Future Of Children's Healthcare Program Already Under Debate Though years away, the expiration of the popular Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is already getting some attention on Capitol Hill (The Hill). Innovative Health Programs Counter Primary Care Shortage About 65 million Americans live in communities with a shortage of primary care doctors, physicians trained to meet the majority of patients' health care needs over the course of their lives (USA Today). FDA Considers Revoking Approval Of Avastin For Advanced Breast Cancer Federal regulators are considering taking the highly unusual step of rescinding approval of a drug that patients with advanced breast cancer turn to as a last-ditch hope (The Washington Post). Aging Inmates Straining Prison Systems Curtis Ballard rides a motorized wheelchair around his prison ward, which happens to be the new assisted living unit ??” a place of many windows and no visible steel bars ??” at Washington's Coyote Ridge Corrections Center (The Associated Press). Drew University's New Nursing School Opens Under Financial Cloud Even as the doors open this month on a new $43-million building to house the inaugural nursing class at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, the university's interim president warned that the long-struggling institution is already in danger of losing the facility (Los Angeles Times).

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