The News Review:
- Health Notes
- Flu Leads Rikers to Cancel Visits for Some Inmates
- Child Charity Warns Swine Flu Could Devastate Developing Countries
- Is French health system a model for US?
- Study finds health care costs taking a bigger bite of Texans’ income
Health Notes
Baltimore Sun
Study sessions will meet for one hour three days a week for six months. Exercise classes will be held at selected Howard county senior centers and other locations. The principal investigators of this study are Dr. Richard Macko Department of Neurology University of Maryland School Medicine and the VA Maryland Health Care System 410-605-7000; and Mary Stuart Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Maryland Baltimore County 410-455-2084. Adult child and infant CPR Courses sponsored by Howard County General Hospital. Space is limited and registration is required. All programs will be held at the HCGH Wellness Center Suite L-9 of the Columbia Medical Center 11055 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia.
Flu Leads Rikers to Cancel Visits for Some Inmates
New York Times
Frieden defended their caution by saying that they were trying to balance the health of students with the child-care and educational needs of families. “Day by day we’re learning more” Dr. “It’s a judgment call.
Child Charity Warns Swine Flu Could Devastate Developing Countries
SS Children's Villages Canada
The World Health rganization (WH) has raised its international pandemic alert on swine flu to level five urging countries all over the world to remain vigilant. Level five indicates sustained human-to-human transmission in at least two countries ? signifying that a pandemic is imminent. The sixth phase of the alert indicates that a global pandemic is already underway. As of 6:00 pm last night the WH confirmed a recorded 148 cases in 9 countries with one confirmed death in the United States and 7 in Mexico (159 suspected deaths). While swine flu remains largely contained to developed countries South Africa is currently waiting for laboratory results on its first two possible cases ? bringing to life World Vision?s warning that swine flu could soon threaten developing countries where its impact would be much more devastating than it is in the First World.
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Is French health system a model for US?
Dallas Morning News
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Study finds health care costs taking a bigger bite of Texans’ income
Dallas Morning News
“Health insurance premiums increased six times as fast as Texas wages over an eight-year period Families USA recently said in separate report. Annual health insurance premiums from 2000 to 2007 in Texas rose from $6638 to $12403 an 86 percent increase; the state’s median earnings during the same period increased from $23032 to $26484 or 15 percent. In Texas monthly health insurance premiums for a typical two-parent one-child family are $800 to $1050 a month. The typical family in the Dallas-Plano-Irving area spends $3130 a month on housing food child care transportation and taxes according to estimates from the Center for Public Policy Priorities an Austin-based nonprofit consumer advocate. Adding insurance at current prices could increase that family’s monthly budget 34 percent.
