The News Review:
- Mass. healthcare reform is failing us
- Health official: compensation work for China’s tainted milk …
- Undoing the ‘Big Baby’ Trend
- NH gov to back expanding child health program
- For kids with asthma the air they breathe at home can be worse …
- New research shows that letting infants watch a little television …
Mass. healthcare reform is failing us
Boston Globe
Second the reform does not address the problem of insurance being connected to jobs. For individuals this means their insurance is not continuous if they change or lose jobs. For employers especially small businesses health insurance is an expense they can ill afford. Third the program is not affordable for many individuals and families. For middle-income people not qualifying for state-subsidized health insurance costs are too high for even skimpy coverage. For an individual earning $31213 the cheapest plan can cost $9872 in premiums and out-of-pocket payments. Low-income residents previously eligible for free care have insurance policies requiring unaffordable copayments for office visits and medications.
Health official: compensation work for China’s tainted milk …
Xinhua
Health department officials nationwide would continue visiting sick children and help them receive medical care said Chen Xiaohong Vice Health Minister at a press conference. But Health Ministry sources refused to give detailed information about how many families were compensated or how much they received. 14 the first family of the six children who died of melamine-tainted baby formula received 200000 yuan (28985 U.
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Undoing the ‘Big Baby’ Trend
U.S. News & World Report
The trend toward bigger and bigger babies is drawing concern from health experts as well. And though chubby babies might be viewed as cute and healthy parents need to think about preventing obesity at the earliest stages of life health experts are warning. That means paying attention not only to infant weights but also to a mother’s weight before conception and her weight gain during pregnancy.
NH gov to back expanding child health program
Fox44 News
John Lynch will testify Tuesday in support of legislation to raise the age limit to participate in the New Hampshire Healthy Kids program. Currently teens can qualify through age 18. The bill would allow youths through age 25 to buy into the program if they can’t be included on their family’s health insurance plan and their incomes are at or below 400% of the federal poverty level. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published broadcast rewritten or redistributed.
For kids with asthma the air they breathe at home can be worse …
Baltimore Sun
The latest study published last month by Johns Hopkins researchers quantified the increase in asthma symptoms for every increase in air pollution particles inside Baltimore homes. Such findings have begun a movement of health professionals who are going door to door to educate families about the potential dangers of indoor air and helping them clean up their homes. Their goal is to reduce childhood asthma by 50 percent by 2012. “We tend to think of outside as being the polluted place and indoors being the sanctuary” said Dr. Diette a director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment.
New research shows that letting infants watch a little television …
Baltimore Sun
Christakis who has researched the subject of babies’ TV time but has no connection to the new study said he wants all parents to give the matter as much thought as rmiston and Grabowski have. A newborn’s brain triples in size in the first two years of birth said Christakis director of the Center for Child Health Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and author of Make Television Work for Your Kids. Until recently those young brains were left to develop without TV. In the 1970s the average age kids started watching TV was 4 and today it’s 4 months.
