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Aetna revised the reimbursement policy for several anemia medications.

Independent pharmacists urged lawmakers to pass legislation that would exempt small pharmacies from antitrust laws and allow them to collaboratively negotiate reimbursements with health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers.

As many Canadian families sat down together to enjoy a bountiful Thanksgiving last week, a significant proportion of men, women and children went hungry. They were denied the basic human right of access to healthy, safe food recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On October 16th Dietitians of Canada (DC) joins with its partners to celebrate World Food Day with the theme - The Right to Food. [click link for full article]

Almost sixty years after the Universal Declaration on Human Rights declared that everyone has a right to food, it is unacceptable that under-nutrition is still linked to nearly half of all deaths of children under the age of five, UNICEF stated on the occasion of World Food Day 2007. World Food Day highlights the situation of the world’s hungry and undernourished. The right to food is the theme of this year’s observance. [click link for full article]

The World Health Organization soon will launch a campaign in South and Southeast Asia aimed at making nutrition programs a central part of HIV/AIDS treatment in the region, Randa Saadeh, a scientist in WHO’s Nutrition for Health and Development Department, said recently, Inter Press Service reports. [click link for full article]