The News Review:
- SEIU head Andy Stern predicts quick action on health care card-check
- bama’s agenda: ne of the ‘greatest political dramas’?
- Flu-risk high health dept. has shots available
- Family: fficer’s lack of mental-health training led to slaying
- Eating Disorders Rising in Arkansas
- Pancake Day event to benefit child health care
- Report: Health of Waukesha County residents slips
SEIU head Andy Stern predicts quick action on health care card-check
USA Today -
Stern said he has “no reason to believe anyone did anything wrong. “He also said that while he is sorry about the way Blagojevich’s career ended he is not sorry about past SEIU support for him. He said Blagojevich helped child-care and health-care workers in his state including allowing child-care workers to get health care training and work supplies. Asked if Blagojevich’s Senate appointee Democrat Roland Burris should resign in light of changing versions of how he got the appointment he replied “Sen. Burris has to think hard about what he needs to do here because there is an integrity issue.
bama’s agenda: ne of the ‘greatest political dramas’?
CNN -
"So he showed here’s the short term which is stimulus banking housing. Here’s the longer term: If we want to own the century we have to deal with energy education health for example and connecting those things" he said. "And one of the critical things is that it’s not clear — you know the stimulus is great we passed it but it doesn’t work unless the banks lend. The banks won’t lend unless the housing sector stabilizes. So it’s — this is much tougher than chewing gum and walking at the same time" he said.
Flu-risk high health dept. has shots available
McDowell News NC -
Free flu vaccines have been provided by the N. Immunization Branch and are available at the local Health Department for children ages 6 months through 18 years and anyone 19 years and older who is presently enrolled in a community college or university. Students are asked to bring student ID or proof of college enrollment and Social Security card.
Family: fficer’s lack of mental-health training led to slaying
Houston Chronicle United States -
The family believes Aaron died before he reached the hospital. What is required Estrada 23 had 16 hours of “crisis intervention training” according to state records. That is the minimum mental health intervention training required under Texas officer licensing rules. He has been an officer for less than two years. Police officers can receive a state “mental health officer” certification after taking an additional 40-hour course. Local mental health advocates say 16 hours is not always enough for first responders who need to learn complex techniques to defuse a psychiatric crisis. Many large Texas police departments have expanded mental health training.
Eating Disorders Rising in Arkansas
MSNBC -
During this week the National Eating Disorders Association aims to raise awareness to help the public better understand every aspect of an eating disorder. Information the association hopes to relate includes a better understanding of the behavior that could indicate that a person has an eating disorder the threats the illness poses to a persons physical and emotional health who to contact for help and the treatment involved. The problem is seen in both genders and in people of all ages – from children as young as five to the elderly – but it’s most common in adolescent females. Maria Portilla MD is the medical director of the Adolescent Eating Disorder Clinic at Arkansas Childrens Hospital and an associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine.
Related from Birminghamspoint: Eating disorders center in Birmingham opening
Pancake Day event to benefit child health care
Topeka Capital Journal KS -
Francis Health Center. The goal is to raise $1 million to benefit children’s hospitals and other charities throughout the United States. Last year IHP served 1. 5 million free pancakes — which would create a stack more than 12 miles high — on National Pancake Day 2008 and pancake lovers donated more than $875000 to children’s charities.
Report: Health of Waukesha County residents slips
Bizjournals.com NC -
us Digg This Waukesha County residents scored a C+ on the 2009 Health Report Card released this week by the. The report card is based on six categories: maternal child and infant health; communicable diseases; cancer rate; heart disease and stroke; injury violence and substance abuse; and the use of preventative services. verall health of the county improved in two categories decreased in two categories and remained the same in two categories compared with the previous Health Report Card which was released in 2005. The grade for cancer went from a C+ to a C while heart disease and stroke saw major improvement going from a D+ to B-. The overall grade decreased slightly from a B- in the previous report card in 2005.
