The News Review:
- Minister: flu panic is danger to NHS
- Rich countries corner supplies of swine flu vaccine
- Montefiore Nurse Advocates Importance of Preconception Counseling
- With Kennedy ailing it’s still touch-and-go for health-care bill
- MUHS Sydney Univ to ink pact for child health course
- SEIU Health-Care Push Aided by Wal-Mart
Minister: flu panic is danger to NHS
guardian.co.uk
“Health officials are also concerned at rising levels of fear among parents who know that children are particularly susceptible to the H1N1 virus. Doctors last night tried to reassure families that the vast majority of young people would get better without a visit to their GP’s surgery or a hospital. Professor Terence Stephenson president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. said: “Health services struggle when they are overwhelmed by people who don’t need to be there. “ur first message to parents of young children is to keep this in perspective and keep calm. There are 11 million children in England and 256 of them are in hospital [with swine flu]. For the four families where children have died it is an absolute tragedy but if you are talking about a previously healthy child where swine flu has led to their death there have been none.
Rich countries corner supplies of swine flu vaccine
AFP
The World Health rganisation has unofficially estimated that the world’s labs may only be able to produce around 900 million doses for the A(H1N1) strain per year for a planet that is home to 6. Global pharmaceutical companies are more optimistic about how much of the drug they can produce but since each potential victim needs two doses most of the world’s population will inevitably miss out. And there are already signs that the wealthiest countries will snap up more than their fair share in the rush to halt the outbreak while Africa Asia and Latin American will struggle to secure adequate amounts of vaccine.
Montefiore Nurse Advocates Importance of Preconception Counseling
Nurse.com
But it is challenging to get the word out to women and practitioners outside maternal-child health says one nurse advocate that counseling can impact pregnancy outcomes even for women who are not considering pregnancy. That advocate Margaret Comerford Freda RN EdD CHES FAAN broadly describes preconception health as getting into the best possible health status before a woman conceives. Freda editor of The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing and professor of clinical obstetrics gynecology and women’s health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx N.
With Kennedy ailing it’s still touch-and-go for health-care bill
Seattle Times
But history’s third-longest-serving senator isn’t out of the game. Exerting what influence he can from his sickbed he advises his aides in Washington over the phone. He has made himself the poster child of what he calls “my life’s cause” and is using his illness in a final press for universal health care. Kennedy 77 seems determined not to miss this. He has outlasted medical expectations since doctors diagnosed a malignant tumor in spring 2008 and is not above expending every last bit of his political capital to deliver the bill. Democratic leaders are making plans to bring him to the Senate floor later this year in a wheelchair a bed if necessary to cast his vote. “I have enjoyed the best medical care money (and a good insurance policy) can buy.
MUHS Sydney Univ to ink pact for child health course
Times of India
Speaking to TI Swapnil Torney public relation officer MUHSMumbai confirmed the development and said “we have indeed received a proposalfrom Dr Kathryn Currow to seek permissions to start short-term course in childhealth care. ” He said a team of MUHS comprising Dr Uday Bodhankarvisited Sydney and reviewed the courses being offered by the university. DrKathryn Currow and Robert F Tynan honorary fellow Diploma in Child HealthServices were in the city on Saturday. Interestingly the IPPCprogramme offered by the University of Sydney will be a distant educationprogramme and the foreign university has already obtained no-objectioncertificate from state health secretary Bhushan Gagrani claimed Dr Bodhankar. Dr Bodhankar who is a local faculty member of the distant education programmesaid eligibility for both the course will be MBBS degree. Explainingthe course module Dr Currow said that the IPPC is a one-year part-time distanceeducation programme which provides 111 hours of lectures and supporting materialdelivered on internet or on DVD. In addition in each location there is a onehour weekly tutorial given by expert paediatricians to supplement core IPPCmaterial with essential local information.
SEIU Health-Care Push Aided by Wal-Mart
Wall Street Journal
the world’s largest retailer and a company most labor officials cite as their anti-union poster child. Stern and Wal-Mart sent a joint letter to the White House on June 30 saying they support requiring employers to provide health insurance. It was a controversial move for Wal-Mart because most other large companies oppose an employer mandate and it raised eyebrows among union officials skeptical of Wal-Mart’s record on labor issues. Kirk Adams SEIU’s executive director of health care and Leslie Dach Wal-Mart’s executive vice president of government relations met June 30 with President Barack bama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to discuss the letter. A White House spokeswoman said “There are ongoing conversations. The alliance with Wal-Mart is just one dimension of the SEIU’s health-care push.
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