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The Y rolls out new health program targeting diabetes

YMCAs will advance the program nationally with support from insurers and employers. Also in the news, researchers express concern about the increasing costs likely to accompany soaring Alzheimer's disease rates.

16 Feb 2013

Within the health care sector, data viewed in new light

Under pressure to do more with less, insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and health care providers are all pushing data analysis to new heights.

16 Feb 2013

U.S. should provide additional humanitarian aid to Syria

"As Syria burns, Washington has begun a debate over the supply of humanitarian assistance to the millions displaced, injured or penniless from civil war," Morton Abramowitz, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and a former ambassador to Turkey, writes in an opinion piece in The Atlantic.

16 Feb 2013

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee gets 4 new members

"The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, with oversight that includes funding for the State Department and USAID, has four new members announced this week with diverse approaches and backgrounds in global health issues," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports.

16 Feb 2013

Meridian Health, Bayshore Community Hospital announce $5 million charitable contribution

Bayshore Community Hospital and Meridian Health Affiliated Foundations today announced a $5 million charitable contribution from Mrs. Janice Mitchell Vassar, whose sole desire, in her words, is to "make my hospital the best hospital it can be."

16 Feb 2013

U.N. officials mark campaign against violence against women

U.N. officials on Thursday "joined millions of people around the world who are taking a stance against violence against women as part of the One Billion Rising campaign," the U.N. News Centre reports.

16 Feb 2013

U.N. joint meeting addresses issues surrounding food security

"Scaling up the global response to food security and nutrition topped the agenda [Thursday] at a special joint meeting between the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the General Assembly, world experts and the U.N. food agencies aimed at identifying steps to build a future free of hunger," the U.N. News Centre reports, noting the meeting "included the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP)."

16 Feb 2013

Self-objectification associated with reduced women's involvement in social activism

Women who live in a culture in which they are objectified by others may in turn begin to objectify themselves. This kind of self-objectification may reduce women's involvement in social activism, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

16 Feb 2013

WHO holds 2-day meeting to discuss need for global health statistics

"At a two-day meeting organized and hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) [in Geneva], 60 leaders in the field of global health statistics drew up a set of proposals to improve the world's ability to count the sick and the dead," ScienceInsider reports.

16 Feb 2013

Hearing raises questions about how to replace Medicare's SGR formula

Opinions on what to replace Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula with and how to get there vary greatly, comments during a Thursday hearing showed. Lawmakers looking to pull the trigger on finally doing away with the SGR, which is used to determine physician payments, must iron out many of the details that came to light during a hearing Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee.

16 Feb 2013

AIDS-free generation is within reach but only with fully-funded Global Fund

In the Huffington Post's "Impact" blog, ACTION Director Kolleen Bouchane highlights President Barack Obama's mention of global development and global health in Tuesday's State of the Union address.

16 Feb 2013

State Department blog summarizes U.S. policies addressing gender equality

Writing in the U.S. State Department's "DipNote" blog, Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, who serves as senior adviser to the Secretary of State and directs the department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, discusses the One Billion Rising campaign calling attention to violence against women and girls. Noting some data on violence against women, he states, "The United States has put gender equality and the advancement of women and girls at the forefront of the three pillars of U.S. foreign policy -- diplomacy, development, and defense."

16 Feb 2013

Institute of Medicine to release ‘Evaluation of PEPFAR’ on Feb. 20

Evaluation of PEPFAR, a new report from the Institute of Medicine, presents the results of an assessment of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as requested by Congress in its reauthorization of funding for the initiative in 2008.

16 Feb 2013

National Federation of Nurses joining forces with American Federation of Teachers

The nurses' group says this step will give them the added leverage they need to address issues related to conditions and to protect against unfair hospital management attacks.

16 Feb 2013

Anthem Blue Cross will reduce rate increase for about 630,000 individual policyholders

The move is in resonse to pressure from California's insurance regulator. Meanwhile, Cardinal Health, the nation's second-largest distributor of prescription drugs, will buy a large medical supplier. Cardinal Health hopes to expand into home health care.

16 Feb 2013

Same 'bipartisan energy' surrounding PEPFAR needed to combat maternal mortality

Erin Thornton, executive director of Every Mother Counts, recalls her memories of President George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union announcement of PEPFAR in a Huffington Post "Global Motherhood" opinion piece.

16 Feb 2013

DNDi in Latin America wins Carlos Slim Health Award for innovations in drug development

Today the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) in Latin America received the Carlos Slim Health Award for 10 years of exceptional work and achievements in research and development (R&D) to deliver new treatments for neglected patients in the region. The $100,000 award will be presented at a ceremony in April in Mexico City.

16 Feb 2013

The politics and policies of the Medicaid expansion

State executives ranging from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon continue to wrestle with their plans regarding the expansion -- and repercussions, in terms of public opinon, budgets and policy decisions -- that are emerging as a result.

16 Feb 2013

Virginia Tech Carilion researcher says scientific evidence points to value of early education

The founder of a decades-long scientific study that has proved the enduring benefits of early education applauded President Barack Obama's recent call for universal access to high-quality preschool in the United States.

16 Feb 2013

Having launched PEPFAR, George W. Bush is greatest humanitarian to serve U.S. presidency

In a post in Foreign Policy's "Democracy Lab" blog, Christian Caryl, a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute and the blog's editor, asks, "Which United States president will go down in history as the greatest humanitarian to have served in the office?" He writes, "I'd suggest that there's one president whose contribution dwarfs all the others" -- George W. Bush.

16 Feb 2013

Healthcare News

The Y rolls out new health program targeting diabetes

Within the health care sector, data viewed in new light

U.S. should provide additional humanitarian aid to Syria

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee gets 4 new members

Meridian Health, Bayshore Community Hospital announce $5 million charitable contribution

U.N. officials mark campaign against violence against women

U.N. joint meeting addresses issues surrounding food security

Self-objectification associated with reduced women's involvement in social activism

WHO holds 2-day meeting to discuss need for global health statistics

Hearing raises questions about how to replace Medicare's SGR formula

AIDS-free generation is within reach but only with fully-funded Global Fund

State Department blog summarizes U.S. policies addressing gender equality

Institute of Medicine to release ‘Evaluation of PEPFAR’ on Feb. 20

National Federation of Nurses joining forces with American Federation of Teachers

Anthem Blue Cross will reduce rate increase for about 630,000 individual policyholders

Same 'bipartisan energy' surrounding PEPFAR needed to combat maternal mortality

DNDi in Latin America wins Carlos Slim Health Award for innovations in drug development

The politics and policies of the Medicaid expansion

Virginia Tech Carilion researcher says scientific evidence points to value of early education

Having launched PEPFAR, George W. Bush is greatest humanitarian to serve U.S. presidency

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