Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries (Medical News Today)

While mainstream news coverage is still a primary source of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care marketplace, online blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and drawing attention to under-reported topics.

Health and fitness (Daily Herald)

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Providing Surgical Services Worldwide Should Be A Global Public Health Priority, Experts Urge (Science Daily)

In an editorial in this week's PLoS Medicine, the journal's editors outline five key reasons why providing basic surgical services universally should be considered a global public health priority.

Polk Committee Cuts $15 Million From Health Care Spending (The Lakeland Ledger)

The Citizens Oversight Committee -- a volunteer panel that monitors money raised by the local half-cent indigent care sales tax -- found itself with little choice Monday but to accept County Manager Mike Herr's proposed cutbacks in how the money is spent.

Williams High School receives defibrillator from Texas Health Resources (Plano Courier)

Texas Health Resources launched “Gift from the Heart,” a community benefit program designed to save young lives by providing automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to 51 low-income schools throughout 20 North Texas school districts.