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Cell Infected By Virus Viewed For The First Time By MSU Scientists
The June cover of the Journal of Virology features a photograph of the unusual effects on a cell infected by a virus. Montana State University researchers were the first to view the virus, which they collected from a boiling, acidic spring in Yellowstone.
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Antiabortion-Rights Groups To Reintroduce Colorado Personhood Initiative
Colorado Right to Life and Personhood USA are proposing a 2010 state ballot initiative with a different version of 2008"s defeated "personhood" amendment to the state constitution, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. The groups intend to submit their proposal to the Colorado Legislative Council this week. In the November 2008 election, 73% of state voters opposed the previous version, known as Amendment 48, which was sponsored by Colorado for Equal Rights.The new version includes modified language that its supporters say will clarify its intent. Rather than defining a person as "any human being from the moment of fertilization," the new version would establish personhood as "every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being." The initiative"s sponsors also said that they will be better funded and articulate a clearer message than in 2008, when a college student launched the campaign.According to the Gazette, abortion-rights supporters "weren"t overly concerned" about the new initiative. Jacy Montoya, head of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights, said that the 2008 vote demonstrated that Colorado residents are "uncomfortable with the government and strangers making personal decision for families." Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, said that the new attempt "gives us another opportunity to explain how personhood amendments threaten all pregnant women, including those going to term" (Barna,Colorado Springs Gazette, 6/29).
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Next Year's Rising Health Costs May Not Be Slowed By Reform
"Employers who offer health insurance coverage could see a 9 percent cost increase next year, and their workers may face an even bigger hit, according to a report Thursday from consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers," the Associated Press reports. Workers concerned about losing their jobs" and their insurance, while it lasts - are using more health care than usual, contributing to rising costs, the report says. As the costs increase, employers are also likely to shift more of the burden to employees. "A total of 42% of employers surveyed said they would increase employees" share of costs," the AP reports.
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ANF Pleased With Aged Care Announcement, But Will It Keep Nurses In Aged Care?

The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) welcomes the Federal Government"s announcement of funding to upgrade the skills of workers in aged care. In response to the Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot"s announcement of $43.8 million in funding for the education and training package, ANF Federal Secretary Ged Kearney said she was pleased to see that the Minister recognised the need for qualified nurses in aged care. "Seventy-six percent of people going into nursing homes require high levels of nursing care, they need nursing staff and assistants in nursing who are able to meet their complex health care needs." Unfortunately, increasing the skills of those people working in aged care may mean the sector looses them to other areas of health because of better pay and conditions. "Of concern to nurses and the ANF is the widening gap between the pay and conditions of workers in aged care compared with their colleagues in public hospitals. Once aged care workers are up-skilled will they move to the better pay and conditions offered outside the aged care sector?" Ms Kearney said. The ANF is running the Because we care campaign, the main objectives of which are to help the aged care sector attract more nursing staff with the right mix of nursing skills and to achieve increased federal government funding with tighter accountability, without which they say the aged care sector will continue to loose skilled, qualified nursing staff. Australian Nursing Federation


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