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He handled everything from regular check ups to broken bones to very sick kids who might need a spinal taps or IV treatment. He got to know families closely. Going anywhere in town almost certainly involved bumping into a former patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really is the personal aspects of practice here,\" says Mahon. \"The connection with the parents, the connection with the kids and then how that connection spilled over into the larger community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, he was roused out of bed in the middle of the night to attend to a newborn after a complicated delivery or speak with a distressed parent with an urgent question. Then those kids grew up – and many had kids of their own and brought them to see Mahon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I frequently tell people that I had a dream practice,” he says. “I took care of at least two generations of children. I wouldn’t trade a minute of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Mahon is mostly retired. He only works at the hospital on call a few days a month. Families in most of the Mendocino Coast region no longer have access to a pediatrician who lives there permanently. The doctors that Mahon joined in the 70s have long since retired, and other pediatricians have come and gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68048\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-68048 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-400x320.jpeg\" alt=\"RS16489_vscocam-photo-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-400x320.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-1440x1152.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-1180x944.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-960x768.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mendocino Coast District Hospital in Fort Bragg has pediatricians on call for emergencies only. Dr. Mahon still works there a few days a month, but no longer sees patients on a day-to-day basis. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until recently, a nurse practitioner and physician assistant at the clinic handled most cases. But, with no pediatrician in the office, if a patient showed up very sick or with a complicated case, the clinic’s staff sent them to the hospital's emergency department, which has on call access to a pediatrician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community deserves better,” says Mahon. “For me it’s rather sad. For all these years there have been resident pediatricians and now for the first time in 40 years, there is none.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino Coast Clinics, which absorbed Dr. Mahon’s practice a few years ago, contracted an outside agency to bring in a temporary pediatrician for three months. He started last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a stop gap measure,” says Paula Cohen, executive director at Mendocino Coast Clinics. “We would love to find someone who wants to move to this community and make it their home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their search to find someone permanent has a few leads. Cohen says she interviewed an out-of-state doctor last weekend, and her staff is reviewing resumes. However, it’s hard for tiny Fort Bragg –- population 7,300 -- to compete with metropolitan areas when recruiting physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says physicians might prefer the amenities – cultural activities, department stores, even supermarkets -- of bigger cities. A physician who is married might need to look in areas that offer career opportunities for their spouses – who if they work in financial services or tech, say, might not want to move to Fort Bragg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice of medicine has also changed since Mahon came to the coast. Today, new physicians might not want to practice by themselves and independently treat the wide range of diseases and behavioral disorders in babies and children that Mahon did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most new physicians are educated in metropolitan areas, with a large suite of specialists available, says Janet Coffman, associate professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are in a rural area and the only pediatrician,\" says Coffman, \"people are expecting you to do a wider scope of practice. New physicians might not be prepared for that kind of medicine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big challenge is that most new doctors are looking for higher salaries that help them repay their debt from medical school. Graduates of public medical schools owed a median debt of $170,000, while private medical school graduates owed a median debt of $200,000, according to 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aamc.org/download/152968/data/debtfactcard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">figures\u003c/a> from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Rural areas serving a majority of Medi-Cal patients, such as Fort Bragg, might not offer competitive salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coffman said that the state could help rural communities recruit new physicians by expanding programs that help doctors repay their debt if they practice in a medically underserved area. One such program, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/hpef/stlrp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment\u003c/a> offers up to $105,000 in financial assistance. Medical schools could also expand programs that train physicians for the daily challenges of practicing in a rural setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is pressing in Mendocino County and other nearby Northern California counties, where more than half of all doctors practicing are 56 or older and nearing retirement age, according to a 2009 report by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%20LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/F/PDF%20FewerAndMoreSpecializedMDSupplyInCA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California HealthCare Foundation\u003c/a>. Statewide, the physician workforce is one of the oldest in the nation, with only New Mexico having a greater proportion of active physicians over 60, based on AAMC \u003ca href=\"https://www.aamc.org/download/362168/data/2013statephysicianworkforcedatabook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, families in Fort Bragg are dealing with the lack of a regular pediatrician they trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassandra and Milo Young now drive their three children 60 winding miles inland to a pediatric practice in Ukiah. The road is so twisty that the kids sometimes get sick on the way. The trips usually take an entire day and represent additional costs in gas and time off work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a downfall to the area,\" says Cassandra Young. She moved to the coast after working as a creative director at a large advertising firm in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We made certain concessions to give this lifestyle to our children. We gave up the big career and department stores. But giving up good quality pediatric care doesn’t feel like something we should have to give up,\" Young says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she likes the pediatric practice in Ukiah well enough, but misses Dr. Mahon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>He’s just wonderful, the kind of doctor we all wish our kids could have,” Young says. “It would be amazing to get another Dr. Mahon to move out here, and be our country doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our series \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/series/vital-signs/\" target=\"_blank\">Vital Signs\u003c/a>. Send story ideas to fjhabvala@kqed.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dr. Bill Mahon was a young pediatrician in the early 1970s when he fell in love with the rugged coast and majestic redwoods of Mendocino County. Like other people who have moved to Mendocino from around the country, settling here for him was a personal choice that prioritized lifestyle over money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospect of practicing medicine in a small community also called to him. In 1977 he left his well-paying job at Kaiser Sacramento to join a practice with two other pediatricians in Fort Bragg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the move was a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“For me it’s rather sad. For all these years there have been resident pediatricians. Now for the first time in 40 years, there is none.”\u003ccite>Dr. Bill Mahon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There were no guarantees coming to the coast. This was a practice that started from scratch, and I just trusted the fact that it would increase and everything would be fine\u003cstrong>,”\u003c/strong> Mahon, now 68, says. “My first month of work here I made $200. That was it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the private practice grew to include any patient regardless of ability to pay, says Mahon. Some patients were not insured. Many had Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance program for lower income residents, which – until Mahon’s office gained rural health clinic status in the 90s – provided reimbursements that were “pretty meager.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Early on we actually did trades at the practice,” says Mahon, with a chuckle. “We would trade a visit for a salmon or pottery or some other commodity, which, in the end, felt good from both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220845410&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220845410'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 35 years, Mahon examined patients day in, day out at his small clinic, next to Mendocino Coast District Hospital, the only hospital for miles. He handled everything from regular check ups to broken bones to very sick kids who might need a spinal taps or IV treatment. He got to know families closely. Going anywhere in town almost certainly involved bumping into a former patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really is the personal aspects of practice here,\" says Mahon. \"The connection with the parents, the connection with the kids and then how that connection spilled over into the larger community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, he was roused out of bed in the middle of the night to attend to a newborn after a complicated delivery or speak with a distressed parent with an urgent question. Then those kids grew up – and many had kids of their own and brought them to see Mahon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I frequently tell people that I had a dream practice,” he says. “I took care of at least two generations of children. I wouldn’t trade a minute of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Mahon is mostly retired. He only works at the hospital on call a few days a month. Families in most of the Mendocino Coast region no longer have access to a pediatrician who lives there permanently. The doctors that Mahon joined in the 70s have long since retired, and other pediatricians have come and gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68048\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-68048 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-400x320.jpeg\" alt=\"RS16489_vscocam-photo-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-400x320.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-1440x1152.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-1180x944.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/RS16489_vscocam-photo-1-960x768.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mendocino Coast District Hospital in Fort Bragg has pediatricians on call for emergencies only. Dr. Mahon still works there a few days a month, but no longer sees patients on a day-to-day basis. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until recently, a nurse practitioner and physician assistant at the clinic handled most cases. But, with no pediatrician in the office, if a patient showed up very sick or with a complicated case, the clinic’s staff sent them to the hospital's emergency department, which has on call access to a pediatrician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community deserves better,” says Mahon. “For me it’s rather sad. For all these years there have been resident pediatricians and now for the first time in 40 years, there is none.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino Coast Clinics, which absorbed Dr. Mahon’s practice a few years ago, contracted an outside agency to bring in a temporary pediatrician for three months. He started last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a stop gap measure,” says Paula Cohen, executive director at Mendocino Coast Clinics. “We would love to find someone who wants to move to this community and make it their home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their search to find someone permanent has a few leads. Cohen says she interviewed an out-of-state doctor last weekend, and her staff is reviewing resumes. However, it’s hard for tiny Fort Bragg –- population 7,300 -- to compete with metropolitan areas when recruiting physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says physicians might prefer the amenities – cultural activities, department stores, even supermarkets -- of bigger cities. A physician who is married might need to look in areas that offer career opportunities for their spouses – who if they work in financial services or tech, say, might not want to move to Fort Bragg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice of medicine has also changed since Mahon came to the coast. Today, new physicians might not want to practice by themselves and independently treat the wide range of diseases and behavioral disorders in babies and children that Mahon did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most new physicians are educated in metropolitan areas, with a large suite of specialists available, says Janet Coffman, associate professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are in a rural area and the only pediatrician,\" says Coffman, \"people are expecting you to do a wider scope of practice. New physicians might not be prepared for that kind of medicine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big challenge is that most new doctors are looking for higher salaries that help them repay their debt from medical school. Graduates of public medical schools owed a median debt of $170,000, while private medical school graduates owed a median debt of $200,000, according to 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aamc.org/download/152968/data/debtfactcard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">figures\u003c/a> from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Rural areas serving a majority of Medi-Cal patients, such as Fort Bragg, might not offer competitive salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coffman said that the state could help rural communities recruit new physicians by expanding programs that help doctors repay their debt if they practice in a medically underserved area. One such program, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/hpef/stlrp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment\u003c/a> offers up to $105,000 in financial assistance. Medical schools could also expand programs that train physicians for the daily challenges of practicing in a rural setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is pressing in Mendocino County and other nearby Northern California counties, where more than half of all doctors practicing are 56 or older and nearing retirement age, according to a 2009 report by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%20LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/F/PDF%20FewerAndMoreSpecializedMDSupplyInCA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California HealthCare Foundation\u003c/a>. Statewide, the physician workforce is one of the oldest in the nation, with only New Mexico having a greater proportion of active physicians over 60, based on AAMC \u003ca href=\"https://www.aamc.org/download/362168/data/2013statephysicianworkforcedatabook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, families in Fort Bragg are dealing with the lack of a regular pediatrician they trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassandra and Milo Young now drive their three children 60 winding miles inland to a pediatric practice in Ukiah. The road is so twisty that the kids sometimes get sick on the way. The trips usually take an entire day and represent additional costs in gas and time off work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a downfall to the area,\" says Cassandra Young. She moved to the coast after working as a creative director at a large advertising firm in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We made certain concessions to give this lifestyle to our children. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 1953, Dr. John Clements realized something fundamental about the way the lung functions — an insight that would ultimately save the lives of millions of premature babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story begins in 1950, when the U.S. Army sent Clements, a newly graduated physician, to the medical division of what was then called the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, Md. Clements was interested in doing research in biochemistry. His commanding officer was of a different mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'We don't need any biochemists,' \" Clements recalls the officer saying. \" 'You're going to be a physiologist.' And I became a physiologist because the Army said so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Army was worried about the Soviet Union using chemical weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My assignment was to find out how nerve gases worked on the lungs,\" says Clements. So he set out to learn all he could about human lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lungs are made up of thin, pliable sacs called alveoli. You can think of them as tiny, somewhat permeable balloons. Oxygen enters the bloodstream though the outer membranes of these sacs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the sacs inflate, there's more surface area for oxygen to cross into the blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/alveoli-5174afd0613caa985beba806758415caeaccc0ef.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56247 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/08/alveoli-5174afd0613caa985beba806758415caeaccc0ef-e1438625823518.jpg\" alt=\"The tiny sacs in the lungs, called alveoli, move oxygen into the blood and carbon dioxide out.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how much surface area is there in the normal lung? This wasn't an easy question to answer. Researchers who had looked at lung tissue through the microscope said the surface area was huge — maybe the size of a football field if you spread it all out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But physiologists who estimated the energy that's used to inflate the sacs came up with a much, much smaller area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That huge discrepancy between two supposedly correct methods bothered me,\" Clements says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1953, he suggested \u003ca href=\"http://www.fasebj.org/content/18/13/1624e.full\">an explanation\u003c/a> for the discrepancy. Maybe there was a substance in the lung that made the alveoli easier to inflate and keep inflated. A few years later, Clements and others found it — a slippery substance known as a surfactant that reduces surface tension in the alveolar membranes. 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In those days, many children born at less than 37 weeks' gestation would die from something called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001563.htm\">respiratory distress syndrome\u003c/a>, or RDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA has since approved \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm294984.htm\">five synthetic surfactants\u003c/a> to prevent respiratory distress syndrome in premature babies. Surfaxin, approved in 2012, is the latest to hit the market. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nothing like a good measles outbreak to get people thinking more kindly about vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One third of parents say they think vaccines have more benefit than they did a year ago, according to a poll conducted in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44720\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/07/vaccine-benefit_enl-25fbea0844d16be2d08246f0d63d746b56d09f9d.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44720\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/07/vaccine-benefit_enl-25fbea0844d16be2d08246f0d63d746b56d09f9d-400x250.png\" alt=\"Source: C.S. 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"content": "\u003cp>High school freshman Jenna Culotta, 14, has a cowboy hat, a horse named Scarlett and a talent for rodeo barrel racing. That means she rides Scarlett like a race car driver around a three-barrel loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Jenna would like, \u003cem>please\u003c/em> (the \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"http://www.nhsra.com/local/uploads/content/files/2014%20NHSRA%20Rulebook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rule book\u003c/a> says rodeo riders must strive to be well-mannered) is physical education credit for the hours of practice that have made her a barrel race contender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California ranks third in the nation in the number of high school rodeo riders, trailing Texas and Idaho, although the number is small -– just 595 California high school students are registered with the National High School Rodeo Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a dying sport,” said Christie Baute. 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Barrel racing, goat tying and bull riding aren’t interscholastic sports, they say,\u003cdel>\u003c/del> and rodeo competitors aren’t coached by school coaches or supervised by school supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How in the world can you consider having something that is totally out of a school district’s ability to oversee get credit?” said Keith Johannes, with the \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"http://www.cahperd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance\u003c/a>, a membership organization for P.E. teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That physical education matters so little that they would not even care to see what’s going on,” Johannes said. “It is the ultimate put-down for physical education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bill Under Consideration in Sacramento\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the riders’ quest for physical education credit, and the privileges such credit would bring, has captured the attention of state Sen. Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuller, who said she grew up in the small Kern County town of Shafter where her No. 1 hobby was a horse, is the author of \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB138\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 138\u003c/a>, which would clarify to local school boards that they are free to award high school physical education credit to rodeo competitors, if they would like to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodeo competitors say the bill would give them the cherished perquisites enjoyed by other high school athletes who receive physical education credit for their sports: the right to opt out of the state graduation requirement of two years of P.E. instruction; time in their school schedules (because they’re not enrolled in P.E.) to take other requirements or study halls; and, most important, an “allowed absence” when they leave school early to travel to faraway rodeos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the Senate and is scheduled for a July 1 hearing in the Assembly Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a committee hearing this spring, Fuller said a group of high school rodeo competitors approached her in Bishop last year and asked her to bring the bill forward. 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In the gallery of the hearing room sat about a dozen high school rodeo competitors, in cowboy hats and Western yoke-style shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask you today to look in their eyes to see if we, as adults, should limit them in any way,” Fuller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, Cindy Lederer, a 35-year veteran teacher of physical education and a representative of the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, voiced the group’s “extreme opposition” to the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California was the first state to mandate physical education minutes at all levels,” Lederer said. “However, those minutes are disappearing, due to the House and Senate who are constantly creating exemptions and passing bills like this one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, school boards already have \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/pe/physeducfaqs.asp#PE\" target=\"_blank\">the right to grant physical education credit\u003c/a> to rodeo competitors or, for that matter, to any activity the boards deem worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Stanislaus County city of Oakdale -- its official slogan is “Cowboy Capital of the World\" -- Oakdale High School has recognized rodeo as a sport for 20 years, said Leandra Spence, adviser to the Oakdale High School rodeo club, at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fuller said school boards would feel more comfortable if rodeo were listed in the regulations along with two other specifically identified activities that can earn physical education credit: Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps and marching band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Nabors raised three high school rodeo competitors in Mariposa, and one of them is now a member of the Fresno State University rodeo team. “I would like them to be treated like any other athlete,” she said. When her daughters missed school on Fridays for a rodeo, they had to take time during the rodeo to complete a written assignment about physical education to pick up the credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids are working their butts off,” Nabors said. “It’s 110 degrees. They shouldn’t have to sit down and write a two-page essay because they’re not in a one-hour P.E. class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would help,” Culotta, the 14-year-old rodeo rider, said of receiving P.E. credit for her rodeo practices and competitions. She said she would use the time for homework, which would be useful in the fall when she is a freshman at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even if the bill becomes law, the decision to grant physical education credit will remain up to the local school board. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How in the world can you consider having something that is totally out of a school district’s ability to oversee get credit?” said Keith Johannes, with the \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"http://www.cahperd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance\u003c/a>, a membership organization for P.E. teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That physical education matters so little that they would not even care to see what’s going on,” Johannes said. “It is the ultimate put-down for physical education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bill Under Consideration in Sacramento\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the riders’ quest for physical education credit, and the privileges such credit would bring, has captured the attention of state Sen. Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuller, who said she grew up in the small Kern County town of Shafter where her No. 1 hobby was a horse, is the author of \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB138\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 138\u003c/a>, which would clarify to local school boards that they are free to award high school physical education credit to rodeo competitors, if they would like to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodeo competitors say the bill would give them the cherished perquisites enjoyed by other high school athletes who receive physical education credit for their sports: the right to opt out of the state graduation requirement of two years of P.E. instruction; time in their school schedules (because they’re not enrolled in P.E.) to take other requirements or study halls; and, most important, an “allowed absence” when they leave school early to travel to faraway rodeos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the Senate and is scheduled for a July 1 hearing in the Assembly Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a committee hearing this spring, Fuller said a group of high school rodeo competitors approached her in Bishop last year and asked her to bring the bill forward. 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"content": "\u003cp>Just over two-thirds of California adults -- and nearly as many parents of public school students -- say unvaccinated children should not be allowed to attend public schools, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1153\" target=\"_blank\">new statewide survey\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey comes as \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0251-0300/sb_277_bill_20150219_introduced.html\" target=\"_blank\">a bill \u003c/a>to end California's personal belief exemption for vaccines has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/05/14/california-senate-approves-bill-that-would-end-vaccine-opt-out/\" target=\"_blank\">passed by the Senate \u003c/a>and will be taken up by the Assembly this summer. Each hearing of the bill so far has brought hundreds of opponents to the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the bill, SB277, children would be required to be vaccinated in order to attend school. Only those who could not be vaccinated for medical reasons would be exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC survey asked about three dozen questions on a range of issues. Just two were about vaccines, and neither asked specifically if people supported overturning the vaccine exemption. Here is the first question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 27\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\">\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Should children who have not been vaccinated from diseases like measles, mumps, and rubella be allowed to attend public schools, or not?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sixty-seven percent of adults and 65 percent of public school parents said that unvaccinated students should not be allowed in public school. But under SB277, unvaccinated students would not be allowed in either public or private schools. Mark Baldassare, PPIC president and CEO, acknowledged that the question was \"not precisely the issue on the legislative agenda.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's interesting about the question is that the PPIC singled out measles, mumps and rubella -- and support for required vaccination was still very strong. The measles vaccine has caused significant concern after a 1998 study claimed a link between the vaccine and autism. That \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/\" target=\"_blank\">study has since been discredited.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second question was about vaccine safety:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 28\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\">\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In general, how safe are vaccines given to children for diseases like measles, mumps, and rubella—very safe, somewhat safe, not very safe, or not safe at all?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Eighty-seven percent of adults and 88 percent of public school parents said vaccines were either \"very safe\" or \"somewhat safe.\" More than half of respondents were in the \"very safe\" category. Seven percent of adults said vaccines were \"not very safe\" and three percent said they were \"not safe at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare said that the results were consistent across all the state's regions, as well as political and demographic groups, although Latinos were much less likely than whites to say that vaccines are very safe (49 percent vs. 65 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally speaking, we found that it was the college graduates and those with some college who were more likely to say that vaccines are very safe,\" Baldassare said, \"compared to those with high school degrees or less.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) is one of the authors of SB277. He was enthusiastic about the findings, noting that \"(t)he poll shows overwhelming majorities of California parents support SB277, understand that vaccines are safe and believe the personal belief exemption is putting our kids and communities at risk of preventable diseases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The telephone survey of 1,706 California adults was conducted during the week of May 17-27. It was funded by the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll also included some questions about the legalization of marijuana. PPIC says a \"record high\" percentage of Californians -- 54 percent -- support legalizing marijuana; 44 percent oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results of the PPIC poll are in line with a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-on-vaccines-and-the-measles-outbreak/\" target=\"_blank\">national poll \u003c/a>conducted by CBS News in February, which found that 66 percent of Americans think parents should be required to vaccinate their children, and 64 percent say unvaccinated children should not be permitted to attend public school.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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This is exactly as a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1266\" target=\"_blank\">new California law\u003c/a> intended –- but not, in fact, how the law is playing out in many districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The law indemnified everybody except the doctor.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite> Dr. Brett Curtis, consultant with Oakland Unified School District\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Six months after the Jan. 1 law required schools to stock these pre-loaded syringes – known as \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a603002.html\" target=\"_blank\">epinephrine automatic injectors\u003c/a> and considered the \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/64f526r6#page-1\" target=\"_blank\">first line treatment\u003c/a> for potentially life-threatening allergic reactions – many districts have been unable to obtain what Riverside County's Murietta Unified has: a doctor’s prescription for the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the state, doctors have declined to write prescriptions for epinephrine auto-injectors for districts, citing liability concerns and derailing the promise of the law. 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Now he writes prescriptions for stock epinephrine auto-injectors for all 86 schools in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About\u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/06/16/peds.2011-0204.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"> 8 percent of children nationwide \u003c/a>have food allergies, and of those, nearly 40 percent have had a severe reaction known as \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=80214&action=edit\" target=\"_blank\">anaphylaxis\u003c/a>, where blood pressure drops and airways constrict. Other symptoms include hives, a swollen tongue and vomiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Severe food allergies have become an issue in schools across the state and the nation as the percentage of children who are allergic to nuts, milk, wheat and other substances has \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2008/r081022.htm\" target=\"_blank\">increased\u003c/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control, for reasons researchers \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://ncchildrenshospital.org/enews/foodallergyqa\" target=\"_blank\">can’t definitively explain.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools have introduced nut-free zones in school cafeterias and ingredient inspections for classroom birthday treats. 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Preemies who had delayed cord clamping tend to have better blood pressure in the days immediately after birth, need fewer drugs to support blood pressure, need fewer blood transfusions, have less bleeding into the brain and have a lower risk of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001148.htm\" target=\"_blank\">necrotizing enterocolitis\u003c/a>, a life-threatening bowel injury, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This study is among the few looking at healthy, full-term infants in a country high in resources, as opposed to developing countries where iron deficiency may be more likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has \u003ca href=\"http://www.acog.org/Resources-And-Publications/Committee-Opinions/Committee-on-Obstetric-Practice/Timing-of-Umbilical-Cord-Clamping-After-Birth\" target=\"_blank\">not yet endorsed the practice\u003c/a>, citing \u003ca href=\"http://www.acog.org/About-ACOG/News-Room/News-Releases/2012/Time-to-Clamp-the-Cord\">insufficient\u003c/a> evidence for full-term infants. The World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/elena/titles/full_recommendations/cord_clamping/en/\" target=\"_blank\">recommends delayed cord clamping\u003c/a> of not less than one minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear if the practice could harm infants' health. Some studies have found a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23843134\" target=\"_blank\">higher risk of jaundice\u003c/a>, a build-up of bilirubin in the blood from the breakdown of red blood cells. 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