News Brief: Recent Events in Global Health Law

The insurance industry has told Congress that it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.  Washington Post
Emerging technologies could boost supplies of essential plant-based drugs to combat and ultimately help eradicate malaria.  BBC
A federal appeals court [...]

Rate of Smoking in the United States Down; So is Use of Settlement Funds

According to the CDC, the U.S. adult smoking rate has fallen below 20 percent (to 19.8 percent) for the first time since the federal government began tracking it in the 1960s. 
In 1965, a year after the U.S. Surgeon General issued a landmark report about the health dangers of tobacco, the smoking rate was over 40 [...]