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The King's Fund and Marie Curie Cancer Care are pleased to announce an extension of their partnership to improve end-of-life care. From September 2008, The King's Fund Director of Development, Steve Dewar, will take up a shared post between the two organisations. He will work to develop the contribution of both organisations to the further improvement of end-of-life services across the UK.

Máire Hoctor T.D., Minister for Older People, today (24th June, 2008) launched a booklet entitled 'Rambling Together' at the Seven Oaks Hotel, Carlow. This booklet is the culmination of a project initiated by the Older Persons Network in Carlow. The project was funded by The Community Foundation of Ireland and CANDO Community Partnership.

Physicians are often slow to diagnose fibromyalgia, and multiple reasons may account for the delay, new data suggest. The results, from a survey that polled 1,622 physicians in eight countries as well as 800 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of fibromyalgia, also show that the condition has significant economic consequences.

If you are planning to go to the Glastonbury music festival this weekend and your prayers for a dry and warm few days aren't answered, you might like to heed BBC reporter Andy Sully's advice and look after your feet, or you could end up with trench foot, as he did last year.

The major presidential candidates have made a number of promises on health care and other issues in their campaign speeches, but whoever "wins the White House this fall ... is likely to have a tough time enacting expensive new initiatives" because "tax collections are slowing, the budget deficit is rising and the national debt is approaching $10 trillion," the Washington Post reports.

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine on Thursday said that a 424-bed $1.2 billion teaching hospital planned to replace Charity Hospital in New Orleans will not turn a profit, as the original plan had stated, and that it would require state money to become sustainable, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports (Moller, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 6/20). Gov.

Two newspapers recently published an editorial and an opinion piece about a group of seven Republican senators, led by Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), that is blocking a vote on measures (HR 5501, S 2731) to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Summaries appear below.

The House on Tuesday is scheduled to vote on a modified version of Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus' (D-Mont.) legislation (S 3101) that would eliminate a 10.6% reduction to Medicare physician fees scheduled for July 1, CQ Today reports. According to CQ Today, "If the House moves a bill, it will put pressure on Senate Democrats and Republicans to reach an accord.

Bloomberg on Friday examined the current state of HIV vaccine research. The article also profiles Dennis Burton, professor of immunology at the Scripps Research Institute, and his research to develop an HIV vaccine.

Summaries of several recent developments related to health care for veterans appear below.Disparity for women: Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake on Friday said that the department has begun efforts to eliminate disparities in the quality of outpatient care for women, the