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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

Glioblastoma multiforme is a particularly deadly brain cancer. Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a key to how these tumor cells proliferate so quickly --and ways to turn this engine of tumor growth into a target for cancer treatment.

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United Hospital Fund Issues Report on Pediatric Primary Care

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01/08/2016

Pediatric primary care is of utmost importance, ensuring that young children have his or her acute needs met, but also promoting the child’s full development—including physical, mental, and cognitive health.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Both 'Private Option' and Traditional Medicaid Expansions Improved Access to Care

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01/06/2016

Low-income adults in Kentucky and Arkansas, which both expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, were more likely to be insured and less likely to have problems paying medical bills, compared to others in states which did not...

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Rippel Foundation: What We Discovered at “The Frontiers” about Financing and Leading Improvements in Health

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12/18/2015

Laura Landy, founder & chair of ReThink Health and president & CEO of the Rippel Foundation, writes about understanding the frontiers of health policy and practice, while boldly pursuing a vision: a United States in which all the sectors...

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Aetna Foundation Awards Grants to Support Healthy Eating and Exercise in Local Communities

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12/18/2015

More than $3 million will go to 75 nonprofit organizations as part of GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities, a program that helps healthy food choices and active living take root in underserved communities.

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Food Systems

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CrainsNY Looks at Helmsley-Supported DATA2GO.NYC

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12/18/2015

New data reveals a yawning chasm in life expectancy among the city’s residents, with startling implications. But, surprisingly, the relationship between life expectancy and health insurance across neighborhoods is not statistically significant,...

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Community Development

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What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)

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12/17/2015

James R. Knickman, President and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), writes about price variation in the New York health care system.

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Commonwealth Fund Advice: It’s Important to Read the Fine Print of Healthcare Coverage

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12/16/2015

Findings from the most recent Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Tracking Survey reveal that two of five adults with private coverage are unaware that their health plan fully covered preventive care services—and fully half of privately...

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Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time

Release Date:

12/16/2015

Among the greatest challenges we're faced with today, is the growing health divide in underserved communities, writes Garth Graham, M.D., president of Aetna Foundation.

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Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA

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12/15/2015

Health care experts Harold Pollack and Timothy Jost identify 19 steps that federal, state, and local actors can take to ensure that health care in America is accessible and consumer friendly.

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