May 19 Health Reform Pop Quiz! By Sarah Clune Can you tell the difference between the Massachusetts health reform law and the Affordable Care Act? A quiz from Politifact.com tests your knowledge of two major health reform policies: the 2006 plan passed by the… Continue reading
May 18 Doctors Detained in Bahrain Face Accusations of Medical Abuses By Talea Miller A wounded Bahraini demonstrator is taken to a hospital in Manama in February. Photo by Joseph Eid/ AFP Updated May 23 | More than 100 medical workers have been targeted and detained by Bahrain's government in recent months for… Continue reading
May 16 Early HIV Treatment an Effective — But Costly — Prevention Method By Talea Miller HIV medication. Photo by AFP/Getty Get HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral treatment. Now. That's the message from the landmark new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases showing that early treatment of HIV can help stop… Continue reading
May 13 Top Five Global Health Headlines: HIV Prevention Breakthrough; Chronic Disease Killers By Talea Miller HIV medications. Photo by AFP/Getty Early Use of HIV Drugs Could Prevent Transmission The key to slowing the spread of the HIV epidemic could lie in the medicines already being used to treat HIV positive patients, researchers at the… Continue reading
May 12 For Romney, a Health Care Conundrum Likely 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney is set to make a speech about health care. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a tough assignment Thursday when he takes the stage at… Continue reading
May 10 Appeals Court Hears Virginia Health Care Reform Challenges By Sarah Clune Updated 5:30 p.m. ET | The federal appeals panel heard more than two hours of arguments Tuesday in the two Virginia lawsuits challenging the new health care reform law. The first case up was Liberty University's, argued by attorney Mathew… Continue reading
May 06 New Plan Aims to Shift How Hospitals Are Paid for Medicare Patients By Betty Ann Bowser The federal government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is finalizing a new reimbursement plan that will determine how hospitals get paid to take care of Medicare patients. The proposed rule calls for something called "value based purchasing," which… Continue reading
May 05 Top Global Health Headlines: Pakistan Aid After Bin Laden; Doctors Detained By Talea Miller Newsstand in Lahore on Tuesday. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Bin Laden Hideout Raises Pakistan Aid Questions The revelation that Osama bin Laden was living in a Pakistani city not far from Islamabad prior to his death has some… Continue reading
May 05 3D Transistors, Fertilizer Runoff and Frappuccino Straws How Intel's 3D Tech Redefines the Transistor (FAQ) Intel* announced today it will base all upcoming processors on 3D, or tri-gate transistors. This marks a move toward computers getting cheaper and faster. But we're waging that not a… Continue reading
May 04 House Votes to Cut Funding for State Health Insurance Exchanges By Sarah Clune House Republicans advanced their latest bill to dismantle the new health care law, with a Tuesday night vote to defund state health insurance exchanges. And while it's unlikely to pass the Senate any time soon, it's part of a… Continue reading