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Volume 4, No. 10, October 2006
News Flash(s)
New Breast Feeding page just released
- See Breastfeeding section below - Suzan Murphy
- See Featured website section below – David Gahn
Direct Links to Topic Content
Links to Topic Summaries on This Page
Contents
Abstract of the Month
CDC Advocates for Routine Voluntary Testing of HIV
Read More - Abstract of the Month
From Your Colleagues
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Carolyn Aoyama
Jim Galloway
Sunnah Kim, AAP (with comments by Elaine Locke, ACOG)
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Judy Thierry
Myra Tucker, CDC
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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
September 2006 Highlights include:
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Indian Child Health Notes - September 2006 Highlights
Medical Mystery Tour
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
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What’s new on the ITU MCH web pages
Special Care Clinic – Phoenix Indian Medical Center (PPT)
Heard about prenatal care and postpartum care? Here is something on Internatal care (PPT)
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
Best Practices and GPRA Tracking
- Nov 1-2, 2006
- Sacramento CA
- California IHS Area Office, Contact Elaine.brinn@ihs.gov
- http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/MCH/F/documents/BestPracticesFlyer1.pdf
22nd Annual Midwinter Indian Health OB/PEDS Conference
- For providers caring for Native women and children
- January 26-28, 2007
- Telluride, CO
- Contact Alan Waxman awaxman@salud.unm.edu
TeenScreen Conference: Second Annual
- March 14 and 15, 2007
- Washington D.C.
- ContactTSConference@childpsych.columbia.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
- 10 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?
September 2006 OB/GYN CCC Corner
Volume 4, No. 8, August 2006
Abstract of the Month
- FDA Approves OTC Access for Plan B for 18 and Older: A ‘Catch-22’ for AI/AN patients?
From Your Colleagues
Carolyn Aoyama
- USPSTF Best Practices - Cervical Cancer Screening
- USPSTF Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
- Tips for Improving Access to Mammography
Burt Attico
- Congenital Anomalies Linked to NSAID Use in First Trimester
Judy Thierry
- Influenza is coming: Are you ready?
Hot Topics
- Metformin Useful for Treating PCOS in Adolescents
- Should Pacifier Use in Infants Be Discouraged?
- Opportunities to prevent injury among children and adolescents: New fact sheet
- Early-Onset and Late-Onset Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease
- Prolonged Bottle-feeding and Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Varenicline was significantly more efficacious for smoking cessation
- Clinical Prediction Rule for Stratifying Patients with PE
- Predicting Four-Year Mortality Risk in Older Adults
- Criteria for Diabetes Testing in Asymptomatic Adults
- Light Therapy vs. Fluoxetine for Treatment of SAD
- and more…..
- Cesarean delivery: Increased risks / costs plus poor postpartum outcomes – 4 articles
- S. aureus colonization in pregnant women is 17.1%, MRSA found in the vaginal-rectal area
- Controlling pregnancy weight gain: adverse neonatal outcomes – 2 articles
- Electronic fetal monitoring has no effect on perinatal morbidity or mortality: A Review
- Two-stage protocol for placenta accreta: US first, and then MRI for inconclusive US
- See and treat: HPV positive, HSIL cytology, and a high-grade impression at 2 nd colposcopy
- Activity Restriction After Pelvic Floor Surgery?
- Urinary incontinence and age at the first and last delivery
- TVT is effective: Recurrent stress urinary incontinence and/or previous prolapse surgery
- Diagnosis and Management of Endometriosis
- And more…
Features
- Acupressure vs. Physical Therapy for Low Back Pain
- Naltrexone and Counseling Reduce Alcohol Dependence
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Human Papillomavirus Vaccination
- HPV Vaccine Shows Promise, at Least in Short Term
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Surgeons vary widely in their approaches to disclosing medical errors to their patients
- Case management dramatically reduces care use for minority children on Medicaid
- NICU babies are frequently at risk for misidentification
- Daily Health Policy News Summaries - New on Your Library Website
- Engorgement - It only feels like it is going to last forever
- Breastfeeding: Data and Statistics: Breastfeeding Practices — Results from 2005 Survey
August 2006 Highlights include:
- Uterine rupture rate hasn’t changed for 20 years – Why have our practices?
- New Women’s Health Work Group Forming: Looking for interested volunteers
- Update your standing post partum discharge orders: Tdap in pregnancy
- ACOG Releases HPV Vaccine Recommendations for Ob-Gyns
- Emergency Contraception: A Primer for Pediatric Providers
- Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome
- Norethindrone More Effective for Menses Suppression
- Induction of Labor for Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery
- Early Milk Supply Issues
- Randomized trial: Screening for intimate partner violence in health settings
- Is 75 Years an Appropriate Upper Age Limit for Mammography?
- Addressing Depression in Family Planning Services
- HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
- First trimester screening: How would you counsel this patient?
- VBAC: Pendulums and Ecstasy
- Native Alaskan and American Indian Nurses Scholarship Opportunity
- The indications for IUD use have vastly expanded
- Glyburide flows from fetus to mother by placental transport system
- September 1, 2006: Palliative Medicine's Role in the Continuity of Care
- Condom Use and the Risk of Genital HPV Infection in Young Women
- Obese Girls: 3 x Risk for Early Death than Slim Counterparts
- Randomized trial assesses screening for intimate partner violence in health settings
- Where is the Indian Health System when it comes to providing palliative / end-of-life care?
- Adolescent perception of sexual abstinence
- The Indian Health MCH Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) site
- Are there any cultural barriers/among Native Americans to becoming cord blood donors?
Indian Child Health Notes - September 2006 Highlights
- Thank you Captain Obvious - Meta analysis shows that drinking sugar sweetened beverages is linked to obesity
- If you cant beat 'em sue 'em: The intersection of obesity and public health law
- Pneumococcal vaccine has decreased the rates of otitis media and PE tube placement in AI/AN children
- Cancer data for adolescent Native Americans
- Mystery person gives $100,000 to the Committee on Native American Child Health - Help us decide how to spend it
- Survey Monkey in this issue - let us know what you want
- HIV Management System, v1.0 - National Release, BKM
- Health care and indigenous peoples: the other side of the planet
- Planes, trains, automobiles and asthma in China
- Adolescents’ Use of Contraception
- New website provides easy access to information on SIDS and infant death
Medical Mystery Tour
- First trimester screening: How would you counsel this patient?
- Clonidine and Gabapentin Effective for Hot Flashes
- Estrogen Alone Does Not Increase Breast Cancer Risk
- Postpartum Care: Still the neglected step child of perinatal services?
- Midwives applaud new false labor EMTALA regulations
- Implanon- A single rod contraceptive implant…
- Harm Resulting from Inappropriate Telephone Triage in Primary Care
- Trends in HIV-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students
- The indications for IUD use have vastly expanded
- Calcium during pregnancy: Higher maternal Vit. D / folate and newborn Wt / mineralization
- Endometriosis: What You Should Know
- How important is maternal intratpartum glucose to neonatal hypoglycemia?
- Adverse outcomes with DM are 3-9 times worse vs normal and not improved in 15 years
- 17 hydroxyprogesterone caproate results in cost-savings in women with prior PTD
- No difference in pregnancy loss: Chorionic villus sampling vs amniocentesis, 1998 to 2003
- Vitamin Supplements Do Not Prevent Preeclampsia
- Palliative Medicine's Role in the Continuity of Care – Ongoing
- Sexual Education / HIV Education and youth
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
- Weight Loss Should be the Primary Intervention for Risk of Diabetes
Save the Dates: Upcoming events of interest
What’s new on the ITU MCH web pages
Past CCC Corners
The CCC Corner is good way to inform ITU providers about recent updates, while decreasing the number of e-mail messages.
Let me know if you want to add something to next month's CCC Corner at nmurphy@SouthCentralFoundation.com
or (907) 729-3154 (with voicemail)
*The opinions expressed in the OB/GYN CCC Corner are strictly those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Indian Health System, or the author of this newsletter. If you have any comments, please share them by joining the Primary Care Discussion Forum where this topic was recently discussed. To join the Primary Care Listserv, click on ‘Subscribe' here MCHdiscuss.cfm
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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