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Health Secretary Announces New Measures To Tackle Serious Failures In NHS Foundation Trusts
Learning from the failings identified at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Health Secretary Andy Burnham announced a package of measures to tackle exceptional failures in Foundation Trusts.
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Cancer Risk May Be Greater With Insulin Analogue Glargine
The risk of cancer possibly increases if patients with diabetes use the long-acting insulin analogue glargine instead of human insulin. The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), in collaboration with the "Wissenschaftliches Institut der AOK" (WIdO), the research institute of the German Local Health Care Fund, analysed the data of almost 130,000 patients with diabetes in Germany who had been treated with either human insulin or the insulin analogues lispro (trade name: Humalog), aspart (Novorapid) or glargine (Lantus) between January 2001 and June 2005.
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Afinitor(R) Phase II Data Show Positive Results For Patients With Multiple Types Of Lymphoma, Leading To Phase III Trial
New data show that Afinitor(R) (everolimus) tablets significantly shrunk tumors in 33% of patients with relapsed non-Hodgkin"s lymphoma (NHL) and Hodgkin"s disease(1). Based on results from this study and other early-stage research, Novartis has initiated a Phase III trial in the most common NHL, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
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California Advocates, Lawmakers Raise Concern Over Governor's Cuts To HIV/AIDS, Health Care Services

There is growing concern among California HIV/AIDS advocates "that the Golden State will reverse course and see spikes in new HIV cases after Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week further slashed the state Office of AIDS budget in order to deal" with a more than $20 billion deficit, the Bay Area Reporter reports (Bajko, 7/30). David Brinkman, executive director of the Desert AIDS Project in Palm Springs, which provides services to people living with HIV in the area, said, "This is the worst-case scenario cut. It"s going to cut, possibly eliminate [HIV] education" (Brambilla, Desert Sun, 7/29). Schwarzenegger made the cuts by line-item veto, which, according to the California Constitution, "allows a governor to reduce or eliminate "items of appropriation" without vetoing an entire bill," the San Francisco Chronicle reports. "Democratic leaders now question whether their reductions in such services as in-home care and AIDS prevention were "items of appropriation" that the Republican governor could legally cut further," according to the Chronicle. State Assembly member John Pç©rez (D), who chairs the Democratic caucus, said he has sought legal counsel on the matter (Egelko, 7/30). Other lawmakers said they will fight to restore some of the cuts to health care services ("L.A. Now," Los Angeles Times, 7/28). This information was reprinted from dailyreports.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at dailyreports.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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