MEDICAL FACTOIDS:
• 1995 -- Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe," famous for her role in the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced on this date that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
  
• 2001 -- Former President Reagan's oldest daughter Maureen died from skin cancer. An ABCNEWS.com poll then discovered that fewer than three in 10 Americans regularly use sunscreen

  TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

• 1928 -- Singer Jimmy Dean
  
• 1940 -- Singer Bobby Hatfield of The Righteous Brothers ("You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin')
  
• 1943 -- Singer Ronnie Spector of the fabulous Ronettes
  
• 1947 -- Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
  
• 1948 -- Singer Patti Austin
  
• 1949 -- Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio)
  
• 1954 -- Actress Rene Russo
  
• 1959 -- Actress Rosanna Arquette
  
• 1960 -- Actor Antonio Banderas
  
• 1961 -- Rock musician Jon Farriss of INXS ("The One Thing")
  
• 1967 -- Singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star)
  
• 1967 -- Rock musician Todd Nichols (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
  
• 1972 -- Actress Angie Harmon (Asst. DA on "Law & Order")
  HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS
  
• 1776 -- "E pluribus unum" - `Out of many, one' -- a committee comprised of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson came up with that as a suggestion for the Great Seal of the United States. It was later added to coins
  
• 1846 -- "Give us a half-million dollars and we'll name a museum after you." Congress approved the Smithsonian Institution, which was named after English scientist James Smithson after he donated a half a million dollars to the project
  
• 1869 -- O.B. Brown of Malden, Massachusetts, patented the movie projector
  
• 1945 -- On the day after the second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, that country said it would surrender to the Allies, as long as Emperor Hirohito remained on the throne
  
• 1969 -- Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult. This came just one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain by Manson, who ordered the sedond killings so his followers could "get it right"
  
• 1945 -- Three days after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki. This bomb was very small by today's standards, but still killed an estimated 74-thousand people
  
• 1969 -- Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally murdered in Tate's Los Angeles home. Crazed cult leader Charles Manson and his disciples were eventually convicted of the crime
  
• 1977 -- Postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, and accused of being the feared "Son of Sam" killer, who had killed six and wounded seven
  
• 1985 -- Madonna's hit album,"Like A Virgin", went into the record books on this date as the first solo album by a female artist to sell five million copies
  
• 1985 -- Michael Jackson paid $47.5 million for the rights to the Beatles' copyrights, which includes 251 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  
• 1990 -- Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was convicted on a single misdemeanor drug charge
  
• 1995 -- Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing (they later plead innocent)
  

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Low Hemoglobin Means High Risk For Mobility Problems In Elderly Women

>> "Mild anemia in elderly women has often been dismissed as 'innocent', but it might be a significant health problem," says Johns Hopkins researcher, Paulo H.M. Chaves, M.D., Ph.D. He says the amount of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin circulating in the blood of older women could impact mobility
>>A Controlled Trial of Arthroscopic Surgery for Osteoarthritis of the Knee. A total of 180 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee were randomly assigned to receive arthroscopic débridement, or placebo surgery, at Houston VA Hospital
>> U. Virginia researchers have developed a new drug therapy that knocks out colds. According to The Journal of Infectious Diseases, a new combination of drugs stopped viral infection and reduced symptoms by as much as 73% with no serious side effects
>> On the very day Science promises an AIDS vacine by 2005, JAMA reports a rising number of San Franciscans are being infected with HIV that is already resistant to some classes of antiretroviral drugs (July 10th issue)
>> "Mild anemia in elderly women has often been dismissed as 'innocent', but it might be a significant health problem," says Johns Hopkins researcher, Paulo H.M. Chaves, M.D., Ph.D. He says the amount of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin circulating in the blood of older women could impact mobility

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EDITORIAL

ANA trying to color a new Healthcare Coverage Picture. The American Nurses Association has finally started talking tough.

It’s about time.

Where was the ANA, this potentially very powerful lobbying force, when Bill and Hillary Clinton were trying to get all Americans at least minimum healthcare coverage? Where has it been at the government has decimated America’s medical reimbursement program?

This is not an indictment of the ANA! To the contrary! I have long believed that the organization should be more politically proactive, and here they come!

American Nurses Association SEEKS creation of Universal Medicare Program!

Every year about a million Americans lose their medical insurance coverage. "While we are deeply concerned about the growing number of uninsured, America's nurses are concerned about a host of other problems in the current fragmented system. That's why we have proposed a comprehensive approach to preserve and improve all Americans' health status by providing a universal, seamless program that goes beyond health insurance coverage and addresses the issue of access to care, including preventive care, mental health services and prescription drugs," explained President Mary Foley, MS, RN.

The ANA is proposing a Universal Medicare Program, establishing access to health care for all Americans, to be phased in over a three-year period. All children under age 19 would immediately be included in the expanded Medicare program.

Here are the ANA’s Key Points for Medicare Reform::

• Merge Medicare Parts A & B to reduce administrative costs;
• Raise Medicare payroll tax to five percent;
• Shift current employer-employee insurance premiums into a national trust fund;
• Phase-in a system of financing based on a combination of payroll taxes and general fund revenues;
• Institute and employ competitive bidding and competitively set rates;
• Integrate physician and facility payment for inpatient cases using a physician diagnostic related group (DRG) and/or high cost medical staffs approach; and
• Expand current graduate medical education (GME) to include payment for graduate nursing education with particular emphasis on advanced practice nursing to meet primary care needs.

I, for one, look am ashamed that this rich nation does so little to ensure health for its citizens. And, what little we do accomplish is slanted in such a way as to make us view beneficiaries as scofflaws and deadbeats. Enough! This great country can afford to do whatever it sets its mind to do! I’m with the American Nurses Association: let’s make it clear to the our government “leaders” that we elected them to serve our needs – and among the biggest of our needs is a fully-functioning and accessible Healthcare system! A full copy of Achieving Access for All Americans is available on ANA's website, NursingWorld. http://www.nursingworld.org/

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Treating people poorly, slowly and inefficiently is NOT the reason I became a nurse. Having to explain to people why they are having to wait on basic needs (like going to the bathroom) and why they are so few RNs to take care of them is NOT for me any longer.
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