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This is how Matt Baker spent many of his Thanksgivings: in the hospital, hooked to IV needles and monitor wires, separated from his family by an oxygen tent too restrictive to even watch television. He struggled for each breath.But Matt, 13, will spend today with his family in Thermopolis.He says he has one person to thank for this: his childhood pediatrician, Dr. Michael Quinn."Though I continue a difficult, daily fight with my asthma, and other health problems, the absolute most important thing I am thankful for this Thanksgiving is Dr. Quinn, for he is the only reason that I can spend another Thanksgiving with my family," Matt wrote for the Casper Star-Tribune's "Thankful" essay contest.Matt has chronic asthma. For the first five years of his life, he had to be admitted to the hospital at least once a month.Matt remembers Dr.
Allergists Highlight New National Asthma Guidelines: Emphasis On Prevention, Avoiding "Attacks"
The great majority of the nearly 23 million people with asthma, including 6.5 million children, can avoid serious symptoms and disability if they follow the latest guidelines to keep their disease under control. Highlights of the 2007 asthma guidelines from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) were presented during the Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) in an effort not only to increase awareness of the new recommendations, but to help make sure they get put into practice.
"Asthma is not an event, it is a chronic disease that can be managed so that symptoms are controlled and severe attacks are prevented," said Michael B. Foggs, M.D chief of asthma, allergy and immunology, Advocate Health Care, Chicago.
Senators Do Not Face High Health Care Costs, Concerns Of Uninsured
The New York Times on Sunday examined how, when senators discuss health care reform, they "usually speak in abstract terms about soaring health costs and the plight of the uninsured," problems from which "members of Congress are usually insulated." According to the Times, senators have access to a number of health insurance options through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and they "are not normally exposed to the fears that strike many workers as employers reduce health benefits and insurers increase premiums year after year."
In response, some major Democratic presidential candidates have said that all U.S. residents "should have coverage as good as what Congress has," the Times reports. Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has said that she would "give all Americans the same set of insurance options that their members of Congress have," and presidential candidate Sen.
Two emergency supervisors demoted in Orange County
Orange demotes top emergency supervisors over separate election incident, remarks Date published: 11/28/2007 p { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; color: #000000; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent } BY ROBIN KNEPPER Orange County's top two emergency-management supervisors have been demoted for separate incidents of improper behavior. Melissa McDaniel, the former director of emergency management and operations, is accused of recruiting two employees under her supervision to work on county time at the polls on Election Day on behalf of Sheriff Mark Amos. Mason Vines, the former E-911 center manager, is accused of making a racially offensive remark to another county employee.
Nick Robinson: Culture of education
Poverty of aspiration. That, Gordon Brown will argue today, lies at the heart of the failure of the British education system to be world beating. The prime minister has, once again, put on his thinking hat for what promises to be another densely argued speech. He believes that the educational debate in this country since the war has been damaged by an obsession either with state-only solutions or market-only solutions. In fact, he will argue neither can provide the complete answer when the real problem lies with the culture of education in this country. Poverty of aspiration has been driven, he argues, by an elitist equation that more education must equal less quality and that there is limited room at the top. This pessimistic view is, in any event, outdated, he will argue, by globalisation.
Local briefs
Indiana Regional Medical Center Mobile Medical Unit is offering free blood pressure screenings from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bi-Lo Foods, Blairsville, and 2 to 4:30 p.m. at Mercek's Bi-Lo, Homer City. Wednesday Indiana Regional Medical Center Mobile Medical Unit is offering free blood pressure screenings from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rankin's Exxon, Shelocta, and 2 to 4:30 p.m. at Riverhall, Saltsburg. Nov. 27 Indiana Regional Medical Center Mobile Medical Unit is offering free blood pressure screenings from 10 a.m. to noon at the United Methodist Church, Marchand, and 1 to 4:30 p.m. at Valeski's Fourth Street Bi-Lo, Indiana. Nov. 28 Sensory Processing & Play, 6 p.m., Indiana Regional Medical Center. Sponsored by the Western Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Autism Society of America.
UAW Workers At Ford Ratify 4-Year Contract
DETROIT -- United Auto Workers members have overwhelmingly ratified a contract with Ford. The deal sets lower pay for some newly hired workers and puts the company's huge retiree health care debt into a union-run trust. The UAW, which represents about 54,000 workers at Ford, said 79 percent of those voting favored the pact. Workers at General Motors and Chrysler have already ratified similar deals. But unlike those two automakers, the UAW didn't go on strike against Ford. .
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