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Health & Wellness -? jHealthbeat Organ donation coordinator joins Carolina donor services Anew organ donation coordinator, Teny Hoyle, R.N.. has joined the staff of Carolina Donor Services (CDS), the region's federally designated organ and tissue donation agency. CDS organ donation coordinators work with families who must make end-of-life decisions for loved ones. The coordinators offer families the opportunity to donate their loved ones' organs, tissues and eyes and provide them with the information they need to make informed decisions about donations. Coordinators work closely with hospital professionals to make sure that families are given these important options. O Hoyle received his emergency medical science degree and his nursing degree from Catawba Valley Community College. He also received a degree in respiratory therapy from The Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Hoyle has worked in the health-care industry since high school. His experience ranges from working as trauma I coordinator at Frye Regional Medical Center to working in occupa tional medicine at Hickory Chair in Conover. He has also served as a paramedic with Catawba County EMS. Aside from his busy work schedule, Hoyle has two children who compete with the Catawba Valley Aquatic Club Swim Team. His wife, who is also a nurse, works in the information system depart ment at Frye Regional Medical Center. Hoyle has an office in Hickory, one of seven CDS offices across the suae. i In North Carolina, more than 2,800 people are waiting for organ transplants. Nationally, 16 people die each day while waiting for transplants. Carolina Donor Services is the federally designated, non profit otgan and tissue donation organization serving 6.1 million peo ple n 79 counties of North Carolina and Danville, Va. Southern African children at risk ' [ NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNCF) has urged the international community to save the lives of more than 6 million children on the threshold of death in southern Africa as a result of natural and man-made crises. In a statement obtained by PANA in Nairobi, UN1CEF urged donors to help save the situation exacerbated by drought, illness and HIV/AIDS. Backing an emergency UN appeal for $611 million launched in New York, UN1CEF said that an urgent response is crucial to saving lives and averting a "massive humanitarian disaster." The appeal covers the famine-stricken Lesotho, Malawi. Swazi land, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as Mozambique. "We cannot overstate what's at stake here," said Carol Bellamy, UNlCEF's executive director. "Of the 12.8 million people at risk of death, more than half are children. Without major and immediate funding from around the world, we just won't get the job done. These children need our help, and they need it now," she said. Bellamy pointed out that about 2.4 million of the children affect ed were aged below 5, which makes them vulnerable to malnutrition and disease. She also said there was a connection between the H1V/A1DS pandemic in Africa and the drought crisis. "This is much larger than just a food crisis," Bellamy said. "It's also a water crisis, a health crisis, an education crisis. All of this is taking place in an environment ravaged by AIDS, and the various crises are feeding each other." She said half of all new cases of AIDS occur in young people, and noted that HIV infection rates across the six countries average 25 percent of the total population. "While the primary focus is the need for food, we must also address the need for medicine, water and better sanitation. And we must respond in a way that accounts for the huge impact HIV/AIDS is having on these communities." Bellamy said. She said UNlCEF's portion of the UN appeal was $27 million, mostly targeted at fighting disease outbreaks, supporting basic health systems, providing therapeutic feeding for severely malnourished children, keeping children in school, and mitigating the role of H1V/A1DS in the crisis. She added that UNlCEF's response was already in full swing, thanks to early funding from Sweden. Canada. Italy and the Nether lands. Attorney general announces $2 million in environmental grants FAYETTEVILLE - N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper announced that $2 million in grants will go to improve water quality in North Carolina rivers and help farmers clean up hog lagoons. The grants are part of a larger agreement reached with Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer. "For the health of our people and the health of our economy, we must have clean water," said Cooper. "These programs are an impor tant step toward reclaiming North Carolina's legacy of pristine streams and sounds." Projects were selected to receive grants based on the twin goals of the Smithfield Agreement, environmental enhancement and con version of lagoons used to manage hog waste. Cooper specifically sought to use the grants to benefit the Cape Fear. Neuse and New rivers because of the concentration of hog farms in those river basins The Cape Fear River Assembly will receive $5(X),(XX) to educate area residents about water pollution and to monitor, evaluate and identify ways to improve water quality in the Cape Fear. A grant of $286,000 will help the N.C. Coastal Uand Trust cover half the cost of protecting 242 acres in Brunswick County adjoining Town Creek, a part of the Cape Fear River Basin. An additional $214,000 will go to the Coastal Land Trust to purchase conservation easements along the Neuse River near New Bern. The city of Jacksonville will receive $500,000 to fund a variety of projects related to its Wilson Bay Initiative, which aims to clean up the New River. Grant money will be used to purchase aeration units that helq oysters filter water in the bay, to fund a study of the program and to educate students about water pollution. Jacksonville also plans to use $ 175.(XX) u> purchase casentents and restore wetlands;Jong Thompson Creek. A grunt of $500,000 will go to the N.C. Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation Districts to help farmers close out hog fcgoons These grants are the first in a series to be awarded to environ mental programs under an agreement with Smithfield Food* Inc. According to the agreement signed on July 25,2000, Smithfield must provide $50 million over 25 years to improve the environment Another $15 million was provided to N.C. State University to fund development of new technologies for processing and treatment or wastes ? "1 am proud of the work we are doing here in North Carolina to fight pollution and protect our environment," said Cooper. "Many North Carolinians cam their living on the water, many more use our waterways for recreation, and we all count on having a safe supply of drinking water, so developing clean technologies makes good environmental and economic sense." Study to see if link between nutrition, sickle cell o '? o THR ASSOCIATHD PRHSS LAFAYETTE, La. - Bernice Adeleye said those with sickle cell anemia in her native country of Nigeria often die at a very young age. That's why the Universi ty of Louisiana-Lafayette researcher plans to take advantage of the medical resources available in the United States to research the links between nutrition and sickle cell anemia. "There are specific diets for heart dis ease, for diabetes, but not sickle-cell," Adeleye said. "We're trying to pinpoint exactly what to do for this population." Adeleye's study will analyze folic acid. B-12, glucose and cholesterol levels in sickle-cell anemia sufferers. It will also study mineral and vitamin levels in those people. Sickle-cell anemia is a blood disease that affects about 72,000 people in the United States. <?* The disease occurs in about one in every 500 black Americans and about one in every 1.400 Hispanic Americans. An estimated 2 million Americans, including one black person in 12, carry the sickle cell trait. Youngsters with the Washington, D.C., Boys A Girls Club participate in Coca Cola's Step With Itl physical activity recently. The program encourages students to take 10,000 steps each day. Step With Itl is co-sponsored by the National Association of Sport and Physical Education. File Photo African Americans are more adversely affected by the effects of smoking than any other racial group. Anti-smoking pills helping blacks give up cigarettes BY LINDSEY TANNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO - Anti-smok ing pills that have helped some whites kick the habit also work for blacks, who suffer dispro portionately from the effects of smoking, a study suggests. Zyban, an anti-depressant known genetically as bupropi on and approved for helping people stop smoking, was more effective than a dummy pill in the study of 600 adult black smokers. Researchers at University of Kansas said the findings are significant because blacks have higher rates of smoking-related disease and deaths than whites. After seven weeks of treat ment, 36 percent of Zyban users had quit compared with 19 per cent of the placebo group. Both groups also participated in eight sessions led by black coun selors. Quit rates dropped after participants used up their seven-week supply of pills, but at 26 weeks rates were still higher among Zyban users. 21 percent vs. 13.7 percent. The quit rates at 26 weeks were slightly lower than rates found in two studies of mostly white smokers - 27 percent and 35 percent. The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. Zyban maker GlaxoSmithKline provided the pills, but funding for the study came from the National Cancer Institute. Expanding access to such medication through program^ such as Medicare and Medicaid "may he a wise investment to reduce some of the health dis parities that exist in the United States." said the researchers, led by Dr. Jasjit Ahluwalia. Black men are at least 50 percent more likely than white men to gel lung cancer, and they have a higher lung cancer death rate - 100.8 deaths per l(X),(XX) compared with 70.1 per HX).(XX) for white men, according to governmental data. Also, blacks tend to smoke cigarette brands with higher levels of tar and nicotine. In an accompanying editori al. Dr. Neal Benowitz of the University of California at San Francisco called the results promising but said they proba bly cannot be applied to ail black smokers. The use of black counselors and ethnically sensitive coun seling materials probably con tributed significantly to the results and are resources not available to many smokers, he said. Chapel Hill native helping to save lives SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE MEMPHIS, Tenn. Roderick Hargrove. M.D., is treating St. Jude patients who are diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor of the retina, as part of a partnership between St. Judc Children's . Research Hospital and the Department of Ophthalmology at the Uni versity of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. Hargrove, a Chapel Hill. N.C.. native, is an ophthalmic oncologist in training. He's workingAtyith Barrett G. Haik. MD. F.A.C.S,; Matthew W. Wilson. M.D.; James C. Fleming, M.D.. F.A.C.S.: and James S. Linder. M.D.. at St. Jude. This is the first year of his two-year fellowship in ophthalmic oncology and orbital reconstructive surgery. After this year in Mem phis, Hargrove will continue his training at an affiliated program in Nashville. See St. Jud? on C4 I I Hargrove & HHS launches campaign to encourage physical activity BY PAUL COLLINS THE CHRONICLE U.S. Health and Human Ser vices Secretary Tommy G. Thompson recently announced the launch of a national $190 million multicultural media cam paign designed to promote a healthier lifestyle for kids. The "VERB: It's What You Do" Yot'< Media Campaign (YMC) will se' tel?visirii, radio spots and the internet to reach youths all across the country. Thompson said, "Too many of our children are sitting around, and their inactivity is leading to serious health profijems such as overweight, obesity, and dia betes. Our kids need to be kids and be active." The campaign encourages 9 13 year olds, known in marketing terms as "tweens," to find a VERB (such as run, paint, sing, bowl, etc.) or several VERBs that fit their personality and interests. The campaign then encourages tweens to use "their VERB" as a launching pad to become active and involved and to make regular physical activity and healthy behaviors a lifetime pursuit. The campaign also addresses the many entertainment choices available to youths - such as video games. Internet surfing, and television - and offers them better alternatives. Currently, twemis spend an average of four and a natf hours each day in front of a variety of screens, including television, video games and com puters. Health officials are concerned about the growing ill health of young people Some examples: In 1999. 13 percent of children and adolescents were over weight. The number of adoles cents overweight has tripled since 1980. Type 2 diabetes, unheard of in young people 10 to 15 years ago. is increasing dra matically across the United States among adolescents. One fourth of children in America Sec HHS on C4
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