Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
Reuters reports on the recent efforts by India’s government to expand welfare programs throughout the country: “Since helping the Congress party win re-election last year, welfare has fast become the government’s knee-jerk answer to policy dilemmas as it tries to ease food inflation, help growth trickle down to the poor, and win hearts and minds [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries…
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
A group of health experts gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, to kick off a continental conference on maternal and child health, VOA News reports (Heinlein, 4/19). Maternal and child health experts from African Union (AU) states, U.N…
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
Demand For Drugs In Developing Countries Will Continue to Grow, Report Finds “Drug sales may grow at least 5 percent worldwide in each year through 2014 as increasing demand in developing countries offsets price drops tied to generic competition, according to [the research company] IMS Health Inc.,” Bloomberg/Business Week reports…
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
Obstetrician/gynecologist offices may be the ideal venue for boosting vaccination rates among women, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center. They reported on a successful pilot program focused on providing HPV (human papillomavirus) and Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccines to non-pregnant and post-partum women. The researchers say the program, funded by the U.S…
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
Despite a “bevy of birth control options” — ranging from pills, patches, rings and emergency contraception to longer-acting reversible methods and permanent sterilization options — “the rates of unplanned pregnancies remain high” in the U.S., Wall Street Journal columnist Melinda Beck writes…
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
As of mid-February, Bayer HealthCare faced more than 1,100 lawsuits in the U.S. from women alleging that the synthetic progestin in the birth control pills Yasmin and Yaz causes serious health programs, but various studies and experts are divided over whether the hormone poses higher risks than those in other birth control pills, the Los [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
President Obama is scheduled to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky…
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
On the subject of HIV/AIDS, “the fact is that for most new infections, the language of culpability and blame simply no longer applies,” infectious disease expert Abigail Zuger writes in a New York Times opinion piece. Although “[y]ou don’t hear much about AIDS in America anymore,” the disease “endures right here in the U.S.A…
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Hospitals would take a $142 million cut in Medicare payments in fiscal 2011 under a proposed rule issued Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and hospitals are not happy about the potential reduction.
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