The News Review:
- Personal Health Sports Imperative: Protecting Young Brains
- Women overlooked in health care debate
- AIDS violence burden health care in SAfrica: studies
Personal Health Sports Imperative: Protecting Young Brains
New York Times
Many more are believed to have occurred but were either unrecognized or unreported. Special Helmets In an effort to alert coaches and trainers to a head hit warranting investigation players at several colleges and some high schools have helmets fitted with a telemetric system that can almost instantly transmit wireless signals to computers on the sideline about the intensity and location of a hit. The system called HITS was developed by Simbex of Lebanon N. with support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It is marketed by Riddell but is still primarily a research tool to help coaches trainers and doctors identify players who may not report symptoms for fear of being taken out of the game.
Women overlooked in health care debate
Kansas City Star
and there are many reasons why. Women?s health care needs are generally greater than men?s particularly in their reproductive years. However in curious contrast our current system makes it more difficult for women to obtain and afford the health care services they need.
AIDS violence burden health care in SAfrica: studies
AFP
“Although South Africa is considered a middle-income country in terms of its economy it has health outcomes that are worse than those in many lower income countries” South African doctors said in the British medical journal. The journal published a series of articles highlighting the challenges facing South Africa’s health system which has been transformed into a comprehensive national service 15 years after the end of apartheid. But the country faces a collision of epidemics including AIDS and tuberculosis as well as a high level of deadly violence and poor services for mothers and children the articles said. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi described the country’s the health system as in trouble.
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