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Scientists And Clinicians Meet To Understand "Rain Man"
UQ"s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) will host a workshop tomorrow Tuesday July 14 for clinicians and scientists seeking to better understand the syndromes associated with a brain development condition made famous in the movie Rain Man.
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Obama "Flexible" On All But One Issue: Passing A Reform Bill
"President Obama urged lawmakers Wednesday to work through partisan differences that are threatening health care legislation" at a White House meeting, the Associated Press reports. Members of both parties, who in recent days have been increasingly divided over issues like the prospect of a public insurance plan, were upbeat about the meeting, according to the AP: "A senior Republican who recently criticized Obama also sounded positive. "The president, I thought, was very flexible except on one thing, and that was getting it done," said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. "When the president is flexible on controversial things ... I think that that"s good news.""
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NICE Acknowledge Alzheimer's Model Faulty, But Do Not Plan To Change Reccomendations, UK
Eisai Limited, the licence holder of Aricept® (donepezil hydrochloride) and Pfizer Limited, its co-promotion partner, have been notified by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) of their decision to continue to deny vulnerable patients the use of anti-cholinergic medicines in the treatment of mild Alzheimer"s disease.
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Indian Government Asks UNICEF To Stop Distribution Of Nutrition Aid

"India has asked UNICEF to stop distributing millions of dollars worth of nutrition aid to children, saying it had been done without permission and at the expense of local food to fight hunger," Reuters reports. Since August 2008, UNICEF has invested about $2.4 million importing "a high energy relief treatment known as "Ready to Use Therapeutic Food" (RUTF)" for children with severe acute malnutrition in the states of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, according to the news service (Williams, 8/4). The Indian government said that UNICEF had failed to inform them about the importation of the RUTF Plumpy"nut this year, and the government objected to the treatment because it was unconvinced the product works and wanted UNICEF to find "Indian alternatives," the Times reports. The Times reports that the issue illustrates how efforts to end malnutrition in India are often held up by red tape and a long-standing "desire to maintain food security and avoid depending on foreign aid." The article includes additional comments by a malnutrition experts on the ground in India who acknowledged that UNICEF should have gotten the necessary permissions from the government for importing Plumpy"nut, but believe the Indian government is overreacting (Page, 8/5). According to Reuters, UNICEF says it has a "strong working relationship" with India"s health ministry. ""Children with severe acute malnutrition are at risk of imminent death and need immediate, life-saving treatment," UNICEF said in a statement, adding the treatment was sanctioned by the WHO. "Family foods or supplementary foods are not enough; these children need very specific treatment for their condition,"" Reuters writes (8/4). In related news, "India is emerging as the global centre of hunger and malnutrition, failing to eradicate hunger for large sections of its population of more than 1.2 billion," despite the region"s economic growth, according to a recent survey, the Irish Times reports. The report, "based largely on data collated from government surveys, shows India"s annual per capita food consumption has decreased from 186kg per person in 1991 to 152kg in 2001, despite state subsidies." The report also found "more than 200 million people - or one-in-four Indians - remain hungry," the publication reports (Bedi, 8/5). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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