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Bathtub Danger: Thousands Of Kids Injured Each Year In Slips And Falls
More than 43,000 children are injured in bathtubs and showers every year, mostly from slips and falls, according to the study, "Injuries Associated With Bathtubs and Showers Among Children in the United States." While bathtub injuries associated with tap water burns and submersions have generated much research, this is the first study using nationally representative data to look at injuries from slips and falls, which are responsible for the majority of bathtub injuries. Using data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1990 to 2007, researchers evaluated an estimated 791,200 bathtub- and shower-related injuries during the 18-year study period among children 18 years old and younger who were treated in U.S. emergency departments.
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What Is Yeast Infection Or Candidiasis? What Is Vaginal Thrush?
Vaginal thrush (thrush) is a yeast infection caused by a type of fungus of the candida species, usually Candida albicans. It can affect all women, but is more common among women who are pregnant, those who have weakened immune systems, and women aged 30 to 50. Thrush is generally recurring - it comes back. The fungus, candida albicans, exists naturally in the vagina. As long as it does not multiply too much a woman will not notice it is there. However, if can sometimes multiply to such an extent that it causes swelling of the vagina and vulva.
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Two Major Companies Could Join Wal-Mart In Backing Employer Mandate
Target, the second-largest U.S. discount retailer, and Kelly Services, a temporary worker agency, said "they may support Wal-Mart Stores Inc."s call for mandatory medical insurance by large companies as part of a proposed overhaul of U.S. health care," Bloomberg reports. Wal-Mart, the nation"s largest retailer, favors the employer mandate, a position that has drawn fire form the industry"s main trade group, the National Retail Federation. "The positions of the two companies signal a widening split in the business community over the issue, a core element of President Barack Obama"s proposed changes."
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Infighting Among Dems On Health Care Reform

Infighting among Democrats over inclusion of a public plan in health care reform is turning disagreement between moderates and liberals into a "Democratic civil war" with outside groups taking part in the attacks, Politico reports. "When Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., called the public plan a deal breaker, a progressive group co-founded by Joe Trippi launched a campaign in Nebraska accusing the senator of being a "sellout" for special interests. After a strategy memo by the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way cautioned Democrats on overreaching on a public plan, Daily Kos bloggers went on the attack, and Third Way now faces an effort by the Trippi group, Change Congress, to pressure Third Way donors. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La, is the next target. On Tuesday, she said she opposed the public plan. By Wednesday, the liberal Health Care for America Now was drawing up a plan to change her mind." Democrats could pass reform with 51 votes in the Senate using the reconciliation process, but public plan-supporting Democrats are taking steps to get moderates in order and President Obama is traveling to Wisconsin and Chicago to push the public plan. Liberal groups have attempted to persuade some Democratic senators, including Nelson, into supporting the plan by spending money on mailing and Internet advertisements. Politico notes that while "Nelson is no longer calling the public plan a "deal breaker"... On Wednesday, he said he could not back a public plan that jeopardized the private insurance coverage for 200 million Americans but he will "look at any public plan that is presented." "Those people who are out there attacking us are using the whack-a-mole approach - anyone who sticks their head up and says, "I won"t be supporting a single payer plan," they whack," Nelson said." Senate negotiators have been trying to find a compromise, but didn"t find one yesterday with competing Democratic alternatives floating around, including one from Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota to create nonprofit cooperatives, one from Sen. John Rockefeller, of West Virginia, appealing to more liberal members (Brown, 6/11). And Roll Call reports that as Democrats battle over other issues such as war funding and a cap-and-trade bill limiting carbon emissions, the focus remains on health reform: "One House Democratic aide to a liberal lawmaker said left-leaning Members have been much more focused on health care reform and are generally happy with the direction negotiations on the issue are going. "The debate is no longer whether there will be a public plan; it"s over what the public plan will look like," the aide said" (Dennis and Pierce, 6/11). 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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