The News Review:
- Child-Friendly Anti-Malarial Drug Introduced Across Africa
- State revokes preschool’s license after child’s death
- Health center to focus on care for women kids
- Child’s death spurs rush for flu vaccinations
- Erosion seen in child health
- Health officials: Levittown child 10 died of flu
- Flu claims 1st Arizona child of ‘09
Child-Friendly Anti-Malarial Drug Introduced Across Africa
Voice of America -
Health officials hope the launch will help cut the number of infant deaths from malaria by making treatment easier and more effective. The Swiss drug company Novartis in conjunction with Geneva-based non-profit Medicines for Malaria Venture launched a new version of the anti-malarial drug Coartem at a conference in Dakar. As the promotional video for the drug explains the new medicine tested in conjunction with the Tanzanian Ministry of Health has been proven as effective as the previous version but has been given a new child-friendly flavor and can be administered in child-size doses. The drug comes in tablets which are dissolved in a small amount of water becoming a fruit flavored drink.
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State revokes preschool’s license after child’s death
Arizona Republic AZ -
Inspectors also saw three unsupervised children lying on nap mats in a hallway. In addition inspectors determined that three staff members were unresponsive for three minutes to an infant who was crying in a crib near the back door. The report also surveyed workers about Moreno’s health behavior and death. Staffers reported that the child was “challenging at nap time” in both the infant and 2-year-olds’ room. The state health department investigation corroborates a police report that found Bradford sat on the floor and rested her arm and elbow on Moreno’s back. Bradford later told investigators that she had rested her knee on the back of Moreno’s buttock to keep the child from lifting herself off the mat. “The licensee (Colorful Kids) endangered the health and safety of a 2-year-old child to a level of severity that resulted in the death of the child” the report states.
Health center to focus on care for women kids
San Diego Union Tribune CA -
February 21 2009 SAN YSIDR — The San Ysidro Health Center plans to open a 28000-square-foot integrated care facility next month that caters exclusively to women and their children. 6 million Maternal and Child Health Center will offer health and medical services to women through pregnancy childbirth and child rearing. It will better prepare young children for school with immunizations pediatric dentistry parent support classes and behavioral and speech evaluations. About 28 percent of the San Ysidro Health Center’s patients are 5 or younger. Crews are installing tile walls and stamped concrete flooring painting exam and waiting rooms and installing workstations for the 65 employees who will staff the Spanish Hacienda-style facility east of the existing center on Beyer Boulevard. Wrought-iron gates will secure the three-story building at night and open onto a patio with a wall-mounted fountain that leads to an atrium the focal point of the facility.
Child’s death spurs rush for flu vaccinations
Boston Globe United States -
The West Roxbury office of Harvard Vanguard Medical received 30 calls yesterday and 15 calls came in to the Children’s Hospital Primary Care Center a high number for this late in February Dr. Meanwhile a large pediatric group practice contacted the Boston Public Health Commission looking for vaccine for its patients while elsewhere parents tacked on flu shot requests if they were in the exam room already. In every case medical staff members attributed the uptick to news of the first death of a child from flu this winter. Hunter Pope a seventh grader at Boston Latin Academy died over the weekend of influenza complications. Yesterday public health officials said that the boy had not received the flu vaccine. fficials were still trying to determine which strain of flu killed the boy.
Erosion seen in child health
Faybserver.com NC -
” But there is good news on the horizon he said. Thanks to the recently passed federal economic stimulus package and increases in funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program more children are expected to be insured on state insurance plans he said. From the stimulus package the state will receive $2. 5 billion for a variety of health care initiatives one of which could include funding for Kid’s Care a state program which expands insurance coverage to families who made too much money to be eligible in state insurance program. Kid’s Care was recently passed by the state legislature pending federal funding Vitaglione said. The State Children’s Health Insurance Program or SCHIP will receive about $38 million which will allow more families access to the state’s Health Choice insurance plan he said. ther bright spotsThe report outlined other improvements in children’s health and well-being as well.
Health officials: Levittown child 10 died of flu
Newsday NY -
com February 18 2009 The weekend death of a Levittown elementary school student was likely caused by the flu and is the first childhood death attributed to influenza on. Cynthia Brown spokeswoman for the Nassau County Health Department said the 10-year-old died over the weekend and that preliminary tests revealed the presence of an A-strain of the flu. The child who was not identified had been a student at Northside Elementary School. The school district’s Web site reported the death amid concerns that the child had meningitis. Tests have now ruled out both viral and bacterial forms of the disease. “We just got the [test] information this morning” Brown said yesterday.
Flu claims 1st Arizona child of ‘09
Arizona Republic AZ -
21 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic A teenager in northern Arizona has died of influenza the first child in the state to do so during this year’s late-arriving flu season. Health officials would release few details about the boy other than to say he was in his “midteens” from northern rural Coconino County and was healthy before he fell ill. They do not believe he had been vaccinated. Karen Lewis medical director for the state’s immunization program. “If you’re going on the likelihood he probably did not get the vaccine.
