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Researchers study health gap between people of high and low SES in China

Studies in the United States have long shown that rich people tend to be healthier than poor people, and that this "health gap" between the haves and have-nots gets worse as people get older. But is that because the U.S. is a capitalist society? Apparently not. A new study from North Carolina State University shows that the same is true in China.

16 Mar 2010

Milwaukee community healthcare centers awarded $1M to increase access to primary care

The GE Foundation–the philanthropic organization of GE– and the GE Corporate Diversity Council today announced the award of $1 million in total to four Milwaukee community healthcare centers toward the goal of increasing access to primary care for uninsured and underserved populations across the city.

16 Mar 2010

U.N. Secretary-General visits Haiti to monitor international aid response

During his second visit to Haiti since the January earthquake, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "promised Haitians on Sunday that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence in teeming camps for the homeless," the Associated Press reports (Katz, 3/14).

16 Mar 2010

GAVI calls meeting with existing, potential donors

The GAVI Alliance has "asked existing and potential donors to a meeting in The Hague on March 25 and 26 to challenge them to 'make a strong impact' on childhood death rates," Reuters reports. "GAVI, which is supported by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and vaccine makers, says it has 40 percent of the $7 billion it needs between now and 2015 to help" immunize of millions of children in developing countries by 2015, according to the news service.

16 Mar 2010

KHN column: Can incremental health reform provide a path forward?

In this Kaiser Health News column, Gail Wilensky writes: "As we await another historic vote in the House on whether lawmakers will support the Senate version of reform, it's worth asking whether incremental reform would have been a better path" (3/15).

16 Mar 2010

Elmora Healthcare selects Authentidate's Inscrybe Healthcare for expediting care order processing

Authentidate Holding Corp., a worldwide provider of secure Health Information Exchange, workflow management services and telehealth solutions, today announced that Elmora Healthcare, a supplier of home medical equipment, medical supplies and care services, selected Authentidate's Inscrybe® Healthcare web-based service to expedite processing of patient care orders with referring physicians.

16 Mar 2010

Senate Parliamentarian Frumin could referee overhaul battle

Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin, a veteran master of civil procedure who first joined the office he now leads in 1977, will be center stage if Democrats use a tactic known as budget reconciliation to avoid filibusters as they seek to push through a final health overhaul, The New York Times reports.

16 Mar 2010

JAOtech opens new U.S. headquarters in Trumbull, Connecticut

JAOtech Ltd. has announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Trumbull, Connecticut. The facility serves as JAOtech’s sales, marketing and technical support centre for the United States and Canada. JAOtech Corporation, the company’s wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, has an installed base of more than 13,000 terminals in North America.

16 Mar 2010

President delivers emotional speech, pushes for reform in Ohio

The Associated Press: "With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress, pledging it would make preventive care cost-free and close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage. 'This proposal adds almost a decade of solvency to Medicare,' Obama said in a visit to a senior center."

16 Mar 2010

F1000 adds new Otolaryngology section to support extensive medicine coverage

Faculty of 1000 Biology, the award-winning literature awareness service for the life sciences, has launched the much anticipated Otolaryngology Faculty.

16 Mar 2010

Obama's legacy and democrats' electoral fates tied to overhaul, observers speculate

If Democrats fail to pass health legislation, the loss could have lasting consequences for a president whose supporters have become accustomed to victory, Time writes. "If the President fails to win the upcoming series of congressional votes designed to get health care legislation to his desk, it will be a calamitous failure for his presidency and for him personally, dwarfing the potholes he has hit during his first bumpy year in office.

16 Mar 2010

Aegis Health Group releases PRISM software to help hospital leaders improve physician relationships

Aegis Health Group, the nation's leading healthcare business development company, announces new software to help hospital leaders improve physician relationships, track referral patterns, better manage physician issues, and gain market intelligence. PRISM™, Aegis' proprietary physician relationship management software, is a browser-based database and contact-management program that can be customized to fit the unique needs of each hospital.

16 Mar 2010

Major Catholic health group support Democrats' health reform

Catholic World: ''Breaking with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the president of the Catholic Health Association has endorsed the Senate health care reform legislation that is scheduled to be voted on by the House of Representatives this week."

16 Mar 2010

GOP criticizes House Dems likely 'self-executing rule' for health reform consideration

"House Republicans say they cannot block a Democratic maneuver that would allow Members to avoid a separate vote on the Senate health care bill. 'There is nothing that can prevent it,' said Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the Rules Committee."

16 Mar 2010

Health care sparks battles between state, federal legislation

USA Today: "In a backlash against President Obama's health care legislation that stretches from Virginia to California, lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are scrambling to undercut the bill before it even passes Congress." Legal scholars say that state legislation isn't the final word, however. "The state measures are likely to be challenged in court, setting up new legal battles over whether federal law can trump state laws.

15 Mar 2010

Issues over abortion, reconciliation rules remain in the path of health reform vote

A host of political challenges and possible pitfalls awaits lawmakers as they push toward a final vote on health reform -- among them, abortion, reconciliation rules and immigration.

15 Mar 2010

Gardasil vaccine: Two complaints filed in Washington Federal Claims court

Anapol Schwartz attorneys Lawrence Cohan and Melissa Fry Hague recently filed two Gardasil vaccine complaints – one on behalf of a Kensington, Calif., family, whose 15-year old daughter died after suffering from severe adverse reactions, and another on behalf of a 19-year old Lapeer, Mich., woman, who has a chronic, autoimmune disorder. The cases, filed in The Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., seek recovery under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

15 Mar 2010

Experts discuss PEPFAR funding in congressional hearing

At a recent hearing of the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, "[i]nternational health organisations working to help check the spread of AIDS in Africa said meagre increases in funds from the U.S. government this year would be a step backwards. Some experts also emphasised that prevention must get appropriate attention in any fight against the disease," Inter Press Service reports.

15 Mar 2010

Economists, Dems differ on who's to blame for insurers' rate hikes

Democrats assailed health insurers for hiking rates in recent weeks to gain popular momentum for their health overhaul, but health economists say insurers did cause high health costs, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The economists "contend that insurance companies, while often meriting criticism for their practices, aren't to blame for high health care costs."

15 Mar 2010

Also in Global Health News: East Africa food security; Issues with humanitarian aid; Texting to fight counterfeit drugs

The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) meeting this week in Kigali, Rwanda "will provide a forum for experts, government ministers, regional economic communities and other stakeholders to discuss how best to handle the food security issue in" East Africa, New Times/allAfrica.com reports. The U.N. Economic Commission for Africa's Sub-Regional Office, East Africa (SRO-EA) will host the meeting. "East Africa is the sub-region most affected by food insecurity," according to an SRO-EA report, New Times/allAfrica.com writes (3/13).

15 Mar 2010

Healthcare News

Researchers study health gap between people of high and low SES in China

Milwaukee community healthcare centers awarded $1M to increase access to primary care

U.N. Secretary-General visits Haiti to monitor international aid response

GAVI calls meeting with existing, potential donors

KHN column: Can incremental health reform provide a path forward?

Elmora Healthcare selects Authentidate's Inscrybe Healthcare for expediting care order processing

Senate Parliamentarian Frumin could referee overhaul battle

JAOtech opens new U.S. headquarters in Trumbull, Connecticut

President delivers emotional speech, pushes for reform in Ohio

F1000 adds new Otolaryngology section to support extensive medicine coverage

Obama's legacy and democrats' electoral fates tied to overhaul, observers speculate

Aegis Health Group releases PRISM software to help hospital leaders improve physician relationships

Major Catholic health group support Democrats' health reform

GOP criticizes House Dems likely 'self-executing rule' for health reform consideration

Health care sparks battles between state, federal legislation

Issues over abortion, reconciliation rules remain in the path of health reform vote

Gardasil vaccine: Two complaints filed in Washington Federal Claims court

Experts discuss PEPFAR funding in congressional hearing

Economists, Dems differ on who's to blame for insurers' rate hikes

Also in Global Health News: East Africa food security; Issues with humanitarian aid; Texting to fight counterfeit drugs

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