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Pesticide-related illnesses to cost up to $90B between 2005-2020 in sub-Saharan Africa, UNEP report says

"The potential cost of pesticide-related illnesses in sub-Saharan African between 2005 and 2020 could reach $90 billion, according to a U.N. report released on Wednesday highlighting the growing health and environmental hazards from chemicals," the Associated Press/Guardian reports.

7 Sep 2012

Reuters examines challenges to implementing 'treatment as prevention,' other HIV prevention strategies in current economic climate

In an "Insight" feature article, Reuters examines how new information on the prevention benefits of HIV treatment and other strategies, such as male circumcision, "could finally break the back of the AIDS epidemic."

7 Sep 2012

Uganda launches vaccination campaign against cervical cancer

"The government of Uganda has launched a vaccination campaign against cervical cancer -- the most common type of cancer among Ugandan women -- but there are already fears a nationwide rollout might be jeopardized by lack of funds," IRIN reports.

7 Sep 2012

How Medicaid reaches into the middle class

The New York Times details how Medicaid plays an important safety-net role regarding long-term care costs. Meanwhile, some states are wrestling with ways to cut the program's eligibility.

7 Sep 2012

Democrats, Republicans find 'common ground' in acknowledging Bush's AIDS work

In Foreign Policy's "Passport" blog, Associate Editor Uri Friedman reflects on former President George W. Bush's efforts against AIDS, highlighting PEPFAR, which he "established in 2003 and which now supports antiretroviral treatment for 4.5 million people around the world."

7 Sep 2012

Civil registration of African children necessary for human rights, access to health, education, other services, conference hears

"Birth certificates and other forms of civil registration of children in Africa are critical for their enjoyment of human rights and access to health, education and other services, an official of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) told a conference on the issue, in Durban, South Africa," the U.N. News Centre reports.

7 Sep 2012

Blog examines importance of community involvement in health behavior interventions

Discussing how in some "parts of Africa young girls are allowed to spend days in labor to deliver a baby," increasing their risk of injury and death, Gary Darmstadt, head of the Family Health Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Wendy Prosser, a research analyst with the division, ask in a post in the foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, "[W]hat happens when culture and accepted behaviors are actually harmful; when science and culture collide?"

7 Sep 2012

First Edition: September 7, 2012

Now on Kaiser Health News' blog, Sarah Varney reports on California Gov. Jerry Brown, his absence from the Democratic convention and efforts to implement the health law: "California's Jerry Brown, the governor of the most populous state in the union, a state that has aggressively pushed ahead with the Affordable Care Act even when it wasn't the "in-thing," is sitting out this year's Democratic National Convention.

7 Sep 2012

Clemson’s bioengineering senior design team wins NCIIA BMEStart competition for AssureFit

Clemson University's bioengineering senior design team won the annual National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) BMEStart undergraduate design competition for its project AssureFit, a novel chest tube anchoring device.

7 Sep 2012

U.S. announces additional $21M in humanitarian aid to Syria

"The United States is adding $21 million to its humanitarian aid package for people displaced by violence in Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday amid U.N. reports that more than 100,000 Syrians fled to neighboring countries in August," the Washington Times reports.

7 Sep 2012

Policymakers agree to water monitoring initiative, U.N. official says

"Policymakers have agreed on an ambitious plan to create a global monitoring and reporting system to oversee water supply, sanitation and water resources management, a U.N. expert said," AlertNet reports.

7 Sep 2012

Washington Post examines India's efforts against TB amid fears of drug resistance

The Washington Post examines how the "discovery of an almost untreatable form of tuberculosis [TB] in India has set off alarm bells around the world and helped spur a dramatic expansion of government efforts to battle the killer lung disease."

7 Sep 2012

Capsules: Study: Decision aids show promise in reducing medical procedures

While policymakers debate whether doctors should be paid by the number of services they provide or the outcomes of their treatment, shared decision could have an impact on the ground by reducing demand for medical procedures.

7 Sep 2012

HHS Global Health Strategy helps protect Americans, 'all persons worldwide'

"The notion that diseases or contamination somehow recognize geographic or political borders is a dangerous illusion. ... Fortunately, the United States has a broad, diverse, and world-class range of experience and expertise in dealing with all manner of global health issues," Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), writes in a perspective piece in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

7 Sep 2012

Democratic speakers rally around health law

During Wednesday's convention proceedings, speakers criticized what they described as Republican plans to "voucher-ize Medicare" and touted provisions of the 2010 health law already in effect, such as coverage for children with pre-existing medical conditions, the closing Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" and the ability to keep young people on their parents' policies until age 26.

7 Sep 2012

Rwanda to host regional conference on social health protection in East Africa

Rwanda next week will host the Conference on Social Health Protection in the East African Community, which "will consider various approaches to providing universal health coverage in Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi," VOA News reports.

7 Sep 2012

Clinton skewers GOP on Medicare, offers strong defense of Obama on health law

In former President Bill Clinton's speech to nominate Barack Obama for re-election, he made a point-by-point case to return Obama to a second term, lauding his efforts to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid and to pass the health law.

7 Sep 2012

Conservatives say Dems' characterization of GOP Medicare plan is 'misleading attack'

Republican pundits dispute the description of their plans to overhaul Medicare as as a defined-contribution, rather than a defined-benefit program 'vouchercare,' and say that repealing the health law would spur innovation.

7 Sep 2012

Report: N.Y. public employees face $250B gap in covering retiree health care costs

A new report has found a gaping $250 billion hole in what New York state and local governments have promised to public employees to help pay for their retiree health care costs -- a $45 billion increase since 2010.

7 Sep 2012

Expert panel discusses changing dynamics of global health at science forum in Norway

"Basic science plays a critical role in the quest to improve global health, but it's only one part of a multi-pronged effort that includes changing the dynamics of global health so that developing nations have a more leading role in fulfilling their health care needs," a panel of experts concluded at the 2012 Kavli Prize Science Forum in Oslo, Norway, held this week, according to a Kavli Foundation press release.

7 Sep 2012

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Pesticide-related illnesses to cost up to $90B between 2005-2020 in sub-Saharan Africa, UNEP report says

Reuters examines challenges to implementing 'treatment as prevention,' other HIV prevention strategies in current economic climate

Uganda launches vaccination campaign against cervical cancer

How Medicaid reaches into the middle class

Democrats, Republicans find 'common ground' in acknowledging Bush's AIDS work

Civil registration of African children necessary for human rights, access to health, education, other services, conference hears

Blog examines importance of community involvement in health behavior interventions

First Edition: September 7, 2012

Clemson’s bioengineering senior design team wins NCIIA BMEStart competition for AssureFit

U.S. announces additional $21M in humanitarian aid to Syria

Policymakers agree to water monitoring initiative, U.N. official says

Washington Post examines India's efforts against TB amid fears of drug resistance

Capsules: Study: Decision aids show promise in reducing medical procedures

HHS Global Health Strategy helps protect Americans, 'all persons worldwide'

Democratic speakers rally around health law

Rwanda to host regional conference on social health protection in East Africa

Clinton skewers GOP on Medicare, offers strong defense of Obama on health law

Conservatives say Dems' characterization of GOP Medicare plan is 'misleading attack'

Report: N.Y. public employees face $250B gap in covering retiree health care costs

Expert panel discusses changing dynamics of global health at science forum in Norway

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