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Health reform bill may limit tax-free flexible spending accounts

NASDAQ/Dow Jones reports: "Employees who enjoy unlimited tax-free treatment of out-of-pocket medical expenses through employee-benefit plans could be facing new curbs on the tax subsidy in health-care overhaul legislation.

17 Sep 2009

Also in Global Health news: Tanzania's health care; polio, diarrhea in India; ITNs in Nigeria; health in Sudan

Rotary International recently started working with the Indian government to fight diarrhea, which can make polio immunizations ineffective, IANS/Thaindian News reports. Deepak Kapur, chairman of the India National PolioPlus Society of Rotary International, said the plan is to educate people about the use of use of zinc tablets and oral rehydration therapy to prevent diarrhea, which kills almost 500,000 children per year in the country (Khan, 9/16).

17 Sep 2009

Administrative cost of H1N1 vaccine to be covered for CIGNA's customers

The spread of the H1N1 influenza virus has the potential to make this year’s flu season more severe than usual. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has designated vaccination as the most powerful public health tool to control influenza.

17 Sep 2009

Wireless sensor being studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

A wireless, credit-card-sized sensor that can detect whether health care workers have properly washed their hands upon entering a patient's room is being studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. The device could greatly reduce the number of hospital acquired infections nationwide since most are transmitted through contact due to poor hand-washing practice.

17 Sep 2009

Doctor shortage and malpractice insurance pose challenges to reform

The Associated Press reports: "Due to increasing medical demands from aging baby boomers, the U.S. faces a dangerous shortage of primary-care doctors whether sweeping overhaul is passed or not."

17 Sep 2009

Key Democrat says he won't support finance bill 'in its present form'

Sen. John Rockefeller, the Senate Finance Committee's number two Democrat, said Tuesday that he will not support Sen. Max Baucus' health reform bill "in its present form." Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to open debate on the bill by the end of September.

17 Sep 2009

Researchers achieve positive results from a sustainable intervention in the primary care practice

German researchers from the Institutes for General Practice in Frankfurt / Main and Jena have achieved positive results from a sustainable intervention in the primary care practice (Annals of Internal Medicine, volume 151, number 6, Sep. 15, 2009).

17 Sep 2009

Senate health care plan imposes additional administrative burdens on nonprofit hospitals

Senator Baucus released the details of the proposed Senate health care plan, America's Healthy Future Act of 2009, which would create new and onerous requirements applicable to nonprofit hospitals starting in 2010.

17 Sep 2009

Baucus releases bill: No public option

Kaiser Health News reports that "Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus today unveiled a health care bill that would require most individuals to have health insurance.

17 Sep 2009

AAHSA commends Senate Finance Committee's work on health care reform

We commend the Senate Finance Committee for the work they have put into developing an equitable and affordable approach to making health care coverage accessible to the millions of Americans who do not now have it.

16 Sep 2009

Baucus unveils much-anticipated Senate Finance version of health overhaul legislation

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus unveiled his version of a health overhaul bill, which has no public option and requires most people to have health insurance coverage.

16 Sep 2009

Will health reform squeeze the middle class?

Some Democrats say that the health care plan proposed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., could squeeze middle-income families, who might have to pay large amounts for mandated coverage.

16 Sep 2009

Republicans strategy: Instead of attack, call for incremental reforms

Republicans are planning to counter Democratic health reform proposals with a call for an incremental approach.

16 Sep 2009

Baucus Bill garners no Republican support

Sen. Max Baucus is unveiling his health overhaul bill today at noon and news outlets noted it will not have any Republican support.

16 Sep 2009

First Edition: September 16, 2009

Today's biggest story -- Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., will unveil his health reform proposals. Who will support it? And won't?

16 Sep 2009

Decision Resources forecasts sales of Rituxan/MabThera, Erbitux and Herceptin

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, forecasts that U.S. and European (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and U.K.) sales of Roche/Biogen Idec's Rituxan/MabThera, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Merck's Erbitux and Roche's Herceptin will peak at almost $16 billion in 2014, before falling to roughly $10 billion in 2018.

16 Sep 2009

Tips for saving health care costs

Lifescript.com, the leading women’s health website, today published its list of top 100 tips for slashing your family’s health care costs.

16 Sep 2009

Speaker Pelosi's remarks at the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee forum on health insurance reform

Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered opening remarks this morning at a forum held by the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee that highlighted the urgent need for comprehensive health insurance reform.

16 Sep 2009

Next Generation Advanced Image Processing for Toshiba Infinix-i product line

Improving the ability to provide premium patient care during interventional procedures, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. is expanding the availability of Next Generation Advanced Image Processing (AIP) to more systems in the Toshiba InfinixTM-i product line.

16 Sep 2009

Pan American Health Organization calls for preventing sickness to curtail health care costs

According to every major health organization, many costly and disabling conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic infectious diseases are linked by common preventable risk factors -- smoking, poor dietary habits, physical inactivity and poor hygiene.

16 Sep 2009

Health Care News and Research

Health reform bill may limit tax-free flexible spending accounts

Also in Global Health news: Tanzania's health care; polio, diarrhea in India; ITNs in Nigeria; health in Sudan

Administrative cost of H1N1 vaccine to be covered for CIGNA's customers

Wireless sensor being studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

Doctor shortage and malpractice insurance pose challenges to reform

Key Democrat says he won't support finance bill 'in its present form'

Researchers achieve positive results from a sustainable intervention in the primary care practice

Senate health care plan imposes additional administrative burdens on nonprofit hospitals

Baucus releases bill: No public option

AAHSA commends Senate Finance Committee's work on health care reform

Baucus unveils much-anticipated Senate Finance version of health overhaul legislation

Will health reform squeeze the middle class?

Republicans strategy: Instead of attack, call for incremental reforms

Baucus Bill garners no Republican support

First Edition: September 16, 2009

Decision Resources forecasts sales of Rituxan/MabThera, Erbitux and Herceptin

Tips for saving health care costs

Speaker Pelosi's remarks at the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee forum on health insurance reform

Next Generation Advanced Image Processing for Toshiba Infinix-i product line

Pan American Health Organization calls for preventing sickness to curtail health care costs

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