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Los Angeles County's Commission On HIV Reconsiders Plan To Cut Nutrition Programs
The Los Angeles County"s Commission on HIV this week backed down on a proposal that would have cut $350,000 from nutrition programs that serve people living with HIV, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. The commission members voted on Thursday to send the proposal back to a committee for further review after protests by food pantry clients and volunteers and staff from AIDS Project Los Angeles, Project Angel Food and other organizations attending a hearing on the issue. While this year"s Ryan White Program funds, which the county uses for its programs, were increased from last year, the bad economy and increasing medical and pharmaceutical costs for people living with HIV prompted the commission to consider using the $350,000 slated for nutrition for other services, according to the Daily News. Roughly 3,000 people use the nutrition services monthly (Abram, Los Angeles Daily News, 6/11).
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Northamptonshire Animal Feed Company Fined After Worker Falls From Height
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is reminding employers of their duties to the safety of staff following an incident in Kettering where an employee fell six foot and suffered serious injury.
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Study Says High-Cost Cancer Drugs Have Little Benefit, Strain Health System
"Crunching data from published studies, the authors found that treating a lung-cancer patient with Erbitux, a drug that costs $80,000 for an 18-week regimen, prolongs survival by only 1.2 months," the Wall Street Journal reports. The study, which estimates that the life of each American who dies or cancer could be extended by one year at the cost of $440 billion, was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Ad Update: Religious Groups Back Reform, Unions Target Senators' Tax Plans

"Labor unions are showing their increasing displeasure over [health reform] financing proposals that target their healthcare benefits by launching attack ads against key lawmakers, causing the Senate"s leading advocate of taxing such benefits to seek an end to one especially aggressive campaign," Congress Daily reports. The Laborers" International Union of North America pulled an ad in Montana attacking Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus at the senator"s request, and after he asked to meet with the union"s president to discuss proposals (Dann, 6/30). Meanwhile, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the Finance committee"s leading Republican, will become the target of the same union"s ads in his home state today, Roll Call reports. "Grassley"s office appeared unfazed by the three-day ad buy designed to discourage the Finance panel ranking member from supporting a proposal to tax the value of health insurance benefits like regular income." Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad was also targeted with ads, but after Baucus contacted the union, those ads were suspended, too (Drucker, 6/30). A union spokesman said the ads would resume if the senators do not reverse their position on the new taxes, USA Today reports. Also in advertising news, religious groups plan to launch a five-state ad campaign that will "discuss the moral reasons for making health care more affordable" and support the reform efforts, The Associated Press reports. The liberal-leaning religious groups include Faith in Public Life, Faithful America, the PICO National Network and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (Fram, 6/30). 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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