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Toyota, Cincinnati Children's expand Buckle Up for Life education program

Responding to disproportionate rates of African American and Hispanic children dying in motor vehicle-related crashes, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Toyota today announced that they are doubling the reach of their groundbreaking safety education program Buckle Up for Life. Buckle Up for Life - or Abróchate a la Vida in Spanish - is the only national program of its kind. To view a video about the program, please click here.

9 Jul 2012

Medicare cuts, competing views on overhaul keep health issues hot in campaign

"Obamacare cuts Medicare - cuts Medicare - by approximately $500 billion," Mr. Romney has told audiences. That is a reprise of Republicans' mantra of the 2010 midterm elections, which gave them big gains at both the state and federal levels and a majority in the House.

8 Jul 2012

More than 570 pioneering dentists assembled at MDL USA's World Dental Forum

Modern Dental Laboratory USA (MDL USA) assembled a group of 570 pioneering dentists from all over the world to come together at their second-annual World Dental Forum in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China from May 31 to June 3, 2012.

8 Jul 2012

UC Riverside receives NSF grant to address water quantity and quality issues

Water is likely to become an even more important factor in determining human well-being in the near future as the world's population continues to increase. While it is clear that the demand for water will steadily rise, it also appears that water supply could decline as a result of major shifts in the world's climate.

8 Jul 2012

UNN, UM establish firm foundation for mutual collaborations

A delegation from the University of Nigeria (UNN) has just completed a week in key laboratories and boardrooms at the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus exploring educational exchanges between the two universities.

8 Jul 2012

Prominent Chinese scholars issue open letter calling for rethink of country's family planning laws

"A group of 15 prominent Chinese scholars issued an open letter on Thursday calling for a rethink of [the] country's family planning laws, arguing that the law in its present form is incompatible with China's increasing respect for human rights and need for sustainable economic development," according to the Wall Street Journal's "China Real Time Report."

7 Jul 2012

Health officials working to identify respiratory illness responsible for deaths of more than 60 Cambodian children

WHO and Cambodian health officials are investigating "the source of an unidentified illness" -- characterized by high fevers, severe respiratory problems, "and in some cases neurological symptoms" -- that has killed more than 60 children in the country since April, NPR's health blog "Shots" reports (Hensley, 7/5). "

7 Jul 2012

Research roundup: Crowded emergency departments, expensive HIV drugs, high deductible insurance plans

Skin In The Game: How Consumer-Directed Plans Affect The Cost And Use Of Health Care -- Consumer-directed health plans, which feature lower premiums and higher deductibles than traditional plans, are designed to reduce costs by discouraging unnecessary care. This brief describes a study of more than 800,000 households that switched from a traditional employer-based plan to a consumer-based plan.

7 Jul 2012

SAGE sponsors symposium on cardiovascular disease prevention

European experts in cardiovascular medicine will today gather at a two day symposium to address the national agenda on cardiovascular disease prevention, held at Imperial College London and sponsored by leading independent academic and professional publisher SAGE.

7 Jul 2012

Health ministers from Southeast Asia asked to support U.N. in stemming spread of drug-resistant malaria in region

"Health ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are being asked to support United Nations efforts to stem the spread of drug-resistant strains of malaria, especially along the borders of Cambodia and Burma," VOA News reports.

7 Jul 2012

Roundup: Feds rank Texas last in health care delivery; Mass. health care costs eat almost 43 percent of state budget

Texas ranked dead last in the federal government's latest report card on the delivery of health services, falling short in areas ranging from acute hospital care to home treatment of the chronically ill. Texas scored 31.61 -- less than half of top-ranked Minnesota's 67.31 -- out of a possible 100 points in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality annual rankings.

7 Jul 2012

Viewpoints: Romney's mandate problem; Rage at Roberts; Should feds take over Medicaid?

Massachusetts residents who file a state tax return have to provide proof that they have health insurance. If they can afford insurance but don't have it, they must "pay a penalty through their tax returns," according to the state Department of Revenue's Web site.

7 Jul 2012

Proposed rules would bar aggressive medical debt collection tactics from nonprofit hospitals

New proposed rules from the IRS would require nonprofit hospitals to use the most aggressive debt collection methods against lower-income patients.

7 Jul 2012

Poor collaboration, lack of information major barriers to implementing family planning methods

Ahead of the London Summit on Family Planning on July 11, Gary Darmstadt, head of the Family Health Division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, examines barriers to contraceptive use in this post in the foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog.

7 Jul 2012

Obama, on campaign swing, says health law 'here to stay'

On a bus tour in Ohio, the president touts his health overhaul, adding he was willing to work with critics to improve the legislation that requires most Americans to purchase health care.

7 Jul 2012

VOA News examines family planning efforts in Uganda

Ahead of July 11, World Population Day and the date of the London Summit on Family Planning, VOA News examines family planning efforts in Uganda, where the average woman will give birth to about seven children during her lifetime.

7 Jul 2012

State officials pursue divergent paths on health law

Missouri Republicans aim to bar the Democratic governor, or the federal goverment, from setting up an insurance exchange without approval of voters or state legislators, while in Massachusetts, which implemented the prototype of the federal law, 44,000 residents pay fines for not carrying insurance.

7 Jul 2012

Obama assails Romney for shift on mandate

President Barack Obama questions whether Republican Mitt Romney's view that the mandate is a tax is "abandoning a principle" because of pressure from critics. Romney's campaign says he hasn't changed his views, and that the mandate is different on a federal level.

7 Jul 2012

International AIDS Conference a call for global solidarity

Noting the 2010 reversal of the HIV travel and immigration ban allowing the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) to be held in the U.S. for the first time in more than 20 years, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) writes in a Huffington Post Blog opinion piece, "It is so exciting to host this conference at such a pivotal time in the history of the AIDS response," and adds, "At no other time in history has our global leadership been more important than it is right now."

7 Jul 2012

Exclusion of reproductive rights from Rio+20 agreement 'backslide' on women's rights, former Ireland President Robinson says

"Women's rights are under the greatest attack for almost 20 years after a failure of world leaders to continue to support reproductive rights, according to Mary Robinson," former president of Ireland and a member of the Elders group, the Guardian reports in its series "The Politics of Family Planning."

7 Jul 2012

Healthcare News

Toyota, Cincinnati Children's expand Buckle Up for Life education program

Medicare cuts, competing views on overhaul keep health issues hot in campaign

More than 570 pioneering dentists assembled at MDL USA's World Dental Forum

UC Riverside receives NSF grant to address water quantity and quality issues

UNN, UM establish firm foundation for mutual collaborations

Prominent Chinese scholars issue open letter calling for rethink of country's family planning laws

Health officials working to identify respiratory illness responsible for deaths of more than 60 Cambodian children

Research roundup: Crowded emergency departments, expensive HIV drugs, high deductible insurance plans

SAGE sponsors symposium on cardiovascular disease prevention

Health ministers from Southeast Asia asked to support U.N. in stemming spread of drug-resistant malaria in region

Roundup: Feds rank Texas last in health care delivery; Mass. health care costs eat almost 43 percent of state budget

Viewpoints: Romney's mandate problem; Rage at Roberts; Should feds take over Medicaid?

Proposed rules would bar aggressive medical debt collection tactics from nonprofit hospitals

Poor collaboration, lack of information major barriers to implementing family planning methods

Obama, on campaign swing, says health law 'here to stay'

VOA News examines family planning efforts in Uganda

State officials pursue divergent paths on health law

Obama assails Romney for shift on mandate

International AIDS Conference a call for global solidarity

Exclusion of reproductive rights from Rio+20 agreement 'backslide' on women's rights, former Ireland President Robinson says

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