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Multi-Agency Working Needed To Tackle 'Worryingly High' Prison Deaths
Mental health care must improve to halt the staggering number of suicides occurring in prisons, new research has revealed.
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Dietitians Of Canada Says Posting Calories And Nutrients On Menus May Help Canadians Make Healthier Food Choices
Does posting calories on restaurant menu boards help Canadians make healthier food choices and possibly prevent obesity? Dietitians of Canada says yes - providing nutrition information in restaurants, including calorie and nutrient content of food served, is one step that may help promote healthier choices. However, a review of the evidence on this issue by Dietitians of Canada (DC) underscores the fact that there are no simple solutions to the complex issue of obesity prevention; a variety of approaches are needed. One such solution is to ensure that settings in which food choices are made, including restaurants and fast-food establishments, support healthy eating. Longer term evaluation of these types of labelling initiatives are needed before we can say whether providing calorie and nutrient information in these settings will affect obesity rates.
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START Trial Will Show Whether Therapeutic Vaccine Stimuvax Has Potential To Extend Lung Cancer Survival Beyond Five Years
Of all cancers, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents one of the greatest unmet needs for an effective and life-prolonging treatment. The condition, which accounts for 85 per cent of all lung cancers - roughly 1.4 million worldwide each year - is rarely diagnosed at its earliest and most potentially curable stage when it is amenable to surgical resection. Most patients are diagnosed when the tumour has already advanced to stage III, where it has invaded the chest tissues or mediastinal lymph nodes and is inoperable, or to stage IV where it has spread to other organ sites. Around 30 per cent are diagnosed at stage III and 40 per cent at stage IV. Both stages carry a poor prognosis. From stage III, and following chemo and radiotherapy treatment, median survival has been at best only between 13 and 18 months.
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Senate Finance Dems Back Public Plan, Blue Dogs Back Away

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Finance Committee expects the Senate"s health care overhaul proposal to include a public health insurance plan, Dow Jones Newswire reports, adding that Baucus was "following the lead of President Obama and drawing a line in the sand on the controversial issue." The President strongly supported the public option in a letter to senators Wednesday. Members of the Finance Committee have been ""really working together on a bipartisan basis," [Baucus said,] but fissures on the public plan were tough to ignore," Dow Jones reports. "Despite a growing partisan gulf on the issues of a public option and an employer mandate, the Senate Finance Committee appears to be moving full speed ahead on its version of the health legislation" (Yoest, 6/4). In announcing his expectations for the public option, Baucus said the "government"s thumb" would be "very, very light," Modern Healthcare reports, suggesting that the plan would operate more like a private insurer (DoBias, 6/4). The Blue Dog coalition, a voting block of fiscally conservative House Democrats, said Thursday they would only support a public plan if it is restricted to operating in a manner similar to private insurance plans, CQ Politics reports. "Among their requirements: The public plan must negotiate payment rates with providers; participation in the plan must be voluntary for both providers and patients; premiums and copayments under the plan must pay for its operations; and the plan must follow the same actuarial standards and regulations required of private insurers ... Politically, the Blue Dogs" document sets the coalition"s 51 members squarely at odds with a group of 78 liberals in the House who have cosponsored legislation John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., that would expand Medicare to all Americans and outlaw most private insurance" (Wayne 6/4). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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