The News Review:
- bama Seeks to Improve Food Safety
- Lawmakers grapple with cuts to child health services
- range County official considers shifting Planned Parenthood funds …
- Rabies confirmed in cat in Rockingham County
- 250 in Dearborn share ideas at a White House health care forum
bama Seeks to Improve Food Safety
Washington Post
” In his weekly address to the nation bama said he is creating a “Food Safety Working Group” to recommend ways to “upgrade our food safety laws for the 21st century. ” The Agriculture Department is also moving ahead with a rule that stalled during the Bush administration to ban all diseased cattle from entering the food supply. In addition bama formally announced the appointment of former New York City health chief Margaret Hamburg to be his Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Baltimore health commissioner Joshua Sharfstein will serve as Hamburg’s deputy. “There are certain things only a government can do” bama says in the address. “And one of those things is ensuring that the foods we eat and the medicines we take are safe and do not cause us harm. ” The announcements illustrate another shift in direction under bama from the policies of the administration of President George W.
Lawmakers grapple with cuts to child health services
Reno Gazette Journal
Jim Gibbons to reduce payments to doctors and hospitals end a program for working pregnant women and cap the number of children eligible to receive benefits. The proposed cuts would save the state about $6 million as lawmakers struggle to fill a $2. 3 billion hole in the 2009-11 budget. The cuts would “move our state back 10 years” said Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley D-Las Vegas said.
range County official considers shifting Planned Parenthood funds …
Los Angeles Times
By Tami Abdollah March 14 2009After voting to suspend an range County education contract with Planned Parenthood because the organization performs abortions a county supervisor is considering whether the money should go instead to a group that describes itself as a “pro-life ministry” and uses ultrasound viewings and biblical material to counsel women. “I can’t be an advocate of what Planned Parenthood is” Supervisor Bill Campbell said. “Most organizations try to explain to the women every option there is available and there’s a nuance to these explanations and that would be protecting the health of the mother and the child.
Related from Rop-jo: Planned Parenthood Targets Poland for Abortion with US Funds …
Rabies confirmed in cat in Rockingham County
Madison Messenger
“I’ve been here more than 20 years and we’ve never had a cat test positive for rabies. It’s very unusual that you have a domestic animal to test positive” said Ted Nelson environmental health director for Rockingham County. He said two dogs were confirmed positive for the rabies virus in separate cases two years ago. A feral cat came out of the woods and attacked and bit a child on the left leg outside a home off Manley Farm Road in Reidsville.
250 in Dearborn share ideas at a White House health care forum
Detroit Free Press
They ranged from health care leaders and providers to a feisty organization Raging Grannies of Metro Detroit whose members want a system that covers everyone. “We pay so much and we get so much less” said Nancy Goedert 76 of Ferndale who came wearing a breathing tube just for effect. With more than 1 in 10 without insurance and more employers challenged by paying for health benefits “Michigan is a poster child of why reform needs to happen” said Gov. Jennifer Granholm who co-moderated the forum with Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Melody Barnes director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Health care improvements will help the economy Granholm said. “We can do this differently folks” she said.
