Public Health Woefully Underfunded in Administration's Proposed Budget

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bush administration's proposed fiscal year 2009 budget puts the health of millions of Americans at risk by failing to adequately invest in disease prevention and health promotion activities, the American Public Health Association (APHA) said to...

Orphanage Receives Nearly $1 Million from Private Donor

... and often don't even know their names. It is a heart-wrenching scene. Throughout the world, millions of children without parents are crammed into underfunded orphanages where caregivers come and go and human contact is brief and impersonal. No names. No eye contact. It is, essentially, life on an assembly l...

Advocates for Health Millennium Development Goals Unite to Demand World Leaders Honor Funding Commitments

... Health in the USA. The U.S. President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been flat funded for three years; the G-8 countries have underfunded the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by $4 to 9 billion; donor country promises to fund maternal and child health and sexual and reprodu...

New Letter to Rangel, Waxman, Miller from National Seniors Coalition Outlines Concerns With House Tri-Committee Health Reform Bill

...te funding for Medicare is made more urgent by the fact that two thirds of nursing home elderly are Medicaid beneficiaries and Medicaid is chronically underfunded by as much as $4 billion a year. "This gap has widened despite Congress' efforts to provide additional Medicaid funding in the stimulus bill, since ma...

Reglan Adverse Events More Than Doubled from 2006 to 2008

...n guide that discusses the risks associated with these drugs,” says Mulderig. “Unfortunately, these measures taken by the understaffed and underfunded FDA come much too late for the individuals who have already developed tardive dyskinesia or NMS from the long-term use of Reglan.” About His...

Pew Report Documents Challenges Faced by Philadelphia in Paying for City Workers' Pensions and Health Care

...ation to past and current city workers. The fund has not been this severely underfunded since 1996, and there is little prospect that the picture will brighten app...sburgh is one of the few major cities whose pension funds are more-severely underfunded than Philadelphia's. And various state and local governments are trying to ...

Proposed Senate Health Care Cuts Will Reduce Health Care Access for All Michigan Citizens

...nd $80 million in federal matching funds). "We understand that the state is in a financial crisis, but further cuts to Michigan's already grossly underfunded health care infrastructure will cause real, human suffering in every one of Michigan's 38 Senate districts," said MHA president Spencer Johnson. "Cuts...

TFAH Applauds 'Affordable Health Choices Act' for Making Prevention a Cornerstone of Health Reform

...$10 billion per year, over and above current FY 2008 levels of funding for prevention, wellness and public health. Public health has been chronically underfunded for decades, and the core infrastructure of the system needs to be modernized. SUPPORTING PREVENTION BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE D...

Analysis of FDA Adverse Events Data Reveals at Least 106 Serious Conditions Reported Among Reglan Users

...n guide that discusses the risks associated with these drugs,” says Mulderig. “Unfortunately, these measures taken by the understaffed and underfunded FDA come much too late for the individuals who have already developed tardive dyskinesia or NMS from the long-term use of Reglan.” About His...

EO Medicaid Cuts Would Harm People

...n, the elderly, and the disabled to see a doctor in our state," Sandler said. "The human toll of cuts, at this time of the year, to an already grossly underfunded Medicaid budget would be significant." The governor recently noted that cuts to the "important" must be made to "fund the essential." Funding to ...

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Lupus Foundation of America Fosters the Next Generation of Lupus Researchers by Awarding Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowships to Five Students

...Foundation's national research program, Bringing Down the Barriers , also supports important studies in areas of research that have been neglected or underfunded in the past, including pediatric/adolescent lupus, lupus in males, and mid-to-late stage translational research. The program also provides research g...

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NIH awards $6.5 million grant to UT Southwestern to develop new antibiotic

...am, scholars early in their careers received $50,000 annually for five years from the nonprofit foundation to support research in areas that are often underfunded or not funded by traditional sources. She was also named a 2006 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases. Schola...

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The Industry Impact of Two Big Pharmas Mating

... While this gave Sanofi some U.S. presence (as opposed to no U.S. presence previously), Kodak had never really figured out how to fix an ailing and underfunded Sterling Drug. This, by the way, was the company that launched analgesic acetaminophen overseas much before Johnson and Johnsons McNeil launched and m...

Start-ups grow up

... where it can make a differencewith customer acquisition and retention. Of the companies I've met these last months, more than half are unfunded or underfunded by institutional investors. They have learned to "squeeze a nickel until Washington cries," as one start-up CEO put it. They don't have fancy offices,...

Stem-cell research gets grant from M.J. Fox Foundation

...ement. "We've made cell transplantation a top priority because we view it as a high-potential avenue of Parkinson's disease research that is currently underfunded by the federal government." Zhang was one of four scientists to receive Cell Line II grants, which totaled $1 million. The other recipients were Er...