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Nov 5, 2009	Health Insurers Pursue Growth Potential of Individual Market Insurers are pursuing strategies to tap the growth potential of the individual health insurance market, including entering less-regulated markets and developing lower-cost, less-comprehensive products targeting younger, healthy consumers, according to a study released...
Nov 4, 2009	Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve Players' Health The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced more than $1.85 million in grants for research that will offer unprecedented insight into how digital games can improve players’ health behaviors and outcomes. With funding from RWJF’s Health...
Oct 29, 2009	National Summit on Workable Solutions to Long Term Care Challenges Webcast: Ed Howard moderates a discussion about the issues facing older adults and how community partnerships are working to identify, prioritize, and implement workable solutions to long term care problems.
Oct 28, 2009	Special Issue of Medical Journal Explores Latino Health and Health Care New facts uncovered to advance health care systems and policy for U.S. Latinos.
Oct 28, 2009	Study Shows Overwhelming Parent Support for Healthier Schools Survey for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation finds most parents willing to help schools improve food offerings and increase physical activity.
Oct 26, 2009	Friends of the Children Founder Wins Purpose Prize Duncan Campbell, founder of Friends of the Children and RWJF grantee, was awarded a 2009 Purpose Prize, which honors social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society's biggest challenges.
Oct 26, 2009	Nearly $3.7 Million in Federal Funds Awarded to Expand Reclaiming Futures to Help Turn Teen Lives Around New funds use Reclaiming Futures model to strengthen juvenile drug courts.
Oct 26, 2009	Kids Spoon-Fed Marketing and Advertising for Least Healthy Breakfast Cereals Researchers release cereal rankings based on nutrition and marketing exposure.
Oct 26, 2009	Hospitals That Care for Poor Patients Face Digital Divide Without Federal Help Hospitals that serve a disproportionately large share of poor patients are lagging behind other hospitals in adopting electronic health records, leading to a digital divide that could exacerbate health care disparities, researchers report.
Oct 22, 2009	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces 15 New Nurse Faculty Scholars Prestigious program aims to advance careers of nation's most promising junior nurse faculty, address nursing faculty shortage.

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