The News Review:
- Doctor and Patient Building a Healthy Community ne Child at a Time
- Cash for child medicine research
- Doctor-wned Hospitals Fare Poorly in Child Health Bill
Doctor and Patient Building a Healthy Community ne Child at a Time
New York Times United States
“Their memories are short for they have forgotten what this country has already done what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose and necessity to courage. ”ne of the “big plans” of the bama administration will be to revamp the nation’s health care system. But are these ambitions big enough to help the country’s smallest patients?It has been hard over the last year not to feel that health care coverage for our neediest young people could have benefited from a “big plan. ” In May the Commonwealth Fund a nonprofit health policy research group.
Cash for child medicine research
BBC News UK
The combination of oral rehydration salts and zinc is not only unpleasant tasting and difficult to administer but pharmacists have to work out the correct dose for each child. Another aim is to make the antibiotic amoxycillin more easily available in a child’s dose in cases of pneumonia or other bacterial infections. Professor Peter Helms a child health specialist at Aberdeen University said that similar issues were found in the UK with doctors occasionally applying a combination of “guess-work and good judgement” to determine the dose of drugs. He said: “Babies are not little adults – for a start they are about 80% water compared to 70% in adults and their internal organs are not as mature and may find it harder to detoxify. However he said matters were improving particularly following the publication of a “Children’s British National Formulary” – a written guide to drugs along the same lines as the version available for many years for adults.
Doctor-wned Hospitals Fare Poorly in Child Health Bill
Wall Street Journal
But doctor-owned hospitals have been an exception to the Stark law. Now a provision that Rep. Stark helped write in the child-health bill would effectively put a halt to the construction of any new doctor-owned hospitals and would seriously hamper plans of existing ones to expand. The bill with the restrictions was passed by the House last week. The Senate version is slated for approval early next week though it doesn’t have the restrictions on doctor-owned hospitals. A final bill which could include the restrictions would go to President Barack bama shortly after that. The Congressional Budget ffice estimates that the doctor-owned-hospital prohibitions included in the House version of the child-health bill would save the government $1.
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