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Viewpoints: Rove offers strategy to fight Democrats' 'Mediscare' tactics; GOP offers no 'pragmatic alternative' to health law

The midterm election is still 19 months away, but for some it's never too early for demagoguery. And so this week the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched a new "Mediscare" ad.

5 Apr 2013

AACI to join nearly 200 organizations in support of Rally for Medical Research

The Association of American Cancer Institutes joins nearly 200 organizations, including about 50 cancer centers, in supporting the Rally for Medical Research, on Monday, April 8, from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm in Washington.

5 Apr 2013

The stock market, Medicare Advantage rates and 'political intelligence'

Alerted by a private message about a potential coming change in government health-care policy, certain investors earlier this week sparked a frenzy of trading in some of the industry's largest companies.

5 Apr 2013

Italian investigators provide new data on role of illness behavior in determining illness impact

A paper by a group of Italian investigators in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides new data on the role of illness behavior in determining the illness impact.

5 Apr 2013

Study: Tricare not widely accepted by physicians

An estimated 620,000 Pentagon health care recipients -- a group that includes military retirees, National Guard members and reservists and the children of some active-duty troops -- struggle to find private doctors who will accept them as patients, according to a new government study.

5 Apr 2013

New report on teen driver safety shows encouraging trends among teen passengers

A new report on teen driver safety released today by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm- shows encouraging trends among teen passengers.

5 Apr 2013

Dementia care costs top other diseases in US, study finds

The costs of caring for people with dementia in the U.S. are comparable to - if not greater than - those for heart disease and cancer, according to new estimates by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System and nonprofit RAND Corporation.

5 Apr 2013

Roundup: Calif. hospitals to close after homeless care controversy; Texas hospitals spar over indigent care payments

Hospital owner Pacific Health Corp. said it will close its three remaining Southern California hospitals, citing the fallout from a federal fraud case last year in which the company admitted paying to recruit homeless people off skid row in Los Angeles and billing the government for unnecessary care (Terhune, 4/3).

5 Apr 2013

SLU student aims to improve easy access to fresh, healthy food by creating mobile farmer's market

When the State of Texas decided to slash tuition grants for private schools, Goss lobbied against the measure, saving his university from a steep cut. After living in St. Louis for two years, the second-year medical student at Saint Louis University has decided to tackle another problem - food deserts.

5 Apr 2013

Proposal to eliminate SGR payment formula is revised

The House panels' proposal to replace Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula is seen as a way to change how Medicare delivers care. Meanwhile, some House GOP lawmakers who have complained about the health law's costs said Wednesday that it should have allocated more money to a program to cover people with pre-existing health conditions.

5 Apr 2013

N.C. governor proposes managed care move for state's Medicaid program

North Carolina Gov. Pay McCrory is proposing to privatize Medicaid to save money in the $13 billion program while stakeholders in Texas, Florida and California also consider changes to their Medicaid plans.

5 Apr 2013

Medicare misperceptions create tougher task for lawmakers

The New York Times reports that public misunderstandings about the specifics of entitlement benefits make trimming Medicare spending more difficult. Meanwhile, Politico reports on an idea that might bridge the partisan divide that plagues these efforts.

5 Apr 2013

Kaiser Permanente Southern California awards grant to UC Riverside medical school

The School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside has been awarded a grant of $3 million over a two-year period from health care provider Kaiser Permanente Southern California to increase the size and reach of the school's existing "pipeline programs" - a continuum of student enrichment and academic support programs - and thus broaden and diversify the pool of students applying to medical school.

5 Apr 2013

Feds issue rules for 'navigators' who will help consumers buy health insurance

As the Obama administration published rules for "navigators," who will be hired in every state to help consumers shop in new insurance marketplaces, news outlets examine how states are setting up those marketplaces and the impact on consumers.

5 Apr 2013

Dementia's price tag can exceed $50,000 a year, study finds

The study, published in the April 3 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, found this medical condition costs the nation as much as $215 billion a year.

5 Apr 2013

Burden of care for many immigrants untouched by health law's Medicaid expansion

Also in the news, media outlets offer news and analysis regarding Medicaid expansion plans and debates in Florida, Pennsylvania and Missouri.

5 Apr 2013

Research network of anaesthetists set to create buzz at GAT annual scientific meeting

A research network established by a network of training anaesthetists in the South West of England, and which in just nine months has become one of the most successful of its kind in the UK, is set to create a buzz at the national Group of Anaesthetists in Training annual scientific meeting in Oxford.

5 Apr 2013

Ala. lawmakers approve controversial new abortion clinic regulations

The measure, which still must be signed by the governor, would make abortion clinics use doctors with admitting privileges at local hospitals, a move opponents say could force the state's five clinics to close.

5 Apr 2013

Diaverum acquires four clinics in Hamburg, Germany

Diaverum, one of the world's leading, product-independent renal care providers, has announced the major acquisition of the four clinics that make up the Alte Teichweg centre in Hamburg, Germany.

4 Apr 2013

Walgreens' Take Care Clinics expand access to health care services

Access to health care services is an ongoing challenge to the U.S. health care system. With a physician shortage, aging population, a growing prevalence of chronic diseases and up to 30 million people projected to gain insurance coverage in 2014 through the Affordable Care Act, the issue will become even more critical - and may further impact both patients and the health care system at large.

4 Apr 2013