The News Review:
- Concern in Europe on Cellphone Ads for Children
- Report foeticide case, win Rs 10,000
- The New Phase for Obama, Clinton and the Rest of Us
- The ‘terrible legacy’ of sick-note Britain
- HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA
Concern in Europe on Cellphone Ads for Children
New York Times – Mar 8, 2008
They boast about socialization, emotional health and the comforts of “peace of mind. ” And yet such shiny child-size phones are stirring some parental and government unease, particularly at a time when the mobile telephone industry is reaching deeper into saturated markets to tap customers with chubby hands capable of cradling both dolls and phones. Already, the category of young customers — tweens and teens — is driving subscriber growth in the United States, according to IDC, a technology research firm in Massachusetts, which projects that 31 million new young users will join the market from 2005 to 2010. The year 2006 was the turning point when the industry started focusing not just on teenagers and adults but also on tweens — children between middle childhood and adolescence, about 8 to 12 years old — and even children as young as 5. Bright new “kiddie” telephones began appearing on the market that can speed-dial grandma and grandpa with a click of a button.
Report foeticide case, win Rs 10,000
Times of India – Mar 8, 2008
Despite Punjab
being a prosperous state, only 40% pregnant women took services of doctors in
hospitals and health centers at the time of delivery of the child, said the
minister. This is the reason
for high mortality rate, said the minister. For every 1,000 new births in the
state, 40 babies die due to poor health facility to the
child. The health minister gave appointment
letter to a large number of new accredited social health activists (ASHA)
workers, engaged under National Rural Health Mission, a programme of the central
government. The ASHA workers
are engaged on the pattern of anganwari workers in the rural area for
propagation of various health schemes and these workers will be given incentive
for their every job. About
15,000 ASHA workers will be engaged in Punjab, said the minister.
The New Phase for Obama, Clinton and the Rest of Us
OpEdNews – Mar 8, 2008
so far behind Europe and Japan in rail travel? Why don't we have high-speed maglev service? Why are we not retrofitting the factories now endlessly turning out military vehicles, military equipment, and bombs into building low-emission buses for cheap and efficient public transit? Why are we turning our colleges and universities over to corporations to exploit as research sites? Why are we lagging behind in new technologies that can facilitate business efficiencies such as teleconferencing?Maybe what Obama needs to do is invite Americans into the conversation. What do Americans want from a real health-care (not health-care "coverage") system? What does small business need from the government? What do small farmers need? How and where can we create the jobs for our willing and eager workers? How do we level the playing field that at this point permits the exploitation of foreign workers and job losses for our own? Why does the objection that "We can't afford it?" apply to child-health programs, to universal health care, to the rebuilding of New Orleans, to funding of AmTrak, to a decent minimum wage, to after-school programs, to repair and maintenance of our schools, parks, playgrounds, bridges, libraries, hospitals, water and sewer departments – and not to unlimited expenditures on the occupation of a foreign nation that in no way ever posed a serious threat to us? by.
The ‘terrible legacy’ of sick-note Britain
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 8, 2008
Dame Carol Black, the national director of health and work, said whole sections of British society had “drifted” into a benefits culture which had created “a terrible legacy” for their children. Dame Carol has been commissioned by the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions to deliver a report on the sickness and incapacity benefit system which will be published next week. She told The Sunday Telegraph that too many people remained on sick leave for years, when quicker help could have prevented mental and physical health problems from becoming entrenched. Her comments come as David Cameron, the Conservative leader, calls on Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, to end Labour’s years of “disastrous failure” to tackle child poverty. Dame Carol said: “We have got places where there are three generations of men who have never worked… Her comments come as David Cameron, the Conservative leader, calls on Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, to end Labour’s years of “disastrous failure” to tackle child poverty. Dame Carol said: “We have got places where there are three generations of men who have never worked. If your grandfather never worked and your father never worked, why would you think work is the normal thing to do? I think it is an awful thing to inflict on a child. I worry about what this does to the fabric of our society, let alone the economy. The medical professor called for research to uncover the extent to which patterns of truancy were followed by adult unemployment. She also expressed concern that teenage single mothers who had never worked were more likely to bring up children who were workshy. “There are too many people with no expectation that their lives are going to get better, no structure, no shape to their lives at all,” she said.
HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA
CNN International – Mar 8, 2008
Plus, a man needing to lose some weight to set a goal and is making some life long changes. We start, though, with a girl at the center of a landmark vaccination lawsuit. In an unprecedented move, the Department of Health and Human Services says childhood vaccines may have contributed to symptoms of autism in a nine-year old Georgia girl. Now, the report did not find a clear cut link between autism and the vaccine, but says the vaccine possibly aggravated a preexisting and rare metabolic syndrome in the child. A lot of research indicates there is no link between vaccines and autism, but those who believe there is are seeing this case as some proof. Here’s what the family had to say. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JON POLING, DR… Now here at HOUSE CALL, we’ve been following one little girl and her family through a clinical trial that might bring some new hope to those tiny hearts. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA (voice-over): At barely two months, Annabelle already has 60 tiny hair bows and after risky heart surgery, a better chance at survival. REBECCA BUTCHER, BABY BORN WITH HEART DEFECT: What I’m probably most afraid of is losing her, but you try not to think about that. GUPTA: Rebecca was just 16 weeks pregnant when her baby was diagnosed with a heart defect. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Left untreated, it would be lethal.
