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Youth Baseball-Related Injuries Down 25 Percent, National Study Finds
Spring marks baseball season for more than 19 million children and adolescents who play each year as part of a team or in backyards throughout the United States. The good news for these players is that the number of injuries from the sport is on the decline. A new study by the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children"s Hospital found that the number of children and adolescents treated for baseball-related injuries in hospital emergency departments decreased 25 percent from 1994 through 2006 - going from an estimated 147,000 injuries in 1994 to approximately 111,000 injuries in 2006. This is the first national study of youth baseball injuries requiring emergency treatment, and is now available online in the June electronic issue of Pediatrics.
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Prescription Drug Use Dropped In 2008, Though Spending Increased, Medco Research Indicates
Use of prescription drugs in the U.S. declined in 2008 -- the first such decrease in a decade -- but total spending on such treatments increased by 3.3%, according to a report released on Wednesday by Medco Health Solutions, the AP/Washington Post reports. The report attributed the decline in sales to fewer new drugs being introduced in 2008, popular medications becoming available as non-prescriptions and concerns about certain drugs" safety. Total spending increased largely because of increased use of "specialty" medications for chronic and complicated illnesses, which often are more costly and sometimes require special considerations for storage or delivery to patients, according to the AP/Post. Profits on specialty drugs in 2008 increased by about 16%. The average costs for other brand-name drugs increased by more than 8% in 2008, the largest increase in five years. According to the report, spending on prescription drugs would have been higher but less costly generic medications accounted for 64% of all prescriptions in 2008.The report predicted that prescription drug use in the U.S. will increase by no more than 1% in 2009 and 2010. However, price increases are expected to contribute to an increase in total spending of 3% to 5% in 2009 and 4% to 6% in 2010 (Seaman, AP/Washington Post, 5/13).
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Health Care Providers And Activists Join Forces In Philadelphia To Call For "A More Perfect Health Care System"

Resident physicians from the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare will join activist doctors, nurses, and medical students from across the country in Philadelphia tomorrow, May 15 to call for urgent reforms to the nation"s health care system. The group will gather at Independence National Historic Park at 1:30 p.m. Friday on Market between S. 5th and S. 6th Streets. From their vantage points on the front lines of the nation"s safety net hospitals, representatives from health care unions and progressive doctors" organizations will share their insights about what real reform -- that promotes increased access to high quality care -- should look like. "We often think of Pennsylvania as a state with a low rate of uninsured, but nearly 3 million Pennsylvanians under the age of 65 went without health insurance for all or part of 2007 and 2008," said Marc Stier, PA state director for Health Care for America Now. "We have a serious problem that can"t be fixed without nationwide health care reform." As the debate heats up around the country about how to expand health care access to all, these doctors, med students, nurses and other practitioners are publicly coming forward to support key components of health care reform: providing a public plan option to compete with private insurance, reducing disparities of care based on race or socio-economic background, protecting safety net hospitals, and emphasizing primary care and preventative medicine. "In the absence of reform, we have seen costs spiraling out of control, crushing our patients and their families, not to mention the safety-net hospitals many of us work in," Dr. Toni Lewis, president of the Committee of Interns and Residents. "The truth is, giving everyone an insurance card won"t be enough. We need fundamental reform." Featured speakers from Pennsylvania will include Dr. Valerie Armstead, an anesthesiology professor at Thomas Jefferson University, Deborah Bonn, director of the SEIU Nurse Alliance of Pennsylvania, and Courtney Scubbs, a third-year medical student at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. They"ll be joined by national leaders of the two major physicians" unions in the U.S -- the Committee of Interns and Residents, and Doctors Council. Background Information Statement of principles: Following the words of the Preamble, our goals are: - To establish justice, by eliminating disparities in access and quality of health care resulting in inferior outcomes based on race, ethnicity, language, and culture. - To ensure domestic tranquility, by adequately funding safety-net hospitals in underserved communities, protecting them from damaging budget cuts at the state and city level, and fighting to prevent hospital closures in overburdened communities during these tough economic times. - To provide for the common defense against preventable chronic illness by investing in preventative care, patient wellness and prevention programs, children"s health insurance, sufficient staffing, better equipment, health information technology, language services, and medical research. - To promote the general welfare, by developing a physician workforce that"s representative of the population of the country, making medical school and residency sustainable and affordable for people from all racial and economic backgrounds, and start solving the primary care crisis by a dramatic increase in compensation for primary care physicians. - And to secure the blessings of good health and liberty to ourselves and our posterity by urging Congress and President Obama to finally pass a comprehensive health care reform bill this year. Full text of remarks to be delivered at the event are available upon request. This event is organized jointly by: Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare, American Medical Student Association (AMSA), SEIU Healthcare PA, Health Care for America NOW! - PA, Healthcare Equality Project, National Physicians Alliance, Doctors Council/SEIU Healthcare, Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association, Doctors for America, National Doctors Alliance, Student Osteopathic Medical Association, Student National Medical Association and other healthcare workers and advocates. The Committee of Interns and Residents of SEIU Healthcare (CIR/SEIU) is the largest union of resident physicians with 13,000 members nationwide and is affiliated with SEIU Healthcare, which brings together more than one million members in the healthcare field. Committee of Interns and Residents of SEIU Healthcare


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