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California Voters Approve Bond Measure To Fund Children’s Hospitals
California residents on Tuesday voted to pass Proposition 61, an initiative that would authorize the state to issue $750 million in bonds for construction, expansion and renovation of state children’s hospitals, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Newspapers Assess Outcome of Ballot Measures as a Test of Governor’s Influence on Voters
California residents on Tuesday voted in line with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) recommendations on three of five health-related ballot measures, showing that state voters “overwhelmingly backed” the governor in the first test of his “influence,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
CMS Administrator Announces Proposals To Expand Medicare Coverage of Cancer Treatments
CMS Administrator Mark McClellan on Monday announced several proposals that would broaden Medicare’s coverage of cancer treatments, the New York Times reports.
Schwarzenegger Campaigns for Repeal of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage Law, Other Ballot Measures
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Monday concluded his campaigning with “an uphill dash throughout California” to promote his views on some measures on the Nov. 2 statewide ballot — including health-related initiatives — and to lend support to five Republican state legislative candidates, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Breast, Cervical Cancer Program Treats About 10,000 Women in California
About 10,000 women in California have received treatment for breast or cervical cancer under a two-year-old program funded by the state and the federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act, according to a report released this week by the Kaiser Family Foundation and George Washington University, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Merck Vaccine Could Reduce Risk of Cervical Cancer, Study Says
None of the women who received Merck’s experimental vaccine against the most common strain of the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus developed lesions that are a precursor to cervical cancer, according to a study presented on Monday in Washington, D.C., at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, USA Today reports.
Presidential Candidates Discuss Health Care Issues in Final Campaign Speeches Before Election Day
President Bush in a campaign appearance in Milwaukee on Monday “plugged” his enactment of a new Medicare prescription drug benefit as the fulfillment of a campaign promise that he made in 2000, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
USA Today Features Bush, Kerry Opinion Pieces on Present Positions on Health Care, Other Issues
USA Today on Tuesday featured opinion pieces by President Bush and Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.), in which both candidates present their positions on various issues, including health care.
JCAHO Identifies Problems at Four Los Angeles County Hospitals, Considers Sanctions for Harbor-UCLA
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations last week announced that its unscheduled inspections of four Los Angeles County hospitals in October “turned up some problems but none as severe as those at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center,” which is expected to lose its JCAHO accreditation early next year, the Los Angeles Times reports.
San Jose Hospital Expected To Limit Services for Medi-Cal Beneficiaries
Regional Medical Center of San Jose on Monday will “almost certain[ly]” stop accepting “a major form” of Medi-Cal, the San Jose Mercury News reports.