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UK scientists make breakthrough in new method of brain tumour diagnosis

UK scientists have made a breakthrough in a new method of brain tumour diagnosis, offering hope to tens of thousands of people.

20 Sep 2012

WHO working with partners to stop Ebola from spreading in DRC

The WHO on Tuesday "said it is continuing to work with authorities from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to stop an Ebola outbreak from spreading, with the number of detected cases having reached 46 in the past week," the U.N. News Centre reports.

20 Sep 2012

UNITAID should 'reinvent itself' to increase role in global health field

In this post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Global Health Policy" blog, Victoria Fan, a CGD research fellow, and Rachel Silverman, a research assistant for the global health team at the center, examine the future of UNITAID.

20 Sep 2012

House panel to consider health law change that would help brokers

A House committee is preparing a bill that would change the health law's medical loss ratio provision to exclude brokers' fees from counting as administrative costs.

20 Sep 2012

Joint Commission offers ranking of hospitals on quality, patient safety

The hospital accreditation board recognized 620 hospitals as top performers based on 45 measures. The rankings reflect performance in 2011.

20 Sep 2012

AyoxxA Biosystems closes 2.6M Euro Series A financing round

AyoxxA Biosystems, an international biotechnology company, today announces it has closed a 2.6 million Euro Series A financing round. The round was led by Wellington Partners Venture Capital and included NRW.BANK, HTGF - High-Tech-Gründerfonds, and private investors, Rainer Christine and Dr. Gregor Siebenkotten, both formerly executive board members and co-founders of amaxa biosystems.

20 Sep 2012

Minn. governor moves forward on insurance exchange, shifts oversight

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is shifting responsibility for a key part of the federal health overhaul in his state -- a health insurance exchange -- to a different state agency. He's also moving forward on implementing the exchange, he said Tuesday.

20 Sep 2012

PCAN praises U.S. House for passage of Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act

Today, the United States House of Representatives passed unanimously the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act (H.R. 733), formerly known as the Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act.

20 Sep 2012

Wis. officials say Medicaid funding will need to rise $650M over two years

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services in a request to Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday that the increase was needed because of rising health care costs, higher program enrollment and lower federal funding.

20 Sep 2012

Lund University professor to coordinate oral insulin study for type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is the autoimmune form of diabetes, in which the patients' insulin-producing beta cells are destroyed by their own immune system. "We know that if a person has two autoantibodies and one of them is against insulin, there is a 50 per cent risk that they will develop type 1 diabetes within five years. It doesn't matter how old you are", says Ake Lernmark, Professor of Experimental Diabetes Research at Lund University in Sweden.

20 Sep 2012

Romney's '47 percent' comments fuel analyses of who gets tax breaks, aid

Some news outlets report how the remarks underscore different views of the role of government by President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, Romney attempts to deflect criticism by going on the offensive, saying his comments help define the choice before voters.

20 Sep 2012

Health experts warn of linkages between climate change, increased malnutrition

"Malnutrition is likely to be the most serious health threat linked to climate shifts in the coming decades, as farmers struggle to cope with more unpredictable weather, ... epidemiologist Kris Ebi warned during a recent World Health Organization (WHO) briefing on adapting health systems to climate shifts," AlertNet reports.

20 Sep 2012

Weekly campaign highlights: News from Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Virginia

As election day approaches, Kaiser Health News' Sarah Barr samples news coverage each week from swing states around the country – how health policy developments, and other political issues, are playing in this year's vote.

20 Sep 2012

Adults with autism have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory and touch

Autistic adults have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory, and touch stimuli, according to research published in the journal Neuron. This poor response reliability, the study's authors conclude, appears to be a fundamental neural characteristic of autism.

20 Sep 2012

Kaiser Family Foundation issue brief provides overview of global health diplomacy

Noting the U.S. "recently announced plans to create an Office of Global Health Diplomacy at the State Department, designed to promote the use of diplomacy to advance U.S. global health efforts and support the next phase of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) in the diplomatic arena," the Kaiser Family Foundation on Tuesday published an issue brief that "provides an overview of global health diplomacy, including how it has been defined and used historically both globally and in the U.S.," according to a summary on the foundation's webpage.

20 Sep 2012

Blog examines role of community health workers in Zambia's malaria control efforts

In this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Laura Newman, a senior communications officer of the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa, examines the role of community health workers in "Zambia's three-step plan to establish large malaria-free zones in the country by 2015."

20 Sep 2012

BMJ examines emergence of China as 'major new player' in global vaccine production

"The Chinese drug industry is on the verge of getting the green light to manufacture the Japanese encephalitis vaccine for the developing world, an event that will signal the emergence of a major new player in global vaccines," BMJ reports.

20 Sep 2012

Tel Aviv University researcher discovers homing device that draws cancer

The process of metastasis, by which cancer cells travel from a tumor site and proliferate at other sites in the body, is a serious threat to cancer patients. According to the National Cancer Institute, most recurrences of cancer are metastases rather than "new" cancers.

20 Sep 2012

Views on obesity: Difficulty changing eating habits; Huge changes in the food marketplace

The New York Times and the Journal of the American Medical Association offer opinions on the U.S. battle against obesity.

20 Sep 2012

Thermo Fisher Scientific announces opening of Molecular Biology Center of Excellence in Lithuania

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the official opening of its Molecular Biology Center of Excellence in Vilnius, Lithuania.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 20 Sep 2012

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UK scientists make breakthrough in new method of brain tumour diagnosis

WHO working with partners to stop Ebola from spreading in DRC

UNITAID should 'reinvent itself' to increase role in global health field

House panel to consider health law change that would help brokers

Joint Commission offers ranking of hospitals on quality, patient safety

AyoxxA Biosystems closes 2.6M Euro Series A financing round

Minn. governor moves forward on insurance exchange, shifts oversight

PCAN praises U.S. House for passage of Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act

Wis. officials say Medicaid funding will need to rise $650M over two years

Lund University professor to coordinate oral insulin study for type 1 diabetes

Romney's '47 percent' comments fuel analyses of who gets tax breaks, aid

Health experts warn of linkages between climate change, increased malnutrition

Weekly campaign highlights: News from Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Virginia

Adults with autism have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory and touch

Kaiser Family Foundation issue brief provides overview of global health diplomacy

Blog examines role of community health workers in Zambia's malaria control efforts

BMJ examines emergence of China as 'major new player' in global vaccine production

Tel Aviv University researcher discovers homing device that draws cancer

Views on obesity: Difficulty changing eating habits; Huge changes in the food marketplace

Thermo Fisher Scientific announces opening of Molecular Biology Center of Excellence in Lithuania

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