Medical Health

With Congress out of session for a week, Obama urged participants at a question-and-answer session in a Washington suburb to be wary of “scare tactics” and hugged a woman who said she did not have health insurance or money of her own to treat a tumor.
“You are what is going to drive [...]

The increase would give the FDA $3.2 billion in fiscal year 2010, which starts October 1, compared with $2.7 billion in 2009.
The FDA regulates products that make up about one-quarter of the U.S. economy and also deals with food safety issues, tainted drugs and drug side effects.
It has been stretched [...]

The Washington Post reported late Tuesday that this would mark the first time the government has asked its citizens to get more than one flu vaccine a year.
Experts are looking at who ought to get the swine flu shots and whether vaccine makers can make both 180 million doses [...]

Speaking at the White House, Obama said he wants Americans to know the government is doing “whatever is necessary” to contain the emerging health threat, which was blamed for a U.S. death for the first time Wednesday.
Obama said his thoughts and prayers were with the family of the 23-month-old child in Texas who became [...]

“We are closely and continuously monitoring the emergent cases of this virus throughout the United States,” Obama said in remarks at the White House before leaving on a one-day trip to Missouri.
“This is obviously a serious situation. Serious enough to take the utmost precautions,” Obama said.
He urged state and local [...]

Both posts, as undersecretary at the Agriculture Department, require Senate confirmation. USDA is expected to spend more than -65 billion this fiscal year on nutrition programs such as school lunch and food stamps.
Concannon is director of the Iowa Department of Human Services, which is responsible for Medicaid, food assistance and low-income programs. [...]

* Says policy differences could be bridged
* Concerned ideological opposition could thwart agreement
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama’s top healthcare adviser said on Wednesday she was optimistic the White House and congressional Democrats could overcome opposition by Republicans and insurers to a proposed new government-run health [...]

Dr. David Blumenthal will become the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, charged with implementing health information technology provisions of Obama’s recently passed economic stimulus package. Blumenthal was most recently director at an institute for health policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, and also led an information technology program at Harvard. The government [...]

Dr. David Blumenthal will become the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, charged with implementing health information technology provisions of Obama’s recently passed economic stimulus package. Blumenthal was most recently director at an institute for health policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, and also led an information technology program at Harvard. The government [...]

“I think it’s a major first step. Other than when Hillary Clinton tried and failed, I haven’t seen any other politician take the initiative to seriously get healthcare under control,” said George Oparanozic, a 46-year-old history teacher at a community college, while grading papers a coffee shop in Oak Park, Illinois. “It looks [...]