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Health & Wellness althbeat i recognizes : employees Medical Center and its affiliates Med ; Hospital and Thomasville Medical Center five employees for more than 40 f service to the organization. The employees Hayes, environmental services at ville Medical Center. . i Hill, engineering at Forsyth Medical Ceu nne Nance, surgical admission center at dical Center Richardson, environmental services, at Medical Center. I Stafford, ICU at Forsyth Medical Cen men and women span four decades of change at Forsyth Medical Center ; in the mid-'60s," said Greg Beier, presi syth Medical and its affiliates. "Through ated service, and that of so many others spent most of their working careers as ' system, Forsyth Medical Center. Med ispital and Thomasville Medical Center : regional leaders in providing quality sionate care to the communities wei Medical Center also recognised more er employees who have attained 30 or i of service to the organization. LCP focuses its' difficulties )TTE (AP) - Leaders of the South i NAACP say the first step to helping black t get a better education is to improve their : and living conditions. discussions came Saturday at the annual : the state chapter of the National Asso the Advancement of Colored People. ? is meeting here because of an ongoing ycott of its home state for flying the l flag on Statehouse grounds, p's education director, Vince Ford, who I chairman of the Richland 1 School uth Carolina, said many children strug 1 because they are homeless or hungry quate medical care. a superpower, but we allow children ! to go to bed hungry," Ford said "Then i school and have to take a test and com 1 people who are not hungry." ged the crowd of about 100 people to get lived in their communities. ay meeting ended Sunday. ? criticized for ; health care legislation ENTO (AP) - Health care advocates hat they were. lefLangry and disap Atnotd -Schwarzenegger's veto of ed to provide medical coverage for uninsured Calf-. im ..n I i were announced hours after ger promised at a ; ceremony on other "continue putting l first." ' the vetoed bills, by Oman Wilma Chan, would have eligibility for the ^ ilthy Families health fc?wBam?jj?r gram and stepped up > sign up children eligible for that program ?Cal, another health care program for the t bill, by Assemblyman Dario Frommer. eles, would have set up a fund in the state pay for the Chan legislation through a nl of government funding and private con ?th*r would have been tax deductible. veto messages. Schwarzenegger said he health coverage for all children but ques ' to pay for the legislation. I bill would cost the state almost a ball bit a year without providing a funding i a time when California has a $7.5 billion \ deficit," he said in turning down the Chan I said her bill would have been phased in #y?ars and would have only cost about $20 l. the first two years. Part of the cost would I by federal aid, she added. Katrina's death toll ia officially tops 1,000 ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana's offi from Hurricane Katrina p&ssed 1 ,000 - Department of Health and Hospitals it state officials and local coroners had bodies - 15 more than the total last Thursday. ise puts the death toll from the storm ina killed 221 people in Mississippi, two in Georgia and two in Alabama, of Louisiana's dead had been identified to their families by Thursday, nut ' other bodies that have been released iH?rish coroners. ?Jdie, the head of the state's recovery ition efforts, said he expected another >e given to families for burial quickly. HIV diagnosis and treatment File Ptxxo HIV rates among blacks have spiked recently. The People's Clinic The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health Wake Forest University Baptist M I D I C \ I C t N f I K Over the past decade, the death rate from HIV/AIDS has declined in general. However, it remains disproportionately high for certain racial groups, such as African- Americans. More than I6.(XX) African-Americans were diagnosed with HIV in 2003. And the infection rate for women is highest in African- American women . A positive HIV test is scary news, but it does not have to be a death sentence. Many people live full and long lives after testing positive for HIV. It is important for individuals who are HIV posi tive (or "living with HIV/AIDS") to know they are HIV positive because it gives them a chance to work with medical providers to slow or prevent some of the possible adverse health consequences associated with HIV/AIDS. The earlier individuals know of their HIV statuses, the sooner they can take actions to protect not only themselves, but their partners as well. HIV status can only be determined by having a blood test pro vided by a trained medical provider. The testing process as well as the results are confidential and only shared with the person being tested. Most HIV testing sites provide counseling to help people who test positive handle the news. These sites also provide referrals to medical providers, social workers, and other support services. The real work, however, is up to the individual diagnosed with Set- HIV on C4 KRT Photo Gulf Coast Medical Center Director of Radiology Dr. Tim Lawson shows a fifth-floor room in the hospital damaged by Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Miss. Thousands of doctors displaced, affected by Hurricane Katrina UNC NEWS SERVICES CHAPEL HILL - Hurricane Katrina and the city-swamping floods that drowned New Orleans and sur rounding areas in a toxic gumbo appear to have dislocated up to 5.944 active, patient-cane physicians, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. That is the largest single displacement of doctors in U.S. history, and Hurricane Rita boosted the total to an unknown degree. "The nearly 6XXX) is the approxi mate number of physicians doing pri marily patient care in the 10 counties and parishes in Louisiana and Missis sippi that have been directly affected by Katrina flooding," said UNC's Dr. Thomas C. Ricketts. "Over two-thirds - 4,486 - of those were in the three central New Orleans parishes that were evacuated." The number displaced also was more than one-quarter of the total number of new physicians who start practice in the United States each year, said Ricketts. deputy director for poli cy analysis at UNC's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and professor of health policy and administration at the School of Public Health. "A large proportion of the practic ing physicians in the area were also in training in residency programs." he said. "In the immediate three-parish New Orleans area, more than 1 ,270 residents physicians were training at the time Katrina struck." , Ricketts. who also directs the Southeast Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies, led the analysis of Sec Doctors on CI 1 Smoking may increase diabetes risk Wake Forest Medical researchers say link exists SPECIAL TO THF. CHRONU'l I Smoking may increase the risk of developing diabetes, according to new research by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. The surprising finding emerged when researchers examined the rela tionship between smoking and dia betes among participants in a major national study, the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS). They compared the incidence of diabetes after Five years among smokers and those who had never smoked. Twenty-five percent of the par ticipants who smoked and did not have diabetes when the study began had developed diabetes by the five year follow-up, compared with 14 percent of the participants who had never smoked, according to Capri G. Foy, Ph.D.. and her colleagues at the national IRAS coordinating center at the School of Medicine, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Reporting in the journal Diabetes Care, the researchers found that when the analyses were adjusted to account for other diabetes risk fac tors. "smokers still exhibited signifi cantly increased incidence of dia betes compared to people who had never smoked." Foy said. "These findings suggest another poor health outcome associated with cigarettes, supporting current surgeon general's warnings against cigarette smoking." Smoking has long been associat ed with heart disease, as is diabetes, and Foy noted that diabetes and heart disease share many risk factors. IRAS focused on a prediahetic condition called insulin resistance, in which increasing amounts of insulin are needed to digest the same amount of glucose, the principal product of the metabolism of carbo hydrates. Plan sought for flu THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - A super flu could kill up to 1 .9 million Americans, according to a draft of the government's plan to fight a worldwide epidemic. Officials are rewriting that plan to designate not just who cares for the sick but who will keep the country running amid the chaos, said an influenza spe cialist who is advising the gov ernment on those d e c i - sions. "How do you provide food, water ... basic security for the Osterholm popula tion?" asked Michael Oster holm of the University of Min nesota. a government adviser who has a copy of the draft plan and described it for The Associ ated Press. "This is a much more com prehensive view than has previ ously been detailed," he said in an interview Saturday. The Bush administration has spent the last year updating its plan for how to fight the next flu pandemic. While it is impossi ble to say when one will strike, the fear is that the bird flu in Asia could trigger one, if it mutates to start spreading easily among people. A recent draft of the plan, first reported Saturday by The r New York Times, models what J might happen based on the last century's three pandemics. In a best-case scenario, about 200 .(XX) people might die. But if the next pandemic resembles the birdlike 1918 Spanish flu, as many as 1 .9 mil lion could die. Osterholm said. Millions more would be ill, overwhelming hospitals. "You plan for the worst-case scenario," he said. "If it's less than that, thank God." The government has on hand enough of the anti-flu drug Tamiflu to treat 4.3 million peo ple. Manufacturing of $100 mil lion worth of a bird flu vaccine just began. The draft makes clear that tens of millions more doses of each would be needed. That is far more than the world has the capacity to manufacture quick iy. To finish that draft plan, fed eral health officials for several weeks have been role-playing what would happen if a super See Flu on C 1 1
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