Kansas Senate Passes SCHIP Expansion Bill That Would Extend Coverage To 5,500 Children The Kansas Senate on Wednesday voted 30-8 to approve legislation that would phase in a $14 million SCHIP expansion over two years, the AP/Wichita Eagle reports. The bill would increase the income eligibility threshold next year to 225% of the federal poverty level and to 250% of the poverty level in 2010.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFDA To Review Merck's Application To Expand HPV Vaccine Gardasil's Approval To Older Women FDA has granted priority review status to Merck's application to expand marketing of its human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil to women ages 27 to 45, the company said Wednesday, Reuters reports. The designation means that an FDA decision could come within six months, according to Reuters. currently is approved by the FDA for use by girls and women ages nine to 26 (Reuters, 3/19).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com St. Jude Researchers Believe Molecular Science Could Further Improve Leukemia Survival The dramatic increase that has occurred in the cure rate for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) will be difficult to replicate in older patients without considerable additional research, according to an article by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital authors that appears in the March 22 issue of the Lancet.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comProcess Discovered To Disrupt Hepatitis C Virion Production HCV is a significant human pathogen, infecting more than three percent of the world's population. The incidence of infection in the United States has been estimated to be as high as 4 million cases.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comKaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Recent Budget Developments In Alabama, Maine, Maryland Summaries of recent news about state budgets in Alabama and Maine appear below.Alabama: Gov. Bob Riley's (R) proposed $1.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com'National Silence' On Sexual Behavior, Race, Poverty Contributes To High Rates Of HIV, Other STIs, Opinion Piece Says The "national silence" on issues such as sexual behavior, race and poverty has contributed to the high rate of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among teenagers in the U.S.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comInsights Into Genes Unique To Humans Among the approximately 23,000 genes found in human DNA, scientists currently estimate that there may be as few as 50 to 100 that have no counterparts in other species. Expand that comparison to include the primate family known as hominoids, and there may be several hundred unique genes.
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