Many of you may recall that the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) authorized childhood obesity demonstration grants aimed at developing an effective model for reducing obesity in children. Thanks to the Affordable Ca

Put your community prevention planning in high gear! After months of waiting, federal officials yesterday announced $145 million will be distributed nationally this year in Community Transformation Grants. This will make a significant investment in system

A new report suggests that despite the economic downturn, the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors in Minnesota have experienced significant growth in recent years, mirroring similar expansion in Massachusetts. These data further drain much-repeated

Another heparin-like crisis is inevitable under the current regulatory system that monitors the global drug supply, FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg said at a food and drug safety symposium last week on at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The

While the uninsurance rate for adults has risen in recent years, the opposite is true for children: fewer and fewer children are going without health care coverage. This steady decline in uninsured children is due in part to the fact that children’s publi

Here at the New England Alliance for Children’s Health (NEACH), an initiative of Community Catalyst, we have long focused on regional coalition-building. It’s been our experience, since NEACH began back in 2006, that fostering new relationships within and

What resonates more: hearing the story of one person who lacks access to affordable health care or statistics about the millions of Americans in need? A study from the University of Oregon might hold the answer. When students were told the story of a star

A couple of interesting bits around the blogosphere on the pipeline problem NIH aims to tackle that we wrote about last week. Over at Corante’s “In the Pipeline,” Derek Lowe points to a new paper out of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.

Vinson toasts anti-ACA supporters with tea Alas, the Judge Roger Vinson (Florida v. HHS) ruling is here. The Florida-led case remains the media darling of the handful of cases challenging health reform that are rolling through the Federal courts in variou