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...commonest medicines that we use are inhaled steroids," says Aaron. "They are very safe for patients with asthma, but are associated with long-term side effects, including osteoporosis, glaucoma and cataracts." The drugs may also exacerbate the patients' actual disorder - anxiety, for example - for which patients may continue to fail to seek treatment...
While Governor Dave Heineman is pushing to limit the rewritten law to newborns of 72 hours, some lawmakers are saying that the abandonments have exposed an urgent need to fix gaping holes in the state's mental-health services, which they claim fail to assist families with little resources to help problem children. Senator Annette Dubas introduced an alternate bill that would retain a safe haven for parents with kids ages 1 to 15 through June 2009 so that the legislature could address the broader issues come January. "Do not forget those struggling families," she urged her colleagues...
...help the companies develop more fuel-efficient technologies for the future. The White House, at pains to show that it is not simply giving up on the nation's entire domestic automobile sector, pushed that approach again on Monday, saying the Administration "does not want U.S. automakers to fail...
...There is no denying that the risks of letting GM fail are high. Economists warn that if it fails, GM is more likely to end up with Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation than Chapter 11 restructuring. Given the current credit crunch, the traditional bridge loans available to companies in Chapter 11 are all but impossible to obtain. And few consumers would be likely to buy a car - the sale of which depends on long-term warranties, service and parts - from a company in a bankruptcy reorganization. The Big Three and their affiliated suppliers account for 2% of the U.S. workforce...
...fallout of a single manufacturer like GM failing is huge because of the tightly knit web between manufacturers and suppliers," says Dave Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research, an organization with ties to the industry. "Given the fragile state the supply base is in today, with a lot of them already in bankruptcy, it would likely take the entire industry down. Not because the other manufacturers would fail but because the suppliers would go down. We've been concerned about the cascade effect...