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Tuesday, April 23, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Adolescent health examined
Study finds that youths need more accessible health care
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Many adolescents cannot get needed health services because they lack health insurance or face other barriers to care, a congressional research agency said yesterday.
A study by the Office of Technology Assessment found that children ages 10 to 18 are not as healthy as they are in older age groups and are less effective and accessible health care.
The office's report suggested a more sympathetic, supportive approach to adolescents and said development of school-based health centers may be one way to provide better health care for this age group.
“Standing as they do at a crossroads between childhood and adulthood, adolescents all too frequently fall prey to our social service system,” she said.
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., one of 29 members of Congress who requested the study, said she would not characterize the problems of adolescents as being of crisis proportions.
The concept of school-based health centers has some merit, Kassbaum ce
But she said the report showed that their health status needed more attention.
said, but she added that the decision to establish a clinic in a school must be made by local officials.
Leading causes of death for teens
"I don't see the federal government leading the way," she said. "If they had been controversial, primarily when they provide contraceptive services.
The report also shows the federal government's approach to adolescent health has been scattershot, with nearly 60 programs spread across the national cabin department related to the health of this age group, she said.
Minorities are the least served, the report said. Half of all African-American, Hispanic-American, American Indian and Alaska native adolescents live in families with incomes of 150 percent of the poverty level or less. Seventeen percent of African-American adolescents live in families that are poor or near poor. The poverty level was $12.675 for a four-member family in 1989.
The report's researchers found that one in seven people ages 10 to 18 has no health insurance, and one in ten patients are not covered by Medicaid
Adolescents face other barriers to care, including health insurance benefits that do not cover needed services, such as when they do not yet manifest full-blown mental health problems, the report said.
Death rate by race and age group for top causes of death for teenagers.
Black 10-14 yrs. Black 15-19 yrs.
White 10-14 yrs. White 15-19 yrs.
SOURCE: Office of Technology Assessment
Few health-care professionals have been trained specially to treat adolescents, despite a longstanding belief by medical providers that special skills and knowledge are needed, according to the report.
Requirements that they have parental consent or notification are also obstacles to health care, including contraceptive services, it said.
About 1,500 primary care physicians nationwide specialize in adolesc
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Knight-Rider TITLE NURSE TREATMENT centice medicine, and about the same number of psychologists have a special interest in treating adolescents. Amounts to fewer than one such professional for every 1,000 adolescent cells.
OTA suggested several policy options for Congress, including support for development of improved school-linked or community-based centers that provide comprehensive health and related services for adolescents.
Congress also could expand Medicaid, the federal-state health-care program for the poor.
Tape of blood oath important evidence against Mafia boss
The Associated Press
BOSTON — On a Sunday autumn morning in a neat house in suburban Medford, New England's reputed Mafia leaders gathered for a secret meeting to initiate members.
Officials say four men took blood oaths in Italian to defend the group and vowed to murder anyone who posed a threat.
But the FBI was listening, tipped off when one inductee, a convicted killer serving time, supported on his application for a furlough.
The house the group had scrupulously chosen also was on the same street as an FBI agent's.
"It's a little bit like the gang that couldn't shoot straight," said Edith Flynn, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University and a specialist in organ trafficking. "The cops is Rule Number One. What is unusual is that they bungled it so badly."
A seven-hour tape recording of the alleged initiation could be the most important evidence against reputed crime boss Raymond Paterson, who has been held lieutenants facing racketeering charges, federal officials said.
Neither the recording nor a transcript has been made public, except for one brief segment.
"I . . . want to enter into this organization to protect my family and to protect all my friends," the inductees repeated.
except for the logon logs.
On it, a man identified as Biagio
Digiacomo administers an oath of
loyalty.
Each man's trigger finger was
cut to draw blood, a holy card with the image of a saint was burned, and Digiacomo administered a first dose of an antidote written in papers tipped with the court.
"As burns this saint, so will burn my soul. I enter alive into this organization and leave it dead."
U. S. District Judge Mark Wolf has decided to let prosecutors use the tape in Patriaura's ricketeer case, the protests of defense attorneys.
No trial date has been set.
Authorities worked for years to gather evidence against the mob and won convictions that, by 1899, resulted in a power struggle inside the alleged Patriarca organization, documents show.
In June 1989, reputed "underboss" William Grasso was discovered slain in Connecticut. Alleged Francis Salemme was shot the same day. Salemme was shot the same day.
New members apparently were needed.
One alleged candidate, Vincent Federico, serving a sentence for murder in a Massachusetts prison, was considered a close associate of alleged narcara crime expert Richard rara, government affidavit shows. Ferrara now is one of the defendants in the racketeer case.
But the alleged mob leaders were concerned about surveillance, the FBI said. They needed a safe place to conduct a ritual initiation and chose Federico's home in Medford and Medford 'Federico''s furlough application said he would be at the house Sunday, Oct. 29, 1989.
Ex-midshipman thinks judge showed gay bias
The Associated Press
Attorneys for Joseph C. Steffan asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to take U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch off the case.
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court was asked yesterday to order a judge who called a gay plaintiff a "homo" in court to remove himself from the man's case challenge from the naval chase. The Naval Academy.
The judge refused to do so April 12, saying his use of the word "homo" three times in a March 6 hearing did not mean he was biased. He said he
But Stefan's attorneys contended in court papers that if a judge is
allowed to handle a case when the *n*<sub>max</sub> used a word considered offensive by the minority group involved, "the inevitable result will be to undermine the confidence of minority groups in the ability and willingness of the minority to safeguard their rights to due process and equal protection of the laws."
Government attorneys have contended that Gasch did not show specific bias against Steffan and that the plaintiff must prove the judge had personal bias against him.
Because he stated he was a homosexual, Steffan was dismissed from the Naval Academy six weeks before he was to graduate in 1987. He was not accused of homosexual conduct.
Discovery launch scrubbed because of equipment failure
The Associated Press
CAPE CANERAL, Fla. - NASA scrubbed the launch of space shuttle Discovery early today after a failure in one of the craft's engines.
The mission was scrubbed at 12:15 a.m. c.MT after engineers reported a transceiver failure on the high-pressure three main engines.
NASA began unloading the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel to make the craft safe for further examination, officials said.
The launch had been scheduled for 6:05 a.m. CST today.
Discovery was to have carried seven astronauts and a Pentagon cargo worth more than $260 million.
NASA representative Lisa Malone said it could be two to five days before the equipment was repaired and the launch was rescheduled.
She said officials were meeting early today to determine how long it would take to complete repairs.
NASA had started loading more than a half-million gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the shuttle late yesterday as it prepared for the launch. At the time, officials were concerned about bad weather delaying the launch, but they said there was an 80 percent chance the weather would be acceptable for liftoff.
The launch was to be the first Department of Defense mission in shuttle history open to public scrutiny.
The Pentagon expects to save $80 million a year by lifting secrecy around military shuttle flights. Much of the saving reflects the cost of secure computers and coding devices used on the secret missions.
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