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Brazil's Scientific Research On The Rise, Thomson Reuters Study Finds
Thomson Reuters today announced the results of a study documenting Brazil"s steady rise during the last two decades in both the volume and impact of its scientific work. According to Science Watch, these findings underscore Brazil"s standing among the emergent "BRIC" nations. BRIC -- an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China -- are the countries possessing the res and economic potential to capture a significant share of the world"s future economic growth.
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Poor Attention In Kindergarten Predicts Lower High School Test Scores, UC Davis Researchers Find
As thousands of students nationwide prepare to leave high school, a UC Davis study appearing online in the June issue of the medical journal Pediatrics shows a clear link between attention problems early in school - as early as kindergarten - and lower high school test scores.
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Centrists Steer Talks Away From Public Plan
"Senate Democrats debating how to overhaul America"s healthcare system are moving toward a showdown over whether to create a government-run insurance program or set up a system of cooperatives instead," the Los Angeles Times reports. The public plan, endorsed by Obama, is an important goal for many liberals, but Republicans strongly oppose expanding Washington"s role in health care. The Senate centrists who are now driving the debate from the Finance Committee, are "leaning towards" the cooperatives which would be owned by their members, rather than controlled by the government. The hope is the compromise will attract a degree of bipartisan support (Levey and Hook, 7/29).
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Mozambique's Health Minister Reviews Country's Health Status With Parliament

A nationwide vaccination effort in Mozambique helped to slash the number of reported cases of measles in Mozambique in 2008, Health Minister Ivo Garrido said Wednesday when addressing the country"s parliament, Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique/allAfrica.com reports. Garrido also reported that 2008 marked the year that leprosy "ceased to be a public health problem in Mozambique" and malaria cases and deaths fell while the number of patients receiving antiretrovirals continued to climb - growing "from 6,000 in December 2004 to over 140,000 at the end of May this year." During the same period, the number of doctors in Mozambique also rose 35 percent, allowing what equates to "one doctor for every 23,000 inhabitants," AIM/allAfrica.com writes. In Mozambique, health services are "essentially free of charge" -hospitalizations are free and consultations "cost the equivalent of 20 U.S. cents," according to AIM/allAfrica.com. "This was the case, [Garrido] declared, because the government "believes that health care is a duty of the state, and a fundamental human right"" (AIM/allAfrica.com, 6/3). 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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