Open Enrollment is your chance to review your health care coverage and see if you need to make any changes, or if you are happy sticking with the plan you have. The health care law extended the Open Enrollment period and made it earlier – giving you more time to make choices and giving Medicare time to process everything so your coverage starts without a hitch on January 1st.This year, you can make any changes as early as October 15.

A top priority for this Administration is improving the quality and lowering the cost of care for the millions of Americans enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid (known as “dual eligibles” or Medicare-Medicaid enrollees).

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Starting today, you will begin to have more information about your health insurance premiums. This year, in every State and for the first time ever, the Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to publicly justify their actions if they want to raise rates by 10 percent or more.

Today, we posted the first set of explanations from insurance companies. Right here on HealthCare.gov: http://companyprofiles.healthcare.gov/.

The immune response to an H5N1 avian influenza vaccine was greatly enhanced in healthy adults if they were first primed with a DNA vaccine expressing a gene for a key H5N1 protein, researchers say. Their report describes results from two clinical studies conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month – a time to remember those who have lost their lives to breast cancer, those who are battling it now, and to celebrate with those who have survived. It is also a time to reaffirm our commitment to fighting breast cancer and to remind ourselves of the importance of prevention and early detection.

Earlier this week, Community Transformation Grants were distributed to 61 states and communities with more than 120 million residents to help keep people safe from the threats of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and other leading causes of illness and death.