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POSTED 12/30/08

 
Regarding booster seats
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6141830.html

HPV vaccine
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSL23358420081203

Bill related to Juvenille Justice so vaguely associated with GAP
SB  108 - Relating to Restraints/Use During Juvenile Proceedings (Wilson)
Restraints/Use During Juvenile Proceedings; Prohibits the use of instruments of restraint on a child during court proceedings or elsewhere in a courthouse. Provides specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Juvenile Justice to comply with the Protective Action Response policy whenever mechanical restraints are used, etc. EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/01/2009.


Guardian ad lightem/Foster Care
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/opnOPN35120408.htm

HPV
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/6146077.html


Foster Care and Teens
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20081205/ZNYT02/812053019/1038/LIVING05?Title=Florida_Steps_in_Early__and_Troubled_Teenagers_Respond


Both about helping kids/preserving funding in the face of a budget crunch

http://www.news-press.com/article/20081209/SS08/81208084/1085/RSS0110

http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/othercities/denver/stories/2008/12/08/daily17.html

Highlights increased needs of families
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_WELFARE_EXPLOSION_FLOL-?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-09-16-33-00

Program similar to GAP
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/806528.html

Not quite a story yet, but the outcome of the DCF "mini summit" should be in next week's news
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881209016

Lawmakers set special budget session
Florida legislative leaders said Monday they will hold a special session in January to deal with a budget shortfall that tops $2 billion. Senate President Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach, and House S...
http://www.lobbytools.com/article.cfm?14033858
Lawmakers hear pleas to spare social services
Florida lawmakers dealing with the biggest cash crunch in recent history faced a string of advocates on Monday imploring them not to cut cash for children, the poor and the disabled. Of nearly 50 peo...
http://www.lobbytools.com/article.cfm?14035157
Minimum wage will rise Thursday (January 1)
Once again, New Year's Day brings with it a raise in Florida's minimum wage. But will it help or hurt employers and employees? Here are a few facts: - Florida's minimum wage becomes $7.21 per hour, ef...
http://www.lobbytools.com/article.cfm?14110738

More Floridians turning to food stamps
Unemployed and strapped for cash, Floridians are asking for state assistance to feed their families in record numbers. In the last two years, the number of Floridians on food stamps has increased more...
http://www.lobbytools.com/article.cfm?14109056


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Many thanks to Kristin Van Hook from JL Pensacola and Kathryn Rudloff from JL S. Brevard, who  have graciously agreed to read through our daily Lobbytools clippings.  These 10 clippings are from November 2008. 
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This one looked to be the most relevant, about a democratic senator who has pledged not to cut education spending.

http://floridacapitalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081118/CAPITOLNEWS/811180347&theme=

These two looked interesting from the stance that we are lobbying to preserve funding for programs this year as two of our priorities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/us/17fiscal.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=states%20knives&st=cse

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/11/17/axxa_leadedit_sink_1117.html

This one was specific to a change in foster care policies regarding funding relative placements in addition to foster parents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/16/AR2008111601728.html
This is related to booster seats but the larger point of the article is that they are often installed improperly not that they are beneficial.

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20081120/NEWS01/811200326/1006/news01&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL


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HPV Vaccine for Men: It's About Time

November 14, 2008 05:41 PM ET | Bernadine Healy M.D. | Permanent Link | Print

Finally, two years after it was approved for use in young women, a vaccine against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) has now been shown to be safe and effective in protecting young men as well. Merck's vaccine Gardasil cut infections caused by the four most dangerous strains of this virus by 45 percent and reduced the occurrence of HPV-induced warts by 90 percent, according to a new study involving more than 4,000 male volunteers age 16 to 26. The next step is for the Food and Drug Administration to give its blessing.

The delay in studying the vaccine in men has puzzled me. Men are, after all, carriers of this virus known to infect the female cervix, leading to a virtual epidemic of abnormal Pap smears in sexually active young women. Although in most women the virus is cleared by their immune system, when it's not it continues to percolate for years and each year accounts for the almost 11,000 cancers of the cervix—a cancer that robs women of their fertility if not their life. Ignoring the role of men in promulgating this illness is at odds with how we approach most other forms of STDs, where doctors treat both partners. Leaving men out also subverts the core tenet of vaccination: creating so-called herd immunity.

But men infected with HPV put more than women's health in jeopardy. They can develop genital warts from certain strains of the infection, as well as genital cancer. HPV-derived cancers of the penis and anus are considerably less common than is invasive cervical cancer in women, but to the thousands of men who are so afflicted, the cancer is every bit as disabling and life-threatening.

What's less appreciated by most people and even many doctors is that HPV is also linked to head and neck cancers, once thought to be almost exclusively the result of a lifetime of drinking and smoking. Not so anymore. We are now seeing a rise in HPV-related cancers of the tonsils and back of the tongue in a generally younger group of people, and here men seem more vulnerable to this devastating cancer than women do.

The explanation is that HPV is transmitted during oral sex—a practice that's become epidemic among our kids, one in which "safe sex" involving condoms is almost unheard of. There's an important lesson here for young men. Just because they can't get pregnant does not mean they can't get infected—and with dire consequences. And, though it's better late than never that young men will have access to the HPV vaccine, it should be accompanied with a heavy dose of sex health education as well. HPV is not the only STD that goes for the throat.

Bernadine Healy, M.D., U.S.News & World Report's health editor and author of the magazine’s On Health column, is the former head of the National Institutes of Health, the American Red Cross, and the College of Medicine and Public Health at Ohio State University. A cardiologist and author of two books, she spent more than 25 years practicing medicine. In this blog, she covers matters close to her heart, including cardiovascular disease and other important aspects of personal health and health policy.




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