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H1N1 (Swine) Flu Cases Escalate In Rhode Island, USA
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) is seeing that H1N1 (Swine) flu continues to spread both locally and nationally. In Rhode Island, HEALTH has seen an increase in sporadic cases and outbreak clusters throughout the state, including in schools. As of 11 a.m., June 9, there are 39 confirmed positive cases in RI, doubling the case count in less than a week. Rhode Island and national surveillance data indicate increased infections in children, increased infections in individuals with chronic medical conditions, and a generally higher hospitalization rate of those infected. Although most illness in Rhode Island has been mild, compared to seasonal influenza, there is an increase in the number of hospitalizations. Ten of the Rhode Islanders with swine flu have been hospitalized.
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Health Protection 2009 Conference - Programme Announced
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has announced an innovative and wide-ranging programme for the Health Protection 2009 conference, which is taking place at Warwick University from 14th to 16th September.
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New York Doctors Race To Abide By In-Office Surgery Rules
"A New York State law that takes effect on July 14 has physicians who perform office-based surgery scrambling to upgrade their offices or find new space altogether," The New York Times reports. The Patient Protection Bill, "signed into law by Gov. Eliot Spitzer in July 2007, is intended to ensure high safety standards in offices when surgery and other invasive procedures are conducted with more than minimal sedation" and is "the first time that New York State will regulate office-based surgeries." Doctors may need to modify their office space with "larger elevators, improved ventilation, backup power equipment with the ability to run for a longer period and other mechanical accommodations." But "since some medical offices cannot be physically adapted to meet accreditation requirements, especially in Manhattan, many physicians have been seeking new office space." This can be difficult in the city, where there is "a dearth of recently built medical office space." Claire Pospisil, "a spokeswoman with the New York State Department of Health, said the state did not know how many medical offices were conducting operations; this was one reason for the new law." She estimates that "70 or 75 percent of medical offices in New York City and Long Island do these surgeries."
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National Parks Are Not Enough To Protect Kenya's Wildlife

For the past half-century or more, conservation goals have focused on saving endangered species and establishing national parks, which now cover 10% of the earth"s land surface. But do parks really protect wildlife, and more importantly, biodiversity? Survey results from Kenyan scientists who looked at 30 years of wildlife data published on July 8th in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE show that though vital, Kenya"s parks are insufficient to protect species. "The decline in Kenya"s park populations is not surprising, given the inherent shortcomings in their design. Only a modest portion of the annual migratory range of large herbivores is included in Kenya"s parks," said senior author Dr. David Western in a paper titled The Status of Wildlife in Protected Areas Compared to Non-Protected Areas of Kenya, co-authored with Samantha Russell and Innes Cuthill. "We need a radical review of conservation policies in East Africa in order to sustain biological diversity, ecosystem function, and ecological services," said Western, who was raised in Tanzania and has been studying wildlife and people in Kenya for 40 years. "To do that we must monitor wildlife in and outside parks. We must also foster local conservation efforts and encourage "parks beyond parks" to protect vital landscapes outside national parks. "Quantification of species trends and the factors governing population and ecosystem viability are vital to forecasting, planning and managing wildlife populations, and in auditing the success of alternatives conservation policies and practices." Dr. Western co-founded the African Conservation Centre (ACC) in 1996 in Nairobi and today he remains on the board of directors; the African Conservation Fund is the U.S.-based support organization for ACC. This study was supported by funds from the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation and the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors have stated no conflicts of interests. Link to article Public Library of Science


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