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As law takes effect, Obama gives insurers a warning
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President Obama, whose vilification of insurers helped push a landmark health care overhaul through Congress, plans to sternly warn industry executives at a White House meeting this week against imposing hefty rate increases in anticipation of tightening regulation under the new law, administration officials said. The White House is concerned that health insurers will blame the new law for increases in premiums that are intended to maximize
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FAMILY ADVOCACY DAY COVERAGE |
National Association of Children's Hospitals Family Advocacy Day
The Hill
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More than 220 child patients, families and children's hospitals leaders, representing 21 states, arrived in Washington, D.C., to share their personal health care stories with lawmakers and highlight
issues specific to pediatrics that should be addressed by Congress and the Administration as health reform is implemented. This grassroots effort is part of the National Association of Children's Hospitals (N.A.C.H.) Family Advocacy Day taking place on June 15-16 in the nation's capitol.
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Frisco, Texas, family advocates quality pediatric care
Frisco Enterprise
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Many people are watching and waiting to see how healthcare reform will affect them personally, but one Frisco family is not leaving that decision up to chance. Seven-year-old Children's Medical Center
patient Colby Elliott and his family, along with more than 30 other families from across the nation, are traveling to Washington, D.C., to make their personal healthcare stories known to legislators who may have a key impact in the future of pediatric care.
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Bowling Green, Ky., family take part in children's health care forum
Bowling Green Daily News
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Braxton and Amie Price believe God has a way of speaking through people. When the Bowling Green couple's 5-year-old daughter, Brinlee, had to go to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to get
a tumor removed from the left side of her neck in February, they said they felt God speaking to them through the song "This is Me" from the Disney Channel movie "Camp Rock." A verse in the song tells of how the character feels she is exactly where she is supposed to be at that moment.
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Children campaign to advance health care options
Newswise
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Health care reform has made important progress in ensuring that America's 70 million children have health care coverage with benefits that meet their unique health care needs. Families of pediatric
patients from America's children's hospitals understand that access to timely, high-quality medical care can save lives. That's why two patients from NewYork-Presbyterian/Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and their families have traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss their personal health care stories with lawmakers who are carefully monitoring how health reform implementation rolls out.
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University of California, San Francisco to get $100 million for hospital
The Wall Street Journal
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Salesforce.com Inc. founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne will give $100 million to a new children's hospital at the University of California, San Francisco, the first gift in a philanthropic push by the billionaire to make his hometown a global center for children's medicine. In an interview, Mr. Benioff, 45 years old, says the gift reflects a major shift in his
approach to philanthropy. For the next 10 years he will focus his donations exclusively on the children's hospital, after years of giving much smaller amounts to a host of different organizations.
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Brain damage rare in kids with simple head injuries
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While some grownups may experience delayed, and potentially fatal, bleeding in the brain after even minor accidents, this phenomenon is exceedingly rare in children, the researchers found. "One of the
things we worry about when we see children who've had a fall and hit their head is whether we've missed something serious," said Dr. David Johnson of the University of Calgary in Canada, who worked on the new study, published in the journal Pediatrics.
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Gates Foundation awards $2.4 million to Children's Hospital Boston
Mass High Tech
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Children's Hospital Boston has received a $2.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund the development of vaccines for newborns. The research will be led by Ofer Levy, M.D.,
a principal investigator in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's, and intended to address the need to give vaccines to newborns in resource-poor nations where follow-up care is unavailable and infants don't get the vaccines that they should receive between two and six months of age.
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Seattle Children's hospital set to open new $75 million clinic
The Seattle Times
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The location says "health care," but the building's vibrant colors, comfortable spaces and carefully thought-out layouts are designed to calm young patients anxious about a trip to the doctor —
or the operating room. Next month, Seattle Children's hospital will open a $75 million clinic and outpatient-surgery center in Bellevue's busy hospital district on the east side of Interstate 405, a short distance from Overlake Hospital Medical Center.
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Babies may get too much vitamin D from droppers
WebMD
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The FDA is warning parents and caregivers of infants that some liquid vitamin D supplement products sold with droppers could allow excessive doses to be given to babies, which could be harmful. The FDA
says some droppers that come with the vitamin D liquid could hold more than the 400 international units (IU) a day recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Supporting your family-centered care initiatives is easy with CaringBridge. It's a free website
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Doctors' group pushes swim lessons for toddlers
South Bend Tribune
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There's a new recommendation from American Academy of Pediatrics about swimming lessons for young children. Up until last month, the academy had discouraged lessons for children ages 1-4 because of a concern parents might be less vigilant about supervising a young child who had had some swimming lessons. However, the academy cites "new evidence" that while those children may not actually master swimming yet, they may be less likely
to drown if they have had swim instruction.
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Possible new strategy to fight cancer drug resistance
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Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found a way to disable a common protein that often thwarts chemotherapy treatment of several major forms of cancer. The researchers discovered, surprisingly, that they could exploit a small portion of this anti-death protein, called MCL-1, to make a molecular tool that specifically blocked MCL-1's "pro-survival" action, allowing standard cancer drugs to kill the tumor cells by
apoptosis, or programmed cell death.
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Study: Cartoon characters attract kids to junk food
CNN
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Shrek, Dora the Explorer, and other animated TV and movie stars beloved by children have been moonlighting as junk-food pitchmen in recent years. And they're
good at it. Fifty percent of children say that food from a package decorated with a cartoon celebrity such as Shrek tastes better than the same exact food from a plain package, according to a new study. And when given a choice, the vast majority of kids pick the food from the cartoon-adorned package as a snack, the study found.
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Weight-loss surgery urged for obese kids may boost Allergan
The Daily Herald
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David Ludwig, director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital Boston, was against weight-loss surgery for kids, he says, because it ignored the real problem, a "toxic environment" jammed with
junk food. He's since changed his mind. The rate of obesity in children has tripled since 1980, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, boosting rates of sleep apnea, diabetes and heart disease. That's why Ludwig, a leading childhood obesity researcher, now says surgery should probably be considered as an option for some adolescents with Type-2 diabetes, who have failed conventional weight-loss programs.
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Babies healthier when breastfed
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The longer new mothers breastfeed their newborns, the better it is for their baby's health. A study led by researchers at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam,
Netherlands found that infants who were breastfed exclusively for four months, and later part-time, had a lower risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections during their first six months of life.
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