The News Review:
- Largest-ever study of US child health begins
- Big Tobacco Takes Last Stand Against Child Health Insurance
- Parents Reject China Milk Settlement
- Huge Children’s Health Study Begins Recruitment
- Physicians: Corruption killing people in Zimbabwe
Largest-ever study of US child health begins
The Associated Press
But while technology has finally advanced enough to separate multichemical and gene-environment interactions research until now hasn’t included enough children to prove why some are more at risk than others. The hope is that the new study can identify both what’s harmful and what’s not. Among the big questions: When someone is genetically vulnerable to a disease like diabetes are there early environmental exposures that push them over the edge? And does simple exposure to common compounds — such as plastics or pesticides found in people’s urine — mean they were harmed? If so are there key periods when exposure is riskiest?In 2000 Congress ordered the National Institutes of Health to establish the study but tight budgets delayed the project. Plus it took years of planning to ensure the 105 locations where families ultimately will participate are a scientifically representative sample of the nation’s diverse population. This week researchers will fan out in New York City’s dense and ethnically diverse borough of Queens plus the smaller agricultural Duplin County N. to find the first recruits: Women in early pregnancy or who are trying to conceive.
Big Tobacco Takes Last Stand Against Child Health Insurance
The Washington Independent DC
pponents of the tax increase like Big Tobacco argue that increasing cigarette taxes burdens the poor disproportionately because lower income people are more likely to smoke. However by the same token lower income Americans will disproportionately benefit from both reduced tobacco consumption and expanded health insurance coverage for poor children. Plans vary but private health insurance for one child typically. So even families with smoking parents could easily come out ahead if they get healthcare for their kids despite paying more per pack of cigarettes explains Ron Pollack Executive Director of Families USA a national consumer health organization that supports the plan to expand SCHIP with tobacco taxes.
Parents Reject China Milk Settlement
New York Times United States
Instead they said they would press for long-term health care for the victims and demand medical research into the illnesses that still afflict tens of thousands of children. Skip to next paragraph RelatedTimes Topics:.
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Huge Children’s Health Study Begins Recruitment
MedPage Today NJ
13 — Recruitment begins this week for a massive NIH-sponsored study of children’s health issues that will follow 100000 children from before birth to age 21. Eight years in planning the National Children’s Study is expected to shed new light on both common and rare conditions. At a press briefing today Duane Alexander M. director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development said investigators would contact women who are early in pregnancy or are hoping to become pregnant to invite their participation. Enrollment is beginning in stages. It starts this week at two “vanguard centers” in rural Duplin County N.
Physicians: Corruption killing people in Zimbabwe
The Associated Press
-based Physicians for Human Rights told The Associated Press that the United Nations should take over Zimbabwe’s health system including its collapsed water supply to halt the toll of unnecessary deaths from easily cured illnesses such as cholera. The findings and recommendations of an investigative team that visited Zimbabwe for seven days in December were published in an emergency report called “Health in Ruins — A Man-made Disaster in Zimbabwe” on Tuesday in South Africa and by former Irish President Mary Robinson at the United Nations according to the organization’s chief executive officer A. The report is “another wake-up call” for the world “to take urgent action to save lives and stop deaths” Donaghue said. The report adds to growing evidence that the Mugabe government “may well be guilty of crimes against humanity” he said.
