Essay Contest, KaiserEDU: KaiserEDU, , the Kaiser Family Foundation's website for students and faculty interested in health policy, announces five winners of its essay contest, in which graduate and undergraduate students were asked to propose a health care platform for a real or fictitious 2008 presidential candidate and a strategy for communicating that platform (KaiserEDU release, 5/8).

"The Next Influenza Pandemic: Can It Be Predicted?" Journal of the American Medical Association: The perspective by Jeffery Taubenberger of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and colleagues examines the H5N1 avian influenza virus, its evolution and the possibility it will be transmissible between humans. The perspective also discusses what past pandemics have taught policymakers and possibilities for the next pandemic (Taubenberger et al., JAMA, 5/9).

"When I'm 64: How Boomers Will Change Health Care," American Hospital Association: The report examines the effect baby boomers will have on the U.S. health care system when they turn 65 years old. The report discusses aspects of the health care system, such as chronic disease management, physician and nurse shortages, increased demand for services, new technology and care delivery (American Hospital Association release, 5/8).

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