A report released found that Governor Blunt’s proposal to provide health coverage to uninsured Missourians would fail to restore coverage to many of those who lost it after the dramatic Medicaid cuts in 2005 and would cover too few of the 700,000 uninsured Missourians who desperately need coverage.

Researchers in New Zealand have discovered that calcium supplements may increase the risk of heart attack in healthy postmenopausal women.The study is published online today, Wednesday 16th January, in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and is the work of researchers at the University of Auckland.

The Washington Post on Tuesday examined how some college graduates are “defying the norm for their class and age group” by having children in their late 20s. New data from CDC’s

California would lose about $1.5 billion in federal matching funds for health care services and other programs under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) proposed fiscal year 2008-2009 budget, according to an analysis by the Assembly Budget Committee, the Sacramento Bee reports (Whitney, Sacramento Bee, 1/15). Under the proposed spending plan, funding for

Nearly one-third of college-aged women who have had just one sexual partner contracted human papillomavirus within one year of becoming sexually active, according to a study to be published this week in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the Canadian Press/CBC News reports.For the study, Rachel Winer of the

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Friday examined how a new CMS competitive bidding rule “has some small medical suppliers … worried that they’ll be locked out of a market that historically has provided a third or more of their business” (Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/11).

Three Broward County, Fla., residents on Friday filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration alleging that a Medicaid pilot program improperly keeps beneficiaries in unsuitable health coverage, the AP/St. Petersburg Times reports (AP/St. Petersburg Times, 1/13).

CMS on Monday announced it will accept public comment on a proposal to provide some Medicaid beneficiaries with a cash allowance to hire personal care workers, CQ HealthBeat reports.

Tracking the location and availability of resources such as hospitals, transportation equipment and water during an emergency situation can be life-saving.A collaborative mapping tool developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is helping emergency management officials better coordinate event and incident planning - and real-time response.

Every year, 759,000 children with asthma may be at risk of a major asthma attack while they have no health insurance. About 30 percent of those families earn more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, putting them above the threshold for the state children’s health insurance program in most states.”Too many children with this chronic condition are without insurance at some point during the year,” said Jill Halterman, M.D., M.P.H.