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Microsoft to acquire Medstory

Microsoft on Monday announced plans to acquire California-based Medstory, a start-up company that has developed a specialized online search engine to provide health and medical information to consumers, the New York Times reports.

28 Feb 2007

Pennsylvania could save on health care by working with physicians

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's (D) proposal to expand health care coverage in the state "goes further" than plans offered by "most politicians," but it does not "target the underlying causes of high cost," including "unnecessary care, financial paperwork, excess prices and fraud," Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, directors of the Health Reform Program at Boston University's School of Public Health, write in a Harrisburg Patriot-News opinion piece.

28 Feb 2007

Campaign seeks to counter influence of pharma sales reps

The Boston Globe on Monday examined the Independent Drug Service project, a $1 million campaign in Pennsylvania that sends consultants to inform physicians about the effectiveness of different medications based on scientific evidence to "combat the sales pitches" of pharmaceutical companies.

28 Feb 2007

Lawmakers discuss plans for SCHIP reauthorization

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Monday at a forum co-sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said that Congress likely will have the ability to authorize the $50 billion over five years needed to enroll all children eligible for SCHIP but "hedged on whether it would do so this year or over the next several years," CQ HealthBeat reports.

28 Feb 2007

Automakers' health care costs to exceed savings from concessions

Health care expenses for General Motors and Ford Motor likely will increase at a rate that exceeds savings from health care concessions made by the United Auto Workers in agreements reached in 2005, according to a report issued on Monday by credit rating company Fitch Ratings, the Wall Street Journal reports.

28 Feb 2007

Stanford student is visionary behind global fight againts blindness

Six years ago, as a 19-year-old college sophomore, Jennifer Staple decided to battle preventable blindness so she started the nonprofit "Unite for Sight" with a staff of one: herself.

27 Feb 2007

Memorial Hospital, IU Cancer Center join in fight against cancer

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center and the Indiana University Cancer Center announced an affiliation agreement on Tuesday, Feb. 27. The agreement gives the Jasper hospital priority access to the resources and services of the IU Cancer Center, an IU School of Medicine and Clarian Health partnership.

27 Feb 2007

FDA approves Humira (adalimumab) for Crohn's disease

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Humira (adalimumab) to treat adult patients with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines, which affects an estimated one million Americans.

27 Feb 2007

Neurological disorders a global problem

A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that neurological disorders, ranging from epilepsy to Alzheimer disease, from stroke to headache, affect up to one billion people worldwide. Neurological disorders also include brain injuries, neuroinfections, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson disease.

27 Feb 2007

Majority of South Africans with HIV have drug resistant TB

Researchers at a conference in Los Angeles have said that as many as 85% of HIV-positive South Africans are also infected with an extensively drug-resistant form of tuberculosis (TB), Extensive Drug Resistant TB (XDR-TB).

27 Feb 2007

Global maternal health programs deserve 'far more support' from U.S. government

Maternal health programs "deserve far more support" from the U.S. in part because the country knows "exactly what to do to bring down maternal mortality and morbidity," New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes in an opinion piece.

27 Feb 2007

Georgia House Committee approves bill to require doctors to offer pregnant women HIV tests

The Georgia House Health and Human Services Committee recently voted unanimously to approve a bill (HB 429) that would require doctors in the state to offer pregnant women an HIV test, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

27 Feb 2007

Teenage pregnancies in England increased in 2005

The number of pregnancies among girls under age 18 in England increased from 39,593 in 2004 to 39,683 in 2005, according to figures released Friday by the Office for National Statistics, London's Daily Telegraph reports.

27 Feb 2007

'Complicated' statements from Romney, Giuliani on abortion rights are 'welcome,' opinion piece says

Although it is "easy to hoot with derision" at the "awfully complicated positions" on abortion rights taken by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), the two possible Republican presidential candidates "make sense" when listened to "with a decent sympathy," Ann Althouse, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, writes in a New York Times opinion piece.

27 Feb 2007

Georgia House Committee approves bill that would require doctors to offer pregnant women HIV tests

27 Feb 2007

Arkansas House Panel endorses bill requiring inmates to receive HIV test before release

The Arkansas House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee on Thursday endorsed an amended version of a bill (HB 1444) that would require inmates in the state's prisons to receive an HIV test before their release, the Arkansas News Bureau reports.

27 Feb 2007

Russia launches five-year, $2.9 billion plan to combat diseases

The Russian government has approved a five-year, $2.9 billion draft program to combat diseases, including HIV/AIDS, in an effort to improve the country's life expectancy, a spokesperson announced on Thursday, the AP/Guardian reports (AP/Guardian, 2/23).

27 Feb 2007

More frequent participation in needle-exchange programs does not increase risk of HIV infection

Contrary to an earlier study, more frequent participation in needle-exchange programs does not increase risk of HIV infection among injection drug users, according to a study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Medicine, Reuters Health reports.

27 Feb 2007

President Bush in weekly radio address promotes proposal to implement standard tax deductions for health insurance coverage

President Bush during his weekly radio address on Saturday promoted his proposal to offer a standard tax deduction for health insurance, Bloomberg/Bergen Record reports.

27 Feb 2007

Enrollment in Medicaid, other public programs increases after enactment of 1996 welfare reform law

The number of U.S. residents who receive cash payments from welfare has decreased since the enactment of a reform law in 1996, but enrollment in other public programs for low-income residents, such as Medicaid, has increased over the same period, according to a recent analysis by the Associated Press, the AP/Contra Costa Times reports.

27 Feb 2007

Health Care News and Research

Microsoft to acquire Medstory

Pennsylvania could save on health care by working with physicians

Campaign seeks to counter influence of pharma sales reps

Lawmakers discuss plans for SCHIP reauthorization

Automakers' health care costs to exceed savings from concessions

Stanford student is visionary behind global fight againts blindness

Memorial Hospital, IU Cancer Center join in fight against cancer

FDA approves Humira (adalimumab) for Crohn's disease

Neurological disorders a global problem

Majority of South Africans with HIV have drug resistant TB

Global maternal health programs deserve 'far more support' from U.S. government

Georgia House Committee approves bill to require doctors to offer pregnant women HIV tests

Teenage pregnancies in England increased in 2005

'Complicated' statements from Romney, Giuliani on abortion rights are 'welcome,' opinion piece says

Georgia House Committee approves bill that would require doctors to offer pregnant women HIV tests

Arkansas House Panel endorses bill requiring inmates to receive HIV test before release

Russia launches five-year, $2.9 billion plan to combat diseases

More frequent participation in needle-exchange programs does not increase risk of HIV infection

President Bush in weekly radio address promotes proposal to implement standard tax deductions for health insurance coverage

Enrollment in Medicaid, other public programs increases after enactment of 1996 welfare reform law

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