#369

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:08:29 -0400
From: Nancy Eichner <neichner@GWU.EDU>
Subject: CHHCS News Alert, June 23, 2005 -- AMA Supports Patients Rights to Prescribed Medication

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CHHCS News Alert -- June 23, 2005

AMA Supports Patients' Rights to Prescribed Medication:
The American Medical Association at its annual meeting in Chicago this week adopted a new policy aimed at protecting patients' ability to get legally prescribed prescriptions filled "without obstruction by pharmacists'
conscientious objection to certain medications."
http://www.healthinschools.org/2005/june23_alert.asp

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#370

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:17:27 -0400
From: Nancy Eichner <neichner@GWU.EDU>
Subject: CHHCS Grant Alerts -- June 23, 2005

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CHHCS Grant Alerts -- June 23, 2005

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- Funding for Secondary Analysis of Data from the National Survey of Child Abuse and Neglect:
The Administration for Children and Families has announced funds to support grants for secondary analysis of data available from the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being.
http://www.healthinschools.org/grants/ops350.asp

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- Area Poverty Research
Centers:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced available funds to support cooperative agreements for Area Poverty Research Centers:
to expand the knowledge of the causes, consequences and effects of poverty in local geographical areas.
http://www.healthinschools.org/grants/ops351.asp

Tucson Electric Power -- Funding to Serve Youth and Families in Southern
Arizona:
Tucson Electric Power Co. is inviting local charities with programs serving at-risk youth and their families to apply for grants under its Make a Difference program. Tucson Electric Power will award grants of between $2,500 and $10,000 to programs located primarily in Pima County that offer prevention, intervention, and treatment for issues faced by at-risk youth.
http://www.healthinschools.org/grants/ops352.asp


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The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Phone: (202) 466-3396
Fax: (202) 466-3467
Email: neichner@gwu.edu
www.healthinschools.org

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#371

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:27:27 -0700
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Booster Vaccine May Reduce Whooping Cough in Adolescents

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While on the subject of vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has written an excellent article on the subject of the politics of immunizations that appeared in Salon.com.
Now I now that some of us public health educators dutifully swallow the CDC endorsed position that "immunizations are good" & dismiss the whole "immunizations are bad" crowd as a bunch of whacko conspiracy theorists but this article shows that the truth is somewhere in the middle (okay likely a bit left of center). If nothing else, it is YET ONE MORE illustration of the politics of public health.

To get ahold of the articleand you don't subscribeto Salon.com you have 3 options:

1. Subscribe as it is worth the cost

2. Get a free day pass by watching a brief commercial (they don't ask for personal information) if you want this option click here:
http://salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/16/thimerosal/index_np.html

3. By-pass Salon (and their hard work at presenting investigative journalism) and go to Common Dreams where the article reprinted the article in its entirety.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0616-31.htm

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