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Today's Opinions: Helping Small Business Afford Health Care; Improving Hospital Infection Rates; Paying For End-Of-Life Planning
Boosting Health Insurance Access Kansas City Star Small business owners understandably are nervous about changes coming with health care reform. But then again, health care headaches are nothing new in their world. The good news is that recent studies suggest the new Affordable Care Act is likely to help people who work for small businesses...
Drug-Resistant Malaria Suggests A Health Policy Change For Pregnant Women And Infants
Malaria remains a serious global health problem, killing more than one million people per year. Treatment of the mosquito-borne illness relies on antibiotics, and the emergence of drug-resistant malaria is of growing concern...
Multi-Resistant Skin Bacteria Spreading In Hospitals, Sweden
Genetically closely related skin bacteria that have developed resistance to several different antibiotics and that can cause intractable care-related infections are found and seem to be spreading within and between hospitals in Sweden. This is established by Micael Widerstrom in the doctoral dissertation he is defending at Umea University in Sweden...
Turning A New Page On Antibiotics
For 70 years the world has mismanaged the common good of antibiotics. The result is a growing global burden of antibiotic resistance, threatening to take health care back to an era where ordinary infections might once again become fatal...
Also In Global Health News: India's Antibiotic Use; Abstinence Curriculum In China; Child, Maternal Health In India; Plumpy'nut; PEPFAR Funds - Uganda
India To Review Antibiotic Use; Japan Detects Resistant Gene Originally Found In South Asia "The health ministry has formed a committee to frame a policy for antibiotic use, following an uproar over a Lancet study that traced a drug-resistant bacterial superbug's origins to India," LiveMint.com reports...