| Parents, officials struggle over right to refuse vaccines
Marie Hansen of Spanish Fork says something changed the day she took her son Dylan to his 1-year-old doctor's appointment. Until then, Dylan had been successfully overcoming developmental problems caused by his low birth weight. But when he got his MMR and chicken pox immunization shots, he started crying uncontrollably and stopped breathing regularly. Doctors and nurses were eventually able to stabilize him, but Hansen says she never learned exactly what happened. She assumes it was a seizure, but all she really knows is that she soon realized something was wrong. "He just seemed really off the next week," Hansen said. "He didn't really run a fever or anything, he was just off. The best way I can describe it is that he kind of lost the spark in his eye. I can show you pictures and it's just night and day." Hansen is among a small but growing number of parents who choose not to vaccinate their children, and according to the medical community, consequently increase the population's risk of disease.
Reading this may just save your life, if cancer experts are right
BACON, smoked ham and processed sausages are a cancer threat and should be cut from people's diet altogether, according to the world's most comprehensive study of the disease. The World Cancer Research Fund says the evidence is now strong enough for it to recommend that people stop eating all processed meats, whether they have been smoked, cured, salted or preserved with chemicals. .
More Employers to Offer Workers Financial Incentives for Healthy Behavior
With continuing pressure to control health care costs, more companies plan to offer financial incentives to reward workers who adopt healthy lifestyles, according to a new survey by Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm, and the National Business Group on Health, a non-profit association of 285 large employers. Those employers best controlling costs and increasing productivity are integrating a broad array of health management programs. .
Independent candidate hopes to replace Davis
Grant writer Lucky Narain, 28, of York County makes a long-shot campaign for the vacant 1st Congressional District seat. Lucky Narain greets workers entering the 50th Street gate to the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard Wednesday. (Dave Bowman, Daily Press / November 21, 2007) .
Chiropractor bill draws criticism
A measure purported to allow New Jersey's chiropractors to legally ply their trade drew criticism Monday from others in the health industry who claim it would create an untrained class of quasi-doctors. The bill, advanced unanimously by the Assembly Regulated Professions and Independent Authorities Committee, makes official that chiropractors can practice anything -- except surgical cutting and writing prescriptions -- taught in chiropractic college and approved by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. A gamut of other health professions -- nurses, medical doctors, physical therapists and acupuncturists -- cried foul, saying the measure goes too far and will have an array of results including chiropractors doing school physicals, performing acupuncture or selling nutritional supplements from their offices.
Friends of the Park program Friday: Local Briefs
Friends of the Parks will present "To Yellowstone and Back," at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at the lodge in Blue Spruce Park, located six miles north of Indiana off of Route 110 near Ernest. Larry Turton will use slides and lecture material to demonstrate significant changes in Yellowstone National Park, the world's largest super volcano, between 1972 and 2006. The show will look at physical changes as well as some of the socio-political issues affecting the future of the park. Friends of the Parks is a volunteer nonprofit organization that sponsors environmental education programs at Yellow Creek State Park and throughout the Indiana County Parks system. The program is free to the public, and registration is not required. For further information, contact Friends of the Parks at (724) 463-8636 or visit the County Parks Web site at www.indianacountyparks.org.
What's Up 11/23
Libraries to close. All libraries of the East Albemarle Region Library System will be closed today through Saturday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Libraries will re-open on Monday. For more info, call 335-2511. Public Works department to close for Thanksgiving. The city of Elizabeth City Public Works Department will be closed today. Today’s trash routes will be picked up Monday, and Monday’s trash routes will be picked up Tuesday. Coat and sweater drive. The Elizabeth City Women’s Club is holding its annual Coat and Sweater Drive through Dec. 30. Bring clean and "gently" used coats, sweaters, hats and mittens to Elizabeth City Pet Nutrition Center, 201 E. Ehringhaus St., or Puddleducks, 406-B S. Griffin St., Elizabeth City. For more information call 338-8862 or 338-6883.
Workshop to focus on National Incident Management System
FRANKFORT - The village of Frankfort, in conjunction with the New York State Emergency Management Office, is sponsoring an executive workshop for elected and appointed officials.The workshop is meant to teach officials about the National Incident Management System, also known as NIMS.The workshop is being held Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Frankfort Junior-Senior High School auditorium, 605 Palmer St., Frankfort, and is a four-hour long training session that begins at 9 a.m. .
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