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Kenyan-based ZanaAfrica creates affordable sanitary pad with high quality

Kenyan social enterprise ZanaAfrica Group is recognized as a leading innovator in global health, education and development with the receipt of the highly selective "Phase II Grand Challenges Exploration" grant, a partnership between Grand Challenges Canada (which is funded by the Government of Canada) and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

6 Sep 2013

New research initiative to focus on ultrasound therapy

The Focused Ultrasound Foundation and Philips have entered into an innovative public-private collaboration with The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

6 Sep 2013

State highlights: Texas abortion clinics prepare to shutter; wide disparity in hospital prices; Calif. bill to expand abortion providers passes

A selection of health policy news from Texas, California, North Carolina, Missouri, Oregon and Colorado.

6 Sep 2013

Viewpoints: Texas and Florida should concentrate on uninsured; health law's costs to young adults being overlooked; obscure case could impact abortion issues

A new Census Bureau report documents the alarming percentages of people in Texas and Florida without health insurance. Leaders of both states should hang their heads in shame because they have been among the most resistant in the nation to providing coverage for the uninsured under the Affordable Care Act, the law that Republicans deride as "Obamacare" (9/4).

6 Sep 2013

Capsules: Washington state panel OKs 7 insurers for exchange

Now on Kaiser Health News' blog, the Seattle Times' Amy Snow Landa, working in partnership with KHN, reports: "In the end, it was a calm affair. The Washington Health Benefit Exchange Board met in a special session Wednesday afternoon to vote on the certification of health plans for the state's new online health insurance marketplace in 2014" (Land, 9/5).

6 Sep 2013

Catholic bishops urge that marketplace insurance benefits for congress not include abortion

Members of Congress and their staffs will switch from the federal health system to the health law's new exchanges next year and the bishops are demanding that the current prohibitions on abortion funding continue.

6 Sep 2013

TPMG receives AMGA Acclaim Award for transforming health care through leadership, technology

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) today announced that the recipient of the 2013 AMGA Acclaim Award is The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) for "Transforming Health Care through Leadership and Technology," an innovative initiative that achieves superior performance through physician leadership, advanced information technology, and a mission-driven culture of collaboration.

6 Sep 2013

New studies find health law's insurance premium costs won't be cheap, but consumers will have many options

A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation offered estimates of how much government tax credits would lower the price of the "silver" benchmark policy. A second study, this one by Avalere Health, examined sticker prices at a variety of levels.

6 Sep 2013

Ohio group takes steps to advance Medicaid expansion as ballot initiative

The coalition, which is made up of health care providers, unions, businesses, religious organizations and others, views this effort as its back up plan if state legislators block Gov. John Kasich's push to expand the low income health insurance program.

6 Sep 2013

Greenwich Hospital's new radiation oncology therapy gives renewed hope to HRPC patients

At the end of July, Greenwich became the only hospital in New York City, Westchester and Fairfield counties to offer Xofigo, commonly referred to as Radium 223, a new radiation oncology therapy that is giving renewed hope to patients with stage 4 hormone-refractory prostate cancer.

6 Sep 2013

Rice University draws nearly $2.8 million from NSF to train neuroengineers

An effort by Rice University to train the neuroengineers of the future has drawn nearly $2.8 million in support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

6 Sep 2013

Critically ill patients benefit from new program designed to improve care at Mayo Clinic

Critically ill patients are benefiting from a new program designed to improve care and shorten hospital stays. Mayo Clinic's Enhanced Critical Care program offers 24/7 remote monitoring of the sickest patients at six Mayo Clinic Health System hospitals.

6 Sep 2013

Researchers use educational TV characters to promote healthy eating among preschoolers

Researchers at the Hood Center for Children and Families at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have received a two-year, $275,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and test a program that uses children's educational TV characters to promote healthy eating and physical activity among preschoolers.

6 Sep 2013

Bill Clinton delivers speech to dispel health law confusion, urge enrollment

The former president -- dubbed the "explainer in chief" -- spoke from his presidential library in Arkansas to drum up support for the overhaul and scold Republicans for their efforts to repeal it.

6 Sep 2013

New report analyzes full range of care, coordinated services for children and teens under EPSDT

A new analysis by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services examines the relationship between health information laws and health system improvements for children and adolescents under Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment benefit.

6 Sep 2013

Obama administration to provide veterans' same-sex spouses benefits

Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress in a letter that the recent Supreme Court decision clears the way for this change in policy.

6 Sep 2013

Study: Less than 10 minutes of higher-intensity physical activity reduce risk of obesity

Short bursts of less than 10 minutes of higher-intensity physical activity reduce the risk of obesity, finds a new study in the American Journal of Health Promotion.

6 Sep 2013

GOP lawmakers' request for info about navigators may slow process

Meanwhile, in regard to a separate issue, West Virginia's attorney general is criticizing the Department of Health and Human Services for not responding to questions about navigator privacy concerns.

6 Sep 2013

Students design digital prototypes that may shape our health service

The Danish health sector offers many different types of treatment, but how will it fare as the population ages and more people develop chronic illnesses? Students taking part in an interdisciplinary summer programme designed digital prototypes that may someday shape our health service.

6 Sep 2013

GOP's united front on Obamacare softens

The GOP's once rock-solid stance on Obamacare has softened as some Republicans look to move on from waging all-out war on the three-year-old law. Tea Party activists, however, are urging conservative lawmakers to try to stop it. In the meantime, lawmakers from both sides look more united than ever in trying to reform how Medicare pays doctors.

6 Sep 2013

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Kenyan-based ZanaAfrica creates affordable sanitary pad with high quality

New research initiative to focus on ultrasound therapy

State highlights: Texas abortion clinics prepare to shutter; wide disparity in hospital prices; Calif. bill to expand abortion providers passes

Viewpoints: Texas and Florida should concentrate on uninsured; health law's costs to young adults being overlooked; obscure case could impact abortion issues

Capsules: Washington state panel OKs 7 insurers for exchange

Catholic bishops urge that marketplace insurance benefits for congress not include abortion

TPMG receives AMGA Acclaim Award for transforming health care through leadership, technology

New studies find health law's insurance premium costs won't be cheap, but consumers will have many options

Ohio group takes steps to advance Medicaid expansion as ballot initiative

Greenwich Hospital's new radiation oncology therapy gives renewed hope to HRPC patients

Rice University draws nearly $2.8 million from NSF to train neuroengineers

Critically ill patients benefit from new program designed to improve care at Mayo Clinic

Researchers use educational TV characters to promote healthy eating among preschoolers

Bill Clinton delivers speech to dispel health law confusion, urge enrollment

New report analyzes full range of care, coordinated services for children and teens under EPSDT

Obama administration to provide veterans' same-sex spouses benefits

Study: Less than 10 minutes of higher-intensity physical activity reduce risk of obesity

GOP lawmakers' request for info about navigators may slow process

Students design digital prototypes that may shape our health service

GOP's united front on Obamacare softens

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