Volume 4, No. 7, July 2006
News Flash(s)
New CCCC Columnist:
Claire Wendland – International Health
Good time to sign up (limited scholarships available):
I.H.S. / A.C.O.G. Obstetric, Neonatal, and Gynecologic Care Course
- September 17 – 21, 2006
- Denver , CO
Contact YMalloy@acog.org
Direct Links to Topic Content
Links to Topic Summaries on This Page
Contents
Abstract of the Month
Point / Counterpoint: Refusals by pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception
Read More - Abstract of the Month
From Your Colleagues
Carolyn Aoyama
Burt Attico
David Boyd
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Terry Cullen
Judy Thierry
Mark Traeger
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Read More - From Your Colleagues
Hot Topics
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Features
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Indian Child Health Notes - July 2006 Highlights
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Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
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What’s new on the ITU MCH web pages
Two great new resources:
National Indian Women's Health Resource Center
http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/MCH/F/PROG01.cfm#Indresource
IHS Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention
http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/MCH/F/DbRef.cfm#disPrev
There are several upcoming Conferences
and Online CME/CEU resources, etc . . .
and the latest Perinatology Corners (free online CME from IHS)
. . . or just take a look at the What’s New page
Save the Dates: Upcoming events of interest
I.H.S. / A.C.O.G. Obstetric, Neonatal, and Gynecologic Care Course
- September 17 – 21, 2006
- Denver , CO
- Contact YMalloy@acog.orgor call Yvonne Malloy at 202-863-2580
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program available
- Brochure
Best Practices and GPRA Tracking
- Nov 1-2, 2006
- Sacramento CA
- California IHS Area Office
- Contact Elaine.brinn@ihs.gov
22nd Annual Midwinter Indian Health OB/PEDS Conference
- For providers caring for Native women and children
- January 26-26, 2007
- Telluride, CO
- Contact Alan Waxman awaxman@salud.unm.edu
2nd International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health
- April 20-22, 2007
- Montreal , Quebec, Canada
- Solutions, not Problems
- Joint meeting of IHS, AAP-CONACH, First Nations and several other stakeholders
- http://www.aap.org/nach/2InternationalMeeting.htm
2007 Indian Health MCH and Women’s Health National Conference
- August 15 -17, 2007
- Albuquerque , NM
- THE place to be for anyone involved in care of AI/AN women, children
- Internationally recognized speakers
- Save the dates. Details to follow
- 13 months away and counting
- Want a topic discussed? Contact nmurphy@scf.cc
Did you miss something in the last OB/GYN Chief Clinical Consultant Corner?
June 2006 OB/GYN CCC Corner
Volume 4, No. 6, June 2006
Abstract of the Month
- VariZIG replaces VZIG: Varicella Prophylaxis for high risk persons (including pregnancy)
From Your Colleagues
Carolyn Aoyama
- Management of Eating Disorders Webcast on July 18, 2006 - Save the Date
- National Conference on women, addiction, and recovery
Burt Attico
- Injectable Contraception and Skeletal Health: No fractures seen
Donald Clark
- What is the rate of preterm birth in Native Americans?
Rich Dickson
- Protein to Creatinine Ratio in Pre-eclampsia: Is the data preceding the U.S. benchmarks?
Steve Heath
- Risk Management and Medical Liability, 2 nd Edition, Indian Health
Sunnah Kim
- Access to Mental Health Services
Chris Lamer
- Tobacco assessment algorithm, Cherokee
Ron Pust
- Prenatal setting: Missed opportunity to link tuberculin skin test–positive and Tx
Ty Reidhead
- Towards a better Patient Education webpage for Indian Health
Judy Thierry
- Achievements in Public Health: Reduction in Perinatal Transmission of HIV Infection
- Safety belts: Single most effective means of preventing death and serious injury in a crash
- MUST VIEW CHILD safety short video "UNTIL THEY ARE 4' 9"
- Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure is a new set of resources developed by VIPP
Hot Topics
- Incontinence not correlated with vaginal delivery
- Serious maternal morbidity increases with increasing number of cesarean deliveries
- Characteristics of glyburide failures in GDM: EGA at diagnosis, parity, and fasting glucose
- Improve the systems against maternal mortality from hemorrhage
- High-risk centers have higher rates of cesarean delivery for their low risk population
- and more…
- FDA Licenses New HPV Vaccine for Prevention of Cervical Cancer
- Overlap repair of obstetric anal sphincter injury: Decrease in fecal incontinence
- Criteria should be developed for the use of intraoperative cystoscopy to detect injuries
- Atypical glandular cell cytology confers a 38% risk of preinvasive disease or carcinoma
- Cesarean scar ectopic pregnancies are becoming more frequent
- and more…
- Maternal cholestasis is significantly associated with RDS in the newborn
- Co-occurring maternal conditions and behavior problems in children
- Treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis in Adolescents
- Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants Become Normal Adults
- ACIP Updates Recommendations for Prevention of Hepatitis B Virus Transmission
- and more…
- Group visits: Promising approach to chronic care management for the motivated patient
- Depression Relapse in Pregnancy High When Medication Stopped
- Determining Eligibility for Gastric Bypass Surgery
- Metformin lowers cardiovascular risk factors in hyperinsulinemic women with PCOS
- Nonpharmacologic Strategies for Managing Hypertension
- and more…
Features
- Toremifene Is Effective Therapy for Mastalgia
- Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate Diet Does Not Cause Obesity
- Duloxetine Is Effective for Fibromyalgia in Some Women
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Use of Hormonal Contraception in Women With Coexisting Medical Conditions
- Noncontraceptive Uses of the Levonorgestrel Intrauterine System
- Analgesia and Cesarean Delivery Rates
- Tamoxifen and Uterine Cancer
- Patient-Requested Cesarean Update: Cesareans should be performed for medical reasons
- and more….
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- AHRQ study finds wrong-site surgery is rare and preventable
- Patient responses to medical errors: Timeliness and quality of the communication
- MCH Library launches redesigned web site
- Early breastfeeding choice, GDM, and BMI
- Intervention to Increase Breastfeeding Rates
- Study hints at link between breastfeeding and intelligence
- May 2006 Highlights include
- Maternal periodontal disease in early pregnancy: Small-for-gestational-age infant
- Improve colorectal cancer screening: Contribute to this survey
- Counterpoint: Not Yet Time to Use the P:C Ratio for pre-eclampsia
- FDA: Vaccine to Prevent Cervical Cancer Is Safe, Effective
- Relationship between team sport participation and adolescent smoking
- Caring for Patients After Bariatric Surgery
- ACOG Recommends First Ob-Gyn Visit in Early Teens
- ACOG: Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus Infections, Committee Opinion
- 31% of Sexually Active U.S. Teenage Girls Become Pregnant
- Are there any cultural barriers/among Native Americans to becoming cord blood donors?
- What was the common theme in these 2 cases?
- Routine use of sweeping of membranes from 38 weeks of pregnancy onwards
- Methamphetamine abuse among women on Navajo (Part 2 of 4)
- Native American Scholarship Opportunities at the School of Nursing
- Female Sexual Dysfunction
- Factors Associated With Rise in Primary Cesarean Births in the United States
- Adverse Childhood Events: Impact on chronic adult illness / Risk taking
- Prediction of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Among Young, Single, Sexually Active Women
- Long-term Dietary Intervention May Reduce Risk for Insulin Resistance in Children
- Morbidity and Mortality of DV: 4x more common than breast cancer cannot be ignored
- Physical Dating Violence Among High School Students – United States, 2003
- 50% with female cancers: History of violence correlates with advanced stage at diagnosis
- Launch of Choose Respect Initiative!
- September 1, 2006: Palliative Medicine's Role in the Continuity of Care
- Refusals by pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception: a critique
- Discussion needed: Reasons why women discontinue oral contraception
- Fertility, Contraception, and Fatherhood: 2002 National Survey of Family
- Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine System (Mirena) for Contraception
- GREAT site for Health Promotion Disease Prevention per Candace Jones
- The Indian Health MCH Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) site
Indian Child Health Notes - June 2006 Highlights
- Wrist Fractures in children - All those kids who sawed off their own casts were right
- Developmental Dyslplasia of the Hip - USPSTF and AAP differ over value of screening
- Watch out for mumps. It is spreading out of Iowa
- Doug Esposito weighs in on health disparities for urban Indians
- RPMS Behavioral Health System Patch Release Announcement, June 1, 2006
- Nothing defines us better than providing service to colleagues less fortunate than we
- Chlorhexidine: Potential to improve maternal /newborn outcomes - Developing countries
- Report on Children and Families Displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- Association of poverty with overweight among adolescents, 1971 - 2004
- Copious post operative mucous secretions
- Testosterone Treatments: Why, When, and How?
- Empowering women to find the power of birth is of great value
- Multiparous women with induced labor: Shorter active phase of labor than spontaneous
- Pushing During Second-Stage Labor Is Matter of Preference
- Methamphetamine abuse among women on Navajo (Part 3 of 4)
- SANE/SAFE training and capacity
- Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care - United States
- USPSTF: Recommendations on Screening / Supplementation for Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Elective Cesarean Delivery
- Calcium Plus Vitamin D for Fracture Prevention: POEM
- Testosterone Therapy: What You Should Know
- Microscopic Hematuria: What You Should Know
- Is a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Right for Me?
- Gonorrhea: What You Should Know
- Opioid Addiction: What You Should Know
- and more….
- Cesarean delivery rate: Continues to increase without improving population outcomes
- Tocolysis after 32 weeks gestation does not reduce neonatal hospital stay
- Vaginal delivery of singleton fetuses in breech presentation at term remains a safe option
- Glyburide and insulin: Equally efficient for treatment of GDM in all levels of severity
- Improve patient safety, prevent medical errors and resolve the professional liability crisis
- and more….
- September 1, 2006: Palliative Medicine's Role in the Continuity of Care
- HIV Testing and Additional Analysis of National Survey on HIV/AIDS
- Teenagers with chlamydial receive antibiotics, but few receive other recommended care
- Social Networks Testing: Strategy for Identifying Persons with Undiagnosed HIV Infection
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
- Women Who Don't Snooze Enough Gain Weight
Save the Dates: Upcoming events of interest
What’s new on the ITU MCH web pages
Past CCC Corners
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OB/GYN
Dr. Neil Murphy is the Obstetrics and Gynecology Chief Clinical Consultant (OB/GYN C.C.C.). Dr. Murphy is very interested in establishing a dialogue and/or networking with anyone involved in women's health or maternal child health, especially as it applies to Native or indigenous peoples around the world. Please don't hesitate to contact him by e-mail or phone at 907-729-3154.
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