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Political cartoon: 'Uncle Sam, R.I.P?'

Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Uncle Sam, R.I.P?" by David Fitzsimmons.

20 Jun 2012

HCHD program educates entire family to tackle obesity in children

Obesity is a growing problem among children, but the Harris County Hospital District has put in place a program that educates entire families.

20 Jun 2012

ECC calls on policy makers across Europe to reduce burden of COPD

As leading figures in respiratory health from across the globe gather in Birmingham for the COPD8 conference ahead of World Spirometry Day, the European COPD Coalition (ECC) is calling on policy makers across Europe to recognise that chronic diseases such as COPD, present as great a threat as the global financial crisis, and is urging collective action.

20 Jun 2012

Blog, opinion piece, press release address health aspects of Rio+20

More than 100 world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, are meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this week for Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, to address ways to reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection.

20 Jun 2012

RUMC earns AAHRPP accreditation

The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. (AAHRPP) has awarded Rush University Medical Center full accreditation for the next three years. Rush is one of the first academic medical centers in Illinois to receive the accreditation.

20 Jun 2012

Thomson Reuters study tracks current status of research on NTDs

"The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters on Tuesday announced the publication of a new study tracking the current status of research on neglected tropical diseases [NTDs]," a Thomson Reuters Corporation press release reports.

20 Jun 2012

Examining NGO priorities on food security, nutrition at G20 summit in Mexico

In this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, David Olson, a global development consultant, examines what non-governmental organizations (NGOs) "want to get out of the G20 Mexico on an issue that is a priority to NGOs as well as the Mexican presidency of the G20 -- 'enhancing food security and addressing commodity price volatility,' in the words of the Mexican government."

20 Jun 2012

Affordability of diarrhea treatment offers hope for improving child survival

In this post in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog, Doug Horswill, senior vice president of the Canadian resource company Teck, and Venkatesh Mannar, president of the Micronutrient Initiative, which works to eliminate vitamin and mineral deficiencies in the world's most vulnerable populations, examine global efforts to end child deaths from diarrhea, a campaign they say "many are calling the next revolution in child survival."

20 Jun 2012

UMMS researcher receives Janssen Award for microRNA discovery

Longtime collaborators Victor R. Ambros, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and Gary B. Ruvkun, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, were awarded the 2012 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research today by Johnson & Johnson for their co-discovery of microRNA, tiny molecules that are now understood to play a powerful role in gene expression and regulation.

20 Jun 2012

Zimbabwe launches week-long immunization campaign with funding from Japan

"Zimbabwe embarked on a massive immunization campaign against measles and polio on Monday, targeting about two million children under the age of five," VOA News reports.

20 Jun 2012

Lobbying sinks efforts to impose restrictions on painkillers

Pharmacists and drugstores appear to have undone an effort to impose more strict controls on drug controls. Meanwhile, Accretive Health, the Chicago-based hospital-billing company which is under fire, is fighting back.

20 Jun 2012

UCSF Medical Center receives perfect score on national LGBT Healthcare Equality Index

UCSF Medical Center today became the only institution in the United States to receive a perfect score on the national LGBT Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) for five consecutive years.

20 Jun 2012

Supreme Court rules drug firms don't have to pay overtime to sales reps

The 5-4 opinion by Justice Samuel Alito says the sales representatives are not subject to the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

20 Jun 2012

NewYork-Presbyterian/WCMC join new MDS Clinical Research Consortium

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center is one of six institutions selected to join the newly-founded MDS Clinical Research Consortium.

20 Jun 2012

Kansas move to Medicaid managed care draws advice, skeptics

Kansas officials readying a move to managed care in their Medicaid program are getting an earful from a host of sources, including other state leaders who have instituted managed care.

20 Jun 2012

HCHD to offer APTA-accredited post-professional physical therapy residency programs

The Harris County Hospital District joins only one other public healthcare system in the nation to offer two post-professional physical therapy residency programs with the recent accreditation of the Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency by the American Physical Therapy Association.

20 Jun 2012

European Commission announces 40M euro increase in aid to Africa's Sahel region

The European Commission (E.C.) on Monday "announced an increase in funding to the Sahel by 40 million euros [$50.5 million] as the food crisis is set to peak in the coming weeks putting 18 million people at risk from hunger," the Guardian reports, noting that the new money brings the total amount from the E.U. to 337 million euros, or $425 million.

20 Jun 2012

Examining the decision's possible impact on voters, access to insurance coverage

A new poll finds that regardless of the Supreme Court's decision, less than a majority of Americans will be happy with the outcome. Republican voters, however, are more open to the idea of the court nullifying part of the law. Meanwhile, even if the law is upheld, an estimated 26 million people will still go without insurance, including illegal immigrants and those eligible for Medicaid but who don't enroll.

20 Jun 2012

Lack of time, training among top barriers to counseling in primary care setting

Lack of time, knowledge and training in health promotion and lack of success with changing patient behavior were among the top barriers to including effective physical activity counseling in the primary care setting, according to research by The University of Texas School of Public Health, part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

20 Jun 2012

Anti-health law spending far outpaces ads for the law; Obama campaign wooing Hispanics

With anticipation building for the Supreme Court decision on President Obama's healthcare reform law, a survey has found that advertising purchases opposed to the law more than tripled those in support of it, $250 million to $76 million.

20 Jun 2012