Most under-reported stories
- Cheap AIDS drugs for South America - "A South African drug manufacturer has signed an agreement with an international company allowing it to distribute an antiretroviral cheaply in sub-Saharan Africa, the companies said on Wednesday."
Health Insurance
- 4.5 Million Enrolled in Health Savings Account Plans - 4.5 million Americans are covered by lower-premium, high-deductible health insurance plans that are offered in conjunction with health savings accounts (HSAs), a 43 percent increase since last year, a new census released today by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) found.
- The face of Peachcare: Georgia's insurance for kids helps families who get by paycheck to paycheck — or don't. - Georgia's combined Medicaid and SCHIP program may be undergoing significant changes in the coming year.
- Universal Healthcare's Dirty Little Secrets - The two Michaels (Tanner and Cannon) weigh in on Universal Health Care in an April 5 opinion piece in the LA Times. The gist of their argument is that universal health care does not guarantee access to health care.
- Seattle psychologist sentenced for military health care fraud - "A Seattle psychologist has agreed to pay $510,000 to the federal government and was sentenced Friday to 12 months and one day in prison for defrauding a Defense Department health insurance program."
Health and Health Care
- Elizabeth Edwards, on campaign trail, says she let her family down - I'm personally horrified by some of her comments. I may comment a bit on this story later.
- Genetic Mutation Boosts Memory - Potentially enormous implications for genomics.
- Hot flashes may be a sign of heart disease - "Using data collected from 27,000 participants involved in the huge federal Women's Health Initiative (WHI) studies, researchers found that women who have lots of bothersome hot flashes or night sweats after menopause tend to have more of the risk factors—including diabetes and high cholesterol—that increase the likelihood of developing heart disease. The analysis also found that the hormone users with the highest risk of heart attack were those older women who continued to have hot flashes after the age of 60 or more than 10 years after the start of menopause."
- Indonesia Upsets Flu Vaccine System, Demands Glaxo, Sanofi Pay - "Indonesia is disrupting the 50-year-old system that supplies the world with flu vaccines by demanding compensation from drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Novartis AG."
- Opportunistic Chlamydia Screening 'Not Underpinned by Sound Evidence' (Forbes, Newswise) - "Population-wide screening programs for chlamydia, the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease, may not actually work, a Swiss expert contends."
- New study shows hormones' risks overstated for some - "In a postscript to a landmark study five years ago that led millions of women to abandon hormones during menopause, a new review suggests the heart risks for this group of women were overstated."
- Computers faulted in spotting cancer - "A good mammogram reader may do just as well at spotting cancers without expensive new computer systems often used for a second opinion, a new study suggests."
- Strep Vaccine for Kids Cuts Pneumonia Even Among Adults - "Evidence continues to mount that the use of the new pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is sharply reducing the rate of pneumonia in young children -- and even in adults who have never been vaccinated."
- New flu strains 'resisting drugs' - "Tamiflu is viewed as the best weapon currently available against a flu pandemic, and is being stockpiled by governments including the UK's. But Japanese researchers found evidence of emerging resistance to Tamiflu, and a second drug Relenza."
Most over-reported stories
- A Mediterranean diet could prevent childhood asthma
- NYC eyes circumcision push to fight AIDS
- Veteran and his wife file claim for future health care outside the VA, plus damages
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