The News Review:
- Agencies: Zimbabwe malnutrition cholera worse
- Bullying takes a toll on adult victims’ emotional health
- More patients rely on health centers in troubled economy
- Bosses responding to special needs
- The top health stories of 2008
- Will children’s hospital really happen?
- Getting childhood mental health care right
Agencies: Zimbabwe malnutrition cholera worse
Dallas Morning News TX
It said 18000 tons of food is needed for January. About 5 million people – half of Zimbabwe’s population – need food aid. DISEASE: The World Health rganization said cholera has now killed 1518 people more than two-thirds of them in December. The percentage of patients dying from the disease has risen to 5. 7 percent from 4 percent at the beginning of the month the U.
Bullying takes a toll on adult victims’ emotional health
Detroit Free Press United States
But like many adult survivors “I tried to hide it. “Not everyone who is bullied suffers lifelong trauma. But there’s no question that “unrelenting daily hostilities that maybe escalate to threats or actual aggression can be on par with torture and child abuse” or that “repeated and severe bullying can cause psychological trauma” says Daniel Nelson medical director of the Child Psychiatry Unit at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The abuse that Shedd of Lafayette Ind. suffered more than two decades ago still affects her even at age 42. Shedd’s crime? Being born with red hair — and having a name that unfortunately made rhyming taunts simple. “Being bullied set me up as a mark” she says.
More patients rely on health centers in troubled economy
Middletown Journal H
Bever Community Health Center in Hamilton. Among them was Shonda Ertel 25 and her 6-month-old daughter.
Bosses responding to special needs
Boston Globe United States
“I feel like I can talk openly at work about my situation and I’ve not always felt that way in other companies” says Laura Eisenmann a Boston-based associate director of knowledge management whose 22-year-old daughter Sarah has Asperger syndrome a form of autism and ADHD. “When people have to hide anything about themselves that eventually has an impact on work” she said. Ernst & Young was an original corporate participant in an influential study carried out in 2003-2004 by the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. The center’s surveys and teaching boosted awareness and inspired pioneering programs to help special needs parents at a number of participating companies including Waltham-based Raytheon Co. A still-thriving parents’ network created in 2005 out of Raytheon’s Tucson office is now helping to inspire the energetic launch of a New England-based offshoot of the group. In the future more of us will be living longer while facing chronic health conditions that medical advances cannot yet cure. We’re becoming a nation of caregivers.
The top health stories of 2008
CNN
But studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and elsewhere have found no link between autism and vaccines. Additionally the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the American Academy of Pediatrics the Institute of Medicine and other medical organizations have repeatedly asserted that vaccines are safe. But the Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation concluded that Hannah Poling a child who had been predisposed to autism had a condition that was "significantly aggravated" by vaccinations and that her family should be compensated. Hannah began having problems after receiving nine childhood vaccines in 2000 said her father Dr. Jon Poling a neurologist in Athens Georgia. While the Polings said they don’t oppose childhood vaccinations they want thimerosal a mercury vaccine preservative removed. Thimerosal was removed from infant vaccines beginning in 1999.
Will children’s hospital really happen?
Gainesville Sun FL
In 1965 the same private foundation started by a Flint philanthropist awarded $6. 5 million to the university for construction of the original children’s hospital. Estimated cost is now more than $750 million and the University of Michigan Health System is planning to raise $75 million (one tenth of the total) from philanthropy. The rest will be paid from patient care revenues and margins including borrowed dollars present or future according to CE Doug Strong. No public money is being tapped. In ctober the University of Michigan board of regents approved additions to the original plans for the facility that boosted its cost from the original $523 million. Hospital officials say that without expanding the project the new facility would have opened with an occupancy rate of 95 percent to 100 percent.
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Getting childhood mental health care right
Milford Daily News USA
Some 2000 received information about children’s mental health. The league’s latest study found that parents of children with mental health issues gave high ratings to the services provided by the schools. However about 35 percent found those services difficult or very difficult to get and less than 40 percent of parents said their child’s mental health needs were well understood by the school. "They kept telling me they were meeting his needs but they weren’t" she said. "They were really very kind and sweet but they couldn’t really push him to his potential. They were doing the best with what they had but the resources weren’t enough.
