People with chronic diseases are less likely than others to have Internet access; however, those who are online are more likely to blog or engage in online discussions about health problems, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foundation, the New York Times reports (Miller, New York Times, 3/24). CHCF is the publisher of iHealthBeat.
Homeschoolers have won a round in the long fight against the crackdown on family rights contained to the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child, but experts say they need to keep up their guard. The convention, which is not yet ratified in the United States but has been adopted by numerous other nations, orders that children can choose their own religion with parents only having the authority to advise them, the government can override a parent's decision regarding a child if a social worker disagrees, a child has a right to a government review of every parental decision and Christian schools would violate the law if they refused to teach children "alternative worldviews." Homeschoolers win round against United Nations
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