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Volume 5, No. 9, October 2007
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Contents
Abstract of the Month
Group Prenatal Care Improves Pregnancy Outcomes at No Additional Cost
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From Your Colleagues
Michael Berryhill
Scott Giberson
Amy Groom
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Craig Vanderwagen
Roberta Ward
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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
New Breastfeeding Headlines Box: The Latest in Breastfeeding Updates
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
Victim Advocates And Tribal Law Enforcement
- October 17-18, 2007
- Tucson , Arizona
- Domestic Violence Expert Witness Institute
- www.swclap.org
Second National Summit on Preconception Health and Health Care
- October 29-31 2007
- Oakland , CA
- CDC and March of Dimes
- http://www.marchofdimes.com/california/4947_24789.asp
2007 National HIV Prevention Conference
- December 2-5, 2007
- Atlanta , Georgia
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- http://www.2007nhpc.org/conferenceinfo.asp
23nd Annual Midwinter Indian Health OB/PEDS Conference
- February 8 - 10, 2008
- For providers caring for Native women and children
- Telluride, CO
- Contact Alan Waxman AWaxman@salud.unm.edu
Did you miss something in the last OB/GYN Chief Clinical Consultant Corner?
September 2007 OB/GYN CCC Corner
Volume 5, No. 9, September 2007
Abstract of the Month
- Women's greater risk of dying after surgery: Transfusion-related immunosuppression
From Your Colleagues
Mike Engel
- The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years
Scott Giberson
- 2007 National HIV Prevention Conference
Elaine Locke
- 2008-09 Packer Fellowships: Deadline Extended
Shannon Myers
- 2008 APN/PA conference is already being planned. Any ideas?
Chuck North
- Ann Bullock is the new Chief Clinical Consultant for Family Medicine
Robert Pittman
- Questions about DEA or controlled substance policy
Ros Singleton
- Immunization errors in Tdap and DTaP vaccine administration: ALERT -VACCINE UPDATE
Hot Topics
- Educate parents about new pre-adolescent vaccine recommendations
- Fact sheet focus on adolescent HPV vaccination issues and opportunities
- Tobacco Smoke Exposure During Pregnancy Increases Blood Pressure in Infants
- Body composition, physical activity and insulin sensitivity in adolescents
- Updated AAP Guidelines on Newborn Screening and Tx for Congenital Hypothyroidism
- Exposing the Great Bottled Water Scam
- Soda consumption linked with metabolic syndrome
- Antiretroviral Prophylaxis for Occupational Exposure to HIV
- Does Consuming Red Meat Increase Risk of Breast Cancer?
- AHA Releases Statement on Physical Activity Interventions?
- Low-dose aspirin has benefits when used for prevention of pre-eclampsia
- Oral Antidiabetic Agents in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Paradigm Shift
- Preventive Approach to Cutting Cesarean Delivery Rates Appears Feasible
- No advantage to bulking agent after primary repair of obstetric anal sphincter injury
- Prepregnancy obesity, overweight raise risk of birth defects
- Human papillomavirus, vaccines and women's health: questions and cautions
- HPV, Vaccines, and Gender: Policy Considerations
- Liquid prep no more accurate than conventional cytology, RCT
- Laparoscopically guided minilaparotomy reduces intraperitoneal spillage
- Quadrivalent HPV Recombinant Vaccine (Gardasil) for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer
Features
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Sexual Misconduct
- Nalbuphine Hydrochloride Use for Intrapartum Analgesia
- Expert Testimony
- Brand Versus Generic Oral Contraceptives
- Screening and Treatment for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Pregnancy
- Recommendations for Preconception Care
- Turner Syndrome: Diagnosis and Management
- Varenicline (Chantix) for Smoking Cessation
- CDC Publishes Statement on Cough and Cold Medications in Children
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age, Your Checklist for Health
- Today's teen smokers more likely to engage in risky behaviors than teens in the 1990s
- Inadequate communication of mammogram results may prevent benefits from screening
- Prophylactic antibiotics are more timely if given in the operating room
- Some diabetes drugs offer important advantages, though similar glucose control
- Prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Toolkit
- Progress toward achieving Healthy People 2010 objective for breastfeeding
- Cup feeding not be recommended over bottle feeding as a supplement to breastfeeding
- Despite the benefits of early breastfeeding, many women find it difficult and painful
- New IHS Breast feeding Family Support web page: Have pictures to share?
- What to do when Mom says, “My newborn likes the bottle better.”
- Within the Hidden Epidemic: STDs and HIV/AIDS Among AI/AN
- American Indian / Alaska Native population has the shortest timeline HIV to AIDS
- VBAC: Smaller attributable risk than previously reported
- LEEP doubles risk of preterm delivery: Patients need to be informed
- Physical Activity Alone May Not Reduce Obesity in Children
- Teratogenicity of SSRIs--serious concern or much ado about little?
- Management of Herpes in Pregnancy: Practice Bulletin
- Scopus ™: A New Database
- What to do when: Mom says, “My newborn likes the bottle better.”
- IHS-ACF DV Project: Conference CD: Patient Education, Safety Planning, etc . . .
- Waiting until the menses to start hormonal contraceptives: Needless Obstacle
- Can oral or sublingual misoprostol be used for postpartum hemorrhage?
- Integrated case management software application release
- Maternal survival redux: a view from Malawi - Failure of justice
- Who needs liquor stores when parents will do?
- Taking a harder line on blood transfusions
- Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy
- Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Ovarian Cancer
- Midwifery’s approach to pre-labor SROM supported by professional organization’s journal
- The evolution of management of Actinomyces on a Pap report
- Health Care Without Harm: Nurses Take Action
- Preconception Health of Women Delivering Live-Born Infants — Oklahoma, 2000–2003
- Anemia in Pregnancy: The Common to the Unusual – including IV therapy
- Chronic Renal Disease: How is Primary Care Effected?
- Updated Screening for Chlamydial Infection Recommendations, USPSTF
- (How) can we prevent type 2 diabetes?
- Why do Native American women have the poorest 5-year survival for breast cancer?
- Sexual assault among American Indian/Alaska Native women
- 'What Older Women Want' launches new website for doctors and patients: New Website
- A fall management program improves care and reduces use of physical restraints
- Certain resident and facility characteristics and medications increase the risk of fractures
- Various Implantable Contraceptives Equally Effective in Preventing Pregnancy
- Oral Contraceptives Today: Changes, Challenges, Risks, and Benefits
- New Online Training Tool Available for Treatment of Adolescents with HIV
- Moderate morning sickness only partially responding to doxylamine and pyridoxine
Indian Child Health Notes - July 2006 Highlights
- First prophylaxis for infective endocarditis has been written using evidenced based guidelines. The difference is significant.
- RPMS Immunization Package: Version 8.2 coming this summer
- Substance abuse in Native American communities
- Save 750 mega watts/hour per year: It is easy
- iCare Training
- Sex, Soap & Social Change - The Sabido Methodology
- Arsenic exposure during pregnancy with fetal loss and infant death in Bangladesh
- Preconception brochure released
- School based programs decrease rates of violence among adolescents
- Motor vehicle restraint use in American Indian children: Meaningful interventions
- Toolkit Supports Efforts in Native Communities to Prevent FAS Disorders
- Sister Study seeks more Native women
- One size doesn't fit all: Helmet Safety Poster
- Get Your Head in the Game
- Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy
- HPV-16/18 Vaccination Should Not Be Used to Treat Prevalent Infections
- Overactive Bladder in a Menopausal Woman With Complicating Conditions
- Management of Depression and Premenstrual Dysphoria in a Woman Planning Pregnancy
- Management of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Throughout the Ages
- Premenstrual Syndrome/Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Treatment: Oral Contraceptives
- Study Supports HRT Use for Short Term, but Little Benefit in Older Women
- Hormone Therapy Safer in Younger Women? A Best Evidence Review
- Caffeine Reduces Cognitive Decline in Women
- Treatment Options for Insomnia
- NAMS Position Statement on Estrogen and Progestogen in Postmenopausal Women
- Group prenatal care reduces preterm births and increases breastfeeding initiation: RCT
- Skin-to-skin care with the father after cesarean: Effect on crying and prefeeding behavior
- Midwifery’s approach to pre-labor SROM supported by professional organization’s journal
- Evaluation of the pregnant patient for non-obstetric surgery
- Nursing education scholarship opportunities
- Behavioral and Social Sciences Research: National Assoc. of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Companion Animals and Human Health Risk: Animal Bites and Rabies
- STD Treatment Guidelines - Personal Digital Assistant Version
- Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease After Universal Screening Recommendations
- Preconception Health of Women Delivering Live-Born Infants — Oklahoma, 2000–2003
- Lifestyle Intervention and BMD in Adolescent Girls
- Decision Rules Useful for Selecting Women for Bone Mineral Density Testing
- SSRI Use in Older Women Linked to Accelerated Hip Bone Loss
- Effects of the phytoestrogen genistein on bone metabolism in osteopenia: RCT
- Women's Health Booklets
- STIs in Pregnancy: Protecting Yourself and Your Baby
- Monitoring Your Blood Pressure at Home
- Monitoring Your Blood Sugar at Home
- Insomnia: What You Should Know
- Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy
- Miscarriage risk from amniocentesis performed for abnormal maternal serum screening
- Evidence base of predictive markers and therapies (eg, progesterone) for preterm birth
- Noninherited risk factors and congenital cardiovascular defects: AHA / AAP statement
- 1st trimester US of the nasal bone may improve Down syndrome screening
- Chronic Kidney Disease: CKD is Part of Primary Care! Starts September 4, 2007
- Culture, context, and sexual risk among Northern Plains American Indian Youth
- Sexual Assertiveness among Adolescent Girls: Initiation, Refusal, and Protective Behaviors
- Sexually Transmitted Infections in Preadolescent Children
- Screening for Chlamydial Infection: USPSTF Recommendation Statements
- Home screening for sexually transmitted diseases in high-risk young women: RCT
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
- Within eight years, 75% of adults will be obese or overweight
- Regular and Diet Soft Drinks Linked To Increase In Risk Factors For Heart Disease
- Very Low Birth Weight Is Associated With Impaired Glucose
- APN scope of practice: colonoscopy?
- Templates for Protocols and Procedures for Maternity Services 2nd Edition
Save the Dates: Upcoming events of interest
What’s new on the ITU MCH web pages
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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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