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- News You Can Use: CDC Health Information for International Travel;
The Measure Finder Tool (Version 1.1); FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat Veggie Booty Snack Food; The Possible Dangers of Buying Medicine Online;
FDA Detains Imports of Farm-Raised Chinese Seafood; Final Rule Promotes Safe Use of Dietary Supplements; 6 Tips to Avoid Medication Mistakes; First Quick Test for Malaria; Spot the Block: Get Your Food Facts First; Living with Fibromyalgia, First Drug Approved; Beware of Ticks…& Lyme Disease; FDA's Standards for High Quality Foods; New Option for Rare Form of Hypertension;
CARVER + Shock: Enhancing Food Defense; Making it Easier to Recognize Recalled Foods; Initiative Focuses on Tomato Safety; FDA Clears Respirators for Public Health Emergencies; Medication Guides for Certain Prescription Products; Warning: Toothpaste from China; Removing Hair Safely; EFSA and FDA Strengthen Cooperation in Food Safety Science;
- Data: “HEDIS®” - NCQA is changing the name of HEDIS to the “Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set” as of July 11, 2007; Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) 2007 Software and User's Guide; NEW NHIS PUBLIC USE FILE REFERENCE INFORMATION;
- Leading Killers. Cancer: Facing Forward: Life After Cancer Treatment;
Facing Forward: When Someone You Love Has Completed Cancer Treatment;
Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy, with or without radiotherapy, in
completely resected non-small cell lung cancer: a clinical practice
guideline; The use of chemotherapy in patients with advanced malignant pleural mesothelioma: a clinical practice guideline;
Cardiovascular Disease: Atrial fibrillation; ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death; ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation; EFNS guideline on neuroimaging in acute stroke. Report of an EFNS task force; EFNS guidelines on pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain; Cardiac stress test supplement; New Evidence Report on Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators; Stable coronary artery disease;
Diabetes: Internationl Diabetes Foundation;Leg ulcer guidelines: a pocket guide for practice; OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS PROTECT EYES AGAINST RETINOPATHY; Women are now about as likely as men to get recommended screening tests and treatments to manage their diabetes; Diabetes: The Numbers;
High Blood Pressure: Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible. What Every Physician Should Know;
Tobacco: “Philip Morris gears up for FDA regulation”; Smokers to be prevented from fostering young children"; “Public health benefits of recent litigation against the tobacco industry”; “Restrictions on tobacco ads reaffirmed by Supreme Court decision”;
- Adolescent Health: AUTHORS EXPLORE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADOLESCENTS’ BELIEFS ABOUT PREFERRED RESOURCES FOR HELP AND SPECIFIC HEALTH ISSUES;
* Beliefs in the importance of getting help from specific resources
varied by age, gender, and beliefs in the importance of getting help in
general; NEW KNOWLEDGE PATH FOCUSES ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SOCIAL AND
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; EXEMPLARY ADOLESCENT HEALTH PROGRAMS; ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CONFIDENTIAL SERVICES AND PARENT-ADOLESCENT COMMUNICATION;
- Alcohol Abuse: RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY ALCOHOLISM SUBTYPES; ALCOHOL SURVEY REVEALS 'LOST DECADE' BETWEEN AGES OF DISORDER ONSET AND TREATMENT;
- Alternative Medicine: Meditation Practices for Health;
- Child Health: Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children; Parents Say They’re Getting Control of Their Children’s Exposure to Sex and Violence in the Media -- Even Online; Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Toolkit;
- Community Health: Building a Strong Community From the Inside Out; State Snapshots;
- Disaster Preparedness: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness;
Gulf Coast Hurricanes Lessons Learned Report; “New global rules to fight health threats come into force”;
- Environmental Health. “Shhhh: New NYC noise code to take effect”; “Suit filed over scent”;
- Family Health: Parental Depression Screening for Pediatric Clinicians: An
Implementation Manual;
- Fitness: Fit Facts; Healthy Youth! - Physical Activity Brochures for Parents, Teachers, and Principals; State Physical Activity Coalition Handbook: Strategies and Techniques;
- Healthcare Economics: More than one third of US workers worry that a major medical expense would ruin them financially; The Outpatient Code Editor (OCE);
The NPI is here;
- Healthcare Quality: Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide; Joint Commission 2007 National Patient Safety Goals Implementation
Expectations; Environmental Scan of Instruments to Inform Consumer Choice in Assisted Living Facilities; Physicians on the front line: Quarantine as a Public Health Strategy; The Digital Divide: What Can Physicians Do to Bridge the Gap?;
Uninformed consent: What can happen when a patient does not understand
the information you have provided?; Mistake-Proofing the Design of Health Care Processes; 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) Tool Kit;
New Task Force Recommendation Statement Helps Busy Clinicians Put Prevention Into Practice; Care Coordination; Management of multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings, 2006;
- Health Disparities: Racial disparities in health care; Growing gap in health care worries between high and lower income Americans;
- Health Policy: KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION LAUNCHES HEALTH08.ORG, A HUB FOR INFORMATION ABOUT HEALTH CARE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN;
- Healthy People 2010: Tracking Healthy People 2010;
- Health Policy: Five myths about immigrants and the US health care system;
- HIPAA: “Keeping patients’ details private, even from kin”;
- Infectious Disease: HUMAN ANTIBODIES THAT BLOCK HUMAN AND ANIMAL SARS VIRUSES IDENTIFIED; Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Wandsworth Infections -- United States, 2007; Zika Virus Outbreak; Chlamydia Screening; XDR TB Quarantine; Outbreaks of Locally Transmitted Malaria: Health Information Toolkit; Preventing Malaria in Travelers; Recommendations for the management of herpes zoster; MRSA Study Results; Group B Strep Epidemiology Facts; Group B Strep: What You Need To Know; Protect Your Baby From Group B Strep;
- Influenza: Prevention and Control of Influenza - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2007; Vaccinating Health Care Workers to Control Flu Outbreaks;
- Maternal Child Health: LOSS AMONG PREGNANCIES CONCEIVED THROUGH ASSISTED
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; Maternity Care Costs in Consumer-Driven Health Plans;
- Mental Health: VIOLENCE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS MORE LIKELY AMONG THOSE WITH CHILDHOOD CONDUCT PROBLEMS;
- Nutrition: HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF;
- Obesity: Is Obesity A Disease?;
- School Health: “High school athletes next for steroid tests”; New Guidelines for Chicken Pox Vaccination;
- Senior Health: MIX OF DISEASE PROCESSES AT WORK IN BRAINS OF MOST PEOPLE
WITH DEMENTIA; ADNI Database Now Available to Researchers Worldwide; Dementia care practice recommendations for assisted living residences and nursing homes;
Review of the therapeutic management of Parkinson's disease; Review of the therapeutic management of Parkinson's disease;
- Workplace Health: Workplace interventions for people with common mental health problems: evidence review and recommendations;
- Women's Health: No Woman Is Alone; HEALTH STATUS, HEALTH BEHAVIORS, AND HEALTH CONDITIONS AMONG AMISH WOMEN; 8 Common Myths About Osteoporosis; Palpable breast masses; Stage 1 breast carcinoma; Due Date Calculator;
- What's New on Betty C. Jung's Web Site: Diabetes Resources on the Net
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- News You Can Use: FDA Warns Consumers to Avoid Red Yeast Rice Products;
NIHSENIORHEALTH OFFERS TIPS ON HOW TO TALK WITH YOUR DOCTOR;
Comprehensive Clinic Assessment Software Application (CoCASA);
- Data: Adult mortality by cause: US/state, 1999-2004 (Source: NVSS);
Suicide and Homicide Rates Among Adults >18 Years, by Age Group---
National Vital Statistics System,United States, 2002--2004;
The 2001 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN) and the 2003 National Survey of Children’s
Health (NSCH);
Kaiser Family Foundation Data Update; America's Children: Key National
Indicators of Well-Being, 2007; National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey:
2005 Summary; National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2005 Emergency Department Summary; National Hospital
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2005 Outpatient Department Summary; Ambulatory Medical Care Utilization Estimates for 2005;
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: Terrorism Preparedness Among Office-Based Physicians, United States, 2003-2004;
- Top Killers. Cancer: Practice parameter for the detection of colorectal neoplasms: an
interim report (revised); 2006 Updated Revisions Table of the ASCO Guideline for the use of Tumor
Markers in Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer; ASCO Patient Guide: Tumor Markers for Gastrointestinal Cancers;
Use of tumor markers in gastrointestinal cancer: 2006 update Slide set;
ASCO 2007 Guideline Update: Recommendations for the Initial Hormonal
Management of Androgen-Sensitive Metastatic, Recurrent, or Progressive
Prostate Cancer; ASCO Patient Guide: Hormone Therapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer;
ASCO Treatment Algorithm for the Initial Hormonal Management of
Androgen-Sensitive Advanced Cancer: 2007 Update; Initial Hormonal Management of Androgen-Sensitive Metastatic,
Recurrent, or Progressive Prostate Cancer: 2007 Update Slide Set.
Cardiovascular Disease: Congestive heart failure: hospital admission rate;
Coronary artery disease: angina without procedure hospital admission
rate; Cardiac resynchronisation therapy for the treatment of heart failure;
Practice parameters for the prevention of venous thromboembolism;
Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of chronic
heart failure in Australia, 2006;
Position statement on lipid management--2005;
ACCF/AHA 2007 clinical expert consensus document on coronary artery
calcium scoring by computed tomography in global cardiovascular risk
assessment and in evaluation of patients with chest pain. A report of the
American College of Cardiology Foundation Clinical Expert Consensus Task
Force (ACCF/AHA Writing Committee to Update the 2000 Expert Consensus
Document on Electron Beam Computed Tomography) developed in
collaboration with the Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention and the
Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography;
Diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart
disease in Australia: an evidence-based review;
Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes 2006;
National Heart Foundation of Australia physical activity
recommendations for people with cardiovascular disease;
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE ANNOUNCES EFFORT TO PROMOTE STROKE AWARENESS IN THE HISPANIC
COMMUNITY.
Diabetes: While Most Diabetes Drugs Provide Similar Glucose Control, Some Offer Important Advantages;
Diabetes mellitus: hospital admission rate for long-term complications;
Diabetes mellitus: hospital admission rate for short-term complications;
Diabetes mellitus: hospital admission rate for uncontrolled diabetes;
Diabetes mellitus: lower-extremity amputation rate;
NEW DIABETES REPORT DOCUMENTS DEVASTATING EFFECTS IN NYC;
High Blood Pressure: Hypertension: hospital admission rate;
Kidney Disease: Anaemia management in chronic kidney disease. A national clinical
guideline for management in adults and children;
Tobacco: THE EFFECT OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD ON SMOKING;
Key Outcome Indicators For Evaluating Comprehensive Tobacco Control
Programs; Tobacco Cessation Counseling: A Protocol for Pharmacists
- Adolescent Health: FACT SHEET ON THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS;
THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF ADOLESCENT MALES; HOW BODY COMPOSITION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND OTHER
FACTORS RELATE TO INSULIN SENSITIVITY AND SECRETION IN ADOLESCENTS;
STI Vaccines for Adolescents: Facts and Controversies;
- AIDS/HIV: The effect of name-based reporting and partner notification on HIV testing in New York;
the Societal Impact of HIV/AIDS; United Kingdom national guidelines on HIV testing 2006;
- Alcohol Abuse: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued new statements on
primary care counseling regarding the proper use of motor vehicle occupant
restraints and alcohol use to prevent motor vehicle occupant injuries;
- Child Health: UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEEDS OF WORKERS WITH CHILDREN
WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS;
- Consumer Health: Self-Management Support: Patient Planning Worksheet;
Clinical practice guidelines for support of the family in the
patient-centered intensive care unit: American College of Critical Care Medicine
Task Force 2004-2005;
- Environmental Health: Potential Health Problems Related to Formaldehyde
Among People Living in Mobile Homes or Travel Trailers;
Formaldehyde-related Health Concerns;
- Genomics: “Governing genetic databases: challenges facing research regulation and practice”;
SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF ANTIDEPRESSANT CITALOPRAM PREDICTED BY GENE
VARIATION; AFTER A DECADES-LONG SEARCH, SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY NEW GENETIC RISK
FACTORS FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;
- Healthcare Economics: Dissemination of Data from the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) to Begin
September 4, 2007; IRS report finds many non-profit hospitals spend little on uncompensated care; Previously uninsured
Medicare beneficiaries with chronic illnesses use more services; Primer on Trends in Health Care Costs;
- Healthcare Quality: Electronic Health Records Alone Don't Aid Patient Care; Addressing Language Barriers between
Physician and Patient: What are the Optimal Strategies?; Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI); CHANGES TO NCQA
REPORTING PRODUCTS FOR 2007;
- Health Disparities: Health Care Disparities; Racially tailored medicines: Is there a science behind the marketing?;
Improving Immunization: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Populations;
- Health Policy: Legal power and legal rights -- isolation and quarantine in the case of drug-resistant TB;
- Hearing Loss: PHYSICIANS' PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES RELEVANT TO
SERVING AS A MEDICAL HOME FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS;
- Immunization: Immunization Practice Toolkit; Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule;
Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit; ACIP Reminds about Meningococcal Vaccination;
Prevention of varicella: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices (ACIP); CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO EDUCATE PARENTS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ABOUT
NEW PRE-ADOLESCENT VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS; FACT SHEET FOCUSES ON ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH
ADOLESCENT HPV VACCINATION; Vaccines Aren’t Just for Kids!; Adult Immunizations; National Immunization Awareness Month;
- Infectious Disease: Hepatitis A infections Linked to Children Adopted from Ethiopia and their Family Contacts;
Protecting the Public's Health against Tuberculosis: Moving Forward;
- Influenza: Prevention and control of influenza. Recommendations of the Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2007;
- Injury Prevention: “Bikers fight to ride free -- and win”; NONFATAL TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES FROM SPORTS AND
RECREATION ACTIVITIES; Counseling about proper use of motor vehicle occupant restraints and
avoidance of alcohol use while driving;
- Maternal Child Health: RATES OF PERINATAL GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL DISEASE
BEFORE AND AFTER UNIVERSAL SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS;
- Mental Health: NEW PROGRAM TO INVESTIGATE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF AUTISM;
- Nutrition: “Strapped FDA turns to states”; “Group for 18,000 communities supports NYC calorie posting rule”;
FRAMINGHAM OBSERVATIONAL STUDY NOTES GREATER INCIDENCE OF METABOLIC SYNDROME AMONG ADULTS CONSUMING SOFT DRINKS;
Food-Safe Schools Action Guide; Nutrition Care Alerts: Warning Signs and Action Steps for Caregivers in
Nursing Facilities; Total Parenteral Nutrition Calculator;
- Obesity: VA/DoD clinical practice guideline for screening and management of overweight and obesity; Social Networks of
Family, Friends Influencing Obesity;
- Occupational Health: Jury backs teacher who says room made her ill”; “Legal risks to employers who allow smoking in the
workplace”;
- Public Health Continuing Education: Medicare Advantage – Tutorial; ATSDR Case Studies in Environmental Medicine:
Asbestos Toxicity; Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Asbestos Toxicity; WB1093 - ATSDR Case Studies in Environmental
Medicine: Asbestos Toxicity (Web-based); CB1093 - ATSDR Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Asbestos Toxicity (CD-Rom);
WB1115 - ATSDR Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Asbestos Toxicity (Web-based);
CB1115 - ATSDR Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Asbestos Toxicity (CD-Rom);
VC1115 - ATSDR Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Asbestos Toxicity (Videotape);
ATSDR Continuing Education;
- Public Health Practice: ACCREDITATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES;
2005-2006 Progress Report on Alzheimer's Disease: Journey to
Discovery;
- School Health: Keeping Score—How the States Measure Up on Health,
What We Know and Do Not Know about Child Protection,
The Impact of Media Violence on Children,
Consumers and Health Care—Are We Ready for Retail?,
Children 5-18 Years Risk Sports-Related Brain Injury, Inter-Association Task Force recommendations on emergency preparedness
and management of sudden cardiac arrest in high school and college
athletic programs: a consensus statement;
- Senior Health: NIA ONLINE PUBLICATION FEATURES HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY; Individualized music for elders with
dementia; New Age Page on Mourning Now Available;
- STDs: Screening for chlamydial infection: recommendation statement;
- Substance Abuse: Community-based interventions to reduce substance misuse among
vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people; Workplace health promotion: how
to help employees to stop smoking;
- Women's Health: PRECONCEPTION BROCHURE; HEALTH OF INCARCERATED WOMEN;
Cervical cancer screening guideline: October 2006;
Long-acting reversible contraception: the effective and appropriate use
of long-acting reversible contraception;
Use of systemic therapy in women with recurrent ovarian cancer –
development, methods and clinical practice guideline;
- CT Public Health: Connecticut QuitLine runs out of free nicotine patches in 3 weeks;
Connecticut’s Health Care System: A Network of Cracks and Who’s Falling Through;
- What's New on Betty C. Jung's Web Site: Can you hear me now? Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss
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- News You Can Use: FDA MedWatch - Nursing infants and codeine; AAP's toy recall list; FDA
MedWatch - Zencore;
- Data: Child Health USA 2006 released; 2006 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) info;
SOCIOECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN U.S. CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; Statehealthfacts.org updates;
GlobalHealthFacts.org updates;
MEPS Data updates; 2005 Dental Visits; 2005 Other Medical Expenses; 2005 Home Health File;
Research Findings No. 27: Health Care Expenditures for Uncomplicated Pregnancies; Statistical
Brief #179: Aspirin Use among the Adult U.S. Noninstitutionalized Population, with and without
Indicators of Heart Disease, 2005;
Statistical Brief #180: The Top Five Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for
Children, Adults, and the Elderly, 2004; Statistical Brief #181: Co-pays, Deductibles, and
Coinsurance Percentages for
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the Private Sector, by Firm Size
Classification, 2005; Statistical Brief #182: Co-pays, Deductibles, and Coinsurance
Percentages for
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the Non-Federal Workforce, by Industry
Classification, 2005; Statistical Brief #183: Long-Term Uninsured in America, 2002-2005:
Estimates for
the U.S. Population under Age 65; Release of the 1986-2000 National Health Interview Survey
(NHIS) Linked Mortality Files;
- Top Killers. Cancer: Fludarabine monotherapy for the first-line treatment of chronic
lymphocytic leukaemia; Colorectal cancer screening clinical practice guideline;
Cardiovascular Disease: NDEP CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS THE LINK BETWEEN DIABETES AND
CARDIOVASCULAR
DISEASE; American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical guideline on
prevention of symptomatic pulmonary embolism in patients undergoing total hip
or knee arthroplasty; (1) Medical therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension: ACCP
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. (2) 2007 addendum; Guidelines on diabetes, pre-
diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases; Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease;
Diabetes: Manufacturers of Some Diabetes Drugs to Strengthen Warning on Heart Failure
Risk
Companies Will Include Boxed Warning on Drug Label; Prevention of secondary disease: diabetes;
Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases;
High Colesterol: Medicare provides coverage of cardiovascular screening blood tests for
the early detection of cardiovascular disease or abnormalities associated with an elevated
risk of heart disease and stroke;
Stroke: Alteplase for the treatment of acute ischaemic stroke;
Tobacco: “‘Sucking tobacco’ is illegally imported under ministries’ noses”;
- Adolescent Health: RATES OF BIPOLAR DIAGNOSIS IN YOUTH RAPIDLY CLIMBING, TREATMENT
PATTERNS SIMILAR TO ADULTS; RECENT EFFORTS TO ADVANCE ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;
- AIDS/HIV: Prevention of secondary disease: opportunistic infections; “Do criminal laws
influence HIV risk behavior? An empirical trial”; ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN BULLYING AND FAMILY,
PEER, AND
SCHOOL RELATIONS FOR WHITE, BLACK, AND HISPANIC ADOLESCENTS;
- Alcohol Abuse: Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage
Drinking: A Guide to Action for Communities; Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and
Reduce Underage Drinking: A Guide to Action for Educators; Surgeon General's Call to Action
to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking: A Guide to Action for Families;
- Asthma: NATIONAL ASTHMA GUIDELINES UPDATED;
- Child Health: THE EFFECTS OF AN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAM
ON ADULT HEALTH AND WELL-BEING; FDA MedWatch - Safety and effectiveness of cough
and cold drug product use in children;
- Chronic Disease: Evidence-based care guideline for chronic care: self-management;
- College Health: “Crisis on campus”;
- Consumer Health: CHANGES IN HOW AMERICANS GET THEIR INFORMATION
ABOUT HEALTH AND CANCER; AHRQ Guides Summarize Effectiveness, Side Effects of
Antidepressants;
- Disaster Preparedness: Global Health Report. The World Health Organization has released
The World Health Report 2007, A Safe Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st
Century; 2007 XDR-TB Incident Report; National Response Framework Draft;
- Environmental Health: “Trailer-makers sued over formaldehyde”;
- Genomics: GENETIC RISK FACTOR FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, LUPUS;
- Healthcare Economics: TRENDS IN CHILDREN'S ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE AND
HEALTH CARE SINCE SCHIP; VACCINE FINANCING FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE UNDERINSURED;
"Medicare says it won’t cover hospital errors”; CMS ANNOUNCES PAYMENT CHANGES FOR MEDICARE
HOME HEALTH SERVICES IMPROVING BENEFICIARY ACCESS AND QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF CARE;
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured Updates Medicaid
Benefits: Online Database With 2006 Data; Relative Burden of Out-of-Pocket Costs On
Seniors And Younger Adults;
- Healthcare Quality: 2007 CAHPS® Hospital Survey Chartbook; CAHPS® Hospital Survey
Interactive Chartbook;
- Health Policy: “Act makes reporting wounds mandatory”; “Toy recalls may push ‘medical
monitoring’ debate”;
- Health Services: 2nd Edition of The Guide to Medicare Preventive Services for Physicians,
Providers, Suppliers, and Other Health Care Professionals is now available; On-Time Quality
Improvement for Long-Term Care Tool Set; Emergency Preparedness Atlas U.S. Nursing Home and
Hospital Facilities;
- HiPAA: State-Level Privacy and Security
Solutions for Secure Exchange of Health Information;
- Immunization: Prevention of secondary disease: immunizations;
- Infectious Disease: “Screenings for staph are now the law”;
- Injury Prevention: Proper Use of Motor Vehicle Occupant Restraints;
- Maternal Child Health: NATIONAL HEALTHY START ASSOCIATION RELEASES TOOLKIT FOR FIRST
INFANT
MORTALITY AWARENESS MONTH; MENTAL HEALTH, WORK, AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USE
AMONG MOTHERS WITH LOW INCOMES;
- Mental Health: MANIC PHASE OF BIPOLAR DISORDER BENEFITS FROM BREAST CANCER MEDICATION;
GLOBAL SURVEY REVEALS SIGNIFICANT GAP IN MEETING WORLD'S MENTAL HEALTH
CARE NEEDS; Prevention of secondary disease: mental health care; Dementia;
- Minority Health: NEW SPANISH-LANGUAGE WEBSITE;
- Nutrition: NEW VITAMIN D EVIDENCE REPORT REVEALS GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE AND SERVES AS
BASIS FOR UPCOMING NIH CONFERENCE ON VITAMIN D AND BONE HEALTH; “Where’s the beef from? Soon,
you may find out”;
- Obesity: U.S. OBESITY EPIDEMIC CONTINUES TO GROW; MISSISSIPPI TOPS LIST FOR ADULTS, D.C.
FOR YOUTHS;
State Obesity Policies Report; Govt declares war on obesity”;
- Occupational Health: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical guideline on
diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome; “Firefighters want illness classified as job hazard”;
- Oral Health: THE IMPACT OF BANNING AMALGAM RESTORATIONS;
- Public Health Continuing Education: from ATSDR;
- Public Health Practice: National Board of Public Health
Examiners; America On The Move: Community Education Toolkit;
- Respiratory Disease: Bronchoscopy assisting" 2007 revision & update;
Removal of the endotracheal tube” 2007 revision & update;
- School Health: FREE NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM SUPPLEMENT FROM NIH: "THE SCIENCE OF
HEALTHY BEHAVIORS"; Survey Reports U.S. Schools 'Infested with Drugs';
Hypertension Often Missed in Children; “District unveils new disease policy”;
“A weighty matter for students”;
- Senior Health: INTIMATE LIVES OF OLDER AMERICANS;
Caring for Diverse Populations with Alzheimers Toolbox;
- STDs: HPV and HPV Vaccine: Information for Healthcare Providers;
Human Papillomavirus: HPV Information for Clinicians;
- Substance Abuse: Drug Use Down Among Adolescents in U.S.—Successes in Substance Abuse
Recovery Highlighted;
- Suicide Prevention: September 9-15 is National Suicide Prevention Week;
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day; * Suicidal Ideation and Behavior: Management
* Suicidal Ideation and Behavior: Risk Assessment; As youth suicides increase, FDA’s label
rule criticized”;
- Worksite Wellness: Work Loss Data Institute;
- Women's Health: Docetaxel for the adjuvant treatment of early node-positive breast
cancer; Paclitaxel for the adjuvant treatment of early node-positive breast
cancer; Gemcitabine for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer; Ovarian Cancer - Physician
Data Query (PDQ®): Prevention (Health Professional Version);Ovarian Cancer - Physician Data
Query (PDQ®): Screening (Health Professional Version); Ovarian Epithelial Cancer - Physician
Data Query (PDQ®): Treatment (Health Professional Version);
- What's New on Betty C. Jung's Web Site: State Report Cards
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- News You Can Use: October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month; Flu Shot Reminder!; NIA Offers New Spanish-Language Website; National Child Health Day (October 1, 2007);
- Data: Statistical Brief #172: Health Insurance Status of Children in America,
First Half 1996-2006; Field Representative's (Interviewer's) Manual, NHIS 1985-1996;
Medical Coding Manual and Short Index, NHIS 1985-1988 - 1992-1996; updated NHIS SAS
programs;
Updated tables: Diabetes (self-reported) among adults: State, 1997-2006 (Source: BRFSS)
Physical activity among adults: State, 1998-2006 (Source: BRFSS); Health insurance:
lack of coverage among adults: State, 2002-2006 (Source: BRFSS); Health Status among
adults: State, 2002-2006 (Source: BRFSS); Smoking among adults: State, 1997-2006
(Source: BRFSS);
Overweight/obesity (self-reported) among adults: State, 1997-2006 (Source: BRFSS);
Colon cancer screening: sigmoidoscopy among adults: State, 1997-2006 (Source: BRFSS);
Colon cancer screening: blood stool tests among adults: State, 1997-2006 (Source:
BRFSS);
Mammography among women: State, 1997-2006 (Source: BRFSS); Pap smears among women:
State, 1997-2006 (Source: BRFSS); QuickStats: Percentage of Persons with Untreated
Dental Caries, by Age Group and Poverty Status --- National Health and Nutrition
Examination;
Survey (NHANES), United States, 2001--2004. Statehealthfacts.org Updates;
- Top Killers. Cancer: Adult Hodgkin Lymphoma (PDQ®): Treatment; Adult Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma - Physician Data Query (PDQ®): Treatment; Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
(PDQ®): Treatment; Practice guideline for the performance of total body irradiation;
Registry Plus: Software Programs for Cancer Registries; Screening for Prostate Cancer:
Sharing the Decision Toolkit;
Cardiovascular Disease: AHA - Guidelines for the early management of adults with
ischemic stroke; Guidelines for the management of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage
in adults. 2007 update; Drug therapy of high-risk lipid abnormalities in children and
adolescents; Recommendations and considerations related to preparticipation
screening for cardiovascular abnormalities in competitive athletes: 2007
update; Recommendations for the standardization and interpretation of the
electrocardiogram. Part I: the electrocardiogram and its technology; Current
diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in primary care: a clinical practice guideline from
the American; Management of venous thromboembolism: a clinical practice guideline
from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family
Physicians; ACC/AHA has released updated guidelines on perioperative
cardiovascular evaluation and care for noncardiac surgery.
Diabetes: Adapting your practice: treatment and recommendations for homeless
patients with diabetes mellitus; High Cholesterol: Americans spent nearly $5 billion
in 2004 on Lipitor. Kidney Disease: KDOQI clinical practice guidelines and clinical
practice
recommendations for diabetes and chronic kidney disease; Stroke: EFNS guideline on
the treatment of cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis; Diagnosis and initial treatment
of ischemic stroke.
Tobacco:"Belmont council wants to ban smoking in condos, apartments”; “ Beijing bans
smoking in taxis in run-up to Olympics”;
- Adolescent Health: DEPRESSED ADOLESCENTS RESPOND BEST TO COMBINATION TREATMENT;
INFLUENCES ON OBESITY AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND HEALTHY ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR;
- AIDS/HIV: “Implementing routine HIV testing: the role of state law”;
- Asthma: ASTHMA TO ALLERGIES LINKS; Making a Difference in the Management of
Asthma: A Guide for Respiratory Therapists; Asthma Toolkit; Asthma Action Plan;
- Behavioral Health: Diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder in primary care for school age children and adolescents;
- Chronic Disease: CAHPS™ Item Set for Children with Chronic Conditions;
- Consumer Welfare: Beyond Munchausen Syndrome by proxy: identification and
treatment of child abuse in a medical setting; Evaluation of suspected child physical
abuse; Hepatitis A vaccine recommendations; Maltreatment of children with
disabilities; Prevention of varicella: recommendations for use of varicella vaccines
in children, including a recommendation for a routine 2-dose varicella
immunization schedule;
- Disaster Preparedness: Federal Pandemic Preparedness Hearing (09/28); Capital
District Pandemic Preparedness Hearing (10/03); Pandemic Influenza Checklist, Law
Enforcement; Pandemic Influenza Checklist, Correctional Facilities; INITIATIVE LAUNCHED
TO HELP STRENGTHEN PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS FOR PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; Bridge Collapse
Resources;
- Environmental Health: “EPA moves to make drinking water safer”; ATDSR's Toxic
Substances Portal;
- Genomics: NIH LAUNCHES EXTENSIVE OPEN-ACCESS DATASET OF GENETIC AND CLINICAL DATA;
SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY CAUSE OF JOB'S SYNDROME;
- Global Health: “Global public health security”;
- Health Services: Medicare Preventive Services Quick Reference Information chart on
the Initial Preventive Physical Examination (IPPE);
- Liver Disease: (1) Chronic hepatitis B. (2) Corrections to AASLD guidelines on
chronic hepatitis B;
- Maternal Child Health: LOW MATERNAL CHOLESTEROL TIED TO PREMATURE BIRTH; BREAST
MILK ASSOCIATED WITH GREATER MENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN PRETERM INFANTS, FEWER
RE-HOSPITALIZATIONS; USE OF FAMILY MEDICAL HISTORY IN
PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; MOST SUPPORTIVE NEIGHBORHOODS FOR
CHILDREN; ASSOCIATION OF MATERNAL EDUCATION LEVEL AND
CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION RATES AMONG STATES; Screening for sickle cell disease in
newborns: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement;
- Mental Health: GENES LINKED TO SUICIDAL THINKING DURING ANTIDEPRESSANT TREATMENT;
Detecting and Treating Depression in Adults; A Soldier's Guide to Combat-Related Stress
Problems; Major depression in adults in primary care; Antidepressant Medicines - A
Guide for Adults With Depression; Choosing Antidepressants for Adults;
- Minority Health: NEW PUBLICATION HELPS AFRICAN AMERICANS "MAKE THE KIDNEY
CONNECTION"; PROGRAM TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PHYSICIANS
AND LOW-INCOME HISPANIC FAMILIES;
- Musculoskeletal Health: Manual medicine guidelines for musculoskeletal injuries;
Diagnosis and treatment of adult degenerative joint disease (DJD)/osteoarthritis (OA)
of the knee;
- Nutrition: "MILK MATTERS" ONLINE LESSON RESOURCES; “British students spurn
nutritious meals"; ASSOCIATIONS OF FAMILY MEALS DURING ADOLESCENCE AND
DIET AND MEAL PATTERNS DURING YOUNG ADULTHOOD;
- Obesity: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN RISK FOR STILLBIRTH AMONG OBESE
VS. NON-OBESE WOMEN; Development of a school nutrition-environment state policy
classification system;
- Occupational Health: “NIOSH reports black lung rates double since ’97”;
“Law protects emergency workers”;
- Public Health Practice: Community Tool Box; WHO Report - World Health Report
2007;
- School Health: "Fewer sodas in school, industry says”
- Senior Health: What Happens Next?; September 23 – 29, 2007 is National Adult
Immunization Awareness Week;
- Suicide Prevention: 15-YEAR TRENDS IN SUICIDE RATES AMONG ADOLESCENTS
AND YOUNG ADULTS;
- Worksite Wellness: WORKPLACE DEPRESSION SCREENING, OUTREACH AND ENHANCED TREATMENT
IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY, LOWERS EMPLOYER COSTS; Head (trauma, headaches, etc., not
including stress & mental disorders); Hernia; Hip & pelvis (acute & chronic); Knee &
leg (acute & chronic); Low back - lumbar & thoracic (acute & chronic);
- Women's Health: Screening mammography for women 40 to 49 years of age: a clinical
practice guideline from the American College of Physicians;
- What's New on Betty C. Jung's Web Site: Breast Cancer Information
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News You Can Use: Expanded Benefits, Diabetes-Related Services, Cancer Screenings, Adult
Immunizations, Bone Mass Measurements, Glaucoma Screenings and Smoking and Tobacco-Use
Cessation Counseling Services; COPD Awareness Month; “Drowsy driving is big killer in U.S.
”; NUTRITIONAL ADVICE FOR PREGNANT AND BREASTFEEDING WOMEN;
- Data: NCHS NHanes data releases; “States and V.A. at odds on cancer data”; 2007
EDITION OF WOMEN'S HEALTH DATA BOOK RELEASED; Statefacts Online updates;
- Top Killers. Cardiovascular Disease: Surgery More Likely Than Angioplasty to Relieve
Pain for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease; Coagulation. Laboratory medicine practice
guidelines; Use of cardiac biomarkers for acute coronary syndromes; Ge With The Guidelines
Stroke Toolbox.
Diabetes: Diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus.
High Cholesterol. Screening for lipid disorders in children.
Tobacco. Tobacco Control Best Practices; Tobacco Tax Report;
Tobacco Control Newsletter; “Impact of a smoke-free hospital campus policy on employee and
consumer behavior”; “The smoke is small, but not the risk”; Secondhand Smoke and Children
Report.
- Adolescent Health. PREDICTORS OF INITIATION OF ALCOHOL USE AMONG
ADOLESCENTS; THE DECLINE IN THE PROPORTION OF REPEAT BIRTHS TO ADOLESCENTS IN ALL STATES;
SUBSTANCE USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS; DRUG-IMPAIRED DRIVING BY YOUTH REMAINS
SERIOUS PROBLEM;
- AIDS/HIV. (1) Neoplastic complications of HIV infection. (2) July 2007 addendum;
Antiretroviral therapy; Hepatitis A virus; HIV drug - drug interactions; HIV prophylaxis
following occupational exposure; Identification and ambulatory care of HIV-exposed and
-infected adolescents; Long-term complications of antiretroviral therapy; Primary care
approach to the HIV-infected patient; Care for the HIV-infected female adolescent; General
nutrition, weight loss, and wasting syndrome; HIV prophylaxis following non-occupational
exposure including sexual assault; How to integrate prevention into primary care;
Infectious complications associated with HIV infection: mycobacterial
infections; Infectious complications associated with HIV infection: parasitic
infections; Neurologic complications; Ophthalmologic complications of HIV infection;
Pharmacists: partners in health care for HIV-infected patients;Prevention of secondary
disease: lipid screening and cardiovascular risk; Substance use treatment modalities for
HIV-infected persons; “Antenatal HIV screening in Europe : a review of policies”;
OBSTETRICIANS-GYNECOLOGISTS' PRACTICES RELEVENT TO HIV SCREENING;
- Child Health. QUALITY OF AMBULATORY CARE DELIVERED TO CHILDREN IN
THE UNITED STATES; Healthy Canadians;
- Consumer Health. “Trouble at sea: free-agent doctors”;
- Disaster Preparedness. NIOSH Interim Guidance on Health and Safety Issues Among
Clean-Up Workers Involved with Handling and Burning Debris; Effects of Sleep Deprivation
on Fire Fighters and EMS Responders; Safe Cleanup of Fire Ash; Wildfires Threaten
Respiratory Health; Public Health Emergencies, Liability and Immunity; “States seek to cut
disaster red tape'; “FEMA shifts, draws own disaster plans”; United States, Canada and
Mexico Agree to Mutual Assistance;
- Environmental Health. States call for stricter mercury rules; Wood smoke taken
seriously: allowable emissions cut by half”;
- Genomics. Genetic Testing Oversight Report; Cancer Family History in Primary Care;
UNIQUE PATTERN OF GENE EXPRESSION CAN INDICATE ACETAMINOPHEN OVERDOSE;
- Healthcare Economics. MEDICARE FACT SHEET; 2007 Physician Quality Reporting
Initiative (PQRI); Requirement to Update Information in the National Plan and Provider
Enumeration System (NPPES); Update on Medicaid Tamper Proof Prescriptions;
- Healthcare Quality. “Improving the Health Care Work Environment to Promote Quality
and Safety”;
- Health Policy. Public Health Policy Report;
- Health Services. Many Errors by Medical Residents Caused by Teamwork Breakdowns, Lack
of Supervision; Developing a consensus framework for an effective disaster response health
system Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness;
- Immunizations. “Parents use religion to avoid vaccines”; Flu Materials for the
2007-08 Flu Season;
- Infectious Disease. MRSA;
- Maternal Child Health. GESTATIONAL WEIGHT GAIN AND PREGNANCY OUTCOMES IN
OBESE WOMEN; PERSISTENT BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF BREAST MILK ON
OUTCOMES AMONG INFANTS WITH EXTREMELY LOW BIRTHWEIGHT;
- Mental Health. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USE FOLLOWING A SCHOOL-BASED
SUICIDE-PREVENTION PROGRAM; National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
(NREPP);
- Minority Health. NIDDK WEBSITE FEATURES SPANISH HEALTH INFORMATION;
- Nutrition. “State’s tough new raw milk standards upset consumers, farmers”; WEB SITE
EXPANDS TO INCLUDE NUTRITIONAL ADVICE FOR PREGNANT AND BREASTFEEDING WOMEN; TRENDS IN
FOLIC ACID CONSUMPTION AMONG WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE IN CALIFORNIA;
- Occupational Health. “Final arguments start in Dole pesticide case”; “The trail of a
buttery flavor, sick workers, lawsuits -- and a painful legacy”;
- Oral Health. EFFORTS TO ENSURE THAT CHILDREN RECEIVE MANDATED
ORAL HEALTH SERVICES;
- Public Health Continuing Ed.Medicare Preventive Services Series: Part 2 Women’s
Health;
- Public Health Law. “Law as a tool in promoting and protecting public health: always
in our best interests?”;
- School Health. State adopts drug-test guidelines; “Pupils and parents are resisting
taking healthy eating habits beyond the school gates”;
- Senior Health. ONE IN SEVEN AMERICANS AGE 71 AND OLDER HAS SOME TYPE OF DEMENTIA,
NIH-FUNDED STUDY ESTIMATES; SCIENTISTS USE SHARED GENOME DATA TO CONFIRM SORL1 GENE
LINKED TO ALZHEIMER'S; Working with Your Older Patient: A Clinician's Handbook;
- Women's Health. STATE ACTION ON HPV VACCINE; WOMEN'S OVERALL HEALTH AT THE NATIONAL
AND STATE LEVELS; Benefits and risks of sterilization; Episiotomy; Intrapartum fetal heart
rate monitoring; Management of postterm pregnancy; Osteoporosis; Postpartum hemorrhage;
Use of hormonal contraception in women with coexisting medical conditions; Vaginitis;
Chronic abnormal uterine bleeding in nongravid women; Postmenopausal uterine bleeding;
- Worksite Wellness. “Now, the stick: workers pay for poor health habits”;
- What's New on Betty C. Jung's Web Site, Wellness Index
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- News You Can Use.“It dawned on adults after WWII: ‘you’ll shoot your eye out!’”;
- Data. STATE DATA on Children with Special Health Care Needs; “‘No Child’ data on violence skewed”; Cost of Living Variation; Employment Status; Medicare Payments for Hospital Procedures; Deaths;
Child and Teen Deaths; Cancer Incidence; Oral Health; Sterile Syringe Exchange Programs; 15 selected health measures;
- Top Killers. Cancer: Follow-up of renal cell carcinoma; Incidentally discovered adrenal mass; Guideline for the management of clinically localized prostate cancer: 2007 update; Guidelines for the management of colorectal cancer;
Cardiovascular Disease: HEART ATTACK SYMPTOMS IN WOMEN - ARE THEY DIFFERENT?;
Diabetes: American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists medical guidelines for clinical practice for the management of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes and pregnancy; Diabetes
management in the hospital setting; Glycemic management; Hypertension management; Lipid management; Microvascular complications; Nutrition and diabetes; Patient safety in diabetes care; Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus; Screening and diagnosis;
DISPARITIES IN DIABETES DEATH RATES AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS;
Chinese-American, Black Women With Certain Diets Have Higher Risk for Developing Type 2 Diabetes; PEOPLE WITH DIABETES AND SICKLE CELL TRAIT SHOULD HAVE RELIABLE A1C TEST;
High Blood Pressure. Common Medications Provide Equal Blood Pressure Control;
Tobacco. Policy interventions and surveillance as strategies to prevent tobacco use in youth; “R.J. Reynolds Tobacco use of cartoon ads prompts suit by Ohio , 7 other states”; “The ‘Tobacco Wars’ -- global litigation strategies”;
- Adolescent Health. PREVALENCE OF POSITIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE SCREEN AMONG ADOLESCENTS;
- AIDS/HIV. 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update; Public Health Service Task Force recommendations for use of antiretroviral drugs in pregnant HIV-1-infected women for maternal health and interventions to reduce perinatal HIV-1 transmission in the United States; “ U.S. regulators join HIV transplant probe”; PUBLIC SERVICE CAMPAIGN FOR
HISPANIC YOUTH ON THE LINK BETWEEN NON-INJECTION DRUGS AND HIV;
- Alcohol Abuse. GENE THAT INFLUENCES ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION;
- Arthritis. Combining Medications Often Best Stategy to Battle Rheumatoid Arthritis;
- Community Health. PEDIATRICIANS' INVOLVEMENT IN AND PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY CHILD HEALTH;
- Environmental Health. OZONE CAN AFFECT HEAVIER PEOPLE MORE;
“EPA is sued by 12 states over reports on chemicals”;
- Healthcare Economics. Six in ten Americans paying more for health insurance this year than last; Community effects of high uninsured rates affects access and quality of care available to insured residents; Medicare Fee-For-Service Providers: Register Now for the Individuals Authorized Access to CMS Computer Services - Provider Community (IACS-PC); Preventable Hospitalization Costs; "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January - June 2007";
- Healthcare Quality. Ask Me 3 Brochures; Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? A Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide; Strategies to Improve Communication Between Pharmacy Staff and
Patients: A Training Program for Pharmacy Staff; Reconciling Medications Toolkit; Medications At Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Initiative; The Informed Decisions Toolbox;
- Health Education. "Making Your Printed Health Materials Senior Friendly" Tip Sheet;
- Health Ethics. “Schools ponder role as child nears death”;
- Immunizations. “Judge’s letter produces inoculations, and anger”;
- Infectious Disease. 2008 Influenza (Flu) Season Resources for Health Care Professionals; Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Fact Sheet; Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) Fact Sheet;
- Maternal Child Health. WEB SITE LAUNCHED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON SUDDEN INFANT DEATH AND RELATED RESOURCES; STRESS AND COPING AMONG MOTHERS OF VERY-LOW-BIRTHWEIGHT CHILDREN AT AGE 8; SUMMARY OF STATE LAWS RELATED TO SUDDEN INFANT DEATH UPDATED; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY BETWEEN LATE-PRETERM AND
TERM INFANTS; 5-2-1-Almost None: Childhood Overweight References for Primary Care Providers;
- Minority Health. MORE ACCURATE METHOD OF ESTIMATING BREAST CANCER RISK IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN DEVELOPED; Minority Women More Likely Than White Women To Have Pain Related to Certain Type of Breast Cancer; Washington, D.C., Data Show Blacks Make Up Large Proportion of Those With HIV/AIDS;
- Nutrition. Food Safety for Moms to Be Toolkit; School Foods Report Card 2007; “Wild or farmed? Salmon eaters want to know”;
- Public Health Continuing Ed. Cutting-Edge Legal Preparedness for Chronic Disease Prevention;
- Public Health Research. “Influence of the HIPAA Privacy Rule on health research”;
- Public Health Surveillance. International Health Regulations: considerations for public health surveillance;
- Respiratory Disease. COPD Learn More Breathe Better Resource Kit;
NexProfiler Healthcare Treatment Tools for: Hayfever, Asthma, COPD,
Non-Small Cell Cancer, and Small Cell Cancer; NexProfiler Tools for Cancer Treatment; Quick Reference Pocket Guide: Stepwise Approach for Managing Asthma in Adults and Children Older Than 5 Years of Age: Treatment;
- School Health. School Food Guide;
- Senior Health. The ABCs of Providing the Initial Preventive Physical Examination quick reference chart; HIGH-TRAUMA FRACTURES IN MEN AND WOMEN; TRAINING GUIDE FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING HELPS OLDER ADULTS FIND HEALTH INFORMATION ONLINE; Detecting depression in older adults with dementia; Evidence-based practice guideline. Exercise promotion: walking in elders; Nursing management of hearing impairment in nursing facility residents;
- STDs. Updated synthesis Screening for and Management of Chlamydial Infection;
- Substance Abuse. Quick Guide for Administrators Based on TIP 45: Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment; Quick Guide for Clinicians Based on TIP 45: Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment; Screening and Assessment for Family Engagement, Retention, and Recovery (SAFERR) Guidebook;
dministration (U.S.); Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) for Trauma Patients;
- Women's Health. EVIDENCE FOR THE EFFECTS OF HORMONES ON MOOD IN WOMEN; Depression During and After Pregnancy: A Resource for Women, Their Families, and Friends; DEPRESSION LINKED TO BONE-THINNING IN PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN;
- Worksite Wellness. TOOLKIT EXAMINES HOW IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN BENEFITS AN EMPLOYER'S BOTTOM LINE;
- CT Public Health. The Have and Have Nots: The Uninsured in CT;
Connecticut Health Care Spending: An Update; Good News – 55,000 fewer uninsured in CT last year; Comparison of Managed Care Organizations in Connecticut 2007;
- What's New on Betty C. Jung's Web Site.
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