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...kidney infection as infants, and for penile cancer, foreskin disorders, HIV and other STDs like human papillomavirus later in life, leaving female partners more likely to get cervical cancer. The cost of prevention, proponents say, is the brief trauma of the procedure. Says Edgar Schoen, former pediatrics chief at Kaiser Permanente, who led the 1989 American Association of Pediatrics circumcision task force, which came out neutral on cutting: "A newborn baby is programmed for stress and recovers quickly." Opponents, on the other hand, say foreskin-related afflictions are rare, condoms block STDs, and circumcision has its risks. Michelle Richardson...
...information between the U.S. and the E.U. when faulty or dangerous products are discovered,” she said in her speech. She advocated the adoption of a communications program based on the RAPEX system, a rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products in place in Europe. Karl Kaiser, one of the co-chairs of the Transatlantic Relation Seminar, a part of the Weatherhead Center, praised the ability of the E.U. to rapidly alert consumers. “In terms of alerting public and public institutions on matters of public protect like the toy businesses, there are European examples...
...wife in effigy - politicians of both parties were gun-shy about approaching the health care issue. But the problem itself continued to grow. Nearly 50 million people now lack health coverage, compared with around 36 million in 1993. And costs have risen dramatically: Figures released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation showed premium costs have risen 78% in the last six years, to an annual cost of $12,106 per family. As costs have risen, businesses - which were aligned against the Clinton plan in 1994 - have joined the call for a major reform effort. In this presidential season, Democratic...
...mother's blood-sugar level during pregnancy may be a powerful - but easily controllable - contributor to childhood obesity, according to a large new study by researchers with Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research (CHR). The study, published in the September issue of Diabetes Care, found that mothers with untreated gestational diabetes - a form of the disease that occurs only during pregnancy - were nearly twice as likely to bear overweight children, compared with healthy moms. And the data showed that some mothers with "normal" blood-sugar readings were at risk as well: pregnant women with blood-sugar levels...
Researchers analyzed medical information on 9,439 mother-child pairs who received health care through Kaiser Permanente in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. All women gave birth between 1995 and 2000, and none had pre-existing diabetes. The women were screened for hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, and gestational diabetes; their children were measured for weight between the ages of 5 and 7 - what researchers call the adiposity-rebound period, during which excessive weight gain usually predicts adult obesity. Regardless of factors like race or ethnicity, birth weight and maternal weight gain or age, researchers found that the risk...