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Ad Update: Religious Groups Back Reform, Unions Target Senators' Tax Plans
"Labor unions are showing their increasing displeasure over [health reform] financing proposals that target their healthcare benefits by launching attack ads against key lawmakers, causing the Senate"s leading advocate of taxing such benefits to seek an end to one especially aggressive campaign," Congress Daily reports. The Laborers" International Union of North America pulled an ad in Montana attacking Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus at the senator"s request, and after he asked to meet with the union"s president to discuss proposals (Dann, 6/30).
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GAO Report Finds Veterans Affairs Facilities Do Not Comply With Privacy Standards For Women
All Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics and hospitals are failing to fully comply with federal privacy standards for women, according to a Government Accountability Office report, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The report comes as thousands of female veterans are entering the VA health system after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.GAO auditors said that many VA facilities had gynecological tables that faced the door. In one instance, a gynecological table faced a door opening to a waiting room. The investigation also found cases where women had to walk through waiting rooms to use the restroom -- a violation of VA policy requiring adjoining restrooms. Four VA hospitals did not guarantee women access to private bathing facilities. In two of those cases, the facilities did not have locks.Nearly 20% of female veterans have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and many of them have experienced sexual trauma while serving, according to the report. The report also said that most female veterans at VA facilities are ages 20 to 29. On average, female veterans using VA facilities are much younger than male VA patients, it noted.Randall Williamson, director of health care issues at GAO, said that although top VA officials are committed to improving care for female veterans, facilities are not always taking simple steps, such as repositioning exam tables. Patricia Hayes, chief consultant for VA"s veterans strategic health care group, said that the agency recognizes issues and is making changes to address disparities in care. She noted that VA is creating a long-term plan for construction improvements to address space and building layout challenges (AP/Boston Globe, 7/15).
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Malfunctioning Mammography Machines?
By conducting a mammogram, a low-dose x-ray of the breasts, doctors can identify cancerous tumors well before a woman even feels a lump. According to the American Cancer Society, "Finding small breast cancers early by a screening mammogram greatly improves a woman"s chance for successful treatment."
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World Lung Foundation Marks World No Tobacco Day With New Counter-Marketing And Advertising Campaigns

On World No Tobacco Day, World Lung Foundation is partnering with government health ministries in China and India to launch new tobacco counter-marketing campaigns in those countries, where the largest populations of smokers in the world reside. WLF also completed an online video for the World Health Organization, which will be disseminated globally. In Tianjin, China, WLF is launching a campaign called "I Participate In Smoke Free Places" with a large outdoor event that will be attended by thousands of citizens, senior government officials such as the Vice-Mayor of Tianjin, representatives from the Tianjin Spiritual Civilization Office, Tianjin Municipal Health Bureau, and local media. Special exhibition panels and a selection of tobacco control ads will warn against the harms of second-hand smoke. In Yunnan province, WLF and Yunnan Health Education Institute are launching a campaign with two TV and mobile media ads and 30,000 posters that graphically depict the personal harms of smoking. A TV ad called "Giving Cigarettes Is Giving Harm," which addresses the cultural behavior of giving cigarettes as gifts, an ad called "Sponge, which graphically depicts how human lungs absorb cigarette tar, will air on regional TV. Print and mobile versions of "Sponge" will be shown on posters and LED screens on local buses WLF is also working with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the World Health Organization in India on the launch of a national TV and radio advertising campaign using the "Sponge" concept. Versions of the ad will air in five languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Tamil. In New Delhi, WLF is organizing a petition campaign and a citizen march in partnership with Beopar Mandal, Karol Bagh and the Delhi Hotels and Restaurants Association. The march will culminate in a street performance that depicts the harmful effects of tobacco. In Russia, WLF will be presenting on mass media strategies at the 2nd All Russian Forum "Health or Tobacco" in Moscow and the 5th All Russian Conference "Doctors against Tobacco" in Yaroslavl. WLF has been running regional campaigns in Samara, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia this month. WLF also developed an online video for the World Health Organization that counters the tobacco industry"s assertion that cigarettes are cool. The video, called "Show Truth," advocates for warnings on cigarette packs that use graphic images to show the harms of smoking. This year"s theme for World No Tobacco Day is "Tobacco Health Warnings." "World No Tobacco Day is a moment to highlight the global tobacco epidemic to policy makers, the health community and citizens around the world," said Peter Baldini, Chief Executive Officer, World Lung Foundation. "WLF emphasizes such communication through strong, visceral images that show what tobacco really does to people." Tobacco use is the leading preventable agent of death in the world today, and is responsible for more than five million deaths each year - one in ten adults worldwide. Within 25 years the death toll from tobacco will climb to more than eight million people per year, and it is estimated that half of all people who smoke today will eventually be killed by the direct or indirect effects of tobacco. World Lung Foundation


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