in North Korea, where she said it is estimated six million people are in danger of not getting enough to eat, Agence France-Presse reports.

21 Jun 2011

To reduce global hunger, access to food must be expanded

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil from 2002 to 2010, outlines priorities in the battle to end global hunger in a Guardian opinion piece.

21 Jun 2011

GlobalPost launches non-profit initiative for special reporting

The news service GlobalPost on Friday announced a non-profit initiative to conduct in-depth special reporting on human rights and global health issues, as well as emerging democracies and transparency, according to a GlobalPost press release.

21 Jun 2011

Do not overlook people with disabilities in HIV prevention efforts

Winstone Zulu, an adviser for AIDS-Free World and the coordinator of Health Triangle Zambia who walks with crutches because of a polio infection as a child, writes in a New York Times opinion piece that people with disabilities are rarely exposed to sex education and are almost never considered in need of information about H.I.V. and treatment for it.

21 Jun 2011

IPS examines U.N. Security Council's dealings with 'non-security' issues

Inter Press Service examines the changing scope of the U.N. Security Council.

21 Jun 2011

IPS examines access to treatment for drug-resistant TB

"Access to treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis remains compromised, especially in developing countries, because too few pharmaceutical companies manufacture quality-assured drugs," Inter Press Service reports in an article examining how a lack of competition and a working mechanism to keep prices low "has led to skyrocketing prices."

21 Jun 2011

Focus on men in family planning programs

Scott Radloff, director of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, writes about involving men in family planning on USAID's "Impact Blog."

21 Jun 2011

Nearly 20% medical claims processed inaccurately says the AMA annual report

According to a statement from the American Medical Association (AMA), health insurance companies are inaccurately processing nearly one in five medical claims, slowing payments to doctors and adding bureaucratic headaches to patients.

21 Jun 2011

Crime for the sake of prison health care

In a bizarre case, 59-year-old Richard James Verone was jailed in Gastonia, N.C., on charges of larceny after allegedly robbing an RBC Bank for $1 so he could get health care in prison. He had handed a female teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun, according to the police report. He proceeded to wait for the police right there.

21 Jun 2011

Study finds improvement in quality of health care for minority stroke patients

After years of research have shown that minorities do not receive the same quality of health care as whites do, a new study suggests there has been some improvement in reducing the gap, at least for stroke patients.

21 Jun 2011

Strengthen monitoring and surveillance of malaria in pregnancy interventions

"The time of neglecting malaria in pregnancy (MIP) should be over," Bill Brieger, senior malaria specialist at JHPIEGO, writes in a Malaria Matters blog post summarizing a session on malaria and maternal health at the recently concluded Global Health Council annual conference.

21 Jun 2011

Pakistan facing challenging TB epidemic

Pakistan has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, with nearly 70,000 TB-related deaths each year, Al-Jazeera English reports.

21 Jun 2011

Government and private sector must work together on HIV vaccine

The success of antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS "has fooled us into believing HIV is under control. It is not. … The fact remains that no sexually acquired infection has ever been controlled in democratic societies except by vaccines," Lawrence Corey, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and principal investigator of the international HIV Vaccine Trials Network, writes in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

21 Jun 2011

Experts discuss NCDs ahead of U.N. meeting

In a post on the State Department's "DipNote" blog, Krysten Carrera, a Presidential Management Fellow in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, discusses why non-communicable diseases "represent an urgent and growing threat to global public health".

21 Jun 2011

University of Helsinki psychiatric professor to receive Nordic Public Health Prize 2011

The Nordic Public Health Prize 2011 will be awarded to Professor of Psychiatry Jouko Lönnqvist for his internationally acclaimed research on the causes, spread and prevention of mental illness at population- and individual level.

21 Jun 2011

Little-noticed change could cause higher costs for out-of-network care

Consumers know they will have to pay out of their pockets if they use medical providers outside their insurers' networks. But because of a little-noticed change, they may find themselves with even bigger bills than they expect.

21 Jun 2011