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Minorities have more difficulty finding a bone marrow transplant match because of a shortage of minority donors in the national registry.

State legislators advanced a proposal on Tuesday that would ensure that Arizona residents maintain the right to opt out of any new federal or universal health care system.

Almost a million Californians are heading South of the border for health care; Schwarzennegger has proposed another $5 billion in cuts, including to health care.

"The poor, the sick and the people who help them survive paraded into the state Capitol to plead with lawmakers Wednesday to spare the programs Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has said must be slashed to tame California's $24.3-billion budget deficit," the LA Times reports.

Jeffrey Wang, chief of spine surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles "failed to disclose payments from medical companies while he was researching their products' use in patients, according to records obtained by congressional investigators," The Wall Street Journal reports.

"Soaring healthcare costs, combined with the recession, are threatening to undermine the gains from Massachusetts' 2006 healthcare overhaul, according to the third annual 'Update on Health Reform in Massachusetts' published today," The Boston Globe reports.

A new study has found more than one-tenth of the combined federal, state and local budgets across the United States

As the federal government winds up to unleash more than $30 billion in stimulus funding for health information technology, a series of reports and studies released this week seconded the assumption that the technology has the power to improve care and research.

Proponents say retail clinics in drugstores and grocery stores can be an effective way to provide health care access for the poor and uninsured, but a new study suggests that most aren't located in the poorest neighborhoods.

While Congress has instructed the administration to implement stimulus funding for health information technology quickly, legislators have not given clear instructions about what technology is eligible for the funding, leaving a small administration office and a pair of federal advisory boards to sort it out.