| Michael Fumento: The anti-vaccine lobby makes us sick -- literally
THE VACCINE preservative thimerosal has jumped the safety hurdle. Again. So indicates a recent large epidemiological study in the New England Journal of Medicine. "Again" is the problem, though. One huge study after another has cleared thimerosal as a cause of child developmental disorders, and specifically autism, but there is a powerful lobby that couldn't care less. Thimerosal, used in vaccines since the 1930s but phased out in 2001 for everything but flu shots, comprises about 50 percent ethyl mercury. It neither contains nor degrades into the pollutant methyl mercury that pregnant mothers are warned about in fish. (Though that said, the Maternal Nutrition Group, a coalition of nutrition groups and experts including several federal agencies, recently released a report calling on pregnant women to eat far more fish, citing in part a low risk from methyl mercury.) In this latest study, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers evaluated more than 1,000 children between the ages of seven and 10 who were exposed to various levels of thimerosal at different early stages in life.
Every School Every Thursday -- Urbandale
Students from Laurie Ohland's fourth-grade class at Jensen Elementary are taking pictures and making movies. These students are in a group called "clickers" at Jensen Elementary. Jennifer Reiter teaches students in this group how to work better on computers. She has taught students to work on iPhoto and a little on iMovie. Students are working on creating a clickers yearbook DVD.
The Jensen character assembly celebrating responsibility will be at 2:45 p.m. Friday. On Nov. 6 Jensen families will enjoy a skate night at Incrediroll.
Karen Acres
The champions for the Karen Acres fall running club are first-graders Sydnee Kracht, Anthony Berry and Courtney Hotovev, second-graders Bryce Hall and Aileen Guaillas, third-grader Jacob Chau, fourth-graders Noah Torstenson and Katelyn Foster, and fifth-graders Nathan Torstenson and Elena Brechtel.
Our Kids News & Events
The board of directors of the Community Foundation has approved a technical assistance grant of $3,000 for Community Oral Health Services to provide staff training on recently acquired patient management software. The new system establishes a foundation for "tele-dentistry" among the organization's three mobile clinics and their administration office and will improve its ability to serve young children in remote areas on the Central Coast. .
"High School Musical's" Corbin Bleu Joins Colgate-Palmolive, United Way and Miami-Dade Elementary School Students for ...
A national campaign to promote good oral health habits enlisted new recruits today when more than 250 Coconut Grove Elementary School students joined Colgate-Palmolive Company and United Way at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami for a lively game-show themed dental challenge that featured music, prizes, costumed characters, and "High School Musical" star and recording artist Corbin Bleu. A Colgate mobile dental van, one of a fleet of eight "clinics on wheels" that the company sponsors around the U.S., was also on hand to provide students with free dental screenings, treatment referrals and oral health education. .
Similarities to other massacres - but this was a very Finnish affair
In the old days Finns used to believe in the dark power of Tuonela, the mythical land of the dead. Now they believe in YouTube, the land of the virtual living. The crazed marginalised teenager who takes out his frustration on his teachers and schoolmates, who chases them through classrooms like mice in a maze, has become a universal phenomenon: the massacres at Virginia Tech, Columbine and Erfurt in Germany conformed to a pattern. A pupil is snubbed, is deemed a failure, and retreats into an interior world that structured by his computer, video games that tap his inner aggressions, throbbing downloaded music and a locked room. .
What's Going On: On-going events
Speak up for a child in foster care. SF's foster children need your help. Be a Court Appointed Special Advocate. Men and people of color are especially needed. Training provided. Call for upcoming orientations dates and locations, 415-398-8001. Info at www.sfcasa.org. Become a volunteer at one of SF's most resourceful youth organizations. SMART, Schools Mentoring and Resource Team, is a scholarship program for highly motivated, low-income middle school students in SF. Everyone welcome, males and people of color strongly encouraged. 1370 Mission St., 2nd Floor, SF. 415-865-5400. www.thesmartprogram.org. Are you experiencing loss, divorce and/or separation, child custody issues? Need someone to talk to? You are not alone. There is support available. BAWELDS (Black African Women Experiencing Loss, Divorce and/ or Separation) offers support and resources that can enable you to get to the other side with ease and grace.
Submit An Abstract To Summer Forum 2008 - American Association For Respiratory Care
The AARC Education Section is looking for educational research on models and instructional methods for preparing entry-level therapists, continuing education and professional development for practicing therapists, or patient education. The 2008 Summer Forum, scheduled for July 11-13 in Phoenix, AZ, offers an excellent opportunity for participants to share their scholarly activities with colleagues through a research abstract. The Summer Forum program will include time for presenters to give a brief overview of their research abstract to all of the attendees, followed by a question and answer session.
This year the Education Section is connecting budding researchers with volunteer mentors. Our goal is to help respiratory therapists develop their research skills and share their scholarly work at the annual Summer Forum Education Research Abstract presentations.
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