Reuters - Enrollment in Medicaid, the healthcare program for the poor, showed the sharpest annual rise last year since the late 1960s, a report said on Thursday, blaming the effects of the recession.
Health
NIH joins patent pool for AIDS drugs (Reuters)
Reuters - The United States National Institutes of Health said on Thursday it will share intellectual property rights on some AIDS drugs in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available to the poor.
China experts design gel to protect women from HIV (Reuters)
Reuters - Scientists in China and Hong Kong are designing a gel containing an experimental drug which they hope can reduce HIV infections in women.
SAfrican AIDS orphans aging (AP)
AP - When the Mohau children's home opened in 1997, orphans with AIDS died every other day. But these days, not one child has been lost in seven years — and as they age with the help of drugs they face the teen complexities of dating and sex.
Kids with ADHD more likely to have missing DNA (AP)
AP - Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are twice as likely to have missing or extra chromosomes than other children — the first evidence that the disorder is genetic, a new study says.
Child nutrition bill stalls in House (AP)
AP - First lady Michelle Obama's campaign for healthier school lunches has stalled in Congress after anti-hunger groups and more than 100 Democrats protested the use of food stamp dollars to pay for it.
Fetal Origins: How the First Nine Months Shape Your Life (Time.com)
Time.com - Cancer. Heart disease. Obesity. Depression. The new science of fetal origins traces adult health to our experience in the womb
DR Congo children turn to acrobatics to survive (AFP)
AFP - Jonas, 12, finishes his performance balancing on a tall tower of large jam tins, his arms stretched out and his feet wrapped over his head.
J&J CEO faces U.S. lawmakers over string of recalls (Reuters)
Reuters - Johnson & Johnson's massive recall of faulty medicines, including a quiet buyback of its Motrin painkiller, has angered U.S. lawmakers who will question the company's chief executive and a senior health regulator on Thursday.
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