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Volume 4, No. 11, November 2006
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Abstract of the Month
Regular Cola Intake Reduces Bone Mineral Density in Women
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From Your Colleagues
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Carolyn Aoyama
Burt Attico
Scott Giberson
Wanda Jones
Brenda Neufeld
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Chuck North
Ron Pust
Judy Thierry
Dawn Wyllie
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Hot Topics
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Features
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American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Medical Mystery Tour
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
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What’s new on the ITU MCH web pages
What medications, foods, and beverages irritate the bladder?
CDC Compendium of Domestic Violence Assessment Tools
Compendium of State Laws Impacting HIV Screening and Treatment
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
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
- Want a topic discussed? Contact nmurphy@scf.cc
Did you miss something in the last OB/GYN Chief Clinical Consultant Corner?
October 2006 OB/GYN CCC Corner
Volume 4, No. 10, October 2006
Abstract of the Month
- CDC Advocates for Routine Voluntary Testing of HIV
From Your Colleagues
Carolyn Aoyama
- Grants for Nursing
Jim Galloway
- Do you need nutrition services at your site?
Sunnah Kim, AAP (with comments by Elaine Locke, ACOG)
- Forty years in partnership: the American Academy of Pediatrics and Indian Health
Judy Thierry
- Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond
- Northern Plains Tobacco Prevention Project - Smoke Free Families Campaign
- Latest AI/AN birth and fertility data from NCHS, 2004
- Literature on feeding beliefs and attitudes in AIAN/indigenous populations requested
- Release of IDEA 2004 Part B Regulations Links to forms and tool kits for IEPS FSPs
Myra Tucker, CDC
- Analyzing and Mapping Health Inequities to Impact Policies for Eliminating Disparities
Hot Topics
- Fetal injury at cesarean delivery: Related to the indication and type of uterine incision
- Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising on Radio
- YOUTH: 3 complementary resources: Needs based…asset mapping…resiliency…
- TeenScreen Conference: Second Annual
- Adolescent Death Rates by Race/Ethnicity and Sex
- Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke: What’s the Right Dose? 160 mg/day
- Benefits of Eating Fish Greatly Outweigh the Risks
- Daily Weighing and Quick Action Keeps Pounds Off, Study Shows
- F as in Fat and Failing: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2006
- Regular exercise and keeping weight in check decreases breast-cancer risk factors
- Can a 29% Cesarean Delivery Rate Possibly Be Justified?
- Stricter VBAC Guideline Does Not Improve Mortality
- Dose-response pattern in the risk of previa, with increasing number of cesarean deliveries
- 12 and 24 hours of MgSO4: Similar course in postpartum mild preeclampsia
- Oral misoprostol Can Reduce PPH When Given Prophylactically
- A new era in ovula tion induction: Aromatase inhibitors
- Preventing Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
- Flexible-dosing with anticholinergics: Simple and effective for overactive bladder
- HPV and HPV Vaccine: Information for Healthcare and for the general public
- MR imaging: Excellent at excluding appendicitis in pregnancy when not visualized at US
Features
- Postcoital Bleeding and Cervical Cancer Risk
- Metformin May Help Children Lose Weight
- Lubiprostone (Amitiza) for Chronic Idiopathic Constipation
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Amnioinfusion Does Not Prevent Meconium Aspiration Syndrome
- Postpartum Hemorrhage (Technical Bulletin)
- Vulvodynia
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- What processes are in place for same last name awareness?
- Do Not Resuscitate in the OR, but What About Afterwards?
- Prevalence, impact, and disclosure of domestic violence among women
- Premature infants born at 30 to 34 wks gestation suffer substantial problems
- Bariatric obesity surgery complication rates are higher over time
- Updated Cochrane Systematic Reviews…
- Aerobic Exercise and Pregnancy
- Calcium Supplementation Safe and Cheap
- Preclampsia Drugs: No Clear Choice
- Do you have breastfeeding questions? The new Breast feeding site has the
answers
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- Lactation Support in the Indian Health Workplace: New Circular
September 2006 Highlights include:
- FDA OTC Access for Plan B for 18 and Older: A ‘Catch-22’ for AI/AN patients?
- USPSTF Best Practices - Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening, plus Helpful Tips
- Cesarean delivery: Increased risks versus vaginal delivery - 4 articles
- See and treat: HPV positive, HSIL cytology, and a HG impression at 2nd colposcopy
- Metformin Useful for Treating PCOS in Adolescents
- Varenicline was significantly more efficacious for smoking cessation
- Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: ACOG Committee Opinion
- Engorgement - It only feels like it is going to last forever
- Adolescent perception of sexual abstinence: A complete disconnect
- HIV Management System, v1.0 - National Release
- Health care and indigenous peoples: the other side of the planet
- First trimester screening: How would you counsel this patient?
- Postpartum Care: Still the neglected step child of perinatal services?
- Implanon- A single rod contraceptive implant…
- Harm Resulting from Inappropriate Telephone Triage in Primary Care
- How important is maternal intratpartum glucose to neonatal hypoglycemia?
- Must Honor Advance Directives - Palliative Medicine's Role in the Continuity of Care
- Sexual Education / HIV Education and youth
- Weight Loss Should be the Primary Intervention for Risk of Diabetes
- A must WEB site for CHILD Abuse care and practice info
- Palliative Care Training
- How is the Indian Health System providing palliative and end-of-life care?
- The Last Hours of Living: Practical Advice for Clinicians
- Ortho Evra Patch Linked to Risk for Venous Thromboembolism
- New Breastfeeding Web Page for the Indian Health System
- Is my first trimester patient always hyperthyroid if her labs are abnormal?
Indian Child Health Notes - September 2006 Highlights
- Early prednisone therapy in Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- Physician documentation of neonatal risk assessment for perinatal infections.
- The Alaska Hib type b experience: lessons in controlling a vaccine-preventable disease
- New patient wellness handout
- Maternal survival worldwide: consensus and controversies
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- An Entire Issue of Can J Public Health Dedicated to Health Policy
- What is the contribution of preterm birth to infant mortality rates?
- Increased efforts are needed for states to achieve all eight HP 2010 objectives
- Portal to Maternal and Child History Materials
- Children’s Opportunity Depends on Their Parent’s Opportunity
- The words ‘bizarre’ and ‘atypia’ in the same pathology report sentence…hmmm….
- Associations between night sweats and other sleep disturbances
- Combination Estrogen-Progestin Hormone Prescribed by Age Group
- Unopposed Estrogen Therapy Increases Breast Cancer Risk
- External Fetal Monitors - Can you kick the habit?
- EMTALA language changes addresses certification of false labor
- Great, low-cost, fun CME opportunity
- Improving Perinatal Outcomes: Reliably Using Elective Induction and Labor Augmentation
- Preconception Care: Science, Practice, Challenges and Opportunities
- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Asthma in Pregnancy
- Fracture risk among First Nations people
- Assessment of Adult Health Literacy
- Is patient education really working? GDM patients smoke more and eat less vegetables
- HPV Vaccine: What You Need to Know
- Stress: How to Cope with Life's Challenges
- Anxiety and Panic: Getting Control over Your Feelings
- Fetal Lung Maturity Assessment
- Can a blood test predict pre-eclampsia? and will it help us?
- Fish oil for fetal brain development, hypertensive disorders, and depression?
- Maternal oxygen administration for fetal distress
- A nuchal translucency measurement where there is no benefit from first trimester screening
- Causes of Type 2 Diabetes: Old and New Understandings
- Prevalence of HPV Infection among Men: A Systematic Review of the Literature
- FDA Approves the First Once-a-Day Three-Drug Combination Tx of HIV-1
- NIH launches new HIV Vaccine awareness campaign
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
- No improvement in fetal outcome, plus increased maternal morbidity: Who pays for this?
- Who Responds to Glyburide for Gestational Diabetes?
- Nearly one out of two women with gestational diabetes also have periodontal disease
- Mothers Who Gain Weight Between Pregnancies Experience Pregnancy Complications
- The growing trends in maternal obesity
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)
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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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