Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free May 1997 whooping cough vaccine approved by Hableb Canadian press Toronto a new vaccine for whooping cough that has fewer Side effects than the one currently in use has been approved by health the new pertussis vaccine is safer and More and negotiations Are under Way with the provinces to get it in use in the coming said Luis Barreto of Pasteur Serieux the supplier of most of Canadas childhood told a news conference the company has been sued in the past by parents alleging the old pertussis vaccine killed or disabled their including causing neurological although their cases have been some countries have even dropped pertussis from their mass vaccination agendas because of possible comply we sometimes forget that whoop ing cough More than 40 years ago was a common and often fatal bar Reto adding that the risks of com plications from whooping cough outweigh the chances of Long lasting negative effects from whooping cough is a highly contagious disease caused by the Bor Detella pertussis it begins like a Normal cough but develops into a series of repetitive coughs As the air passage becomes clogged with the disease leads to coma or brain the incidence of whooping cough has dropped dramatically since the introduction in 1943 of a with 160 cases every year per canadians compared to 34 cases per or about children provincial health ministries have made vaccinations against common childhood illnesses although they can be exempted for religious or conscience kids receive Protection from five diseases whooping polio and he Ophilus influenza Type b childhood meningitis in one shot that Given at Ages 18 months and one other time Between Ages four and the new whooping cough replacing the old will be added to the vaccination and marketed under the name private hospitals risk to medicare former minister Canadian press Calgary it May be time Ottawa amended the Canada health act to guard against Pri vate Hospital facilities that threaten to erode Canadas Public health says the acts principal former Liberal health minister Monique begin said yesterday she believes private hospitals like one slated to open in Calgary this summer Are a danger to Universal health it appears for everybody As a foot in the door and a new Avenue of erod ing and that worries every said who was in Calgary for the Alberta Public health associations annual its the continuity of Protection of Public health care which is at stake Alberta Premier Ralph Klein said yesterday he was annoyed at suggestions that the Federal government would Amend the act if the private hos Pital its that kind of arbitrary notion that the feds can simply open up the act or make any kind of Amend ment and do these things in an arbitrary fashion that i find so a Cabinet minister in Pierre Trudeau Liberal introduced the act in 1984 to prevent Doc tors from practising private Medicine and effectively creating a two tiered health care but the act want designed to protect against proposals for private facilities like the former Grace which a Cal Gar based business consortium called health resource group plans to reopen in teens trying cigars associated press a made Chic these Days by Hollywood stars a and appear to be catching on among More than a Quarter of teenagers have smoked a Stogie in the past the centres for disease control and prevention reported the Survey marked the first time the health Agency has tried to gauge Cigar smoking among its a phenomenon of the said Michael director of the cacs office on smoking and every where you theres a Cigar bar or a Cigar kids Are very perceptive of what they think Cool adults decriminalize drugs study by Dennis Bueckert Canadian press Ottawa drugs such As hero in and cocaine should be decriminalized to fight the Epi Demic of Hiva ids among injection drug says a major study for the Federal health the study says doctors should be Able to prescribe and per Sonal Possession of Small amounts for personal use should not be a Crimi Nal the rate of Hiva ids among injection drug users has been rising dramatically and rates in Vancouver Are now the highest in North says the study by the National task Force on Hiva ids and injection drug basically we face a Public health Catherine chairwoman of the task said at let ads prescribe to addicts who inject to fight Hiva ids panel urges a news conference the researchers say that 25 per cent of injection drug users in Van Couver have in the figure is 20 per and the prob Lem is reported to be growing across even in smaller the problem represents a major economic Burden to since medical care for a single his patient is estimated at the study notes that i positive drug users May infect their sexual partners and their the problem does not exist in a Small population that we can write off and said Pamela Fralick of the Canadian Centre on substance and a member of the task his and aids is spreading into every element of the it cannot be the task Force recommends a National plan in which addiction would be treated As a medical and social not a criminal this is the approach in other coun tries such As where drug addicts can legally get drugs at injection said she said the Swiss program has brought a dramatic decline in crime and in the overdose she suggested that canadians would support a similar program if they understood the the Issue for people is that their Homes Are being broken their cars Are being broken because people need Money to buy the the task Force says Ottawa should decriminalize the Possession of currently illegal drugs for personal while instituting heavy penalties for trafficking of any drug to if were serious about stopping this epidemic we have to look at innovative said Mike of the Centre for excellence in and a Mem ber of the task the rising infection rate is partly due to a shift to cocaine from heroin among drug cocaine is injected much More frequently than hero so the risks of 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