The News Review:
- ND Senate Agrees to Broaden Child Health Rules
- Child dental work rise ‘worrying’
- Vt. to receive $3.3M for child health care services
- Health Highlights: April 9 2009
- Doubts raised about childhood weight screenings
ND Senate Agrees to Broaden Child Health Rules
KFYR-TV
Now the program is open to families making less than 150 percent of the federal poverty level. The new bill would set the figure at 200 percent. That equals an income of $44100 for a family of four.
Child dental work rise ‘worrying’
BBC News
"Water fluoridation as the long-standing scheme in the West Midlands illustrates has great potential to address this divide. " ‘Lack of access’Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb criticised the "appalling lack of access" to NHS dentists and called for a "radical overhaul" of the system. He told BBC Radio 5Live: "ne of the possible causes [of poor child dental health] is that children are not going to the dentist enough. "We hear constantly about problems in accessing NHS dentists. It really demonstrates a failure of government policy that the situation is getting worse not better. " Mr Lamb acknowledge that the research was based on figures pre-dating the 2006 introduction of new contracts for NHS dentists which aimed to widen access. But he said: "What we’ve seen since is the position getting even worse.
Vt. to receive $3.3M for child health care services
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Vice President Joe Biden announced the funding today officials for the White House said in a news release. Vermont will receive $2823373 in Recovery Act funding to support child care for working families. The Administration also plans to make $491557 in vaccines and grants available to Vermont to ensure more underserved Americans receive the vaccines they need. getElementById(”article-pagination”).
Health Highlights: April 9 2009
Forbes
However reports over the past six decades have linked the drug toliver failure in children the Associated Press said. An analysis of data suggests that five to 10 children in theUnited States die each year from complications caused bypropylthiouracil said Donald R. Mattison of the Eunice KennedyShriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Developmentand Dr. Rivkees of Yale University School of Medicine. They recommended that doctors not use propylthiouracil as aninitial treatment for overactive thyroid the AP reported. Another drug called methimazole is available and other treatmentsare surgery and radioactive iodine.
Doubts raised about childhood weight screenings
Boston Globe
The childhood screenings modeled after initiatives in Arkansas and New York City won unanimous approval Wednesday from the state’s Public Health Council. When the state Department of Public Health sought comments about the childhood weight screening the responses from medical associations and physicians were almost entirely supportive. But Rebecca Manley founder of the Multiservice Eating Disorders Association in Newton questioned the reliability of body mass index screenings known commonly as BMI. And she also challenged the wisdom of sending those reports to parents. “Mandatory BMI reporting laws force parents to walk the fine line between encouraging healthy eating and promoting unhealthy weight loss strategies” Manley wrote in a letter to the agency.
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