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Developing World Health Care Solutions Help Some U.S. Programs
The Wall Street Journal examines how some U.S.-based health care programs are improving their treatment capabilities by learning from strategies used in developing countries. "When doctors running the AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham wanted to increase the number of patients who showed up for treatment, they turned to an unusual place for help: southern Africa," Wall Street Journal writes. By using an AIDS clinic in Zambia as a model, the Alabama clinic was able to decrease its no-show rate "from 31% in 2007 to 18% through June 2009."
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Typhoid fever is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Salmonella typhi. It is also known as enteric fever, or commonly just typhoid. Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are clinically indistinguishable diseases, collectively called enteric fever. It easily spreads through contaminated food and water supplies and close contact with others who are infected. The illness is characterized by very high fever, sweating, gastroenteritis, and diarrhea. Although typhoid is very rare in the developed world, it is still a serious health threat in the developing world. Typhoid is treatable with antibiotics.
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Wal-Mart Backs Employer Mandate On Insurance
"In a major break with most other large companies, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Tuesday told the White House that it supports requiring employers to provide health insurance to workers, a centerpiece of President Barack Obama"s effort to provide near-universal coverage to Americans," The Wall Street Journal reports. "Wal-Mart -- which provides insurance to employees and wants to level the playing field with companies that don"t -- on Tuesday delivered a letter to President Obama taking a different stance." The letter was signed by Wal-Mart Chief Executive Mike Duke, as well as Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, and John Podesta, "who led President Obama"s transition team and is chief executive of the Center for American Progress, a liberal-leaning think tank." Wal-Mart"s new stance is "a shift from its previous stance on health-care overhaul and follows years of tussles with organized labor." The Journal adds a caveat: Wal-Mart "isn"t changing its policies. The company says it supports the employer mandate because all businesses should share the burden of fixing the health-care system. ... Wal-Mart"s support for a broad mandate also appears to be aimed at beating back an alternative that may be less favorable to the company. The Senate Finance Committee is considering a measure expected to result in a more burdensome health-insurance requirement for companies that have lower-wage workers" (Adamy and Zimmerman, 7/10).
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Pharmacy Union Concerns Unfounded

Concerns raised by the Pharmacists" Division of the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia over employees being "left out" of negotiations for the Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement were unfounded, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia said today. President of the PSA, Warwick Plunkett, said the concerns were raised to stimulate a response from employee pharmacists on issues to be discussed in the CPA negotiations. "But these comments are well off target and display a lack of understanding of the CPA process and other initiatives seeking to promote pharmacists" expertise in delivering health policy priorities," Mr Plunkett said. "The Community Pharmacy Agreement is only about community pharmacy-based services and their remuneration. "Services that should be funded by government and delivered outside of community pharmacy need to be the subject of a separate agreement with the profession." Mr Plunkett said the PSA, with a membership covering 75 per cent of all practicing pharmacists including employers and employees, was well represented in the negotiating process and was well placed to look after the interests of employee pharmacists in the CPA. "Of course PSA would welcome any direct ideas or comments from all parts of its membership to guide it on stances to be taken during the negotiations," he said. Responding to APESMA concerns over the future direction of pharmacy, Mr Plunkett said: "PSA agrees that Government should be, and no doubt is, having dialogue with the other major pharmacy organisations on issues affecting the profession but not on those issues relevant to CPA. "The future direction of Pharmacy is the subject of a Green and White Paper process recently initiated by PSA and which will include input from all sectors of pharmacy during its development. "Professional services relating to Primary Health Care and Preventive Health Care delivery by community pharmacies will be put forward in the negotiations for CPA5 but could be subject to attracting funding and support from other areas." Pharmaceutical Society of Australia


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