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'Consumer-Directed' Plans Rise In Popularity As Businesses Scramble To Cut Health Costs
High-deductible health insurance plans coupled with health savings accounts (tax-advantaged funds for covering medical costs), are becoming the plan of choice for Connecticut"s small businesses newly offering insurance to employees, Hartford Business reports. The plans, called "consumer-directed health plans," make up 60 percent of the insurance company Aetna"s new small business sales. Nationally, the number of people with these plans rose from 3.2 million in 2006 to eight million this year.
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Dems' Health Care Reform Plans Would Include Abortion Coverage, Washington Times Opinion Piece States
As lawmakers work to pass health reform legislation, "few are talking about" the "essential question" of whether "health reform will force taxpayers to pay for abortions for the first time in 30 years," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins writes in a Washington Times opinion piece. According to Perkins, "the short answer is yes" because there is no "explicit provision" in any Democratic health plan that would "[p]revent taxpayer funding of abortions as part of the health care benefit Congress is considering"; avert "delays in health care services that result in the death of the patient waiting for care"; or allow health care providers "to refuse to participate in health care-related action that violates their conscience." Perkins continues that the House"s reform proposal would provide federal coverage for ""family planning," the well-worn buzz word that includes abortion unless specified to the contrary." He adds that "it would be naive to assume, unless there is an explicit prohibition in the bill, that [HHS] Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will not use her discretion to fund abortions with taxpayers" money." Perkins also writes that the Democratic reform plans, "in short, ... attempt to be silent on the key question of whether or not to allow the U.S. government to fund abortions with taxpayers" money," and also give the HHS secretary "the power to allow taxpayer-funded abortions."He writes, "The Family Research Council"s answer is clear: There must be a permanent prohibition on taxpayer-funded abortions," as well as "provision to allow a right of conscience for doctors and nurses and other health care providers" to refuse to participate in treatments they oppose. He adds that "there can be no system of denial or delay or rationing of care." Perkins concludes, "Euthanasia by any other name is a poison pill in the health reform debate" (Perkins, Washington Times, 7/5)
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Kinex Pharmaceuticals To Present At ASCO 2009 Annual Meeting
Kinex Pharmaceuticals will present results from a Phase 1 clinical study with KX2-391, at the ASCO 2009 Annual Meeting in Orlando, on May 29, 2009. The study was carried out at MD Anderson, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and Fox Chase Cancer Center. Dr. Alex Adjei, the Principal Investigator from RPCI will deliver the presentation entitled "Results of a phase I trial of KX2-391, a novel non-ATP competitive substrate-pocket directed SRC inhibitor, in patients with advanced malignancies."
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Swedish University President Awarded Prestigious Distinction

Karolinska Institutet accounts for almost half of the academic medical research conducted in Sweden, and contributes regularly to new discoveries that save lives and alleviate suffering. Today, the university"s president, Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, is to receive an honorary distinction for eminent women in science by Exploratorium, the renowned American science museum. This year, a committee at the Exploratorium Museum of Science and Human Perception in San Francisco has selected outstanding women from diverse fields, who are then honoured for their exceptional impact in science and their ability to inspire others. Apart from the Karolinska Institutet president, this year"s list of recipients include Google"s deputy CEO Marissa Mayer and particle physicist Helen Quinn of the SLAC national accelerator laboratory in the US. "Karolinska Institutet"s international commitment has been strengthened and intensified over the past few years, and this, I think, is one of the reasons that they"ve chosen to include me amongst these eminent women," says Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson. "If we"re to have real successes improving human health, research must be conducted with cross-border cooperation." Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson is a professor of physiology, and was appointed president of Karolinska Institutet in 2004 - the first woman ever to lead Sweden"s only medical university. Throughout her term of office, she has represented Swedish research in a wide range of significant contexts, including as a member of the Swedish Government"s Globalisation Council and the EU"s Expert Group for competitive research environments. "I feel very honoured to receive this distinction," she says. "What I find particularly gratifying is, perhaps, that my work inspires other women in research. But I"d also like to see this is as recognition of everything that Karolinska Institutet"s scientists and employees have achieved in terms of improving human health around the world." Karolinska Institutet


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