Florida state agencies will circulate applications and information about enrolling in KidCare at community events and school-related activities in an effort to enroll more qualified children in the program, the AP/Florida Times-Union reports. KidCare is Florida’s version of SCHIP (AP/Florida Times-Union, 8/8). [click link for full article]

Gliomas are highly malignant and invasive tumors with tendrils that extend far from the primary tumor site, rendering conventional therapies ineffective and leading to an invariably poor prognosis. [click link for full article]

More than three dozen House members on Aug. 2 sent a letter to the Social Security Administration asking the agency to clarify that Medicare does not cover long-term care, CQ HealthBeat reports. The bipartisan letter urges SSA Commissioner Michael Astrue to include in Social Security statements sent annually to 143 million U.S. [click link for full article]

Although many women and girls in Sierra Leone undergo female genital cutting, legislators hoping to be elected to the country’s Parliament on Saturday are not speaking out against the practice, Inter Press Service reports. According to [click link for full article]

Many people are choosing alternative, natural therapies for the treatment of their allergies and asthma. But how good are these therapies? Are they safe? How do they measure up to…

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D) on Wednesday signed an executive order that will create a panel to distribute $7.5 million in health grants to rural communities over a period of six years, the Denver Rocky Mountain News reports. [click link for full article]

Former acting CMS Administrator Leslie Norwalk said this week that many scenarios might occur in efforts to pass legislation that would reauthorize and expand SCHIP, CQ HealthBeat reports (Carey, CQ HealthBeat, 8/9). Senate legislation ( [click link for full article]

Risk of a common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears to escalate when even one partner is African-American, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Boston.”When a pregnant woman has bacterial vaginosis, her risk of preterm birth goes up,” said Hyagriv Simhan, M.D., M.S.C.R. [click link for full article]

When a woman receives a breast cancer diagnosis her entire life may change in the blink of an eye. But the nature of that change is governed by the smallest alterations that take place within the proteins of the tumor cells, determining what treatments she can pursue with a hope of cure and those to which her cancer is resistant. [click link for full article]

Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on Thursday during a forum in Las Vegas, Nev., sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists said that she does not support “socialized medicine,” the [click link for full article]