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News bites: US lags behind ever more countries on newborn mortality
The United States has slipped 13 places, to 41st, over the past 20 years in the worldwide ranking of newborn mortality, according to a new report by the World Health Organization and Save the Children. The report found that the United States reduced its newborn mortality rate by 26 percent over that time period, slower than the global average of 28 percent.
Stimulus support for unemployed people’s health insurance ends today, Kaiser Health News reports.
Kansas is postponing its healthcare exchange until the courts decide if the healthcare reform law is legal, reports Kansas’s LJWorld.com.
Presidential candidate Rick Perry is an “anti-choice zealot,” argues The New Republic.
The Daily Caller unearths Perry’s past support for Hillary Clinton’s effort to reform the healthcare system.
Gary Schwitzer’s HealthNewsReview blog pours cold water on reports linking chocolate to heart health.
India is closing its traditional Ayurvedic medical colleges that don’t meet national standards, reports BioPharma Today.
Healthcare workers are more likely than other Americans to use alternative medicine, according to U.S. News & World Report.
India doesn’t have drug advertising, but at least 100,000 traveling salespeople make their case in 20-second pitches to doctors, Bloomberg reports.
The Center for Health Media Policy interviews health policy reporter T.R. Reid about a PBS documentary he’s working on that examines U.S. health systems that provide good care for less money.
