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Death toll from SARS-like virus rises to 7

"Another person suffering from a SARS-like virus has died in Saudi Arabia, the World Health Organization said Thursday, bringing the worldwide number of fatalities from the mystery illness to seven," Agence France-Presse reports.

24 Feb 2013

Expert brief examines use of global health data

"Bill Gates, Margaret Chan, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), and other experts and leaders gathered this month in Geneva for a very important meeting on a very unimportant-sounding subject: global disease estimates," Thomas Bollyky, senior fellow for global health, economics and development at the Council on Foreign Relations writes in an expert brief on the council's webpage.

24 Feb 2013

World closer than ever to ending pediatric AIDS

Writing in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog, Chip Lyons, president and CEO of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, highlights the foundation's "first annual 'Global Champions for a Mother's Fight' gala, an opportunity to honor some of our heroes in the battle against pediatric HIV/AIDS and discuss global change, innovation, and advocacy."

24 Feb 2013

Blog posts examine different contraceptive methods

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog features an ongoing series titled "What's Your Method?" that provides posts about many of the contraceptive options for women and girls worldwide and how different organizations are working to ensure these methods become accessible options for women who want and need them.

24 Feb 2013

Researchers identify new function for matriptase enzyme

Dr. Martin Richter (pharmacology), investigator with the Centre de recherche clinique Étienne-Le Bel (CRCELB) at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) and professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS), and his collaborators have identified a new function of the enzyme matriptase, present in the human respiratory system, that can activate a viral protein involved in infections caused by the H1N1 influenza (or flu) virus.

24 Feb 2013

USAID pledges $20M in humanitarian aid to Somalia

"Signaling the latest step forward in rapidly strengthening U.S.-Somalia relations, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development spent five hours in Mogadishu on Thursday, the highest ranking U.S. administration official to visit Somalia's capital in years," the Associated Press reports.

24 Feb 2013

Bayshore Community Hospital's Center for Bariatrics receives ASMBS designation

Bayshore Community Hospital is proud to announce that its Center for Bariatrics has earned the prestigious "Center of Excellence" designation by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

24 Feb 2013

Sequester: Who's to blame? Who will feel the pain?

News outlets analyze the political pressure and partisan in-fighting that is taking shape as the sequester countdown continues. Meanwhile, McClatchy and The New York Times attempt to answer questions about the impact of the scheduled cuts.

24 Feb 2013

New drug proves to be effective in preventing spread of different flu strains

The new drug has been proven to be effective in preventing the spread of different strains of influenza in laboratory models - including resistant strains of the virus.

24 Feb 2013

Expansion debate, decisions play out in Va., Ga., Texas

As state legislators and governors wrestle with budget issues and health law implementation decisions, the role of the Medicaid expansion is shaping up in different ways in different locations.

24 Feb 2013

State roundup: Long-term care rate hike planned in Calif.

Dailey Mayo received some stunning news in the mail last week: an 85% rate increase for the long-term-care insurance he has had for 15 years from the California Public Employees' Retirement System.

24 Feb 2013

Texas, S.C. lawmakers weigh added spending for Medicaid

The Texas House approved supplemental funding while a S.C. legislative committee passed a bill with $75 million in new spending for that state's Medicaid program.

24 Feb 2013

After January renomination, a hearing for Tavenner appears likely

The Washington Post inteviewed the Obama administration's pick to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

24 Feb 2013

Race and possibly genetics play a role in children's sensitivity to developing allergies

Research conducted at Henry Ford Hospital shows that race and possibly genetics play a role in children's sensitivity to developing allergies.

24 Feb 2013

Some red states wavering on opposition to Medicaid expansion

This week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, one of the fiercest critics of this health law provision, reversed his position and said he would proceed with the expansion. But he's not the only one, and, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, it's because the idea is just "too good to pass up."

24 Feb 2013

Schistosome stem cells could explain how the worms survive for so many years

The parasites that cause schistosomiasis, one of the most common parasitic infections in the world, are notoriously long-lived. Researchers have now found stem cells inside the parasite that can regenerate worn-down organs, which may help explain how they can live for years or even decades inside their host.

24 Feb 2013

UNAIDS launches online platform to highlight relevant research

"UNAIDS has launched an online platform, UNAIDS Science now, which highlights some of those papers that are particularly relevant to the United Nations high level targets," the agency reports in an article on its webpage.

24 Feb 2013

New data from Boehringer Ingelheim's tiotropium Respimat Phase III UniTinA-asthma programme

Tiotropium delivered once daily via Respimat significantly improved lung function and reduced asthma exacerbations in patients who remain symptomatic despite treatment with at least ICS/LABA, irrespective of their allergic status.

24 Feb 2013

SciDev.Net examines usefulness of global health data for policymakers

"The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2010, launched last December, brought unparalleled access to analyses of health and mortality trends spanning two decades," but "hurdles remain in ensuring the accessibility and usefulness of data for policymakers in the global South," SciDev.Net reports.

24 Feb 2013

Compounding pharmacy trade group changes position on FDA oversight

The head of the nation's largest trade group for the specialty pharmacies known as compounders said he will support legislation requiring pharmacies that operate like drug manufacturers to register with the Food and Drug Administration and be subject to stricter standards enforced by the agency.

24 Feb 2013