Category: Family

Sex Education Textbooks Spark Controversy

A series of sex education textbooks used in elementary schools in China has triggered a debate online after a mother in Zhejiang Province posted pictures from the textbooks on Weibo. Published by Beijing Normal University, the books contain illustrations showing reproductive organs and discussions about sexual abuse, among others topics, prompting some parents to argue that the content is too graphic for young children .

Jewish Elderly Care Organizations Slam Republican Health Proposals

B’nai B’rith International, which sponsors low-income housing for the elderly, and the Jewish Federations of North America, which advocates for funds for the poor and the elderly, took aim changes contained in the American Health Care Act, the bill Republican leaders hope to pass as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. “Congress and the Trump Administration appear to be moving quickly to pass potentially devastating cuts to Medicaid,” JFNA said in an action alert sent this week to its constituent groups, urging them to lobby Congress against the cuts.

No, Motherhood Really Isn’t the Hardest Thing in the World

I was having lunch with a group of friends last month and the topic of motherhood came up, as it inevitably does when you sit down to a meal at a table of women with children. One my friends sipped her wine and commented passionately across from me: “Being a mom is seriously one of the hardest things in the world.”

RCES fetes Rotary anniversaries at gala dinner

The Rotary Club of the Eastern Seaboard celebrated two of its parent organization’s key anniversaries with a gala dinner at the Siam Bayshore hotel. Rotary International Director Saowalak Rattanavich, District Governor Eknarong Kongpan, District Governor-elect Onanong Siripornmanat, and past governors Pratheep Malhotra and Premprecha Dibbayawan were welcomed to the Feb. 25 soiree by club President Rodney Charman.

Smoking ‘a pediatric issue’

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released its first recommendation on tackling smoking among kids and teens earlier this month – calling on physicians to take a more active role in prevention and treatment. The recommendations target children and youth ages five to 18 as well as their parents, suggesting that by having a brief conversation about the risks of smoking and providing advice and support, physicians may help prevent and treat smoking in this age group.

Glamorous photo shoot celebrates kids’ cancera

… who was diagnosed with lymphoma in December 2015, near the end of her first semester at Pitt, Makeup artist Kirsten Health prepares Maddy Rutzebeck for her photo shoot during a twp-day photo shoot at Lauxmont Farms in Lower Windsor Township for …

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The AARP issued a statement on Tuesday declaring its opposition to the health care bill touted by GOP leadership this week. The letter — from one of the most influential groups in domestic policy — is the latest blow for a bill that has already seen opposition from many conservative leaders, media organizations and interest groups.

Report says mental health funding would yield economic benefits

More money for child and youth services would boost Canada’s economy and patient health, a new report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada suggests, buttressing Ottawa’s push for targeted mental health investments. The commission, which bills its findings as a tool to help provincial and territorial decision-makers, says more than 7.5 million Canadians face mental health issues, with a price tag of $50 billion a year – nearly $1,400 a person.

UK online carer-patient matchmaker HomeTouch expands nationwide

A British online service that matches elderly and disabled patients with home carers is expanding nationwide by adding another 25,000 care professionals to its database, founder Jamie Wilson said on Monday. The expansion comes as British government, at both the national and local level, seeks to increase the provision of home care to take the pressure off hospitals run by the state-funded National Health Service in looking after an ageing population.

Here’s why Republicans are finding it so hard to come up with a replacement for Obamacare

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist to Vice President Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and author of the new book ‘The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity.’ In the beginning, God created a health-care system.

Why artificial turf may truly be bad for kids

… cancer , parents have become alarmed by reports in the media of increased injuries and illnesses. As an environmental health professor who has examined a variety of environmental problems and as a soccer dad who watched my son play on these fields …

Raising smoking age does cut teen smoking

… to 21 or even 25 years would reduce smoking initiation substantially, reduce the prevalence of smoking, improve health across the lifespan, improve the outcome of many teenage pregnancies and save lives.” He said if a man has never smoked by age 18, …

Sudden bankruptcy stuns immigrant settlement agency’s clients

Doreen Bartley, whose son attended the youth programs at MicroSkills and volunteered there, says she is “saddened not only for my child, but for the entire community.” A settlement services agency that served northwest Toronto’s immigrant community for 33 years has abruptly gone bankrupt and closed its doors, leaving 90 employees and hundreds of clients in the cold.

Cruel to be kind on Medicaid expansion?

House Republicans plan to pay for their healthcare plan by restricting tax breaks on employer health plans. “Some people just don’t care enough about their own care”, he argued, saying Republicans can provide people access to affordable insurance plans, “but whether they take it or not is like trying to legislate responsibility”.

Trump has reinvigorated Democrats

Chris Oaks spoke with Hancock County Democratic Party chair Nancy Stephani. Q: What was your reaction to the president’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday? A: The change of tone was refreshing, we certainly appreciate that.

More Teens Turning Their Backs on Tanning Beds

… indoor tanning appears to give them a false sense of security when they step outdoors into real sunlight, said Guy, a health economist with the CDC’s division of cancer prevention and control. “We also found that among the 1.2 million high school …

Poor Diet And Breast Cancer

… of California at Los Angeles, and colleagues analysed data from 45,204 women in the U.S. who were part of the Nurses’ Health Study II. “In 1997, participants were asked if they would be willing to complete a supplemental food frequency questionnaire …

Entitlement Reform – Medicare

Medicare, like Medicaid, has long been a reform target of congressional Republicans who seek to bend the cost curve for the program that provides coverage for more than 50 million seniors at a cost of more than $500 billion per year. Last year, Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled his proposal to convert Medicare to what is known as a “premium support” program in which the federal government would provide a payment on behalf of each Medicare recipient toward the purchase of a health insurance plan either a private plan, a similar Medicare Advantage plan or traditional Medicare.

Children’s Hospital at St Francis receives check 28 mins ago

Dozens stood outside on the Children’s playground at St. Francis Hospital as Gold 4 Kids of Tulsa presented a check of $70,00 to the hospital’s staff. Gold 4 Kids, a cancer fundraising organization, focuses on raising money for research, clinical trails, and special projects in order to support the clinical pediatric oncology department at St. Francis hospital.

Kids can get migraines too

IT is easy to characterise migraines as an adult problem, but while there is limited data to support paediatric migraines, many children struggle daily to cope with headaches and their associated symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and other discomforts. Dr Anona Griffith, paediatrician at Gateway Plaza, Old Harbour, said that proper diagnosis and management of the condition would bring relief to children who suffer from migraines.

Why US flags at pro-Park rallies?

Since the parliament voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye in early December, Park’s staunch supporters have relentlessly taken to the streets with Korean flags in their hands to oppose her removal from office. While the Korean flag has become a symbol of their movement to defend the president, a seemingly unrelated flag has also been carried by many of the — mostly elderly — participants at the rallies: the US flag.

Retirement Anxiety Is Gripping America

A few weeks after the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives moved to kill rules allowing states to create portable retirement savings accounts, a new survey found that 75 percent of Americans support just such an option. The response was a common refrain in a report that echoed the growing dread of living out one’s golden years in poverty.