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Rapid Methods To Detect Microorganisms In Food: K-State To Host Workshop
Kansas State University once again is host to a noted microbiology workshop that helps the scientists who test food and other samples for microorganisms. K-State"s 29th annual Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology workshop will be June 19-26.
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Senate Bill To Protect Patients' Healthcare By Amending Medicare Coverage
The U.S. Senate has introduced a bill, S. 1221, "The Medicare Prompt Pay Correction Act," a companion bill to H.R. 1392, which was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and currently has 45 co-sponsors.
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Obama Leaves Door Open To Tax On Health Benefits
"President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected the idea of fully taxing Americans" employer-provided health insurance benefits, but suggested he might be persuaded to tax so-called Cadillac coverage ... in the interest of a compromise with Congress," McClatchy/The Star-Telegram reports. The President, speaking at a "town hall-style event" taped at the White House and aired on ABC News, "said he would prefer to pay for expanded coverage by eliminating some deductions for higher-earning taxpayers but that "there"s going to have to be some compromise." The President "said he understands Americans" trepidation about changing the system: "They know that they"re living with the devil, but the devil they know they think may be better than the devil they don"t." He said any reform would be phased in, not happen overnight" (Talev and Lightman, 6/24).
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Drugs Can Eliminate River Blindness, Study Finds

The disease onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, can be eliminated using drugs, according to a WHO study, BBC reports. The disease, which infects about 37 million people worldwide, is caused by a "nematode worm that can live inside the human body for years" and is transmitted to people through the bite of a black fly, the news service writes. The worms spread through the body and when they eventually die, the human immune system "reacts fiercely," which "destroys living tissue - especially the eye," according to BBC (7/21). The study findings were published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. According to a WHO release, the "multi-country study showed that treatment with ivermectin stopped further infections and transmission" in three endemic areas in Mali and Senegal (7/21). For years, scientists have known that drugs can control the disease. "But now they believe it can be eliminated," writes BBC. The study found that "after 17 years of treating the entire community with the drug ivermectin regularly, few infections remained." In addition, follow-up studies did not turn up additional infections. Although, it is "not yet clear whether the same success can be repeated in other endemic areas," researchers "say an important principle has been established. It is possible to wipe out a disease that has a terrible impact on entire communities," according to BBC (7/21). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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