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Tavenner: Final exchange rule release just weeks away

Modern Healthcare and CQ HealthBeat report that the final rule on health insurance exchanges will be out "very soon."

8 Mar 2012

Study: Lack of newborn care-seeking in low and middle-income countries

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Abdullah Baqui from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and colleagues systematically review studies describing newborn care-seeking behaviours by caregivers in low- and middle-income countries.

8 Mar 2012

Foreign Affairs examines how push for financial austerity is threatening global health advances

"Global health programs now teeter on the edge of disaster," Foreign Affairs writes in this feature article, adding, "The world economic crisis and the politics of debt reduction are threatening everything from malaria control and AIDS treatment to well-baby programs and health care worker training efforts." The article provides a historical overview of global health programming and funding.

8 Mar 2012

Ten tips to reduce daily intake of sodium

For people who need to cut back on their daily intake of sodium to control blood pressure and lower the risk of stroke, the key may be in home cooking.

8 Mar 2012

House GOP slows down efforts to pass legislation aimed at Obama contraception coverage rule

In related news, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is reportedly having "voter's remorse" regarding her decision last week to vote for similar Senate legislation - the Blunt amendement.

8 Mar 2012

M-FAST improves simulation education across the nursing schools

To secure a state-of-the-art education for tomorrow's nurses, Maryland's nurse educators must become masters of simulation technology. Faculty from 10 Maryland nursing schools have now learned how to incorporate simulation training in their teaching thanks to the Maryland Faculty Academy for Simulation Teaching in Nursing (M-FAST), held on January 9-13, 2012 at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

8 Mar 2012

Romney claims Ohio victory on Super Tuesday but Santorum continues to press health reform issues

Santorum uses election night speech to again assail the former governor's support of a Massachusetts health overhaul that some say was a template for the federal law.

8 Mar 2012

Health insurance: More covered young adults in Minn.; Mass. wonders if insured rate has hit ceiling

Health insurance coverage rates are making news in Minnesota and Massachusetts, where officials wonder if their 98 percent coverage rate is the best they can do.

8 Mar 2012

Texas plan to defund women's health program draws protest; Other abortion and contraception news

Texas' move and subsequently imminent loss of federal Medicaid money has sparked a protest. Lawmakers in New Hampshire and Minnesota are examining the federal contraception coverage requirement.

8 Mar 2012

UNICEF asks West African governments to prepare for cholera season to prevent widespread outbreak

UNICEF's West and Central Africa Regional Office "on Tuesday appealed to western African governments to prevent a new cholera outbreak, after the disease claimed nearly 3,000 lives there last year," Agence France-Presse reports.

8 Mar 2012

Young adults, school health centers and cost-cutting: Examining elements of the health law's implementation

News outlets report on various provisions of the health law and their impact on the marketplace and access to care.

8 Mar 2012

Journalists can now register for Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting

Journalists can register now for the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies taking place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston April 28 to May 1, 2012.

8 Mar 2012

Roundup: Calif. county mum on probe of Medicaid managed care firm; Suit alleges substandard care for Ariz. prisoners

A Ventura County commission is trying to keep secret the details of a state-ordered investigation into the management and claims procedures of a healthcare plan designed to serve the county's neediest residents. Complaints about alleged late payments and poor management prompted the Department of Health Care Services to request that auditors step in and examine the plan's financial condition and claims practices. Gold Coast Health Plan was launched last year to switch an estimated 110,000 Ventura County Medi-Cal beneficiaries into an HMO-style healthcare plan.

8 Mar 2012

March issue of NeuroPerspective reviews therapeutics for ADHD

NeuroPerspective, the independent, monthly review of the neurotherapeutics area, has released its March issue, which reviews the field of therapeutics for Attention Deficit Disorder.

8 Mar 2012

First Edition: March 7, 2012

Reporting for Kaiser Health News in collaboration with The Washington Post, Susan Jaffe writes: "In the latest effort to enlist seniors in the fight against Medicare fraud, federal officials have overhauled Medicare billing statements to make it easier to find bogus charges without a magnifying glass."

7 Mar 2012

NCGR to host eighth annual NMBIST symposium on March 22-23, 2012

The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) announced today that it will host the eighth annual New Mexico Bioinformatics, Science and Technology (NMBIST) symposium on March 22-23, 2012.

7 Mar 2012

Viewpoints: WSJ on Super Tuesday; Zeke Emanuel, NY Times on electronic health records; Iowa high-risk pool concerns

Mr. Santorum is also scoring on the stump with his warnings about the threat to freedom posed by ObamaCare. Especially if the economy improves, this will be a crucial issue for Republicans in November because it reflects the great American fault line over the role of government. Yet the issue has bedeviled Mr. Romney's because of his refusal to distance himself from RomneyCare in Massachusetts and to say more than his cursory line that he'll "repeal ObamaCare."

7 Mar 2012

Incorporating gender policy in USAID programs is 'good business practice'

USAID Deputy Administrator Ambassador Donald Steinberg writes in the White House Council on Women and Girls blog, "I am proud to say that USAID" last week released "a new policy on gender quality and female empowerment, the Agency's first in 30 years," "achieving great strides and reaffirming our commitment to close the gender gap in international development."

7 Mar 2012

GOP lawmakers face strategic fits and starts in health law repeal efforts

Meanwhile, as some House Republicans push to undo the measure's cost-cutting panel, known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, its advocates are springing to its defense.

7 Mar 2012

Study: Patients need greater access to their electronic medical data

Health care organizations need to do more to help patients realize the full benefits of electronic data from emerging health information exchange systems, according to a new study commissioned by Consumers Union that appears in the March 2012 Health Affairs.

7 Mar 2012

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Tavenner: Final exchange rule release just weeks away

Study: Lack of newborn care-seeking in low and middle-income countries

Foreign Affairs examines how push for financial austerity is threatening global health advances

Ten tips to reduce daily intake of sodium

House GOP slows down efforts to pass legislation aimed at Obama contraception coverage rule

M-FAST improves simulation education across the nursing schools

Romney claims Ohio victory on Super Tuesday but Santorum continues to press health reform issues

Health insurance: More covered young adults in Minn.; Mass. wonders if insured rate has hit ceiling

Texas plan to defund women's health program draws protest; Other abortion and contraception news

UNICEF asks West African governments to prepare for cholera season to prevent widespread outbreak

Young adults, school health centers and cost-cutting: Examining elements of the health law's implementation

Journalists can now register for Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting

Roundup: Calif. county mum on probe of Medicaid managed care firm; Suit alleges substandard care for Ariz. prisoners

March issue of NeuroPerspective reviews therapeutics for ADHD

First Edition: March 7, 2012

NCGR to host eighth annual NMBIST symposium on March 22-23, 2012

Viewpoints: WSJ on Super Tuesday; Zeke Emanuel, NY Times on electronic health records; Iowa high-risk pool concerns

Incorporating gender policy in USAID programs is 'good business practice'

GOP lawmakers face strategic fits and starts in health law repeal efforts

Study: Patients need greater access to their electronic medical data

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Automation in cell-based workflows

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