News outlets focus on lawmakers, including Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. Roll Call: “Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) on Thursday called on Democratic leaders to strip special deals awarded to his colleagues from the final, negotiated health care reform package, although he stopped short of saying he would vote against the bill [...]

President Barack Obama promised to wage “a great campaign” in support of health reform, and he praised lawmakers who made “tough choices” with possible electoral consequences during the House Democrats’ annual retreat Thursday on Capitol Hill, The Washington Post reports (Bacon, 1/15). The president said, “If Republicans want to campaign [...]

Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey writes about a key regulatory question involved in health reform. “The fight over whether states or the federal government will have more clout in a proposed health insurance marketplace is escalating – and the outcome has big implications for consumers” (Carey, 1/14). Read entire story. This information [...]

The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Stupak: Two More Years?!?” Kate Harding, Salon’s “Broadsheet”: Harding writes that welcoming antiabortion Democrats like Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) into the party sends the message that it is willing to compromise its platform whenever “screwing over women is in our best interest.” Harding writes that the [...]

Education officials have determined that Noble High School in North Berwick, Maine, can receive federal funds to pay for contraceptives and sexually transmitted infection screenings, Foster’s Daily Democrat reports. School officials originally believed the facility’s reproductive health center was ineligible for Title X money because the school board had stipulated the center could not offer [...]

President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders on Thursday reached a tentative agreement on a proposal to tax high-cost insurance plans, making progress on one of the major differences between the Senate and House health care reform bills (HR 3590, HR 3962), the New York Times reports (Pear/Greenhouse, New York Times, 1/15). However, negotiators must continue [...]

Swapping a daily glass of wine for a slightly weaker one could be enough to lower the risk of some cancers, claims a charity.

A technique which may remove the need for matched bone marrow transplants for patients is used in humans for the first time.