Kentucky Court Of Appeals Upholds Lower Court Ruling Barring Unvaccinated Students From School

A Kentucky appeals court has sided with state health officials in regards to how they handled a chickenpox outbreak and choice to bar unvaccinated students.

The barring came about due a chickenpox outbreak that hit Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Assumption Academy in Walton, Kentucky, in March. To keep it from spreading, school and state health officials ordered unvaccinated students to stay away from class and extracurricular activities until vaccinated.


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Family to sue over autism aid wait

A High Court judge has given the family of a four-year-old boy with autism leave to pursue aggravated damages against the HSE over its failure to deliver an assessment of need for him within the required timeframe.

The ex parte application for judicial review was made last Monday, seeking aggravated damages on behalf of the boy, and claiming that without the proper resources, there is a “serious risk that his development may be permanently affected”. It also hit out at the “futile” complaints mechanism and claims the HSE uses it as a “delaying tactic”.

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THREATENED SHUTDOWN OF FAILING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN SHELTERS COULD CAUSE A CRISIS

Arizona health officials threatened this past Wednesday to revoke the licenses of 13 federally funded immigrant children shelters, accusing the facilities' operator, Southwest Key, of displaying an "astonishingly flippant attitude" toward complying with the state's child protection laws.

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South Dakota partners with Big Pharma to prey on Native Americans in genocidal campaign to increase revenues

The use of culturally-biased guidelines in determining mental health status allows the agency to circumvent Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) rules, designed to keep these children from ending up in non-native foster homes, while generating millions of dollars for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Kids from big families may be less likely to succeed

A study by researchers Chinhui Juhn and C. Andrew Zuppann of the University of Houston, along with Yona Rubinstein of the London School of Economics, suggests that the more children a family has, the less likely those children will have a good life.

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Attention Deficit Disorder tied to maternal education

A new study of more than a million children has found strong links between receiving medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and limited maternal education, single parent families and welfare benefits.

Attention Deficit Disorder tied to maternal education