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Georgia is Greater Than AIDS: The Role of HIV Treatment as Prevention – Video

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MHealth Summit 2014 Executive Spotlight: Kaiser Permanente – Video

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Christine Paige, Senior Vice President of Marketing Internet Services speaks to Health Care Pulse E-Magazine reporter about Kaiser #39;s position on mobile health and additional tools coming...

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Health Care Workers to Hunger-Strike in Protest of Labor Conditions

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Sergei Porter / VedomostiHealth care workers in Ufa will go a hunger strike to protest labor conditions.

Health care workers in central Russia threatened to stage a hunger strike starting Monday to protest what they described as "repercussions" against co-workers who demanded better working conditions and higher salaries at previous protests, media reports said.

The hunger strike, planned in Ufa, the capital of Russia's republic of Bashkortostan, would be the third by medical workers in the city since the start of a labor dispute with local health care officials last April, Ekho Moskvy reported.

About 20 health care workers are expected to go on a hunger strike on Monday, joining the protest started last week by a local ambulance service manager, Svetlana Yusupova, the report said.

Protesters, many of them ambulance workers, accuse local authorities of imposing penalties and putting "pressure" on their colleagues who took part in previous protests, Noviye Izvestia reported, citing anesthesiologist Irina Tishina, who planned to join the strike.

Supporters also accuse health administrators of having denied water for six hours to Yusupova, while holding her for an "interview" after she went on hunger strike last week, the head of a medical workers' trade union, Andrei Konoval, said on his LiveJournal social network page.

Local health workers were awarded salary increases after their two hunger strikes last year, but say many of their demands remain unmet, according to media reports.

In Moscow the RBC news agency uncovered an apparent plan to fire 14,000 doctors in the city by the year 2018.

According to an agreement signed by Deputy Health Minister Airat Farrakhov and Deputy Mayor Leonid Pechatnikov, the number of doctors at state clinics and hospitals in Moscow will be 40.9 per 10,000 residents by 2018, RBC reported Monday.

There are currently 64,900 such doctors, and with an estimated 12.4 million people expected to reside in Moscow in 2018, the number of doctors will have to be lowered to 50,800, the report said, citing data by federal statistics service Rosstat and City Hall's labor department.

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Business of Agriculture Jyoti Mishra of Bayer CropScience on Green TV India – Video

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Business of Agriculture Jyoti Mishra of Bayer CropScience on Green TV India
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Missouri Health Care Navigator Law Pre-Empted, Court Rules

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An appeals court ruled Friday that Missouri can't limit health insurance navigators' ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law a ruling that advocates say could have implications for other states that have instituted similar restrictions.

The 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis blocked some parts of a Missouri law that limits the information certified counselors authorized by the health care law could give people seeking health insurance. However, the court said the state can institute licensure requirements for navigators and counselors.

At issue was a 2013 Missouri law that had set limitations on people helping others to sign up for health insurance. The court ruled that those limitations conflict with federal rules that supersede them.

"The court made clear that consumer assisters in Missouri are unrestricted by those provisions and they can help enroll people in health insurance," said Jay Angoff, a lawyer in the case who used to oversee implementation of the health care law for the federal government.

The Missouri law had been on hold since January 2014 while courts considered the matter.

The court blocked a prohibition on navigators or certified application counselors giving advice on health plans or discussing health plans not listed on the federal healthcare.gov website. The court's decision also blocks a requirement for counselors to direct consumers who have had insurance through an agent or broker to talk to an insurance provider instead.

Those requirements would have limited the help community groups could provide to people trying to sign up for health insurance, Angoff said.

Dale Wrigley, the director of engagement and advocacy for the St. Louis Effort for AIDS, one of the parties in the lawsuit, said there were concerns that they would not even have been able to tell people eligible for Medicaid to apply for it because that might qualify as advice.

"There were questions of whether we would've been able to give that advice on whether doctors were included in a plan," he said.

Friday's decision was specific to Missouri's law, but Angoff said at least a dozen other states have enacted at least one similar limitation on the health care law.

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