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Center for Global Development blog responds to NPR report on health in Afghanistan

This post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Global Health Policy" blog, Amanda Glassman, director of global health policy and a research fellow at CGD, responds to an NPR Morning Edition report on USAID's work in Afghanistan, recapping the progress the agency has made in improving health care in the country.

23 Dec 2011

Experts' debate over how trade affects food security focusing attention on Doha talks, IRIN reports

IRIN reports how "[a]n exchange between two leading world officials on how trade affects food insecurity in countries has helped focus attention on the stalled Doha trade talks."

23 Dec 2011

Investigation finds shell companies stealing millions from Medicare

Reuters reports on rampant Medicare fraud and the development of new technologies that can be used to fight it.

23 Dec 2011

Declined consent affects organ donation rates

Research published today in the British Journal of Anaesthesia suggests that organ donation rates in the UK could be increased if the current issues affecting declined consent are improved. At present, only 30% of the UK population are registered on the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR). From 2003 to 2005, the overall consent rate for donation after brain death (DBD) was 59%.

23 Dec 2011

Employment issues: A hot topic among health care workers

In Connecticut, the issue of unionizing home care attendants has sparked charged debate. Meanwhile in California, nurses - in the midst of contract negotiations - plan to picket at Sutter Health's Sacramento headquarters and nine of its hospitals; and, in Texas, nurses filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board regarding Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center's sick leave policy.

23 Dec 2011

WHO researchers release critique of methods to estimate global malaria incidence

"Richard Cibulskis and colleagues at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland present a critique of different estimation methods of the worldwide incidence of malaria in this week's PLoS Medicine," according to a post in the PLoS Medicine "Community Blog."

23 Dec 2011

Obama administration should provide food aid to N. Korea 'as soon as is practical'

Recounting the factors that led to and conditions that persisted during the North Korean famine between 1995 and 1998, New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll says in this opinion piece in the magazine, "Better harvests and international food aid ended the worst suffering by 1998. Yet chronic food insecurity and shortages persist to this day."

23 Dec 2011

AVAC report outlines science-based agenda for ending AIDS epidemic

AVAC's annual report, titled "AVAC Report 2011: The End?," "is intended as a vision and a challenge to the field, and a first step in holding all of us -- civil society, researchers, governments, and funders -- accountable for progress" toward ending AIDS, according to the AVAC website (12/22).

23 Dec 2011

PBS NewsHour examines role of religious leaders in Morocco's fight against HIV/AIDS

In this post in PBS NewsHour's "The Rundown" blog, journalist Ray Suarez reports on the role of religious leaders in Morocco's battle against HIV/AIDS and stigma.

23 Dec 2011

UNICEF aims to vaccinate 1.7M children against measles in DRC

A UNICEF measles immunization campaign in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) aimed to vaccinate 1.7 million children under age five between December 19 and December 21, IRIN reports.

23 Dec 2011

First Edition: December 23, 2011

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a variety of stories about a tax plan agreement reached on Capitol Hill that will keep Medicare's doctor reimbursements from falling for two months.

23 Dec 2011

Scientific American examines relationship between climate change, health

Scientific American examines the interface between climate change and human health, writing, "WHO research suggests that current warming of global average temperatures of just under one degree Celsius is responsible for an additional 150,000 deaths per year, largely due to agricultural failures and diarrheal disease in developing countries.

23 Dec 2011

Democrats, Republicans stand their ground on 'doc fix' positions

Congressional Democratic leaders pan the idea of a stand-alone bill for Medicare physician payments, while Republicans continue to insist on a full-year fix.

23 Dec 2011

'Dramatic gains' in fight against malaria in jeopardy due to Global Fund shortfall

In this post on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Kent Campbell, director of the Malaria Control Program at PATH, says "dramatic gains" made in the fight against malaria, and the possibility of ending the disease, are in jeopardy because the "Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which provides two-thirds of the global financing for efforts to combat malaria, is facing a financial crisis due to unfulfilled donor commitments."

23 Dec 2011

Deal may be near for House agreement on Senate bill

House Republicans will hold a conference call at 5 p.m. Thursday amid indications of a possible deal to extend the payroll tax cut before it expires on January 1, a top Republican source has told CNN. The development comes hours after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, called for a short-term extension of the tax holiday as part of a compromise, increasing pressure on House GOP leaders to end their resistance to such a step.

23 Dec 2011

Two lawyers collected $88M in fees guiding disabled Social Security applicants

Lawyers Harry and Charles Binder began representing applicants for Social Security disability benefits in the 1970s, when the field was a professional backwater. Last year, their firm collected $88 million in fees for guiding clients through the system, government data indicate, making it the nation's largest Social Security disability advocate by far.

23 Dec 2011

IOM authors disagree with HHS decision on essential benefits

Political Pro talks to researchers who helped develop the IOM recommendations for the federal government on what should be offered in health plans. At the same time, a number of media outlets look at news about the implementation of the 2010 health care law.

23 Dec 2011

Study finds limited pain education at North American medical schools

Even though pain is by far the leading reason people seek medical care, pain education at North American medical schools is limited, variable and often fragmentary, according to a Johns Hopkins University study published in The Journal of Pain.

23 Dec 2011

Viewpoints: Republicans' 'gift' to Obama; Essential benefits rule a 'lump of coal'

One photo snapped Wednesday on Capitol Hill captured the essence of Congress in 2011. It showed a group of senior House Republicans sitting on one side of a long table, waiting for their Senate counterparts to show up for a negotiating session the House had demanded. ... What viewers should really have seen in the photo was the Republican leadership team whose miscalculations may soon cause payroll taxes to go up - and unemployment benefits to be truncated, and payment rates to Medicare doctors slashed. That's on the verge of happening.

23 Dec 2011

NPR's 'Morning Edition' examines USAID's efforts to improve medical care in Afghanistan

NPR Morning Edition host Renee Montagne on Thursday spoke with Alex Thier, who oversees USAID projects in Afghanistan, about the "tremendous efforts that have been made to improve medical care in the country over the last decade," noting, "A new survey shows stunning progress in medical care in the war-torn country."

23 Dec 2011

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Center for Global Development blog responds to NPR report on health in Afghanistan

Experts' debate over how trade affects food security focusing attention on Doha talks, IRIN reports

Investigation finds shell companies stealing millions from Medicare

Declined consent affects organ donation rates

Employment issues: A hot topic among health care workers

WHO researchers release critique of methods to estimate global malaria incidence

Obama administration should provide food aid to N. Korea 'as soon as is practical'

AVAC report outlines science-based agenda for ending AIDS epidemic

PBS NewsHour examines role of religious leaders in Morocco's fight against HIV/AIDS

UNICEF aims to vaccinate 1.7M children against measles in DRC

First Edition: December 23, 2011

Scientific American examines relationship between climate change, health

Democrats, Republicans stand their ground on 'doc fix' positions

'Dramatic gains' in fight against malaria in jeopardy due to Global Fund shortfall

Deal may be near for House agreement on Senate bill

Two lawyers collected $88M in fees guiding disabled Social Security applicants

IOM authors disagree with HHS decision on essential benefits

Study finds limited pain education at North American medical schools

Viewpoints: Republicans' 'gift' to Obama; Essential benefits rule a 'lump of coal'

NPR's 'Morning Edition' examines USAID's efforts to improve medical care in Afghanistan

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