The News Review:
- Widening of child health plan still possible
- bama Promotes Energy Health Insurance in Stimulus
- Women’s Health Ungagged
- Resurgence of rare disease leads to warning: Vaccinate
- Cash for child medicine research
- WA ombudsman releases report on child safety
- Time to strengthen health care
Widening of child health plan still possible
Denver Post C
The solution would come from a fee the state wants to place on hospitals that is expected to generate from $800 million to $1. 2 billion annually half of which would be federal matching money. Revenue from the fee would be used to expand Medicaid coverage and other programs to at least 100000 of an estimated 800000 uninsured Coloradans. However officials with the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing say the fee which lawmakers still must approve also could be used to finance a planned expansion of the Children’s Basic Health Plan Plus sometimes referred to as CHP+.
bama Promotes Energy Health Insurance in Stimulus
Bloomberg
The administration released a report today outlining someof bama?s priorities for the two-year recovery package. Theyinclude loan guarantees for renewable-energy investorsproviding health insurance coverage to almost 8. 5 million peoplewho?ve lost jobs and enhancing security at 90 ports. The president is trying to keep up momentum for his plan toboost the economy so that he can sign legislation by mid-February. House Democrats already have begun work on an $825billion package of spending and tax cuts and House Speaker.
Women’s Health Ungagged
New York Times United States
He lifted the odious gag rule that President George W. Bush imposed on international family planning groups and began trying to restore financing to the United Nations Population Fund. Skip to next paragraph.
Resurgence of rare disease leads to warning: Vaccinate
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN
Five cases of the infectious children’s bacterial disease known as HiB or Haemophilus influenza type B were reported in Minnesota in 2008 the most since a vaccine was introduced in the early 1990s state health officials said Friday. ne of the five children who got sick died becoming the first HiB fatality in Minnesota since 1991. That child and two others had not been vaccinated health officials said. "It’s really important that parents stay on top of the vaccinations" said Ruth Lynfield the state epidemiologist. "HiB is a very dangerous infection but there is an effective vaccine that has been in use for almost 20 years. "HiB which is different from the more common viral influenza is an invasive bacteria that can infect joints bones and the bloodstream leading to meningitis pneumonia and death. But it’s a disease that had been nearly wiped out across the United States after a vaccine that is given to babies in the first months of life was introduced in the early 1990s.
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.
WA ombudsman releases report on child safety
Seattle Post Intelligencer
WA ombudsman releases report on child safety. — The state’s family and children’s ombudsman says its office has responded to a record number of complaints about the state Department of Social and Health Services.
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Time to strengthen health care
Barre Montpelier Times Argus VT
In this regard there is also a forum happening to express concern about this frustrating and ongoing dilemma of Health Care at the ld Labor Hall in Barre on Jan. It is sponsored by the Vermont Workers Center together with other organizations concerned about health care. This is free child-friendly and open to the public. There will also be a rally on May 1 at the Statehouse for health care as a human right. For more information about these two events please go to the Vermont Workers Center Web site at.
