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Round-Up of Children's Health News - Friday, January 27, 2012
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10.7.11 Texas Braces For Medicaid Cuts (San Angelo Standard Times)
 

10.5.11 Who's For Kids And Who's Just Kidding? (The Hil)

10.2.11 Finally Some Good News On The Uninsured (The Houston Chronicle)

9.26.11 Free Baby Formula From The Nursery – Times Are Changing…Finally (About.com)

9.26.11 New Texas Law On Student Fitness Data Faces Obstacles (The Texas Tribune)

 
9.15.11 Free To Die (The New York Times)

 
 
9.8.11 In Texas, 18 Percent Are Facing Hunger (San Antonio Express-News)
 
 
 
 
8.21.11 The Kids Are Not All Right (The New York Times)
 
8.18.11 CHIP Outreach Gets More Kids Covered (KaiserHealthNews.org)

8.15.11 Why Texas Has The Highest Percentage Of Uninsured People In The U.S. (The Washington Post)

8.15.11 Carrots For Carrots: Let's Build Grocery Stores Where They Are Needed (The Houston Chronicle)

8.8.11 A Campaign To Carry Pregnancies To Term (The New York Times)

 

8.1.11 Affordable Care Act Rules On Expanding Access To Preventive Services For Women (HealthCare.gov)

 

7.23.11 Bad Food? Tax It, And Subsidize Vegetables (The New York Times)

7.14.11 Medicaid and its Role for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute)
 
 
 
 

6.21.11 Is ‘Big Food's' Big Money Influencing The Science Of Nutrition? (ABC News)

6.21.11 IOM Recommends Public Health Assessment Of Government Policies (The Hill)

 
 
6.13.11 Teen Pregnancy: The Costs Go Beyond Individuals (San Antonio Express-News)

6.8.11 R-Senator Bob Deuell: Coal/Power Lobbies Killed Mercury In Fish Bill (Texas Energy Report)

6.8.11 First Lady Targets Healthy Habits For Toddler Set (Associated Press)

6.7.11 15-18 Million Children could Lose Health Care (Voices for America's Children)

 
 
4.21.11 LTE: Keep Kids Active (Austin-American Statesman)

4.21.11 U.S. Parents Want Kids More Active During School Day: Poll (U.S. News and World Report)

4.18.11 Many Texas Schoolchildren Fail Fitness Evaluation (Austin-American Statesman)

4.7.11 Some Texas Dentists Bad-Mouth Anti-Cavity Bill (The Texas Tribune)

4.5.11 Hospitals, Advocates At Odds Over Preemie Bills (The Texas Tribune)

4.1.11 Insurers Drop Child-Only Plans, Blame Health Reform (The Texas Tribune)

3.29.11 Texas Hospitals: Budget Cuts Are Too Deep (The Texas Tribune)

3.24.11 Killing Health Reform Will Hurt Children (San Antonio Express-News)

3.7.11 Soda Tax To Battle Childhood Obesity In Texas (Jacksonville Daily Progress)

3.2.11 Lucio: I’d Raise The Soft Drink Tax (The Texas Tribune)

2.17.11 Food Deserts, We Need More Grocery Stores in Houston. And We Need Them In The Right Places (Houston Chronicle)

 

2.7.11 New Study: Texas Obesity Costs Businesses $9.5 Billion per Year (Texas State Comptroller's Office)

2.3.11 Lawmakers File 'Complete Streets' Bill (Texas Tribune)

2.2.11 Babies and Grandmas: Who will Texas Medicaid Cuts Hurt? All of Us but the Youngest and Oldest Most of All (Houston Chronicle editorial)

1.28.11 Rates of Elective Birth 'Disturbing,' Says Watchdog Group (HealthLeaders Media)

1.28.11 Medicaid Cuts Would Lead to Higher Taxes, Insurance Premiums (Austin American-Statesman)

1.24.11 Kids who Get Recommended Sleep Least Likely to be Obese (USA Today)

 

1.9.11 Bill Would Raise Age to Buy Tobacco to 19 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

12.16.10 Who's Up for Taking on the Liquid Candy-Makers? (Texans Care blog)

12.15.10 Addressing the Dietary Paradox in Schools (Austin American-Statesman editorial)

12.14.11 Budget Threatens Obesity Programs (San Antonio Express-News editorial)

12.10.10 Medicaid and the Lege: Throw Them in the Street? (Austin Chronicle)

12.9.10 We Mustn't Ignore the Child Obesity Problem in Texas (Austin American-Statesman op-ed)

12.6.10 Child Obesity is a Problem Texas Can't Ignore (El Paso Times column)

12.3.10 HHSC, TDI: Dropping Medicaid a No-Win Situation for Texas (Texas Tribune)

11.30.10 Diabetes Cases Projected to Soar in Texas (Austin American-Statesman)

 
11.15.10 Even Short-term Poverty can Hurt Kids' Health (The Chart Blog on CNN)
 
11.18.10 Group gives Texas an 'F' for premature births (Corpus Christi Caller Times)
 
11.16.10 Give up Medicaid? Not Easily (Houston Chronicle)
 
11.15.10 The Recession and Child Health (First Focus)
 

10.28.10 Can a Child Eat Healthily on Food Stamps? (State of the Children blog)

10.26.10 Arteries of Obese Kids Aging Prematurely, Study Finds (HealthDay)

 
10.22.10 Lawmakers Must Protect Texas Children When Budget Cuts are Made (San Antonio Express-News op-ed)

10.20.10 Brains of New Moms Grow, Study Says (LiveScience)

10.19.10 Travis County Battling Obesity (KVUE)

10.15.10 More Houston Kids Walk to School (Houston Public Radio)

10.13.10 School Cafeterias to Try Psychology in Lunch Line (Associated Press)

10.13.10 U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick Children (New York Times)

10.12.10 Budget Shortfall Forces Big Cuts for Disabled (Texas Tribune)

10.1.10 Teen Straight Talk Sex Education Program Loses City of Lubbock Support (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)

9.30.10 CDC Chief Picks 6 ‘Winnable Battles' in Health (Associated Press)

9.30.10 Child Nutrition Bill Stalls in House (Associated Press)

9.23.10 A Big Day for Health Care (State of the Children blog)

9.20.10 Texas Considers Drastic Reductions in Children's Dental Programs Under CHIP (Examiner.com)

9.20.10 High Stakes-Testing Squeezes Recess (KUT)

9.20.10 New Resources and Opportunities in Infant Health (Texas Infant Health Alliance)

9.19.10 Health Care Reform's First Wave Approaching (Houston Chronicle)

9.17.10 Number of Uninsured Texas Children Overall Declining, But Middle Class Kids Increasingly Uninsured (Newsroom)

9.16.10 Texas Struggling with Child Obesity (KUT News)

9.16.10 Lawmakers Unite to Get Children Insured (Houston Chronicle)

9.14.10 New Child Obesity Journal Launches, Offers Free Content in First Edition Online (Childhood Obesity)

9.11.10 Perry, White Say Health Care a Priority (Houston Chronicle)

 
9.9.10 Obesity More Expensive than Ever (NPR Planet Money blog)

9.8.10 Fetal Alcohol Disorders Costly to Children, Taxpayers (Houston Chronicle)

9.8.10 How Texas Can Address Obesity, Physical Activity, and Nutrition (Legislative testimony)

9.8.10 Prevent the Senate from Gutting Prevention (Huffington Post)

9.8.10 First Lady Asks Congress to Join Childhood Obesity Fight (New York Times)

9.7.10 In Feast of Data on BPA Plastic, No Final Answer (New York Times)

9.3.10 Who and Where are the Children Yet to Enroll in Medicaid and CHIP? (Health Affairs)

9.3.10 Up to 5 Million Kids Uninsured but Eligible for Government Health Programs (Kaiser Health News)

 

8.29.10 School Lunches Get Healthier – and More Appetizing (Houston Chronicle editorial)

8.27.10 Better Food for Thought: Local School Districts Offer Less Fat, More Imagination in Effort to Make Students Healthier (Houston Chronicle)

8.25.10 Underinsured Children More Prevalent than Uninsured (HealthDay)

8.18.10 School Nutrition: Healthier Ingredients, More Education for 2010-11 (Christian Science Monitor)

8.17.10 The Foundations of Lifelong Health are Built in Early Childhood (Harvard University Center on the Developing Child)

8.16.10 Obesity Rates Falling in Some Kids, but Not All (Web MD Health News)

 

8.9.10 Girls Hit Puberty at Younger Ages (Wall Street Journal)

 

8.5.10 Senate Approves Enhanced Medicaid Funding (Georgetown Center for Children and Families)

8.2.10 Michelle Obama: A Food Bill We Need (Washington Post)

8.2.10 Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat (New York Times)

7.30.10 Should the State Pay Hospitals that Wait to Induce Labor? (The Texas Tribune)

7.28.10 Editorial: DISD Makes a Healthy Food Choice (Dallas Morning News)

7.27.10 Texas Ranks 48th in Teen Birth Rate (Associated Press)

7.27.10 Texas Battles New Health Law Even as It Follows It (New York Times)

7.27.10 Study: Wait Times Drop in Texas Emergency Rooms (The Texas Tribune)

7.22.10 New Guidelines Aim to Reduce Repeat C-Sections (Associated Press)

7.21.10 States will Face Tough Choices without Extended Medicaid Funding (Georgetown Center for Children and Families)

7.20.10 Shape of the Nation: Status of Physical Education in the USA (National Association for Sport and Physical Education and the American Heart Association)

7.15.10 Nutrition Bill Clears House Panel (Politico)

7.13.10 Poll Shows Most Texans Support Sex Education (San Antonio Express-News)

7.13.10 Obesity Prevention Works Best in the Under-5 Crowd (Wall Street Journal Health blog)
 
 

7.9.10 U.S. Report on Kids' Health Brings Mixed Results (HealthDay)

7.8.10 USDA Says Soda Tax Would Cut Obesity (Washington Post)

7.8.10 Nearly $246 Million in State Health Budget Cuts Proposed (El Paso Times)

7.7.10 Editorial: Sign Up to Fight Child Obesity (San Antonio Express News)
 
 

7.4.10 At 13th Fattest in U.S., Texas Adults Outweighed by their Children, who Rank 7th  (Austin American-Statesman)

7.3.10 Parents' Perspectives on Health Care for Adolescents (The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health)

7.1.10 Most Texas School Kids Failing in Fitness (Houston Chronicle)

7.1.10 HHS Launches New Consumer-Focused Health Care Website Healthcare.gov (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services) 

 

 

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