Connecticut House Majority Leader Christopher Donovan (D) on Tuesday asked Gov. Jodie Rell (R) to delay implementing a new health plan for uninsured adults because of concerns that it could disrupt care for children in low-income families, the Hartford Courant reports. The administration plans to merge the new Charter Oak health plan with

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D) on Tuesday signed into law 11 health care bills, including measures to expand coverage requirements and increase children’s access to care, the AP/Denver Post reports. One of the measures (

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Some 15-25% of enhancing small renal masses are benign on final pathology. Modern imaging and biopsy techniques now afford more accurate percutaneous tumor sampling than in the past. Differentiation of oncocytoma from chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, however, remains a challenge. Kauffman and colleagues report on their experience with KAI1, a tumor suppressor gene that appears to be expressed preferentially in chromophobe RCC (in 87.

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Researchers from Madison, Wisconsin investigated the common association of adenocarcinomas with chronic inflammation and re-activation of developmental signaling, which suggests conserved cellular responses during the biological processes of inflammatory injury repair, organ development, and initiation or progression of carcinoma. Despite these conserved features, no analysis of inflammatory mediator expression during normal organ development has been reported.

Walgreen has agreed to pay $35 million to settle allegations that the company improperly switched the form of generic medications prescribed to Medicaid beneficiaries to receive higher reimbursements from the program, the Hartford Courant reports (Levick, Hartford Courant, 6/5).

Senate Finance Committee Republicans, led by ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), on Wednesday released an outline of legislation that would halt a 10.6% reduction in Medicare physician fees scheduled to go into effect July 1, among other provisions, CQ Today reports. The bill will compete with legislation

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Has BCG worked? In order to allow the urothelium to recover from the immunotherapy insult, the urologist often has to wait several weeks before the patient can be evaluated cystoscopically and cytology can be obtained. Whitson et al. demonstrate that FISH performed on a voided urine sample 1 week after BCG therapy had sensitivity that was similar to cystoscopy+cytology performed at 6-weeks following the intravesical therapy cycle.

Competitive bidding program: House members on Monday in a letter asked leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Health Subcommittee to pass legislation to delay for one year the first phase of a competitive bidding

The Senate on Wednesday voted 48-45 to approve a $3.1 trillion fiscal year 2009 budget resolution (S Con Res 70), which includes large increases in funds for domestic programs and excludes reductions in funds for Medicare and Medicaid proposed by President Bush, the

A school-based HIV/AIDS education program in Bali, Indonesia, is being hampered by low participation from schools on the island, Oka Negara, an organizer for the program, said Monday, the Jakarta Post reports. “Most schools are hampered by financial problems,” Negara said, adding, “They can’t finance the program.