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Group Files Petition Over Enforcement Of Regulations In Adult Film Industry To Prevent Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation last week filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court asking "the court to order the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to enforce regulations that require condom use in adult-film production or take other reasonable steps to stem the spread of disease," the Los Angeles Times reports (Yoshino, 7/17). In the petition, "the group claims that in the month since an actress tested positive for HIV, the county Department of Public Health has done little to address what it considers to be a serious health threat" (AP/San Jose Mercury News, 7/16). In a statement released last week, the department, said, "The county continues to strongly support state legislation and the regulatory role of the [California Division of Occupational Safety and Health] as the most appropriate means to regulate the practices in the adult-film industry that expose performers to unnecessary and preventable occupational risks of acquiring and transmitting these diseases," adding, "The department does not believe that litigation is the best means to deal with this issue" (Yoshino, 7/17).
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Diabetes UK and the South Asian Health Foundation (SAHF) are highlighting 16 research topics in a new report to find out more about diabetes in South Asian people.
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Murdered Abortion Provider Tiller Held Strong In Face Of Constant Threats, Ms. Editor Says
While most people who commit violent acts against abortion providers are "characterized as lone nuts," they actually are often associated with "extremist" antiabortion-rights groups, Ms. editor Michele Kort writes in the magazine"s Summer 2009 issue. These groups "track the whereabouts" of providers and "deliver white-hot rhetoric that paints someone like" murdered abortion provider George Tiller "as a murderer rather than a healer," Kort says. Extremists within the antiabortion-rights movement have "even promoted the assassinations of abortion providers as "justifiable homicides,"" leaving the ""lone nuts" ... as good as licensed to kill," she adds. According to Kort, one in five abortion clinics is the target of repeat violence annually. Since the early 1990s, nine doctors and clinic workers have died as a result of violent attacks, Kort states.Tiller, who was shot to death on May 31 in the foyer of his Wichita, Kan., church, "also faced a concerted attack" in Kansas courts, Kort continues. The legal efforts against Tiller included two grand jury investigations resulting from citizen petition drives led by Operation Rescue and other antiabortion-rights groups. Kort notes that neither jury found any basis for indictment against Tiller. In addition, former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline in 2004 subpoenaed Tiller"s patient records, which Kort writes was "supposedly to determine if he hadn"t reported statutory rapes of pregnant girls under 16." The court dismissed the criminal charges Kline filed in the case. Paul Morrison, the current Kansas attorney general, in 2006 "surprisingly" charged Tiller with 19 misdemeanors for failing to get a second opinion on some abortion procedures, Kort states. She also comments, "After nearly two years of legal proceedings, the jurors in the case delivered a resounding "not guilty" in just 25 minutes."The legal issues were "exhaustive and expensive" for Tiller, according to Kort. She adds that Dan Monnat, Tiller"s attorney in Wichita, said that Tiller ""held up like a soldier"" during the legal battles. Kort reports that Tiller"s friends "worried about him" nonetheless. Susan Hill -- who operates several abortion clinics and referred patients needing the procedure later in pregnancy to Tiller -- said he once told her that he would not retire because "I can"t leave these women. There"s no one else for them."Kort also profiled Miriam Kleiman, a woman who had an abortion at Tiller"s clinic after her fetus was diagnosed with a severe brain malformation at 28 weeks" gestation (Kort, Ms., Summer 2009).
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AAKP Meets With Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services Regarding Passage Of Mippa And Chronic Kidney Disease Education

On Tuesday, May 26, 2009, the American Association of Kidney Patients" (AAKP) Executive Director Kim Buettner and members of the AAKP Board of Directors met with staff members of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the passage of the Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) on chronic kidney disease (CKD) education. MIPPA provides for Medicare coverage of up to six sessions of education for individuals with CKD in stage 4. The education includes instructions on the management of co-morbidities, with the goal of delaying the need for dialysis and discussion on the treatment options available to patients for renal replacement therapy. Buettner told members of CMS AAKP is appreciative of the legislation and outlined important factors the Association believes should be considered. "We want to make sure patients are at the forefront of the minds of CMS staff members when they are drafting these laws," stated Buettner. "I think we were able to do that today by giving CMS staff members an opportunity to meet patients these laws will have a direct affect on." AAKP is a national non-profit organization directed by patients for patients. Started 40 years ago by six dialysis patients, AAKP"s mission is to raise awareness about kidney disease, educating patients, family members and the general public about the disease and its treatment options. In a letter, AAKP asked CMS to consider the following: - The legislation (MIPPA) calls for a discussion of available treatment options. AAKP encourages fair, objective and equal access for all patients and family members to information about all forms of treatment options, including but not limited to: home therapies (hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis), in-center hemodialysis (thrice weekly, nocturnal) and palliative care. - The education delivered should be in agreement with patient and family centered care guidelines, which encourages providing health care information at the level the patient and family chooses. - AAKP also asks you to consider how often a patient can receive this course of education. Only receiving this series of education once during a lifetime is not appropriate for patients. A patient who receives this education before receiving a transplant could easily need additional education if the transplant fails years later. To read the complete letter AAKP sent to CMS, visit the AAKP Web site at www.aakp.org/public-policy/public-comments-correspondence or call (800) 749-AAKP for more information. AAKP


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