The News Review:
- New push for child insurance
- Schools Pull Peanut Butter Amid Recall
- Health notes
- Local lawmakers push health insurance for all children
- Health Connection: Cumberland Salem health education support groups
- Vanderbilt expands maternal health program
- Indonesia fatwa on smoking sparks anger debate
New push for child insurance
Philadelphia Inquirer PA
But I got on CHIP and they took care of it. "In Pennsylvania which has a "cover all kids" policy every uninsured child is technically eligible for health insurance under CHIP or Medicaid. The very poorest have Medicaid. For families of four making up to $42000 a year (which is about twice the federal poverty definition of $21200) CHIP is free. If families of four make between $42000 and $63000 they must pay an average monthly insurance premium of $40 to $64 per child. A family of four making more than $63600 can get insurance at a cost of $161 per child per month.
Schools Pull Peanut Butter Amid Recall
MSNBC
So they’re going quite far down the chain to try to identify all the products that are associated with that particular manufacturer” said Dr. John Dunn of the Tennessee Department of Health. ne thing that makes this salmonella outbreak different is the long shelf life of peanut butter. Tomatoes and spinach will eventually rot but peanut butter products can last awhile. “Salmonella as far as we know and from the other peanut butter outbreak that we investigated can survive in the product for some time” said Dunn.
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Health notes
Chicago Tribune United States
Mail: 18450 Crossing Drive Tinley Park IL 60487; e-mail: January 28 2009 RLAND PARK•The community health lecture Exercise Made Easy will be presented for free from 6:30 to 8 p. Monday in rland Township Activity Center 15100 S. Registration is required.
Local lawmakers push health insurance for all children
MSNBC
She and her husband Joe Cook have gone through piles of paperwork hoping to get their children health coverage after Joe lost his job and Jenviera was moved to a temp worker. “It’s really a scary process. You fill out all the paperwork jump through all the hoops and there’s really no one taking your hand letting you know what to do letting you know that yes this did go through you don’t need to worry about it. It’s a big question mark and certainly something that could be improved on;” Joe Cook said. DFL Senator Linda Berglin and DFL Representative Paul Thissen announced the “Cover All Kids” bill Monday.
Health Connection: Cumberland Salem health education support groups
Vineland Daily Journal NJ
For more information call (856) 697-7342. Parenting Support: Baby Talk Tea a free group for moms and babies up to 7 months old is held from 9:30 to 11 a. Tuesdays at SJH Vineland Health Center 1038 E. For more information call (856) 641-7538.
Vanderbilt expands maternal health program
Bizjournals.com NC
She adds that the outreach program has seen similar results in Memphis and Mississippi where low birthweight rates of mothers in the program are lower than those for women who did not receive the benefit. The outreach program is a partnership between Vanderbilt and community-based organizations in five states: Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee and West Virginia. The two new sites in Nashville are funded with support from the governor’s ffice of Child Care Coordination.
Indonesia fatwa on smoking sparks anger debate
Reuters
Health campaigners welcomed the move but said the government now needed to do more if there was to be any impact on curbing smoking in the world’s fifth largest tobacco market. While stopping short of an outright ban the Ulema Council or MUI issued a fatwa at the weekend prohibiting smoking in public places or by pregnant women and children. [ID:nJAK385669] "I am angry about the fatwa because both my father and grandfather are smokers and the new fatwa now makes them sinners" said Abdul Hardiyanto 38 a Muslim stock broker. Fatwas are not legally binding in the world’s most populous Muslim nation but there is pressure to adhere to them or be regarded as sinful. Smoking is widespread in Indonesia with cigarettes among the cheapest in the world at around $1 a pack and the nation famous for its traditional sweet smelling clove cigarettes known as "kretek".
