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Policymakers Search For Ways To Anchor Ballooning Health Costs
In 1993, when President Clinton attempted to overhaul the health care system, America"s total health spending amounted to $912 billion and left 40 million uninsured, Bloomberg reports. President Obama faces a worsening situation: national health spending has more than doubled to $2.5 trillion, and the number of uninsured people has increased to around 50 million. Critics say the reforms Obama and congressional Democrats are pushing - which carry a $1 trillion price tag - would make the system cost even more. But, "[t]he experience of the 15 years since Bill Clinton failed to win passage of legislation suggests that the price of inaction may be even higher than the cost of Obama"s plan" (Benjamin and Faler, 7/28).
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Atrial Fibrillation Linked To Increased Hospitalization In Heart Failure Patients
Patients with atrial fibrillation, common in those with advanced chronic heart failure, have an increased risk of hospitalization due to heart failure, according to new research from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The findings, published in June in the European Heart Journal, also suggest that atrial fibrillation is not associated with an increased risk of death in heart failure patients, contradicting previous assumptions.
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Fighting Drug-Resistant Flu Viruses

Amid reports that swine flu viruses are developing the ability to shrug off existing antiviral drugs, scientists in Japan are reporting a first-of-its kind discovery that could foster a new genre of antivirals that sidestep resistance problems, according to an article scheduled for the July 23 issue of the ACS" Journal of the Medicinal Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication. Toshinori Sato and colleagues note in the new study that current antiviral drugs, including Tamiflu and Relenza, fight influenza by blocking key proteins that viruses need to reproduce. As the viruses reproduce, however, they can mutate into drug-resistant strains. The researchers describe discovery of a new way to prevent flu viruses from infecting cells in the first place. They identified potential drugs that can block the first step in the infection process, and demonstrated that the substances work in cell cultures. "These results may lead to a new approach in the design of antiviral drugs," they state, noting that it could be used to develop new drugs for a variety of other medical problems. Article: "Inhibition of Influenza Virus Infections by Sialylgalactose-Binding Peptides Selected from a Phage Library" http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/jm801570y Michael Woods American Chemical Society


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