President Obama on Wednesday nominated Francis Collins, a physician and genetics researcher, to be NIH director, the Washington Post reports (Brown, Washington Post, 7/9). Collins worked at the agency during the administrations of former Presidents Clinton and George W.
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Changing Humanitarian Messaging Could Save More People In a New York Times opinion piece, columnist Nicholas Kristof says G8 leaders are “collectively so far behind in meeting humanitarian aid pledges,” and asks why it is easier “to try to assist a stranger before us” than “to donate to try [...]
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In an interview to be published in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses the role of female justices on the court, including the effect on issues related to reproductive rights. When asked if “part of a future feminists legal wish list” could include “repositioning Roe [v.
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama’s visit to Africa this weekend “will send a powerful message to the world about their commitment to ensuring Africa’s continued progress,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) writes in an opinion piece in The Hill.
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The World Food Programme (WFP) issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for $23 million in “financial support from international donors for food aid to Yemen specifically targeted at women and children,” AFP/Google.com reports. The agency said that the “figure represents 42 percent of the 55 million dollars that it needs for the current year to [...]
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WHO Launches International Network To Take On Noncommunicable Disease The WHO on Wednesday launched an international network of leading health organizations and experts from around the world in an effort to “unite” and “scal[e] up world action to combat noncommunicable diseases, which cause some 38 million deaths annually,” Xinhua/People’s [...]
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Wednesday unanimously ruled to lift an injunction blocking Washington state officials from penalizing pharmacists who refused to dispense the emergency contraception pill Plan B, the Los Angeles Times reports (Williams, Los Angeles Times, 7/9).
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Tuesday signed into law a bill (HB 517) that expands health care provider “conscience” protections beyond abortion to also include refusals to provide emergency contraception or participate in certain other procedures, the
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US researchers have recently confirmed the findings of an earlier smaller study they published last year that suggested women with a history of migraine are likely to have a lower risk of developing breast cancer. They estimated that among both premenopausal and postmenopausal women with a [...]
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HOUSTON (MedPage Today) — The 30-day mortality rate after heart attack is more than twice as high at some hospitals than others, according to a massive analysis of Medicare data.
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