The News Review:
- Health plan holds sign-up for public insurance
- Health Tip: Have Your Child’s Hearing Checked
- bama talks tainted food not funds
- Your Health: Kids of smokers have an ally in pediatricians
- Cheap booze? British tradition under threat
Health plan holds sign-up for public insurance
MPNnow.com
According to Fidelis as many as 14000 Americans may be losing their health coverage daily amid layoffs and business closings. Many New Yorkers don’t know that quality affordable health coverage exists for individuals and families the organization noted. Fidelis Care representatives will answer questions and help eligible residents apply for enrollment through the state’s Child Health Plus Family Health Plus and Medicaid programs. Child Health Plus is for children under age 19 and coverage may be free or as little as $9 per child per month. Adults ages 19 to 64 may qualify for low-cost health coverage through Family Health Plus based on their household size and gross monthly income. Members are covered for regular checkups preventive care hospital and emergency care eye exams dental care and more. To apply for enrollment in Child Health Plus Family Health Plus or Medicaid with Fidelis Care bring proof of age income and address.
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Health Tip: Have Your Child’s Hearing Checked
U.S. News & World Report
The test should be repeated when children are in the seventh and 11th grades. If concerns arise about a child’s language speech learning or hearing capabilities. If a family history of hereditary hearing loss exists particularly later in life. If there are persistent ear infections. If there are problems with the skull or face that may affect hearing or an injury to the head that rendered the child unconscious. If there are other factors that could lead to hearing loss such as being exposed repeatedly to very loud noise.
bama talks tainted food not funds
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Sharfstein as principal deputy commissioner. Hamburg is a former New York City health commissioner and Sharfstein is Baltimore’s health commissioner. The address capped a somewhat eclectic week for bama who announced expanded stem cell research rules Monday and his education policy on Tuesday before finishing the week with upbeat talk about the economy. Republicans had questioned earlier in the week whether he was taking his eye off the recession but the White House said it was important for bama to juggle several different priorities. ©1996-2009 Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Your Health: Kids of smokers have an ally in pediatricians
USA Today
They worry about finding the time training and money to do an adequate job and about alienating smoking parents he says. But he says those who raise the issue often learn that parents are grateful. And many parents who are not ready to quit will take other steps — such as banning smoking from their homes and cars — that improve children’s health he says.
Cheap booze? British tradition under threat
The Associated Press
And pubs on every street corner making it easy to start your day with a liquid lunch. No wonder that Britain’s notorious binge drinking is so out of control that the government’s top medical adviser came out Monday in favor of stiff new price policies to cut off the massive flow of cheap booze. “Cheap alcohol is killing us as never before” Chief Medical fficer Liam Donaldson said as he delivered his annual Public Health report. “The quality of life of families and in cities and towns up and down the country is being eroded by the effects of excessive drinking. “Donaldson described a culture where anything goes — with cheap drinks two-for-one specials and underage drinking — helping to cause public health costs to soar out of control. Anyone who goes out late at night in London or other major cities would know what he was talking about — it has become common for teenagers and young adults to drink until they drop. “Let’s try and imagine a country where nobody is physically or sexually assaulted because of alcohol” he said.
