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New Report Advises On How To Reduce Health Inequalities, UK
A new report, "The Intelligent Board 2009: Commissioning to reduce inequalities", produced by an independent reference group of experts, encourages Primary Care Trust (PCT) Boards to review their understanding of health inequalities in their communities so that they can be addressed.

BPA, Chemical Used To Make Plastics, Found To Leach From Polycarbonate Drinking Bottles Into Humans Exposure To BPA May Have Harmful Health Effects
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles, the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and baby bottles, showed a two-thirds increase in their urine of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). Exposure to BPA, used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and other plastics, has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans. The study is the first to show that drinking from polycarbonate bottles increased the level of urinary BPA, and thus suggests that drinking containers made with BPA release the chemical into the liquid that people drink in sufficient amounts to increase the level of BPA excreted in human urine.
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American Lung Association Experts To Testify At EPA Public Hearings Urging Stronger Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution Standards
The American Lung Association will tell the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a public hearing today to adopt even stronger, health-based national air quality standards for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) than what the agency proposed. Lung Association leadership and healthy air advocates will call for tighter standards at the hearing that begins at 9:00 AM at the EPA Potomac Yard Conference Center located at 1 Potomac Yard, 2777 South Crystal Drive in Arlington, Va. Mary Partridge, American Lung Association National Board Chair, is scheduled to speak at 10:15 AM. The hearing will conclude at 9:00 PM.
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Health Care And The Federal Budget, US - The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released "Health Care and the Federal Budget," documenting the alarming state of the U.S. health care system with a special focus on the role of health care in the federal budget. With national health spending totaling around $2.5 trillion in 2009, and projected to grow to $4.4 trillion by 2018, there is obvious cause for concern that health care spending is out of control. This is especially true given that over a third of health care spending comes from the federal government (outside of the tax system), and these costs are driving the country toward fiscal disaster. With over fifteen percent of the population uninsured, a major goal of health care reform has been to expand insurance coverage; this could greatly increase government spending on health care. Measures to achieve this must be accompanied by offsetting tax and spending changes as well as credible efforts to control costs. The federal budget already faces serious structural deficits that stem from government promises outweighing revenues. Adding health care spending into this mix, without a proportional and broad based commitment to pay the taxes necessary to finance new spending, would cause the budget outlook to deteriorate even further. More importantly, unless key changes are made in health care delivery and payment systems, costs will continue to rise rapidly and quickly reach untenable levels. Absent significant cost controls, Medicare and Medicaid will double as a percent of GDP by 2035, and consume as much as we typically raise in total revenue by 2080. That type of growth will place serious constraints on the economy"s ability to meet alternative needs of the population and make it that much more difficult to improve overall standards of living. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget


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