The News Review:
- Medpedia launches; will wiki work for health information?
- Pro-Life News: bama Health Care Abortion Pope Fertility …
- In Turnabout Children Take Caregiver Role
- Unions could expand in health fields
- Child’s death spurs rush for flu vaccinations
- From preemie to pediatrician for Jeremy Dalton
- Erosion seen in child health
Medpedia launches; will wiki work for health information?
San Jose Mercury News USA -
“I couldn’t find anything easy to read explanatory and credible that wasn’t covered with pharmaceutical ads or Botox commercials. “Currier didn’t know much about medicine but he knew a lot about the Internet. So this month he launched Medpedia a wiki-style health site where the information is written only by those boasting M. s — instead of just anyone with an opinion and idle time.
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Pro-Life News: bama Health Care Abortion Pope Fertility …
LifeNews.com MT -
com) — President Barack bama toyed with the idea during the nomination of pro-abortion former Sen. Tom Daschle to be Health Secretary of making him health czar as well. Daschle in that role would have overseen a White House office in charge of putting together a health care reform plan together. That concerned pro-life advocates because Daschle would have played a role in shaping bama’s health care plan which has come under fire for possibly including abortion coverage or mandating that hospitals or insurance companies cover abortions. With Daschle having removed himself from consideration because of a tax scandal White House is considering dumping its newly created ffice of Health Reform a White House official said Friday according to the web site Politico. Dachle had also resigned as the head of the health care office when he took his name out of consideration for the Cabinet-level post.
In Turnabout Children Take Caregiver Role
BlueRidgeNow.com NC -
Why should I have to do it? ther kids they could go out and play with friends. ”Across the country children are providing care for sick parents or grandparents — lifting frail bodies off beds or toilets managing medication washing feeding dressing talking with doctors. Schools social service agencies and health providers are often unaware of those responsibilities because families members may be too embarrassed or stoic. Some children develop maturity and self-esteem. But others grow anxious depressed or angry sacrifice social and extracurricular activities and miss — or quit — school. “ur society thinks of children as being taken care of; it doesn’t think of children as taking care of anybody” said Carol Levine director of families and health care at United Hospital Fund a health services organization that studied child caregivers. “Kids who do it well gain confidence” Ms.
Unions could expand in health fields
Rockford Register Star IL -
We have been able to do something quite different here and that pays us big dividends. ”Kelleher however said SEIU will be hunting for new members in Rockford if the act passes. “We have several thousand members in Rockford in home health care child care and nursing home fields. We always get calls from people in Rockford looking to organize” he said. “We would go more aggressively wherever they live or work. ”Reach staff writer Sean F. Driscoll at 815-987-1346 or.
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.
From preemie to pediatrician for Jeremy Dalton
Houston Chronicle United States -
Even if the baby could survive he wouldn’t be able to walk talk or feed himself doctors told Lisa and her husband Robert. “There was no rejoicing in that delivery room” she said. Lisa’s baby boy Jeremy was taken from Methodist Hospital to the neonatal intensive care unit at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center (now University Medical Center). Lisa who lived about 20 miles away in Ropesville at the time visited her son twice a day every day for the three months Jeremy was in the NICU. Thelma Sutter (then Kwan) was a pediatrician studying neonatology at the time Jeremy was transferred to the NICU. Despite all the news Lisa had received she said Sutter remained optimistic about Jeremy’s outlook.
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.
