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A Mother's Exposure To Urban Air Pollutants Can Affect Her Baby's IQ
Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can adversely affect a child"s intelligence quotient or IQ, according to new research by the the Columbia Center for Children"s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health. PAHs are chemicals released into the air from the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. In urban areas motor vehicles are a major of PAHs. The study findings are published in the August 2009 issue of Pediatrics.

More Than Half Of Primary Care Doctor Grads Are Immigrants
"Nationally, about a quarter of all residency graduates began their medical training abroad. And in primary care - where there is a national shortage of physicians - more than half of all graduates are immigrants," The Concord Monitor reports. "New Hampshire"s primary care doctors are aging, and as they retire, recruiters said they will increasingly be replaced by physicians who began their training outside the country."
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Senate Finance Committee Under Pressure To Produce Health Bill
President Obama told Sen. Max Baucus that he wants a Senate Finance Committee health overhaul bill by the end of the week, The Associated Press reports. "These officials said Obama made his wishes known directly to Baucus, D-Mont., at a White House meeting Monday attended by administration officials and senior Democratic lawmakers."
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Pharmacists Need A Place At The Health Reform Table The Baltimore Sun The federal government is now in the process of defining the details of health care reform, and from the pharmacy perspective, successful reform must include insurance reimbursement for pharmacist services beyond dispensing, including chronic disease management, medication therapy management programs and the administration of lifesaving immunizations (Eddington, 6/29). Let"s Not Forget About Health IT San Jose Mercury News It"s now up to Congress and the administration to show that meaningful reform isn"t just about access to or affordability of care, but also creating a 21st century system that makes it easier, safer and more cost efficient to deliver (Donahue, 6/29). Myths On Health Care USA Today Scare tactics mustn"t obscure the facts about fixing our broken system. Will change be free? No. But doing nothing would be even more costly (Findlay, 6/20). We"ll Need To Raise Taxes Soon The Wall Street Journal Expect Congress to seriously consider a value-added tax. ò€¦ It is no longer a matter of whether tax revenues must increase, but how (Altman, 6/20). Vince Lombardi Politics The New York Times Even as you watch the leading Democrats today in their moment of glory, you can still see wounds caused by the defeat of the Clinton health care initiative (Brooks, 6/20). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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