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States declare their health exchange intentions

A number of states notified the Department of Health and Human Services how they plan to proceed on the question of setting up an insurance exchange.

17 Nov 2012

HHS delays health exchange decision deadline to Dec. 14

The Obama administration announced late Thursday that it was extending the deadline for states to decide whether they would establish and operate these online insurance markets.

16 Nov 2012

NIEHS announces finalists of My Air, My Health Challenge

Four finalists have been selected in the My Air, My Health Challenge, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its challenge partners. Each finalist will receive $15,000, and will transform their designs to measure air pollutants and related physiological measurements into working systems. One overall winner will receive a cash award of $100,000 to be announced in June 2013.

16 Nov 2012

Progress report on health exchanges: Will states, feds be ready?

States face a Friday deadline to indicate whether they plan to establish their own online health insurance markets, or allow the federal government to do it. Meanwhile, debate continues about whether delays in updating essential software and other glitches could delay the start of enrollment in the markets beyond the Oct. 1, 2013 target specified in the health law.

16 Nov 2012

Sebelius subpoenaed to answer questions on health law promotion

The GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to answer questions over how the administration is promoting the health law.

16 Nov 2012

Who's in? Who’s out? Who’s yet to decide?

With the deadline looming, news outlets report on the positions states are taking regarding the establishment of state-based health exchanges.

16 Nov 2012

Freestyle rapping increases brain activity in the medial prefrontal cortex

Researchers in the voice, speech, and language branch of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the brain activity of rappers when they are "freestyling" - spontaneously improvising lyrics in real time.

16 Nov 2012

Longer looks: A dentist tries to clear his debt; Bringing mental health services to the marines; Learning to laugh in the doctor's office

His jaw clenched beneath a blue surgeon's mask, Opanin Gyaami jerks his right arm and pulls out a prize: the decayed tooth of patient Larry Butler, also known as state prison inmate J22312. By the time he is done, Gyaami's smock and mask are spotted with the inmate's blood. He gently pats Butler on the shoulder and wishes him well.

16 Nov 2012

Cook receives FDA approval for Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent to treat PAD

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent (Zilver PTX Stent), the first drug-eluting stent indicated to re-open a particular artery in the thigh (femoropopliteal artery) when narrowed or blocked as a result of peripheral artery disease (PAD).

15 Nov 2012

First Edition: November 15, 2012

Today's headlines include the latest details on states' decisions about pursuing health exchanges as well as other political and policy developments.

15 Nov 2012

U.S. bishops promise to continue fight against health law's birth control mandate

Cardinal Dolan, the nation's top bishop, made clear that the Roman Catholic church will not comply with the Obama administration requirement regarding contraception coverage and will continue to fight it.

15 Nov 2012

States wrestle with health exchange decisions

Even as state officials decide whether they will set up online insurance markets or allow the Obama administration to do it for them, some wonder if the federal government is up to the task. Decisions about the health law's Medicaid expansion are also on governors' minds.

15 Nov 2012

Small Business Subcommittee chair presses for answers about health IT-related injury

Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., says she has been waiting for the Department of Health and Human Services to respond to her questions for five months.

15 Nov 2012

UTHealth awarded $1.9M AHRQ grant to enhance care in hospital emergency departments

Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have been awarded a four-year, $1.9 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to enhance the care in hospital emergency departments.

15 Nov 2012

Alliance of Medicare providers urge link between payment changes, quality

The Premier healthcare alliance is urging that, if scheduled 2 percent cuts take effect, they not apply to hospitals that have already reduced costs.

15 Nov 2012

Brevetoxin-2 stimulates nerve cell growth and plasticity in cultured mouse neurons

A new study using brevetoxin-2, a compound produced naturally by marine algae, stimulated nerve cell growth and plasticity in cultured mouse neurons. This research advances a potentially new pharmacological treatment to aid recovery of brain function following a stroke or other traumatic brain injury.

14 Nov 2012

Obama administration gives states more time to decide on health exchanges

On Friday afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services extended the deadline until Dec. 14 for states to submit plans to set up state-based health insurance exchanges under the health care law. Those states that want to partner with the federal government have until Feb. 15 to outline the duties the state government would handle in running the exchanges.

14 Nov 2012

States wrestle with decisions regarding how to move forward on exchanges

News outlets report on how various states are responding to the implementation of the health law now that President Barack Obama has been re-elected.

14 Nov 2012

Couples with high PCB levels and other pollutants take longer to achieve pregnancy

Couples with high levels of PCBs and similar environmental pollutants take longer to achieve pregnancy in comparison to other couples with lower levels of the pollutants, according to a preliminary study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.

14 Nov 2012

Roundup: Federal health coverage to extend to disaster relief workers; Cheers, jeers for Mass. assisted suicide defeat

The government is continuing to expand benefits policies in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, clearing the way for certain emergency relief employees to be eligible for federal health insurance and soliciting donations of leave for affected federal workers.

14 Nov 2012

Health and Human Services News and Research

States declare their health exchange intentions

HHS delays health exchange decision deadline to Dec. 14

NIEHS announces finalists of My Air, My Health Challenge

Progress report on health exchanges: Will states, feds be ready?

Sebelius subpoenaed to answer questions on health law promotion

Who's in? Who’s out? Who’s yet to decide?

Freestyle rapping increases brain activity in the medial prefrontal cortex

Longer looks: A dentist tries to clear his debt; Bringing mental health services to the marines; Learning to laugh in the doctor's office

Cook receives FDA approval for Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent to treat PAD

First Edition: November 15, 2012

U.S. bishops promise to continue fight against health law's birth control mandate

States wrestle with health exchange decisions

Small Business Subcommittee chair presses for answers about health IT-related injury

UTHealth awarded $1.9M AHRQ grant to enhance care in hospital emergency departments

Alliance of Medicare providers urge link between payment changes, quality

Brevetoxin-2 stimulates nerve cell growth and plasticity in cultured mouse neurons

Obama administration gives states more time to decide on health exchanges

States wrestle with decisions regarding how to move forward on exchanges

Couples with high PCB levels and other pollutants take longer to achieve pregnancy

Roundup: Federal health coverage to extend to disaster relief workers; Cheers, jeers for Mass. assisted suicide defeat

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