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• Republicans aim for rival health plan in House
• HHS Strengthens HIPAA Enforcement
• Hospitalized Children Without Insurance Are More Likely to Die, a Study Finds
• Senate Confirms Regina Benjamin as Surgeon General
• Virulent Strain of MRSA Resists Treatment

• Covidien gets approval for generic pain drug Actiq
• Byetta Approved For Expanded Use As First-Line Treatment For Type 2 Diabetes
• Study Finds Stroke Risk From Anemia Drug Aranesp
• Tamiflu stockpile released for kids

• Retail Clinics Move Further Into Health-Care Mainstream

1. Republicans aim for rival health plan in House
   Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to offer an alternative to Democrats' massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House Republican leader said on Sunday.
   Reuters
   
   
2. HHS Strengthens HIPAA Enforcement
   The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an interim final rule with request for comments today to strengthen its enforcement of the rules promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
   Medical News Today
   
   
3. Hospitalized Children Without Insurance Are More Likely to Die, a Study Finds
   Uninsured children who wind up in the hospital are much more likely to die than children covered by either private or government insurance plans, according to one of the first studies to assess the impact of insurance coverage on hospitalized children.
   The New York Times
   
   
4. Senate Confirms Regina Benjamin as Surgeon General
   The U.S. Senate has confirmed Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, a family physician in an Alabama Gulf Coast shrimping town, as Surgeon General of the United States.
   MedPage Today
   
   

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5. Virulent Strain of MRSA Resists Treatment
   New research holds bad news for health officials worried about a potentially lethal infection called MRSA that haunts hospitals: A strain that infects the bloodstream is five times more deadly than other strains.
   HealthDay
   

1. Covidien gets approval for generic pain drug Actiq
   Covidien PLC said Friday it expects to start selling a generic version of the painkiller Actiq in early 2010.
   Associated Press
   
   
2. Byetta Approved For Expanded Use As First-Line Treatment For Type 2 Diabetes
   Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Eli Lilly and Company announced that the FDA has approved an expanded indication for Byetta (exenatide) injection.
   Medical News Today
   
   
3. Study Finds Stroke Risk From Anemia Drug Aranesp
   A new study raises fresh safety concerns about widely used anemia medicines, finding that the drug Aranesp nearly doubled the risk of stroke in people with diabetes and chronic kidney problems who are not yet sick enough to need dialysis.
   Associated Press
   
   
4. Tamiflu stockpile released for kids
   Swine flu is sickening so many children across the United States, some of them fatally, that federal health officials decided Friday to release the last of the national stockpile of children's Tamiflu.
   The New York Times
   

1. Retail Clinics Move Further Into Health-Care Mainstream
   Over the past couple years, retail clinics have had their ups and downs; CVS temporarily closed 90 of its MinuteClinics earlier this year, and many of the clinics in Wal-Mart stores shut down when the companies that ran the clinics went out of business.
   The Wall Street Journal
   

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