President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday pledging that no federal funding will be used for abortion under the new health bill. "The order had been demanded by a key bloc of antiabortion Democrats as the price for their support for the health bill that narrowly passed the House...
"Civil society organisations from around the world on Wednesday made a coordinated appeal to the Canadian government to help pressure the Group of Eight (G8) into fulfilling its aid commitments in the fight against AIDS," which are predicted to be over $20 billion short of commitments pledged by...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Politico: "Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas kicked off a National Governors Association summit on health care Monday with an ominous word about the date" and the need to beware the ides of March. "The governors feel like they've gotten the Brutus treatment, too." Earlier in the process, the White House...
On March 16, 2010, an anticipated 1,000 advocates will band together for lupus in person and virtually by phone, email, and through social media networks, to share their personal stories with Members of Congress during the Lupus Foundation of America's, (LFA) Twelfth Annual Advocacy Day...
The Omaha World-Herald: "In a year when flagging state and local economies forced major cuts in public health spending, federal grants for disease prevention and emergency preparedness failed to fill the breach, according to a new report from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for...
An extension of increased federal matching funds to states for their Medicaid programs is needed quickly to avert huge cutbacks in Medicaid coverage and services across the country, according to a report issued today by the consumer health group Families USA. Last year, Congress passed the...
An extension of increased federal matching funds to states for their Medicaid programs is needed quickly to avert huge cutbacks in Medicaid coverage and services across the country, according to a report issued today by the consumer health group Families USA. Last year, Congress passed the...
The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney T.D., visited University Hospital Galway where it was announced that 7.5m Euros in capital funding is being provided for the construction of a new Clinical Research Facility. Minister Harney said: "Life science industries are hugely important...
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (Aâ?¢Pâ?¢Lâ?¢U) commended President Obama for his proposal to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to $32 billion...
President Barack Obama's FY 2011 budget request for global health totals $9.6 billion and includes funding for global health activities within the State Department, USAID and HHS, the Wall Street Journal reports. "That compares with $8.8 billion enacted for fiscal 2010," according to the...
President Obama's budget proposal tops $3.8 trillion, and would draw a $1.3 trillion shortfall in 2011 despite efforts to freeze and cut spending and channel an extra $100 billion to immediately attack the high unemployment rate, The Washington Post reports. "The 2011 blueprint repeats many of...
EyeGate Pharma, a privately held venture-backed pharmaceutical company developing ocular therapeutics, announces that it has secured $22.6M in Series D venture financing -- $11M available in December 2009, the remaining $11.6M held in reserve for future use. The funding will be used to continue...
"Many of the Washington interest groups that are seeking to shape final health-care legislation in the coming weeks operate with opaque financing, often receiving hidden support from insurers, drugmakers or unions," The Washington Post reports. While the "biggest spenders in the health-care...
"Many of the Washington interest groups that are seeking to shape final health-care legislation in the coming weeks operate with opaque financing, often receiving hidden support from insurers, drugmakers or unions," The Washington Post reports. While the "biggest spenders in the health-care...
In the wake of the new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stating that autism now affects 1 in every 110 American children, Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, called on the federal government to immediately step up its efforts - and...