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Jul 3, 2009 – Georgia Political Digest.com BREAKING NEWS
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Jun 25, 2009 – Scott for Georgia
Austin Scott announces 1,000 mile Walk of Georgia
State Rep. Austin Scott, candidate for Governor in 2010, announces that he will embark on a 1,000-mile “Walk of Georgia” tour to begin Saturday, June 27, at Chickamauga in northwest Georgia. Scott’s walk will take him on foot through more than 1,000 miles of the State in order to meet citizens, listen to their concerns, and ask for their support. “I am committed to walking throughout the State to listen to my fellow citizens about the challenges they face. I intend to walk right into a runoff alongside whichever candidate purchases the other slot,” Scott said. “Candidates talk of listening to the voters of Georgia but never give them a chance to be heard. I’m changing that with my walk with Georgians.”
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Jun 20, 2009 – Emory University Health Sciences
“Safety-Net” Hospitals Need Support to Survive
Health care reform may make life easier for low-income Americans in the future, but for now, it’s “safety-net” hospitals that need rescuing in order to serve the needs of millions of uninsured patients and meet the disaster response needs of communities, say experts in the June 18, 2009 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Safety-net hospitals are typically found in areas in which the uninsured are concentrated – inner-city neighborhoods and economically depressed rural communities. Private hospitals with a large base of paying patients can shift their relatively modest costs of uncompensated care onto other patients’ bills, safety-net hospitals have little capacity for shifting costs.
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Jun 20, 2009 – University of Georgia
UGA’s Grady College launches poverty Web site for journalists
A Web site for journalists who want to improve coverage of poverty on any beat is now live. Developed by a team at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the site, “Covering Poverty: A Tool Kit for Journalists,” is at www.grady.uga.edu/poverty. The site was developed by a four-person team of Grady College faculty and students. Advice was drawn from journalists and journalism educators across the United States, according to John F. Greenman, Carter Professor of Journalism at Grady and the driving force behind the new resource.
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Jun 16, 2009 – Georgia State University
Symposium to examine immigration policy and human rights
Georgia State University’s Center for Human Rights and Democracy will host a symposium addressing immigration policies and the protection of human rights in the United States and abroad at 8 a.m. June 17 in room 460 of the University Center. “Immigration policy ranks atop the challenges facing many economically advanced democratic states,” said William Downs, co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy. “The lowering of barriers to the free movement of peoples has host country implications for national security, employment, housing, education and health care. Governments at all levels now confront these challenges in environments of severe budgetary contraction and voter suspicion.”
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Jun 12, 2009 – Morehouse School of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine President Speaks at White House Healthcare Meeting
Morehouse School of Medicine President John E. Maupin Jr., D.D.S., participated in a Healthcare Stakeholder Discussion at the White House June 9 hosted by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Director of the White House Health Reform Office Nancy-Ann DeParle. Maupin, who has more than 30 years of experience in health-care administration, public health and academic medicine, represented the Association of Minority Health Profession Schools (AMHPS) during the discussion. In his comments, Maupin emphasized his concern that “universal coverage,” regardless of its final form, should not be viewed as the “silver bullet” when it comes to issues of health care access and equity.
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Jun 10, 2009 – Emory University
Routine Diabetes Screenings Could Cut Health Care Costs
Screening adults for diabetes could result in significant cost-savings for health care systems compared to the costs of not screening individuals at all. Emory University researchers presented the findings of their diabetes screening cost analysis June 7 at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in New Orleans."The economic costs of diabetes threaten the financial integrity of our health care systems," says study co-author Lawrence S. Phillips, MD, Emory University School of Medicine Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology.
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