Maternal Child Health ‹ CCC Corner ‹ October 2008
Volume 6, No. 10, October 2008
News Flash
First International Meeting on Indigenous Women’s Health; Third
International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health: Many Voices into One Song
- March 2009, Albuquerque, NM
- Women’s Health March 4-6, 2009
- Children’s Health March 6-8, 2009 (The 6th
is an overlap day with both groups participating!)
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Contents
Diabetes mellitus and birth defects
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Jean Howe, CCC – Ob/Gyn
- First International Conference for Indigenous
Women’s Health/Third International
Conference for Indigenous Child Health; Albuquerque, March 4-8, 2009
Robert McSwain, IHS Director
- Susan
V. Karol, MD, named IHS Chief Medical Officer
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Sheila Warren, Headquarters
- Joint Commission Resources is Challenging YOUR HOSPITAL to Increase Health
Care Worker Vaccination against the Flu
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Child Health
- Randomized controlled trial of a pictogram-based intervention to reduce
liquid medication dosing errors and improve adherence among caregivers of young
children
- Ibuprofen more effective than acetaminophen for treating fever in children
- Identifying
postpartum depression: are 3 questions as good as 10?
Chronic Illness and Disease
- Incidence and Risk Factors for Stroke in American Indians; The Strong Heart
Study
- Expanded Recommendations for Hepatitis B Screening
- Association of Urinary
Bisphenol A Concentration with Medical Disorders and Laboratory Abnormalities
in Adults
- Alcohol-Attributable Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost Among American
Indians and Alaska Natives --- United States, 2001--2005
- Should the window for
thrombolytic use be extended for stroke?
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Obstetrics
- Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Update on Definitions and Interpretation
- Bariatric
surgery linked to improved perinatal outcomes
- A randomized, controlled trial of
magnesium sulfate for the prevention of cerebral palsy
- Gestational weight gain
and risk of overweight in the offspring at age 7 y in a multicenter, multiethnic
cohort study
Gynecology
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a common cause of vulvar
abscesses
- Hysterectomy Complication Rates Decline Significantly
- Prevalence of symptomatic
pelvic floor disorders in U.S. women
- Behavioral therapy to enable women with urge
incontinence to discontinue drug treatment: a randomized trial
- Success rates <1%
following fresh assisted reproduction treatment in women aged 45 years and older
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American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Fetal Lung Maturity
- Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate and Bone Effects
- The Uninsured
- Addressing Health Risks of Noncoital Sexual Activity
- Prenatal and Perinatal
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing: Expanded Recommendations
American Family Physician
- Health maintenance for postmenopausal women
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- US Surgeon General Issues "Call to Action" on DVT and PE
Ask a Librarian
- BMJ Clinical Evidence Adds Medical Conditions
Behavioral Health Insights
- Antipsychotics – The Old versus the New - What Should I Use?
- SAMHSA
Awards More Than $16 Million to Tribes/Tribal Organizations for Youth Suicide
Prevention and Early Intervention Programs
Breastfeeding
- Mastitis and Plugged Ducts
CCC Corner Digest
Domestic Violence
- Break the Silence: Stop the Violence; new video addresses teen dating violence
Elder Care News
- Less Sleep May Equal Greater Risk of Falling in Elderly Women
Family Planning
- ACOG Press Release: Bone Mineral Density Concerns Should Not Discourage
Use of Contraceptive Shot
- Management of Breakthrough Bleeding with Continuous
Use of the Transvaginal Contraceptive Ring
Featured Web Site
- Welcome to WIN, The Weight-control Information Network
Frequently asked questions
- Can a patient receive outpatient cervical ripening?
Indian Child
Health Notes
- Universal screening for hearing loss in newborns: US Preventive Services
Task Force
- Pediatric Practice-based Versus an Agency-Based Model of Care Coordination
for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Information Technology
- RPMS iCare Population Management Immunization Patch Released
International
Health
- Preventing and treating HIV/AIDS in Thai prisons
MCH Alert
- Social, Emotional, and Physical Health and Workplace Challenges of Women
in the Postpartum Period
- Opportunities to Improve Adolescent Health and Prevent
Cardiovascular Disease
- Special Notice: New Name Signals an Expanded Focus for
The National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Other Infant Death (SIDS/ID) Cooperative
Agreement Program
- Partners Engage in Focused Effort to Improve the Oral Health
of Pregnant Women
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MCH Headlines
- New American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Resources for Vaccination
- Preventing
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Substance-exposed Pregnancies: A Community Affair
Medical Mystery Tour
- Fetal Heart Monitoring: The answers applied
Medscape
Menopause Management
- Cochrane Update: Oestrogens for Preventing Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection
in Postmenopausal Women
Midwives Corner
- The conflict and compromises between how we want to practice midwifery and
how we do practice midwifery in the hospital setting
Navajo News
- Navajo Area Women’s Health Provider Meeting
Nurses Corner
- Nursing Leadership; An Excerpt from the IHS CEO Brief
- MEDCOM has added Obstetrical
Series to the Course Catalog
Office of Women’s Health, CDC
- Emergency Planning Tips If You're Pregnant or Have Young Children
- Electronic
Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers
- Increasing
Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes and Pregnancy-Related Hypertension in Los
Angeles County, California, 1991–2003
Osteoporosis
- Pharmacologic treatment of low bone density or osteoporosis to prevent fractures:
a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians
Patient Education
- The Eagle Book Animation Series
Perinatology Picks
- Correlation of catheterized and clean catch urine protein/creatinine ratios
in preeclampsia evaluation
- A randomised controlled trial of early versus delayed
oxytocin augmentation to treat primary dysfunctional labour in nulliparous women
- Do Mechanical Methods of Cervical Ripening Increase Infectious Morbidity?
A Systematic Review
- QuickStats: Rates* of Cesarean Deliveries --- Selected Countries,† 2005
Primary Care Discussion Forum
STD Corner
- Trends in HIV- and STD-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students
--- United States, 1991--2007
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
- Small Steps, Big Rewards for Families with a History of Gestational Diabetes
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Women’s Health Headlines
- Differentiation among Types of Intimate Partner Violence: Research Update
and Implications for Interventions
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First International Meeting
on Indigenous Women’s Health/Third International
Meeting on Indigenous Child Health Conference; Many Voices into One Song
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
Medical Providers’ Best Practices Conference,
3rd Annual
- November 18-19, 2008; Sacramento, CA
- California Area Indian Health Service
- More information: 916.930.3937 or IHS-CAOGPRA@ihs.gov
2008 Indian Health Information Management Conference, “Managing
Health Information Technology to Improve Performance and Outcomes”
First International Meeting on Indigenous Women’s Health/Third
International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health Conference; Many Voices into
One Song
Advances in Indian Health Conference
- April 21-24, 2009 in Albuquerque, NM
- Indian Health's conference for primary care providers and nurses
- 28 hours of CME/CE credit
- Optional Diabetes track
- Contact the Course Director, Dr. Ann Bullock, at annbull@nc-cherokee.com for
more information.
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Did you miss something in the last OB/GYN Chief Clinical Consultant Corner?
Volume 6, No. 9, September 2008
HIV incidence in the United States
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Donald Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- "A transatlantic review
of the NHS at 60"
Ann Bullock, Cherokee, NC
- Advances in Indian Health Conference
David Gahn, Kabul, Afghanistan
- Afghanistan Update: Assistant Secretary
for Health ADM Joxel Garcia, MD, FACOG visits Kabul
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Fabian Kennedy, Northern Plains Tobacco Prevention
Program
- Updated Website/Tobacco Control Activities Event Page
Brigg Reilley, Division of Epidemiology
- Indian Health Service Prenatal HIV Screening: Gaps and Best Practices
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Child Health
- Association between Maternal Diabetes in Utero and Age of Offspring's Diagnosis
with Type 2 Diabetes
- No increase in long-term mortality after simple febrile
seizures
- Duration of intrapartum prophylaxis and concentration of penicillin G
in fetal serum at delivery
- Blood pressure variability and classification of prehypertension
and hypertension in adolescence
- Care of the adolescent sexual assault victim
Chronic Illness and Disease
- Naltrexone alone and with sertraline for the treatment of alcohol dependence
in Alaska natives and non-natives residing in rural settings: a randomized controlled
trial
- Comprehensive treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
- Weight
loss with a low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or low-fat diet
- Screening for type
2 diabetes mellitus in adults with hypertension: U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force recommendation statement
- Effect of PCI on Quality of Life in Patients with
Stable Coronary Disease
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Obstetrics
- Highlights from the International Workshop Conference on Gestational Diabetes
Diagnosis and Classification held June 11-13, 2008
- Preeclampsia and the risk of
end-stage renal disease
- Recurrence of group B streptococci colonization in subsequent
pregnancy
- Maternal death in the 21st century: causes, prevention, and relationship
to cesarean delivery
- Guidelines for computed tomography and magnetic resonance
imaging use during pregnancy and lactation
Gynecology
- Health and economic implications of HPV vaccination in the United States
- Recurrent
dysplasia as high as 7% after hysterectomy for cervical dysplasia
- Ovulation triggers
in anovulatory women undergoing ovulation induction
- Higher Levels of Physical
Activity Needed to Maintain Weight Loss in Overweight Women
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American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Alternatives to Hysterectomy in the Management of Leiomyomas
- Routine Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Screening
- Aromatase Inhibitors in Gynecologic Practice
- Age-Related Fertility Decline
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome and Women of Color
- Rapid human immunodeficiency virus testing on labor
and delivery
American Family Physician
- Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery
- Evaluation and Treatment of Enuresis
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- New AHRQ Tool Helps Hospitals Evaluate Disaster Drills
Ask a Librarian
- Soy and male infertility; unexplained infertility; library resources
Behavioral Health Insights
- Psychiatric disorders in pregnant and postpartum women in the United States
Breastfeeding
- Infant Feeding in Disasters
CCC Corner Digest
Domestic Violence
- Injury and Violence Prevention within the Mission of Maternal and Child
Health
Elder Care News
- Hospitalization increases fracture risk in elderly
Family Planning
- Beyond the 6 week postpartum check; try 3 weeks instead…
Featured Web Site
- NICHCY-National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Frequently asked questions
- What is the most effective way to monitor thyroid changes in pregnancy?
- Should
we obtain a TSH, FT4, FT3 q 4 weeks, or just follow TSH q 6 weeks?
Indian Child
Health Notes
- Influenza Vaccination
- Rotavirus Vaccination
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Information Technology
- Office of Information Technology Newsletter
International
Health
- Active tuberculosis more likely in diabetics: serious global health implications
MCH Alert
- Relationship between Pre-Pregnancy Maternal Obesity and Risk of Infant Death
- Alcohol
Consumption during Pregnancy and the Risk of Early Fetal Death
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MCH Headlines
- New United States Infant Mortality Statistics Released
- Smoking during Pregnancy
Increases Risk for Birth Defect
- ”There's No Place like Home... For Sex
Education”
Medical Mystery Tour
- Fetal Heart Monitoring: The answers
Medscape
Menopause Management
- HRT May Improve Health-Related Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Women
- Estrogen
and progestogen use in postmenopausal women: July 2008 position statement of
The North American Menopause Society
Midwives Corner
- Centering Pregnancy - A Model of Group Prenatal Care
Navajo News
- Overview of Navajo Area Gynecology Services
Nurses Corner
- Nurse Anesthesia (CRNA) Training Opportunity
- Nurses provide effective, and
cost-effective, depression care for cancer patients
- Registered Nurses'
Use of Electronic Health Records: Findings from a National Survey
Office of Women’s Health, CDC
- Alternative Warm-Up Program Reduces Risk of ACL Injuries for Female College
Soccer Players
- Gardasil Vaccine and Its Safety
- Preventing Intimate Partner Violence and
Sexual Violence in Racial/Ethnic Minority -Communities: CDC's Demonstration Projects
Osteoporosis
- Low Serum Vitamin D Linked to Increased Hip Fracture Risk in Postmenopausal
Women
Patient Information
- Protect Your Baby from Group B Strep
- Making Sense of Your HPV and Pap Test
Results (Plain language Patient brochure)
Perinatology Picks
- Methods of delivering the placenta at caesarean section
- Limit maximum oxytocin
doses to 20 mu/min in patients attempting VBAC
- Acute myocardial infarction associated
with pregnancy
- A national study of the complications of lupus in pregnancy
- Urinalysis vs
urine protein-creatinine ratio to predict significant proteinuria in pregnancy
Primary Care Discussion Forum
STD Corner
- Take the sex out of STI screening!
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
- Increased risk of cardiovascular disease in young women following gestational
diabetes mellitus
Women’s Health Headlines
- Dating Violence a significant public health problem for adolescents
- Colorado
Regional Conference on the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence
- Conference
Announcement: Sowing Seeds of Academic Change-Nurturing New Paradigms
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OB/GYN CCC Transition: Dr. Howe is the new CCC; Dr. Murphy retains yeoman’s
role on MCH webpage
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
Postgraduate Course on Obstetric, Neonatal and Gynecologic
Care
- September 14-18, 2008
- Salt Lake City , Utah
- Comprehensive Women’s Health Update for Nurses, Advanced Practice Nurses,
and Physicians
- NRP offered as pre-conference session
- Contact Yvonne Malloy, ymalloy@acog.org,
for more information
Medical Providers’ Best Practices Conference, 3rd Annual
- November 18-19, 2008; Sacramento, CA
- California Area Indian Health Service
- More information: 916.930.3937 or IHS-CAOGPRA@ihs.gov
2008 Indian Health Information Management Conference, “Managing
Health Information Technology to Improve Performance and Outcomes”
First International Meeting on Indigenous Women’s Health/Third
International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health Conference; Many Voices into
One Song
- Women’s Health March 4-6, 2009
- Child Health March 6-8, 2009
- Albuquerque , NM
- Joint conference of Women’s Health and Children’s Health Providers
from Canada and the United States
Advances in Indian Health Conference
- April 21-24, 2009 in Albuquerque, NM
- Indian Health's conference for primary care providers and nurses
- 28 hours of CME/CE credit
- Optional Diabetes track
- Contact the Course Director, Dr. Ann Bullock, at annbull@nc-cherokee.com for
more information.
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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 jean.howe@ihs.gov or (928) 674-7422 (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 editor of this newsletter.
OB/GYN
Jean Howe, MD, MPH is the Obstetrics and Gynecology Chief Clinical Consultant
(OB/GYN C.C.C.). Dr. Howe 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 American Indian and Alaska Native women and also indigenous
peoples around the world. Please don't hesitate to contact her by e-mail (jean.howe@ihs.gov)
or phone at (928) 674-7422.
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