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| State urged to review fees to elite hospitals | | Boston Globe | | Leaders of some large academic medical centers and community hospitals called for Governor Deval Patrick to examine how Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, and a few other institutions are able to obtain higher prices from health insurers even though there is, especially for the most common procedures, often no demonstrated difference in the quality of the care delivered by those hospitals. | | | | Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition | | New York Times | | WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry said Wednesday that it would support a health care overhaul requiring insurers to accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability. But in return, the industry said, Congress should require all Americans to have coverage. | | | | Weight Loss Surgery Helps Obese Women Have Healthier Babies | | New York Times | | Women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies and healthier babies than do obese women who become pregnant, researchers reported on Wednesday. | | | | Plastic Surgery Below the Belt | | Time | | On the youth sex-education website Scarleteen.com, dozens of teenage girls can be found commiserating about their labia. | | |
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| Obama’s Pick of Daschle May Test Conflict-of-Interest Pledge | | New York Times | | WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of former Senator Tom Daschle for secretary of health and human services posed new questions on Wednesday about how broadly the new administration would apply Mr. Obama’s campaign promises to limit potential conflicts of interest among his appointees. | | | | What Happy People Don’t Do | | New York Times | | Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. | | | | Europeans Announce Pioneering Surgery | | New York Times | | PARIS — Physicians at four European universities have successfully transplanted a human windpipe, using stem cells from the recipient’s own bone marrow to reline a donor trachea and prevent its rejection by her immune system, according to an article in the British medical journal The Lancet. | | | | States lacking in children's mental health care | | USA Today | | Publicly funded mental health care for children has improved in the past 25 years, but top officials in more than one out of five states say no child with serious mental disorders receives good care in their states, a report says today. | | |
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