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House GOP's tax bill includes Medicare pay fix, cuts to health law funding

House Republicans on Friday released their legislation to extend the payroll tax cut, reform and extend unemployment insurance, and fix the Medicare reimbursement rate for doctors. The move sets up a vote on the year-end package as early as Tuesday. ... the legislation extends a pay freeze for federal workers, ... and gradually increases Medicare premiums for the wealthy. It also changes the co-payment structure for certain federal retirees.

11 Dec 2011

New guidelines for managing latent tuberculosis from CDC

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new guidelines on treating so-called “latent” tuberculosis (TB) infection in the United States. They suggest the course of the therapy from about 9 months could be shortened to 3 months.

11 Dec 2011

President Obama’s take on the morning-after pill debate

President Obama said las week that he would support the Department of Health and Human Services overruling an FDA decision to allow an emergency morning-after contraceptive pill to be sold to girls younger than 17 without a prescription.

11 Dec 2011

Researchers discover molecular marker for immediate precursors of blood stem cells

A research team led by Nancy Speck, PhD, professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has discovered a molecular marker for the immediate precursors of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells (HSCs) in the developing embryo, which provides much-needed insights for making these cells from engineered precursors.

9 Dec 2011

Bluegrass Vascular commences enrollment in clinical study of Surfacer Inside-Out Access Catheter System

Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, a medical technology company focused on life-saving devices and methods for vascular access procedures, has announced patient enrollment in the first clinical study of its Surfacer Inside-Out Access Catheter System, a proprietary system that allows physicians to perform a novel "inside-out" approach to gain venous access.

9 Dec 2011

HHS released final rules on new health co-ops

The Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule Thursday to establish at least one health insurance cooperative in every state by providing loans from a $3.8 billion federal fund created by the health care law to provide start-up money and fund capital reserves.

9 Dec 2011

Progress in AIDS fight in peril as governments renege on funding pledges

In this Toronto Star opinion piece, Richard Elliott, executive director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and Nicci Stein, executive director of the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development, discuss how progress made in the fight against HIV/AIDS over the last 30 years "is in peril, due to governments reneging on repeated promises to fund the fight against the pandemic."

9 Dec 2011

MCC invests $122M in Lesotho health system to address key challenges, including HIV, TB

"The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), through its partnership with the Millennium Challenge Account-Lesotho, is helping Lesotho address key challenges in its health sector through a $122 million investment in health infrastructure and health systems," IIP Digital reports.

9 Dec 2011

Inter Press Service features interview with incoming FAO director general

Inter Press Service features excerpts from an interview with Jose Graziano da Silva, former Brazilian minister of food security, "who takes over as the new director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on January 1."

9 Dec 2011

Signal Genetics to launch second generation Myeloma product, MyPRS Plus

Signal Genetics announced today, at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, that the Company is launching its next generation Multiple Myeloma product, MyPRS Plus, effective January 1, 2012.

9 Dec 2011

Forbes interviews Babatunde Osotimehin about his work in HIV/AIDS, maternal health, leadership

Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and under-secretary-general of the U.N., answers questions about his work from Forbes contributor Rahim Kanani in this interview excerpt.

9 Dec 2011

State roundup: Consumers dispute Iowa rate hike; Wis. senior program extension?; Fla. criticized on nursing homes

California Pacific Medical Center, including its St. Luke's campus, is San Francisco's most profitable hospital, yet it spends proportionately far less on care for poor residents than other private nonprofit hospitals in the city, according to a new report.

9 Dec 2011

Data inform decision-making among patients, doctors, insurers

A study uses a new measure to judge nation's health care, another asks doctors to rate the best and worst insurers.

9 Dec 2011

Report says African mothers confused over infant-feeding options to prevent HIV transmission

Some women in African nations are "dangerously confused about the best nutritional path to protect their children from contracting [HIV]," a new report, based on research by community health workers from Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Nigeria, shows, PlusNews reports.

9 Dec 2011

Science examines HIV prevention trials, challenges to implementing new strategies

Science examines recent successes in clinical trials in the HIV prevention field, limitations to mathematical models resulting from these trials, and funding issues facing campaigns to ramp up HIV prevention interventions.

9 Dec 2011

Increased sensitivity to low frequency vibration found in people with inherited hearing loss

People with a certain form of inherited hearing loss have increased sensitivity to low frequency vibration, according to a study by Professor Thomas Jentsch of the Leibniz-Institut f-r Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)/Max Delbr-ck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Professor Gary Lewin (MDC), conducted in cooperation with clinicians from Madrid, Spain and Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

9 Dec 2011

HHS awards $14.5 million to fund school-based clinics

School-based health centers in 29 states will receive $14.5 million to help upgrade their facilities or establish new sites, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday.

9 Dec 2011

Global Fund official delivers speech at ICASA closing plenary session

The 16th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) ended on Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where "the final plenary session ... left the audience with a notion of hope and urgency that despite the Global Fund's cancellation of Round 11 disbursements, the organization will continue to campaign, raise funds and place pressure on governments in both the donor and recipient arenas," an ICASA news article reports (12/8).

9 Dec 2011

Obama defends limit on morning-after pill

The New York Times, Washington Post and others analyze the president's support of his health secretary's decision to limit access to the Plan B pill.

9 Dec 2011

FAO Food Price Index remains virtually stable; Some improvements seen in Somalia

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its latest Food Price Index on Thursday, saying the Index "in November was virtually unchanged from its October level," an FAO press release reports.

9 Dec 2011

Research News and Research

House GOP's tax bill includes Medicare pay fix, cuts to health law funding

New guidelines for managing latent tuberculosis from CDC

President Obama’s take on the morning-after pill debate

Researchers discover molecular marker for immediate precursors of blood stem cells

Bluegrass Vascular commences enrollment in clinical study of Surfacer Inside-Out Access Catheter System

HHS released final rules on new health co-ops

Progress in AIDS fight in peril as governments renege on funding pledges

MCC invests $122M in Lesotho health system to address key challenges, including HIV, TB

Inter Press Service features interview with incoming FAO director general

Signal Genetics to launch second generation Myeloma product, MyPRS Plus

Forbes interviews Babatunde Osotimehin about his work in HIV/AIDS, maternal health, leadership

State roundup: Consumers dispute Iowa rate hike; Wis. senior program extension?; Fla. criticized on nursing homes

Data inform decision-making among patients, doctors, insurers

Report says African mothers confused over infant-feeding options to prevent HIV transmission

Science examines HIV prevention trials, challenges to implementing new strategies

Increased sensitivity to low frequency vibration found in people with inherited hearing loss

HHS awards $14.5 million to fund school-based clinics

Global Fund official delivers speech at ICASA closing plenary session

Obama defends limit on morning-after pill

FAO Food Price Index remains virtually stable; Some improvements seen in Somalia

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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