Arkansas Organization To Launch Campaign To Increase Enrollment In SCHIP; New Jersey Report Finds New Federal SCHIP Rules Would Affect Enrollment
Summaries appear below of recent news about children's health coverage in Arkansas and New Jersey.Arkansas: The Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families last week announced plans to launch a statewide three-year effort to increase enrollment in ARKids First by about 22, 000 children, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
AARP Launches Campaign To Lobby Against Medicare Premium Increases
AARP has launched a multimillion dollar campaign called "Keep Medicare Fair" to lobby Congress to eliminate Medicare premium increases from a bill proposed by Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.), The Politico reports. The bill would fund the delay of a scheduled 10.
Editorials Examine Efforts To Overhaul Health Care In Florida, New Jersey
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published two editorials examining efforts to overhaul health care in Florida and New Jersey. Summaries appear below.Florida: Gov. Charlie Crist's (R) observation that state regulations increase the cost of health insurance premiums "qualifies as a revelation in the policy world of health insurance, " according to a Journal editorial.
U.S. Government Underfunding American Indian Health Care By 2B, Opinion Piece Says
"American Indians are the only population born with a legal right to health care" in the U.S., yet death rates "from preventable causes like diabetes, alcoholism and mental illness are dramatically higher among American Indians than the rest of the population, " Donald Warne, president and CEO of American Indian Health Management & Policy, writes in a Billings Gazette opinion piece.
Grassley Inquiry Into Fast-Tracking Of Drug Applications Could Hurt Cancer Drug Development, Patients, Op-Ed States
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Yale Researchers Clear Up Alzheimer's Plaques In Mice
Blocking a common immune system response cleared up plaques associated with Alzheimer's Disease and enabled treated mice to recover some lost memory, Yale University researchers report Friday in the journal Nature Medicine.
Promoting Physical Activity With A Public Health Approach
Nearly 50 percent of Americans are not active enough for optimal health and disease prevention. This staggering statistic served as a launching point for public health advocate Barbara E. Ainsworth, Ph.D., MPH, FACSM, who delivered a President's Lecture at the 55th American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
Beneficial Bacteria And Inflammatory Bowel Disease
A naturally occurring molecule made by symbiotic gut bacteria may offer a new type of treatment for inflammatory bowel disease, according to scientists at the California Institute of Technology."Most people tend to think of bacteria as insidious organisms that only make us sick, " says Sarkis K.
GPC Biotech Announces Data From Several Satraplatin Clinical Trials To Be Presented At ASCO Annual Meeting
GPC Biotech AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: GPC; NASDAQ: GPCB) announced that data from several satraplatin clinical trials will be presented at the 44th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting taking place in Chicago, Ill., May 30-June 3, 2008.
NIMS' Acceleration Platform Technology Effective In Severe Experimental Hemorrhagic Shock
Marvin A Sackner, M.D., Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Board of Directors, Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, Inc. [NIMS] (OTCBB:NIMU) announced that Dr. Jose A Adams, Dr. Uryash and their group at Mount Sinai Medical Center of Greater Miami presented two papers at the 9th Scientific Congress of the European Resuscitation Council held in Ghent, Belgium from May 21-24, 2008.