Medical and public health social workers held 138,700 jobs in 2008. Over the next decade, that figure is expected to climb faster than most careers by 31,000, or more than 22 percent, according to the Labor Department. That’s largely because of the aging of the baby boomer generation, which is beefing up the need for social workers in nursing homes and in home healthcare settings.Source: money.usnews.com
The doctor whose research linking autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella influenced millions of parents to refuse the shot for their children was banned Monday from practicing medicine in his native Britain.
The council was acting on a finding in January that Wakefield and two other doctors showed a “callous disregard” for the children in their study, published in 1998 in the medical journal Lancet. The medical body said Wakefield took blood samples from children at his son’s birthday party, paying them 5 pounds (about $7.20) each and later joked about the incident.
Hey, nice sampling strategy, jackass.
(via Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine | guardian.co.uk)
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Congress voted to overhaul the health care system on a Sunday. On Monday, Patti Lawson e-mailed her employer’s human resources office to ask how soon she could get her 22-year-old daughter back on her health insurance. In about six months, the new law will allow at least 2 million young adults to be covered by their parents’ policies. These are the “millennials,” those who came of age in the new century and now are struggling to get on their feet during the worst slump since the Depression.
This is the first time the federal government has forced insurance companies to let young adults stay on their parents’ policies. More than half the states already have laws that extend the age of dependent coverage. New York and New Jersey push it all the way to age 30 and 31 and would be allowed to keep those provisions.
