The News Review:
- Kennedy hands health care overhaul to Dodd
- Three More Cases f Swine Flu Confirmed In Johnston County
- Preventing mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
- Study to track autistic children includes Phila.
Kennedy hands health care overhaul to Dodd
The Associated Press
Chris Dodd is emerging as the face of a Senate plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system in the absence of Congress’ acknowledged expert on the subject ailing Sen. Republicans already are griping about being frozen out saying that Kennedy wouldn’t treat them that way. “I’ve never worked a process on any bill with him that went like this where there was absolutely no input taken from the other party” said Sen.
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Three More Cases f Swine Flu Confirmed In Johnston County
MyNC.com
According to county officials the Public Health Department along with the Johnston County medical community continue to work diligently to monitor this situation and to assure the public’s health is protected. According to Johnston County school officials two of the children are at home recuperating and will not be in school Wednesday. The third child is not enrolled in a Johnston County school. fficials said they have met with the Johnston County Health Department and determined that it is safe for all of students and staff to return to school Wednesday. “Appropriate cleaning solutions have been identified and have been used on a routine basis each day. These will continue to be used to disinfect all of our school sites” officials said in a press release. The Johnston County Public Health Department is working to determine who might have been exposed before the patients showed symptoms.
Preventing mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
MediaGlobal
Included in the estimates was that 21 percent of women in low- and middle-income countries were tested for HIV. MTCT of HIV can occur during pregnancy labor and delivery or breastfeeding particularly impacting sub-Saharan Africa where a high percentage of people do not know their HIV status. Transmission can be prevented and death rates be curbed with the proper intervention and access to health care services. In a 2008 report published by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) UNAIDS and the World Health rganization (WH) it was found that only 8 percent of children born to HIV-positive mothers were tested before they were two months old. rganizations such as Pathfinder International have been working to increase access for preventative measures as well as treatment options for women in developing regions. For HIV-positive pregnant women Pathfinder International offers a comprehensive package for preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)?guaranteeing that women have access to basic antiretroviral medication as well as the necessary support and tools for optimal breastfeeding. By creating a supportive environment for local communities Pathfinder International can engage in “community mobilization” towards HIV prevention family planning HIV counseling and testing.
Study to track autistic children includes Phila.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Newschaffer an autism expert who came to Drexel from Hopkins three years ago said researches would "combine environmental data with the genetic data because very likely there are genetic susceptibility factors. "Besides Philadelphia and Baltimore there are two study sites in Northern California one of them at the University of California Davis. The study is funded with $14 million from the National Institutes of Health and $2. 5 million from Autism Speaks an advocacy group. The local portion of the study which aims to enroll 300 women who are no more than 20 weeks pregnant and reside in Southeastern Pennsylvania will be led by Drexel and by the Center for Autism Research a collaboration between Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Children’s Hospital two months ago became the seventh center to participate in a huge national examination of how genes and the environment interact to affect children’s health. The National Children’s Study which locally is limited so far to residents of Montgomery County is expected to follow as many as 100000 children from before birth until age 21.
