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Pelosi Statement On Energy And Commerce Committee Passage Of Health Insurance Reform Legislation
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement tonight on the vote by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to pass the America"s Affordable Health Choices Act, the third House committee to pass the bill this month. The House Ways and Means Committee and Education and Labor Committee approved the bill earlier this month:
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Genetic Factors Implicated In Survival Gap For Breast, Ovarian Or Prostate Cancer
A new finding reveals that African-American patients with breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer tend to die earlier than patients of other races with these cancers, even when they receive identical medical treatment and when socioeconomic factors are controlled for. The finding, an analysis of almost 20,000 patient records from 35 clinical trials, points to biological or genetic factors as the potential of the survival gap. Dawn Hershman, M.D, M.S., a Columbia University Medical Center oncologist whose research is dedicated to examining racial and ethnic disparities in cancer outcome and in cancer survivorship, was the senior author of the research published online by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI).
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Altered Micriobiome Prevalent In The Diseased Esophagus: Findings Of NYU Langone Medical Center Researchers
Gastroesophageal reflux diseases , or GERD, affects about 10 million people in the United States, yet the cause and an unexpected increase in its prevalence over the last three decades remains unexplainable. Now, researchers have discovered that GERD is associated with global alteration of the microbiome in the esophagus. The findings, reported in the August 1, 2009 issue of Gastroenterology, may provide for the foundation for further study of the condition as a microecological disease with new treatment possibilities.
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Minnesota Clinics Serving Many More Thanks To Stimulus Dollars

As Minnesota braces for some cuts to public health programs, the state"s network of community health centers is being buoyed by money from the federal stimulus that will expand coverage to the un- and underinsured in that state, The Minnesota Post reports. "Federal funding for community health centers has drawn bipartisan support in recent years in an effort to provide primary care for the uninsured in clinics instead of hospital emergency rooms, where costs run much higher - especially for those patients who have delayed treatment. In Minnesota, federally supported centers are proud of their track records in prevention, with higher vaccination rates and lower infant mortality rates among patients, for example, than the general population." "An ominous cloud for community health clinics and other providers in Minnesota is $1.1 billion in cuts to state health programs over the next biennium. Some of the cuts went into effect July 1, but many on the front lines say it"s too early to determine the extent of the impact and how far federal programs and shrinking private donations will go to fill the gap. Pain is expected, though not as much pain as originally feared." The article continues: "On the one hand, Gov. Tim Pawlenty"s $236 million in human services unallotments and his line-item veto of $381 million for the General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program are certainly worrisome on top of a $490 million reduction approved by the Legislature, observers say. Elimination of the GAMC program, which serves about 30,000 childless adults making up to 75 percent of federal poverty guidelines, is set for March 2010, which gives the Legislature a few weeks in the next session to try to resurrect the funding." MinnesotaCare, the state public insurance program for low-income residents was expanded this year, however, The Minnesota Post reports. "In Minnesota, the ranks of the uninsured seen at community health clinics have been increasing 10 percent annually since the 1990s, says Watson. These centers collectively serve 180,000 patients per year - 38 percent of them uninsured, 43 percent in public insurance programs like Medical Assistance/Medicaid and MinnesotaCare, and 6 percent on Medicare (for age 65-plus)." One Minnesota center - the Community-University Health Care Center in Minneapolis - is expecting to go from serving 8,300 in 2001 to 13,000 in 2009 because of the recession (Selix, 7/6). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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