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Counterfeit drugs for sale: FDA issues warning regarding online pharmacies

The Food and Drug Administration is warning U.S. consumers that the vast majority of Internet pharmacies are fraudulent and likely are selling counterfeit drugs that could harm them.

29 Sep 2012

Human rights most important factor in combating global hunger, report says

"Human rights are the most powerful tool to ensure efforts against hunger and malnutrition tackle structural causes and are not reduced to short-term strategies, civil society groups said in a report published on Tuesday," the Guardian reports.

29 Sep 2012

Maryland sets insurance marketplace plan benchmark; Other state health law news

In Maryland, a board sets a state employee health plan as the benchmark for others in the marketplace. In the meantime, New Mexico examines what it has to gain from a Medicaid expansion, and Virginians give a thumbs down to the health law.

29 Sep 2012

Liberal Christians protest Hobby Lobby lawsuit over contraception coverage mandate

A group of liberal Christian activists are protesting Hobby Lobby's decision to sue the Obama administration over its contraception coverage mandate in the health law.

29 Sep 2012

WHO urges action to stop spread of drug-resistant malaria in Vietnam, Myanmar

"The World Health Organization said Thursday that governments in the Mekong region must act 'urgently' to stop the spread of drug-resistant malaria which has emerged in parts of Vietnam and Myanmar," Agence France-Presse reports.

29 Sep 2012

New studies reveal real economic and human costs of caring for cancer patients in Europe

New studies that reveal for the first time the real economic and human costs of caring for cancer patients in Europe will be presented during the ESMO 2012 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology in Vienna.

29 Sep 2012

Issa threatens to subpoena HHS documents related to Medicare Advantage bonuses

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, alleges that the Department of Health and Human Services is using an $8 billion Medicare bonus payment demonstration project to mask the health law's cuts to Medicare Advantage plans in advance of the election.

29 Sep 2012

Employers offer buffet of health care coverage choices -- with limit -- to employees

Some companies are offering employees a set amount to spend during the next open enrollment period for health insurance and making the employees choose coverage themselves -- instead of offering one or two plans to them.

29 Sep 2012

World leaders unite behind global polio eradication efforts at U.N. General Assembly

Political leaders, donor representatives, and medical experts on Thursday met on the sidelines of the 67th U.N. General Assembly session "to celebrate polio eradication efforts that have already reduced the incidence of the crippling and potentially fatal disease by 99 percent around the globe," the U.N. News Centre reports.

29 Sep 2012

Report: State, federal governments collected $30B in fraud settlements in 20 years

A new report finds federal and state authorities have collected more than $30 billion from drug company fraud settlements in the last 20 years.

29 Sep 2012

Viewpoints: Obamacare a 'big plus'?; What happened to GOP anger over health law?

How did that happen? Partly it's because this has become such an ideological election - much more so than 2008. … And let me add a speculation: I suspect that in the end Obamacare is turning out to be a big plus, even though it has always had ambivalent polling.

29 Sep 2012

Mediaplanet releases first edition of ‘Personalized Health’ in USA Today

On September 28, 2012, Mediaplanet released its first edition of "Personalized Health," in USA Today, a 16-page publication trumpeting the arrival of personalized health and medicine.

29 Sep 2012

Funding neglected disease R&D beneficial to Europe, developing countries, report says

In this bulletin from Science Business, Karen Hoehn, vice executive director and director of international affairs at the German Foundation for World Population, highlights "a study by the independent research group Policy Cures, 'Saving Lives and Creating Impact: E.U. Investment in Poverty-Related and Neglected Disease.'"

29 Sep 2012

Access to supplies, medicines in developing world essential to improve maternal health

"Supplies -- the essential medicines and medical equipment frontline health workers need to successfully do their jobs -- are a vital part of the solution to saving the lives of mothers and newborns," Catharine Taylor, a maternal health expert with PATH, writes in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog, adding, "And yet, they are frequently overlooked in the ongoing conversation about how to improve maternal health in the developing world."

29 Sep 2012

Patients, physicians face health IT divide

When it comes to consumer use of health information technology, demand seems to be outstripping supply and it's creating a great healthcare chasm. Results of a new survey show that, while three out of four patients are eager to access health records online through EMRs and more than 60 percent want to communicate with their doctor via email or other Internet technology, only 40 percent of physicians said they had the capability to interact with patients through email or give them access to their online health records.

29 Sep 2012

Kenyan government releases new guidelines for treatment, prevention of visceral leishmaniasis

"The Kenyan government has launched guidelines for the treatment and prevention of visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala azar or black fever, in a move government officials say is meant to contain the parasitic disease, which is endemic in the northern region of the country," IRIN reports.

29 Sep 2012

World leaders address climate change, water, food security at events on sidelines of U.N. General Assembly

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday at an event hosted by Qatar on the sidelines of the 67th General Assembly meeting "called again for urgent and concrete action on climate change, as high-level officials gathered at the United Nations to discuss the growing global concern over the impacts of the phenomenon on food and water security," the U.N. News Centre reports.

29 Sep 2012

Healthcare News

Counterfeit drugs for sale: FDA issues warning regarding online pharmacies

Human rights most important factor in combating global hunger, report says

Maryland sets insurance marketplace plan benchmark; Other state health law news

Liberal Christians protest Hobby Lobby lawsuit over contraception coverage mandate

WHO urges action to stop spread of drug-resistant malaria in Vietnam, Myanmar

New studies reveal real economic and human costs of caring for cancer patients in Europe

Issa threatens to subpoena HHS documents related to Medicare Advantage bonuses

Employers offer buffet of health care coverage choices -- with limit -- to employees

World leaders unite behind global polio eradication efforts at U.N. General Assembly

Report: State, federal governments collected $30B in fraud settlements in 20 years

Viewpoints: Obamacare a 'big plus'?; What happened to GOP anger over health law?

Mediaplanet releases first edition of ‘Personalized Health’ in USA Today

Funding neglected disease R&D beneficial to Europe, developing countries, report says

Access to supplies, medicines in developing world essential to improve maternal health

Patients, physicians face health IT divide

Kenyan government releases new guidelines for treatment, prevention of visceral leishmaniasis

World leaders address climate change, water, food security at events on sidelines of U.N. General Assembly

State highlights: Free Calif. health care clinic a big draw; New Calif. law could mean mammogram alternatives

Domestic health reform receiving more attention than global health in U.S. presidential campaigns, Lancet reports

FDA launches campaign to raise public awareness on prevalence of fraudulent Internet pharmacies

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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