Daily Report Global Health Conversations: U.N. Women

After years in the making, U.N. Women, the U.N.’s new agency devoted to gender equality and women’s empowerment, officially got to work this month. The Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report’s Jennifer Evans spoke with Letty Chiwara, head of U.N. Women’s Africa Division, to discuss the agency’s launch and the overlap between issues relating to women’s health and their equality and empowerment…

Daily Report Global Health Conversations: The QDDR And Global Health

After the State Department released recommendations for how to improve its own effectiveness and that of USAID in last week’s Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report’s Jaclyn Schiff spoke with Jennifer Kates, vice president and director of Global Health Policy & HIV at the Kaiser Family Foundation, about the QDDR in relation to U.S…

Women's Health Policy Report Highlights Studies From Recent Breast Cancer Conference

The following summarizes findings reported last week at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. ~ Anthracyclines: New research suggests that anthracyclines — a class of chemotherapy drugs commonly used to treat breast cancer — could cause more harm than benefits for breast cancer patients because they can be damaging to the heart, the Wall Street Journal reports…

Daily Women's Health Policy Report Summarizes Opinion Pieces On Supreme Court Nomination

Several newspapers recently published opinion pieces on President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Summaries appear below.~ William Kelley,

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries

“Blog Watch” offers readers a roundup of health policy-related blog posts.Igor Volsky of the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Wonk Room looks at a Wall Street Journal