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Unfazed, Republicans ready repeal Redux post-SCOTUS decision

Republicans on Thursday vowed to repeal the health care law after the Supreme Court ruling affirming the constitutionality of the law and are planning a repeal vote in the House on July 11. In the meantime, some states, including Georgia for instance, will hold off on implementing key parts of the law to see if the GOP is successful.

30 Jun 2012

How the Medicaid ruling is playing in the states

State officials offer views on their newfound options regarding the health law's Medicaid expansion. Also, news outlets report on how many people might become eligible for Medicaid and at what cost.

30 Jun 2012

Health system changes move forward

Press reports detail the steps that might happen next in terms of the health law's implementation as well as what the decision might mean for consumers.

30 Jun 2012

Supreme Court lets most of health law stand

In a decision that surprised many observers, the high court allowed the measure's individual mandate to survive as a tax but set limits on the law's Medicaid expansion.

30 Jun 2012

Immediately after the Decision: Confusion

Because two cable TV networks initially were wrong in their reports about the court's verdict, lawmakers, candidates and even the president were confused about the court's findings.

30 Jun 2012

New Lancet issue focuses on HIV ahead of AIDS 2012 conference

This week's issue of the Lancet "has an HIV theme ahead of the International AIDS Society meeting in Washington, D.C., ... on July 22-27," a Lancet editorial states, noting, "The issue of antiretrovirals for prevention, specifically pre-exposure prophylaxis, is presently under intense debate."

30 Jun 2012

'Tax' term looms over health law decision

By upholding the individual mandate as a tax, the Supreme Court's ruling on the health law could be a potent political weapon for conservatives, news organizations report.

30 Jun 2012

CEOs, NGOs send open letter to Congress asking for support of Water for the World Act

Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent the Water for the World Act (S 641) to the Senate for a floor vote, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is set to vote on a companion bill, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2012 (HR 3658), PSI's "Healthy Lives" blog notes, adding that "a coalition of CEOs of NGOs have published an open letter encouraging the House Foreign Affairs Committee to allow the bill to be voted upon in the House floor."

30 Jun 2012

Roberts' position dismays conservatives, surprises President who once opposed his confirmation

The chief justice treads a very narrow path to find the health law constitutional and helps to redefine the public's view of the court.

30 Jun 2012

States prepare new push on exchanges post-SCOTUS decision -- or grind to a halt with confusion, opposition

From the states... reactions involving confusion, celebration or stiff opposition regarding the implementation of the health law's insurance exchanges -- despite affirmation of the overhaul's constitutionality by the Supreme Court Thursday.

30 Jun 2012

Women in rural Bangladesh prefer traditional cookstoves despite significant health risks

Women in rural Bangladesh prefer inexpensive, traditional stoves for cooking over modern ones despite significant health risks, according to a Yale study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

30 Jun 2012

Longer looks: Native American rehab facility helps families in Ore.; Growing popularity of home births; Sexuality in the nursing home

Pearl Scott lifts the baby from the crib and balances the child on her hip, just as someone did with her when she was a baby 20 years ago. Her mom went through addiction treatment here in the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest's residential center. Now Scott works for NARA, operated by and for Native Americans. She helps care for the 10 children, all 5 years old and younger, of parents in treatment.

30 Jun 2012

Mothers, children in northern Mali most affected by food insecurity due to conflict, drought

"Tens of thousands of people uprooted or trapped by conflict in northern Mali are going without enough food, leading to a spike in cases of children suffering from malnutrition, medical aid groups say," AlertNet reports.

29 Jun 2012

Cooperation 'essential' to fight diseases that easily cross borders

"Cooperation is essential to combat diseases that cross national borders," Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy and a research scholar and lecturer at Princeton University, and Bryan Grenfell and Petra Klepac of Princeton University write in a SciDev.Net opinion piece.

29 Jun 2012

IAS president will use AIDS 2012 to say 'thank you' to U.S. for contributions to HIV/AIDS battle

Elly Katabira, president of the International AIDS Society and co-chair of the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), said he will use the conference as an occasion to say "thank you" to the U.S., VOA News reports.

29 Jun 2012

Gates Foundation plans to invest in biotech companies to improve global access to treatments, vaccines for infectious diseases

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "plans to take equity stakes in up to a dozen biotech companies this year, signaling a shift towards a 'venture capital' approach at the world's biggest philanthropic organization" and "marking a further move away from its traditional approach of grant-giving and towards a more business-oriented way to support the development of treatments and vaccines for infectious diseases affecting the world's poor," the Financial Times reports.

29 Jun 2012

U.N. High Level Task Force on Global Food Security to shift focus to 'Zero Hunger Challenge' initiative

"In the wake of the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's High Level Task Force on Global Food Security will be reoriented to focus on a new initiative as part of its efforts to ensure a coherent U.N. system approach to the issue of food and nutrition security," the U.N. News Centre reports.

29 Jun 2012

Decision anticipation stirs politics

On the campaign trail, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney takes a hard line against the heatlh law, saying it needs to be undone no matter what the court determines. But on the eve of the expected high court ruling, a 2006 video emerged in which then-Gov. Romney embraced the individual mandate as part of Massachusetts' state reforms. Meanwhile, the court's finding is expected to become a fund-raising boon for both presidential candidates.

29 Jun 2012

Evolution of Advanced IVDs Conference to take place on September 19-20, 2012

IVD Technology Magazine announces the Evolution of Advanced IVDs Conference on September 19-20, 2012 at the San Diego Convention Center.

29 Jun 2012

Calif. Gov. signs budget

Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill shortly before a midnight deadline. The legislature also passed a measure that kills the Healthy Families medical insurance program and moves nearly 900,000 low-income children to Medi-Cal.

29 Jun 2012

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Unfazed, Republicans ready repeal Redux post-SCOTUS decision

How the Medicaid ruling is playing in the states

Health system changes move forward

Supreme Court lets most of health law stand

Immediately after the Decision: Confusion

New Lancet issue focuses on HIV ahead of AIDS 2012 conference

'Tax' term looms over health law decision

CEOs, NGOs send open letter to Congress asking for support of Water for the World Act

Roberts' position dismays conservatives, surprises President who once opposed his confirmation

States prepare new push on exchanges post-SCOTUS decision -- or grind to a halt with confusion, opposition

Women in rural Bangladesh prefer traditional cookstoves despite significant health risks

Longer looks: Native American rehab facility helps families in Ore.; Growing popularity of home births; Sexuality in the nursing home

Mothers, children in northern Mali most affected by food insecurity due to conflict, drought

Cooperation 'essential' to fight diseases that easily cross borders

IAS president will use AIDS 2012 to say 'thank you' to U.S. for contributions to HIV/AIDS battle

Gates Foundation plans to invest in biotech companies to improve global access to treatments, vaccines for infectious diseases

U.N. High Level Task Force on Global Food Security to shift focus to 'Zero Hunger Challenge' initiative

Decision anticipation stirs politics

Evolution of Advanced IVDs Conference to take place on September 19-20, 2012

Calif. Gov. signs budget

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