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Pndemic Infkuenza

Learn about Pandemic Influenza and Avian Flu (Bird Flu)
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Features

Rhode Island Proves that Good Things Come in Small Packages pdf
The RI State Health Laboratories is highlighted in the January-February 2007 issue of Lab Matters.

Rhode Island Influenza Activity
View the weekly chart of influenza activity in Rhode Island.

Office of Families Raising Children with Special Health Care Needshands
The Office of Families Raising Children with Special Health Care Needs ensures family-centered, community based, systems of services for children and youth with special health care needs through infrastructure building, training and technical assistance, and collaboration with families, other state agencies, heath plans, and community agencies.

Public Health Emergencies
Make a Kit. Make a Plan. Stay Informed. Read this booklet, follow its recommendations and keep it in a handy location—just in case. Now available in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Cambodian, Hmong and Laotian. pdf

Health and Medical Headlines

NY Times Health

If people want to choose their baby?s sex before pregnancy, should doctors help?

Some mentally ill patients can be mean or bad just like anyone else, and this is not a problem for psychiatry to fix.

The research is one of the most significant steps in a small but growing effort to study how psychodynamic therapy works, and for whom.

Yahoo Health

A scientist works in GlaxoSmithKline's plant in Singapore December 16, 2005. GlaxoSmithKline Plc won approval to sell an over-the-counter weight loss drug called Alli in the United States, the company and U.S. health officials said on Wednesday. (Luis Enrique Ascui/Reuters)AP - Dieters got a new tool Wednesday to help them take off the extra pounds — the first government-approved nonprescription diet pill. The Food and Drug Administration said the fat-blocking weight-loss pill orlistat, which has been available by prescription, can be sold in a reduced-strength version over the counter.


A patient is examined in Sacramento, Calif. in this 2003 file photo. A disturbing number of doctors do not feel obligated to tell patients about medical options they oppose morally, such as abortion and teen birth control, and believe they have no duty to refer people elsewhere for such treatments, researchers say. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - A disturbing number of doctors do not feel obligated to tell patients about medical options they oppose morally, such as abortion and teen birth control, and believe they have no duty to refer people elsewhere for such treatments, researchers say.


Dr. Jeffrey Robertson poses for a photo at the Regence Group offices in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007. Health insurers are increasingly rating doctors and often charge patients a lower copayment to see those they deem exceptional providers. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - A less confident physician might have been humbled by the letters Dr. Mike Kelly received last year from two insurers.


CDC

February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Nearly half of the more than 1 million Americans estimated to be living with HIV in the United States are African Americans...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in cooperation with departments and agencies across the Federal Government, today announced two new efforts designed to improve state...

Small Changes in 1918 Pandemic Virus Knocks Out Transmission Research Provides Clues for Assessing Pandemic Potential of New Influenza Viruses...

NIH

Current research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health, will be featured at the 2007 Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO).

At the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a component of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Nora D. Volkow will take part in a symposium featuring world-renowned neuroscientists presenting the recent advances in brain-imaging that have revolutionized our understanding of addiction as a chronic disease.

The first draft of the horse genome sequence has been deposited in public databases and is freely available for use by biomedical and veterinary researchers around the globe, leaders of the international Horse Genome Sequencing Project announced today.

WHO

A Phase III study of the candidate microbicide* cellulose sulfate to prevent HIV transmission in women has been stopped prematurely because of a higher number of HIV infections in the active compared with the placebo group. The study was sponsored by CONRAD and conducted in Benin, India, South Africa and Uganda. A second study on the same product sponsored by Family Health International conducted in Nigeria has also been stopped because of the safety concerns in the first trial. This is a disappointing and unexpected setback in the search for a safe and effective microbicide that can be used by women to protect themselves against HIV infection. Cellulose sulfate was one of four compounds being evaluated in large-scale studies of effectiveness among women at high risk of HIV infection.

A neglected disease with a nearly forgotten name is making a comeback following a global control programme that almost eradicated it more than 40 years ago. Yaws, a disease which eats away at the skin, cartilage and bones of its victims (mostly children), is re-emerging in poor, rural and marginalized populations of Africa, Asia and South America.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board, currently holding its 120th session in Geneva, has reappointed Dr Hussein A. Gezairy as Regional Director for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO).


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In the News

Single Case of Neisseria Meningococcemia Confirmed, Health Department Asks Attendees of Recent East Providence Funeral to Call the Health Information Line for Antibiotics Media Release: February 5, 2007

Health Department Surveillance System Identifies Case of Hepatitis A; Department Acts Quickly to Respond and Determines no Risk to the Public Media Release: January 25, 2007

HEALTH Presents Community Partnership Award to Dr. Greigstone Yearwood Media Release: January 18, 2007

HEALTH Presents Community Partnership Award to Cranston RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) Media Release: January 18, 2007

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