The News Review:
- Senator Casey on Children and Health Care Reform
- Antipsychotic drugs for kids raise hope worry
- More swine flu cases possible in Tompkins County
- Do schools need more PE time to fight obesity?
- Health Tip: Preparing Your Child for a Medical Test
- ‘¢ What: Free HIV and syphilis rapid tests plus sessions on …
Senator Casey on Children and Health Care Reform
All American Patriots (press release)
In the letter from there she talks about what happened at one particular moment after summarizing their health care situation and when I was describing the pregnancy ” My water had broke the night before we were anxiously awaiting the birth of our first child. A half-hour later 2 ambulances were in my driveway. As the paramedics were assessing the health of my baby and me the parametric from the other ambulance told me that my husband could not be revived. ?She concluded the letter this way and I quote ?I am a working class American and do not have the money or the insight to legally fight the health insurance company. We had no life insurance. I will probably lose my home my car and everything we worked so hard to accumulate in our life will be gone in an instant. If my story is heard if legislation can be changed to help other uninsured Americans in a similar situation I am willing to pay the price of losing everything.
Antipsychotic drugs for kids raise hope worry
San Francisco Chronicle
doctors were reporting about 25 cases per 100000 young people and by 2002 that number had jumped to 1000 cases per 100000 according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Medication was prescribed for about two-thirds of those patients according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Antipsychotic medications are among the most popular made by pharmaceutical companies. Earlier this month a U. Food and Drug Administration panel recommended approval of three antipsychotic drugs for use in treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and teens.
More swine flu cases possible in Tompkins County
Ithaca Journal
It last posted on update on June 8 reporting a third confirmed case at Tompkins Cortland Community Col-lege. Tompkins County Public Health Director Alice Cole would not give any information about the fourth case or whether it was linked to the Cornell Child Care Center. A June 17 update on the Cornell Web site stated that it did involve a member of the Cornell community who was recovering at home. (2 of 2)”We do have another case” Cole said. “We know it’s in the community and that there will be more cases.
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Do schools need more PE time to fight obesity?
USA Today
But those rules have not prevented Illinois kids from getting heavier. 7% of 10- to 17-year-olds in Illinois are obese according to a 2007 survey released last month by the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative. That’s the fourth-highest rate in the country behind only Mississippi Georgia and Kentucky. Nationwide an estimated 32% of American kids ages 2 to 19 are overweight including 17% who are obese according to the Centers for Disease Control. Illinois mandates gym class but does not have a standardized P.
Health Tip: Preparing Your Child for a Medical Test
Forbes
National Library of Medicine offers thesesuggestions:Give your child a detailed simple and clear explanation ofwhat is going to happen. Be specific about which part of the body will be affected andhow it might feel. Allow your child to react — even if it includes angerscreaming or crying — but encourage communication about what he orshe is feeling. Have your child practice the position that will be required –such as lying down stretching out an arm or curling up on oneside. Talk about why the test or procedure is necessary and how itwill help your child.
‘¢ What: Free HIV and syphilis rapid tests plus sessions on …
Houston Chronicle
Monday through Thursday • Where: • NAACP Family Technology Center 4203 Fannin Information: 713-794-9020 Free hip-hop concert tickets are being used to try to lure thousands of Houston young adults to get tested for HIV. The Houston health department along with community health agencies will try to screen a record 15000 people during a marathon testing event over the next three weeks. “We’re really looking to reach an unprecedented number of youth” said Beau Mitts program manager of the health department’s HIV STD and viral hepatitis prevention bureau. “As far as we know this is the largest undertaking of any mass HIV testing event in the United States. ”The goal — targeted to National HIV Testing Day on Saturday — is to screen 1200 people daily from today through Thursday at the NAACP Family Technology Center and another 10000 in the next two weeks at Planned Parenthood St. Hope Foundation and other partner agencies.
