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January 2008 IlliNOISY e-News
Illinois News:
Special Elections to replace retiring Congressman Dennis Hastert: Primary election on February 5th, 2008; Special General Election on March 8th,
2008
SPRINGFIELD-A date for the Special Primary Election and Special General Election to replace retiring Congressman Dennis Hastert has been
set. Governor Blagojevich has scheduled the Special Primary election on February 5th, 2008, Illinois’ regularly scheduled
primary date, as requested by Rep. Hastert to minimize inconvenience to the voters in the counties in the 14th Congressional
District. The Special General Election will be held on March 8th, 2008. The 14th Congressional District includes parts of
Kane, Henry, Bureau, Whiteside, Lee, DeKalb, Kendall and DuPage counties.
$16 million financing to support updates and improvements at Holy Cross Hospital
CHICAGO-Holy Cross Hospital will receive special financing to update aging hospital
facilities and improve access to healthcare on Chicago’s Southwest side. The project includes $16 million of refunding bonds issued by the
Illinois Finance Authority (IFA), which will provide significant savings to the hospital to be used for facility and infrastructure improvements. The
financing is the latest step in the State’s support for this "safety-net" hospital, a designation given to hospitals that provide a significant
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Register for the Advocacy Training Conference NOW!
And don't forget to apply for
Y-ME Illinois' travel scholarship! |
Join us at the 2008 National Breast Cancer Coalition Annual Advocacy Training Conference!
April 26th-29th, 2008
Washington, DC
The Y-ME IlliNOISY Advocacy Network will be traveling to Washington, DC in April to attend the 2008
Annual Advocacy Training Conference and Lobby Day. The purpose of the conference is to education breast cancer survivors and supporters on legislative
advocacy, highlighting recent research and major players in the field. Participants will attend seminars and workshops, learning how to become a
breast cancer advocate in their own community. On the last day, participants will go onto Capitol Hill and meet with their Congressional leaders to
discuss the legislative priorities of the National Breast Cancer Coalition. Visit NBCCF’s website and learn more about
the 2008 Annual Advocacy Training Conference.
Register for the Advocacy Training Conference NOW!
Conference
Scholarships
New and returning attendees are encouraged to apply for scholarships through NBCC and Y-ME
Illinois. NBCC scholarships are awarded to help cover lodging expenses and/or registration fees. Applications must be submitted to NBCC by March 4th,
2008.
Y-ME Illinois also offers scholarship funds to help defer your travel costs. All
applications must be received by Friday, March 21st, 2008, in order to be considered. APPLY TODAY!
NBCC Scholarship Application
Y-ME Illinois Scholarship Application
If you have any questions about Y-ME Illinois Advocacy, please contact Rachel
Runnals, Advocacy and Communications Coordinator, at (312) 364-9071 or at rrunnals@y-me.org
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Mark your calendars Committee members! The next IlliNOISY meeting is January
28th, 2008. |
Other Conferences and
Events:
NCCN Breast Cancer and 2007 San Antonio
Review
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Prentice Women’s Hospital
250 E. Superior
3rd floor, Conference Room L
Chicago, IL
Topics include diagnosis, staging work-ups with discussion of
prognostic markers, local therapy, sentinel lymph node biopsy, and the use of hormonal, cytotoxic and biologic therapies in the adjuvant,
neoadjuvant, and metastatic settings. READ MORE
FORCE: Facing our Risk of Cancer
Empowered
May 16-17th, 2008
Tampa, Florida
Young Survival Coalition: Annual Conference for
Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer
February 22-24, 2008
Jacksonville, Florida
Advocacy Committee Meeting: Date Change
The next Y-ME IlliNOISY Advocacy Committee meeting will be held on
January 28th, 2008 at 5:30 pm. Please mark your calendars.
Sorry for the inconvenience and hope to have you on the call or see
you in the office! |
Start the new year off right-take part in workplace giving and support Y-ME Illinois!
Contact CHC @ 800-299-6842 and mention Y-ME Illinois. |
In the News:
Bush Administration Imposing Restrictions on States' Abilities To Expand Medicaid
Eligibility January 04, 2008
The Bush administration is imposing restrictions on the ability of states to
expand their Medicaid programs that mirror a policy directive announced in August 2007 that limits states' abilities to expand SCHIP, the
New York Times reports. According to the
Times, the administration "had not openly declared that it would apply the August directive to Medicaid, but state officials in Louisiana,
Ohio and Oklahoma said they had discovered the administration's intent in negotiations with the federal government over the last few weeks" (Pear,
New York Times, 1/4). Read On
Inaccurate Lab Tests Might Lead to Inappropriate
Treatment of Breast Cancer January 04, 2008
Thousands of breast cancer patients might receive improper medications as a result of
inaccurate results for two laboratory tests used to determine the most effective treatments for specific patients, the Wall Street Journal
reports. According to the Journal, pharmaceutical companies are "trying to develop more medicines tailored to the individual characteristics
of patients and their diseases," but recent studies that have found "problems in testing point to a potential snag for such drugs: They depend on
accurate lab results." Read On
JAMA Study Shows Racial Disparities in Emergency Department Pain
Relief Prescriptions January 02, 2008
Emergency department physicians are prescribing
more narcotics to patients who say they have pain, but minority patients are less likely than whites to receive such drugs, according to a study
published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the AP/Houston
Chronicle reports. The government-funded study, which was conducted by researchers at the
University of California-San Francisco,
used data from a federal survey to analyze more than 150,000 ED visits for all types of pain at 500 city and rural U.S. hospitals from 1993 to 2005.
Read On Most TV Prescription Drug Ads Minimize Risk Information, Study Finds January 4,
2008
Prescription drug ads on television first hit the airwaves just over a decade ago, but a new University of
Georgia study finds that most of them still do not present a fair balance of information, especially when it comes to the risk of side effects.
Read
On
High-dose Chemo And Stem Cell Transplant Shows Little Or No Survival Benefit For Breast Cancer, Analysis
Shows January 3, 2008
High-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation, the controversial, arduous, yet once-popular
combination treatment that fell out of favor as a therapy for breast cancer, has proven not to be beneficial as an adjuvant therapy for women with
node-positive disease, according to an expansive analysis conducted by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Read
On
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Did you know?
- Nearly two-thirds of the working uninsured and about 40% of all U.S. workers are employed by
companies with fewer than 100 employees, the Times reports.
- According to CDC, the annual number of ED visits increased by 18% from 1994 to 2004. During the same time
period, the number of hospitals operating 24-hour Emergency Departments decreased by 12%.
- As many as 27,000 Americans may have died in 2006 because they did not have health insurance,
estimated by a new study from the Urban Institute, a nonprofit group that analyzes social and economic problems.
- The group Consumers Union released an analysis that found 75 percent of Medicare drug plans have
raised their costs in 2008, averaging $369 for the five commonly used drugs between December and January.
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