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NYT Editorial Calls On Abortion-Rights Supporters 'To Make Their Voices Heard'
In the "three years since the Supreme Court's conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion, ... foes of reproductive freedom are pressing new attacks on women's rights and health," a New York Times editorial states. Utah Gov...
President Announces Plans To Crack Down On Health Care Fraud
The Boston Globe: "President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system. ... Obama's anti-fraud announcement was aimed directly at the political middle." "Waste and fraud are pervasive problems for Medicare and Medicaid. ...
Mind Calls For Regulation Of Counsellors And Psychotherapists, UK
Mind today presents new evidence to illustrate the barriers people face when trying to make a complaint about counsellors and psychotherapists and urgently calls for independent statutory regulation to help protect clients from malpractice (1)...
Supreme Court To Consider Legality Of Lawsuits Against Vaccine Makers
The Associated Press: "The Supreme Court will decide whether drug makers can be sued by parents who claim their children suffered serious health problems from vaccines...
Utah Gov. Signs Revised Bill Allowing Criminal Charges Against Women For Illegal Abortions
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) on Monday signed a bill (HB 462) that would allow prosecutors to bring criminal homicide charges against women who arrange illegal abortions, the Salt Lake Tribune reports (Gehrke, Salt Lake Tribune, 3/8). An earlier version of the bill (HB 12), sponsored by state Rep...
Violent Crime 'Race Gap' Narrows, But Persists In U.S.
The U.S. 'race gap' in the commission of violent crime has narrowed substantially, yet persists - with murder arrest rates for African Americans still out-distancing those for whites - concludes a new 80-city study by the University of Maryland, Florida State University and the University of Oregon...
Tetanus, Hepatitis Vaccination Campaign Launched In Chile Amid Fears Of Disease Outbreaks
"Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities," the Associated Press reports...
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Office Of Legal Counsel Nominee Johnsen For Second Time
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 12-7 along party lines to approve the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, CQ Today reports. The committee had already approved Johnsen nearly one year ago, but her nomination was never brought to the full Senate...
Former Deputy Kansas AG Seeks To Have Attorney Removed From Ethics Panel
Former Kansas Deputy Attorney General Eric Rucker is attempting to have Patricia Dengler, a Wichita attorney, disqualified from a panel considering an abortion-related ethics complaint against him, the AP/Fort Scott Tribune reports...
New Cases Of Genocide Often Denied After Holocaust
Experiences from the Holocaust led to the international community coming together and agreeing on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Despite this, more cases of genocide occurred during the 20th century than during any other century...
Sociology Professor Reveals That It's Who You Kill That Matters
A defendant is much more likely to be sentenced to death if he or she kills a "high-status" victim, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver (DU)...
Federal Court Rejects California Medicaid Cuts
The San Francisco Chronicle: "A federal appeals court barred California on Wednesday from lowering Medi-Cal payments to doctors and hospitals by 5 percent and from cutting in-home care workers' wages by nearly 20 percent, saying the state's budget crisis doesn't justify violating federal laws that protect the poor and disabled. In four rulings, the Ninth U.S...
Okla. Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Decision Against Antiabortion Ultrasound Law
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's decision that a 2008 state law (SB1878) with several antiabortion provisions is unconstitutional because it covers more than one subject, the Oklahoman reports (Bisbee, Oklahoman, 3/4). The law would have required an ultrasound before an abortion and would limit women's access to mifepristone, which is used in medical abortion (AP/NewsOn6...
Pelosi Signals Openness To Senate Language On Abortion Coverage In Health Reform Bill
In a press conference Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled that House Democrats might be willing to accept the Senate's language on abortion coverage and health insurance for immigrants, Roll Call reports...
Opinion Piece Takes Issue With Reasoning Behind N.C. Local Governments' Cuts To Abortion Coverage
North Carolina House Minority Leader Paul Stam (R) "is a committed, passionate and effective opponent of the right of North Carolina women to choose to terminate a pregnancy," but recently he "has turned to claimed legal mandates, that, on close reading, cannot be justified," according to a Raleigh News & Observer opinion piece by Gene Nichol, a professor of law and former ...
State Supreme Court Weighs Medical Malpractice Caps In Case That Would Impact Doctors, Patients
The Kansas Health Institute has a package of stories about a malpractice case being considered by the Kansas Supreme Court in which the justices could determine if the state's caps on medical malpractice awards are constitutional. The case involves Amy Miller, who underwent surgery to have an ovary removed. But the surgeon took the wrong ovary and later she had the second one taken out...
Medical ID Thefts Can Harm Patients' Health; Prosecutors Go After Medicare Fraud
News outlets covered different aspects of fraud in the health care system. NPR/KSMU: "Experts say a different type of identity theft is on the rise -- one that could compromise both the victim's credit and physical safety...
ABC News Examines Potential Impact Of Utah Bill To Prosecute Women For Illegal Abortions
A bill (HB 12) recently approved by the Utah Legislature that would permit criminal charges against women who seek an illegal abortion "may have opened a loophole" allowing women to be charged with murder if they experience a miscarriage because of "reckless behavior," ABC News reports...
Blogs Comment On Antiabortion Billboard Campaign, Health Reform Summit, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...
Today's Opinions And Editorials
Cobra Subsidy Is Both Generous And Necessary San Francisco Chronicle But if you never had health insurance or have been paying for an individual plan out of your own pocket, you might wonder why Congress continues to bestow this generous benefit on a select group of people who previously enjoyed group health insurance (Kathleen Pender, 3/2)...
Obama To Release Revised Health Reform Proposal On Wednesday
President Obama on Wednesday is expected to present a revised version of his health reform proposal and lay out a strategy for Democrats to move forward on the initiative, CQ Today reports (Wayne, CQ Today, 3/1)...
California Consumer Group Sues Anthem Blue Cross For Changing Policies And Then Raising Rates
Consumer Watchdog and other plaintiffs are suing Anthem Blue Cross, the California insurer that recently told policyholders it would hike premiums by 39 percent, the Los Angeles Times reports...
Dangers Of Doctors' Shorthand And Bad Writing - Diabetes UK
Inappropriate use of abbreviations and illegible writing on hospital prescription charts are leading to prescription errors, according to findings presented this week at Diabetes UK's Annual Professional Conference in Liverpool...
States Continue To Wrestle With Medicaid Spending, Budget Issues; Utah Legislation Would Criminalize Illegal Abortion
Cincinnati Business Courier: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has signed a bill that will extend the state's mini-COBRA program from 12 to 15 months for small-business employees, according to a report in Columbus Business First (3/1). The Las Vegas Sun: "A bill to save the Medicaid program an estimated $760,000 a year is headed for the desk of Gov. Jim Gibbons after three prior failures...
Utah Gov. Considers Bill To Allow Prosecution Of Women Who Seek Illegal Abortions
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) is reviewing details of a bill (HB 12) that would allow criminal charges against women who seek illegal abortions, including self-inflicted attempts to end a pregnancy, with penalties of up to life in prison, the New York Times reports. The bill was approved 59-12 by the state House and 24-4 by the state Senate...
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