Health care disparities remain between white and minority children, but the gaps narrowed over the past 20 years, according to a report sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development and released on Wednesday by the New America Foundation,
The governors of Delaware and Georgia recently released their fiscal year 2009 state budget proposals. Summaries of health-related budget issues appear below.Delaware: Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) on Thursday proposed a $3.4 billion operating budget for the next fiscal year that includes additional spending on Medicaid, the
The number of new HIV cases reported in South Korea in 2007 decreased for the first time since the country recorded its first case in 1985, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Korea Times reports. According to the CDC report, HIV incidence in 2007 decreased by 0.8% compared with 2006.
The defeat of a $14.9 billion proposal to overhaul California’s health care system “underscores a difficulty states face in achieving universal insurance coverage” and “their inability to slow the upward trajectory of health care costs,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Marian Mulkey, senior program officer at the
California health insurance regulators on Tuesday issued a $3.5 million fine against PacifiCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, the Sacramento Bee reports (Chan, Sacramento Bee, 1/30). The state
The New York Times on Tuesday in its health section published several articles related to women’s health. Summaries appear below.
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Tuesday won the Florida Republican presidential primary with 36% of the vote, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 31%, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani with 15% and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 14%, CNN.com reports (CNN.com, 1/30).
Widespread sexual assaults during postelection violence in Kenya have resulted in an estimated 950 new HIV cases during the past two weeks in the capital of Nairobi, Murigi Kinyanjui, CEO of Nairobi-based Crime Scene Investigations, said on Monday, the East African Standard/AllAfrica.com reports (Mwai, East African Standard/AllAfrica.com, 1/29).
Researchers studying the cardiovascular effects of World Cup soccer matches on residents in Bavaria, Germany, found that the rate of heart attacks and other coronary events in men was three times higher, and in women was nearly two times higher, on days when Germany was playing, suggesting the emotional stress of watching their national team compete caused the events.
The recent finding that the risk of developing ovarian cancer declines the longer a woman takes oral contraceptives is “worth celebrating, partly because health claims about the pill are often much harder to parse,” Slate columnist Amanda Schaffer writes in an opinion piece (Schaffer, Slate, 1/29).