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- Health Digest – Saginaw, Michigan Living News – The Saginaw News ‘”…
- Family planning needs priority: UN
- The most toxic places in your home – Health – MSNBC.com
- China child virus death toll up to 43
- Doctor’s notes get clearer with speech recognition software
- Column – Dr. Dan Stultz: Texas health care crisis has reached its…
- Turia: Tamariki Ora Regional Hui
Health Digest – Saginaw, Michigan Living News – The Saginaw News ‘”…
mlive.com – May 16, 2008
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Family planning needs priority: UN
Jakarta Post – May 16, 2008
By picking one instead of the other, we tend to drop issues and then they come back to us in a much bigger form," United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) deputy executive director Purnima Mane told The Jakarta Post recently. With money from just 2. 5 days of the world’s military spending, Purnima said, we would have enough funds to deal with maternal, newborn and child health issues across the globe. Donor funding for family planning had nose-dived from 54 percent in 1995, to 7 percent in 2008, she said. "Limited resources are often used as an excuse by donors and often governments too. But by defending mothers and children, you are also defending your country’s potential — which is in fact ‘defense spending’ but is not regarded as such," she said.
The most toxic places in your home – Health – MSNBC.com
MSNBC – May 16, 2008
Other ways to protect your kids: Have them wash their hands after playing and before eating, and get them tested for lead. Your closetMothballs are really dangerous chemicals, the vapors are carcinogenic and are also irritating to the nervous system. In fact, if your child swallows one, it can be fatal. Inhaling mothball vapors overnight doesn?t mean you will get cancer tomorrow, but it increases your long-term risk. So use safer moth-repelling alternatives like dried-lavender and cedar products. And your work clothes swathed in dry-cleaning bags? They harbor perchloroethylene, the most common dry-cleaning chemical, which causes cancer in lab animals, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Heavy exposure to this substance can cause dizziness and confusion, even in adults, so it?s best to minimize your use of dry cleaning.
China child virus death toll up to 43
FOXNews – May 16, 2008
A 22-month-old girl from eastern Jiangxi province died Thursday in a local hospital, health officials told the state-run Xinhua News Agency. As of Wednesday, the hand, foot and mouth disease virus had sickened more than 24,934 children in seven Chinese provinces plus Beijing, Xinhua reported. The number was expected to continue rising after the state Health Ministry last week ordered health care providers to report cases within 24 hours. The virus has been yet another major concern for Chinese authorities as they prepare for the Beijing Olympics in August. Cases have been reported from Guangdong province in the south to Jilin province in the northeast, and in major cities including Beijing and Shanghai. Three people in Jiangxi province remain in critical condition from the virus, Xinhua reported Friday. Most cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in China this year have been blamed on enterovirus 71.
Doctor’s notes get clearer with speech recognition software
InfoWorld – May 16, 2008
Rohan believes there are signs it has, and part of the reason is speech recognition technology. “EHR has done well at my clinic, with fewer kids hospitalized because they are better tracked,” he said. In the case of a child with asthma, for example, many parents might assume that if their child isn’t showing any symptoms than he is doing well, but a clinical test of a lung function might show the child needs more aggressive therapy. “The EHR helps us to track patients and use nurses more effectively,” he said. “The nurses don’t have to read our handwriting and because everyone has quick access to a medical chart, care is more complete. Rohan said he is aware that some clinics are not as efficient and that civilian doctors don’t like using the EHR approach. “The results vary and reviews have been mixed,” at least in the several military clinics he knows about, he said… “Clinicians who are not comfortable using a keyboard and mouse may find speech recognition a faster way to document patient information as well as easier to navigate through the EHR,” Chang said. One plus is that when a provider finishes a patient’s notes, the notes can be more quickly seen by other providers working on a case. While Nuance dominates in the speech-to-text market for health care professionals, a speech recognition division of Royal Philips Electronics Inc. is a strong competitor, she said. Philips has a point of entry with health professionals because it makes imaging and other medical technology. Philips will be running a speech recognition track at Tuesday’s Towards the Electronic Patient Record conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. , where Philips will present a number of customers.
Column – Dr. Dan Stultz: Texas health care crisis has reached its…
Amarillo.com – Amarillo.com (subscription) – May 16, 2008
comAUSTIN – It’s no secret that our health care system is in turmoil, with Texas leading the nation in the rate of residents without health insurance. But the latest report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation should ring louder bells of alarm. –>Web-posted Friday, May 16, 2008Column – Dr. Dan Stultz: Texas health care crisis has reached its tipping point Opinion Column Post a comment here… But the latest report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation should ring louder bells of alarm. Texas ranks third – behind Oklahoma and Idaho – in health insurance premium increases from 2001 to 2005, according to the foundation. Our state’s health insurance premiums soared 40 percent in five years or 10 times faster than Texans’ incomes increased over the same period. Texas’ health care system is at its tipping point. Unless we change the way we deliver care and begin to take our uninsured problem seriously, this crisis ultimately will threaten the health and pocketbook of every person in Texas – insured or not. Put simply, the uninsured crisis is by far the biggest obstacle standing in the way of all Texans to obtaining quality, affordable health care.
Turia: Tamariki Ora Regional Hui
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – May 16, 2008
We need to take theseobligations and responsibilities seriously and ensure ourchildren are loved and protected. We need to strengthen ourroots, to nurture and feed our very foundations. But wemust also ensure that the rights of every child and youngperson are recognised and that they each enjoy good health,education, safety and security in order to soar. Each ofyou has the opportunity to protect and preserve the rightsof every child to be grounded in who they are, for everychild to fly. We have to wake up to the cold reality ofthe widening gap between rich and poor, the fact that one infive children are living in poverty. We know, forinstance, that:• a child growing up in poverty is threetimes more likely to be sick; • that half of NewZealand children under five have cavities and decayed teeth;• that we are seeing more and more children admitted tohospital with serious bacterial infections, tuberculosis,rheumatic fever – and other conditions linked toover-crowding and socio-economic disadvantage. Butjust as we know these things to be true, we know absolutelythat whanau, hapu and iwi have the right to the highestattainable level of health and wellbeing.
