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UQ Researchers Awarded Australian Stem Cell Funding
Two University of Queensland researchers will drive the translation of stem cell biology into economic benefit through their leadership of new research programs, announced by the Australian Stem Cell Centre.

Hispanics In Massachusetts Less Likely To Visit Physicians, Survey Finds
Hispanics in Massachusetts are less likely than whites to have visited a physician in the last year, according to a survey that was funded by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Springfield Republican reports. The survey also found that Hispanics were about twice as likely as whites to visit an emergency department for a nonemergency condition. The survey, which was conducted last fall, included 4,041 adults ages 18 to 64 in Massachusetts. Overall, the survey found that people living in western Massachusetts had more difficulty accessing health services than people living in other areas of the state, in part because of a shortage of primary care physicians. While the survey found that nearly all state residents have health insurance, more than 25% of residents in four western counties reported that providers either would not accept their insurance or were not accepting new patients. The survey did not find significant differences across the state in the ability of residents to pay medical bills. In addition, the survey did not find any evidence that health care costs are more of a burden to Hispanics and blacks than to whites (McAuliffe, Springfield Republican, 5/28).
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CNN Examines Efforts To Prevent Nursing Shortages In Malawi

CNN examines Malawi"s efforts to address its shortage of nurses. Though in the past, health workers "have been lured abroad by the promise of higher wages and better working conditions," the country has succeeded in putting a stop to "its crippling brain drain of nurses" by expanding "educational opportunities for nurses at all levels" and by "paying modestly more money," CNN writes. In the late 1990s, registered nurses were leaving the country "in droves," which prompted Ann Phoya, the former head of nursing services in Malawi and other Ministry of Health members to apply for about $160 million, primarily from the Department for International Development of the U.K., for a six-year initiative, according to CNN. The money was used to increase nurses" salaries, and "the number of registered nurses leaving Malawi fell from a high of 111 (the equivalent of two years of Malawi"s entire nursing graduates) in 2001 to just six in the first half of 2008. Enrollment at Malawi"s nursing schools jumped up by 50 percent," the news service reports. However, the success of that plan brought about a different problem that is particularly acute in rural areas -- "internal brain drain," CNN writes. "As more international aid groups and universities set up health programs in Malawi, they are hiring nurses, all trained at Malawi taxpayer expense, away from publicly funded hospitals and clinics," according to CNN (Gorman, 7/30). 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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