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Michigan Lawmakers Approve Request For State Health Agency To Use Private Funds For HIV/AIDS Program
The Michigan Department of Community Health recently received approval from state lawmakers to use $3.2 million in private funds to support the state"s AIDS Drug Assistance Program, the AP/Detroit News reports. Michigan"s House and Senate Appropriations Committees also approved requests by other state agencies to shift funds as a means to continue public programs that were affected by budget cuts ordered last month (Eggert, AP/Detroit News, 6/4).

For America's Aged, Surgery At Any Price?
When doctors decide whether or not to go ahead with an expensive surgery, "age is no longer the deciding factor, even for invasive treatment such as open-heart surgery," The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. One question is "whether this never-too-old approach is an example of U.S. medical progress, or an example of why Medicare -- federal health insurance for people over 64 -- is headed for insolvency. The answer, experts say, is both. Which is why the current debate over expanding federal coverage to all uninsured Americans is an ethical and economic minefield. "Forty years ago, it was taken for granted that the elderly were not good candidates for organ transplantation, dialysis, or advanced surgical procedures. That has changed," Daniel Callahan, cofounder of the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in Garrison, N.Y., wrote recently. "Under the best of circumstances, age should be irrelevant in the Medicare program. But so far, the cost of care has not been considered, and it can hardly remain irrelevant in a program strapped for money.""
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Affymax Announces Data Monitoring Committee Review Of Phase 3 Hematide Program
Affymax, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFY) announced that the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC), which provides oversight for the Phase 3 program for Hematide™, has completed another review and has informed the company that the cumulative safety data generated thus far from the EMERALD and PEARL Phase 3 trials support continuation of the studies. In the Phase 3 program, Hematide is being evaluated to treat anemia in chronic renal failure patients on dialysis and not on dialysis.
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Nursing Shortage Leads To More Students, New Training Programs

"Long second shrift to other medical training, nursing education has taken on new relevance as the country faces a drastic shortage of nurses and a thin job market overall," The Dallas Morning News reports. "Colleges are quickly expanding their programs to encompass lengthy waiting lists. And (Texas) Gov. Rick Perry has just approved $5 million to establish a regional nursing education center at the University of Texas at Arlington, a crucial re facility for the area"s 14 nursing schools. But right now demand exceeds space." Mounting interest creates a challenge in "finding enough training venues and equipment necessary for teaching this specialized profession. "Everyone has the same problem," said Robert Rosseter, associate executive director for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in Washington, D.C. "There are more students but not enough faculty and clinical sites." Texas alone had to send away 8,000 qualified applicants from nursing programs last year, according to the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council" (Meyers, 7/8). Also, high school students are playing an increasing role also as they look for a career with stability, The Tacoma (Wash.) Weekly reports. "As part of MultiCare Health System"s sixth year of Nurse Camp, about 100 students were able to get exposed to all aspects of health careers within the hospital setting during a four-day interactive tour July 7-10." "Many of the students at this year"s camp knew they wanted to work in the health care field, but they were not sure exactly what that meant for them. Attendees used Nurse Camp as an exploratory tool to sharpen their ambitions in health care. In recent years the country has faced a nursing shortage, which was one prompt for Nurse Camp to start six years ago. Organizers hoped that getting more people exposed to health care, especially nursing careers, at younger ages could increase and diversify the nursing workforce" (Jensen, 7/9). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.

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