Maternal Child Health ‹ CCC Corner ‹ June 2008
Volume 6, No. 6, June 2008
News Flash
IHS Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE/SAFE) Trainings Open
for Registration:
- Navajo Area - June
- Aberdeen Area - July
- Oklahoma - August
- See Save the Date Section For Details
Direct Links to Topic Content
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Contents
Metformin vs. Insulin for the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes
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Scott Giberson
- National HIV Testing Mobilization Campaign
Elaine Locke
- ACOG / IHS Denver Course Now in Salt Lake City, Utah
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Charles North
- Effects of optimizing blood pressure and cholesterol levels in diabetic patients;
the SANDS trial
Ty Reidhead
- Chronic Care Initiative Readiness Curriculum
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Child Health
- Breastfeeding Promotion for Type 2 Diabetes Prevention in Native American
Communities
- Epidemiology of Invasive Group B Strep Disease
- Smoking Cessation in Adolescents
- Intensive Care for Extreme Prematurity
Chronic Illness and Disease
- Awareness of Stroke Warning Signs
- Mammography; alone or with ultrasound?
- Once Daily vs. Prandial Insulin
- Arthritis as a Potential Barrier to Physical
Activity among Adults with Diabetes
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Obstetrics
- HAPO
Study Group: Hyperglycemia and adverse pregnancy outcomes
- Prevention of Pertussis,
Tetanus and Diphtheria among Pregnant and Postpartum Women
- Prevalence of Self-Reported
Postpartum Depressive Symptoms
- The Pfannenstiel incision as a source of chronic
pain
- Increasing exposure to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in pregnancy
Gynecology
- Management of Trichomonas vaginalis with Metronidazole hypersensitivity
- Levonorgestrel-releasing
IUDs in patients with adenomyosis
- Treatment of vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia
with topical imiquimod
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Read More - Hot Topics
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Read More - Features
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2007
Native Women’s Health and MCH Conference Meeting Notes
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
“Keeping the Circle Strong: Celebrating Native
Women’s Health and Well-Being”
2008 Conference
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner/Forensic Examiner (SANE/SAFE) Training
Course
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner/Forensic Examiner (SANE/SAFE) Training
Course
- July 21-25, 2008
- Aberdeen , South Dakota
- 40 hour didactic portion of SANE/ SAFE training
- For additional information contact Lisa Palucci, lisa.palucci@ihs.gov,
at the IHS Clinical Support Center
Community Health Representative National Educational Meeting
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner/Forensic Examiner (SANE/SAFE) Training
Course
- August 18-22 , 2008
- Oklahoma City , Oklahoma
- 40 hour didactic portion of SANE/ SAFE training
- For additional information contact Lisa Palucci, lisa.palucci@ihs.gov,
at the IHS Clinical Support Center
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
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Did you miss something in the last OB/GYN Chief Clinical Consultant Corner?
Volume 6, No. 5, May 2008
How to increase usage of the HPV vaccine? Let’s ask our patients
and their family
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Ben Garnett
- Antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgery
Scott Giberson
- Upcoming CDC Rapid HIV Testing Training through SAMHSA and IHS
- Educate State
Officials and Policy Makers about Prevention of STDs and AIDS
Amy Groom
- 2008 IHS Immunization Awards
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Favian Kennedy
- From Collective Consciousness to Written Policy
Elaine Locke
- ACOG / IHS Denver Course Now in Salt Lake City, Utah
Cathy Stueckemann
- Community Health Representative National Educational Meeting
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Child Health
- Preemies Face Risks As They Grow Up
- Cognitive and Neuromotor Impairments
Seen at 5 Years in Children Born Preterm
- Is Short-term Therapy Effective
for Treating Latent TB in Children?
Chronic Illness and Disease
- FDA Approves Alternative Dosing Schedule for Combined Hepatitis Vaccine
- Lower
targets for blood pressure and LDL cholesterol on atherosclerosis in diabetes:
RCT
- All drugs containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are being recalled
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Obstetrics
- Pregnant Women Who are Obese Linked with Greater Health Care Services
Use
- New Evidence Report on Management and Postpartum Follow-Up of Gestational
Diabetes
- High caffeine consumption during pregnancy may increase the risk of miscarriage
- Grief
subsequent to an early miscarriage
- Stillbirth: Good differential Dx plus an uncommon
presentation of a common disease
Gynecology
- Non-surgical treatment of incontinence and prevention of urinary and fecal
incontinence
- Ultrasonography differentiated between benign and malignant: Improved
outcomes
- Saffron effective in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome: a double-blind,
RCT
- Biofeedback Reduces Psychological Burden in Older Women With Urge UI
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American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Use of Psychiatric Medications During Pregnancy and Lactation
- End-of-Life
Decision Making
- Late-Preterm Infants
American Family Physician
- Abstinence- Plus Programs for Prevention of HIV
- Evaluation of Acute Abdominal
Pain in Adults
- Expanded Newborn Screening: Information and Resources
- Subclinical Hypothyroidism
- Colonoscopy Surveillance After Polypectomy and
Colorectal Cancer Resection
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Adolescents are willing to have chlamydial screening by pediatricians
during urgent care visits
- Antidepressants during pregnancy increases preterm birth
and serious infant problems
- Maternal asthma is associated with lower birth weight
- Noncancerous pelvic
problems linked to poor quality of life and sexual functioning
- Studies examine
pediatricians' and parents' attitudes toward childhood obesity
Ask a Librarian
Behavioral Health Insights
Breastfeeding
- What Do High Performance Cars and Near Term Neonates Have In Common?
CCC Corner Digest
April Headlines
- High
prevalence of multiple HPV subtypes in AI women of the Northern Plains
- Afghanistan
Update: You can make a huge difference
- Cesarean
delivery during nursing change of shift: Increased complications
- The
Evolution of Midurethral Slings
- Maternal
grandmothers’ alcohol use linked to FAS in the Northern Plains
- Low-dose
aspirin: Lower risk for all-cause mortality, especially older women
- Treatment
of Urinary Infections in Nonpregnant Women
- Care
quality is not necessarily better with electronic health records
- School
Refusal
- What
makes a good idea work?
- Teen
dating violence: 3 articles
- Training
in Palliative and End of Life Care, April 22-24, 2008, Flagstaff , AZ
- How
to Increase contraceptive use and adherence in adolescents
- Meeting
notes now online: 2007 Native Women’s Health and MCH Conference
- Does
anyone have an Indian Health EHR template for obstetrical patients?
- Seeking
input from the field - Clinician’s Information Management
- Routes
to TB treatment in rural Nepal
- New
Bullying-Prevention Toolkit Released
- Maternal,
Infant and Child Health Capacity Needs Assessment
- You
know how to treat yeast infections, right?
- What
Happened to Women in WHI study 3 years after stopping HRT?
- Midwives
Keep Birth Normal, and Midwife-Provided Acupuncture Helps With PROM
- Sexual
Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Training Course, June 9 – 13, 2008
- Call
for nominations of nurses working in Indian health: Deadlines looming
- Prenatal
Care in Oklahoma
- Look
at all the drugs that affect bone metabolism
- Treating
Depression: What You Should Know
- What
is this all about the ‘minor markers’ for Down Syndrome?
- USPSTF
Recommendations for STI Screening
- Link
between type 2 DM in adults: Diabetes in pregnancy or type 1 DM in their mothers
- Have
the Disparities Between AI/ANs and Caucasians Narrowed?
Domestic Violence
- IPV and Sexual Violence Victimization Assessment Instruments in Healthcare
Settings
- Male Partner Violence Hurts Women's Health Worldwide
- IHS-ACF DV Project: dental
and reconstructive surgery for DV survivors
Elder Care News
- Landmark Study on Treatment of Hypertension in the Very Old
- 2008 IHS Long-Term
Care Grants Program Is Now Open For Applications
Family Planning
- Contraceptive agents when initiating breastfeeding
Featured Web Site
Frequently asked questions
- First Trimester Down Syndrome Testing
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Indian Child
Health Notes
- Autism Spectrum Disorders – Guidelines for Identification and Diagnosis
- Vaccines and Autism – The Courts weigh in – wrongly
- Child Safety Seats for AI/AN children – how can we get children in
safety seats – and more importantly how can we keep them in them
Information Technology
- RPMS Immunization Package
- AI health advocates can learn to develop multimedia
health projects for rural communities
- Release of BGP Clinical Reporting System,
Version 8.0
International Health
MCH Alert
- Adverse Drug Events in Pediatrics
MCH Headlines
- CDC Releases Study on Abuse & Neglect of Infants
- Unique status of vaccines
as disease prevention “tools”
- CDC funding 4.4 million to 15 awards
oral health HPDP
Medical Mystery Tour
- You know how to treat yeast infections, right? The right answers
Medscape
- Expanded HIV Testing in Primary Care: Implementing the CDC Recommendations
- HIV
Opt-out Testing and Primary Care Practice
- Hirsutism
Menopause Management
- Estrogen therapy doubles rate of benign breast lumps
- Postmenopausal Systemic
Hormone Therapy: Putting Risks Into Perspective
Midwives Corner
- Midwives Excel at Keeping Birth Normal, and Midwife-Provided Acupuncture
Helps With PROM
- Women given sterile water injection experience less labor pain
compared to acupuncture
- Irrespective of treatment, pelvic girdle pain regresses
in majority by 12 weeks after delivery
- Cervical Cancer Screening Practices of
Certified Nurse-Midwives in the United States
Navajo News
- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Training Course, June 9 – 13,
2008
Nurses Corner
- Staff education and performance feedback
Office of Women’s Health, CDC
- Factors Associated with Elevated Risk of Postneonatal Mortality Among Alaska
Natives
Oklahoma Perspective
- Prenatal Care in Oklahoma
Osteoporosis
- Choosing a Drug for Women With Osteoporosis--An Evidence-Based Clinical
Perspective
Patient Information
- Colon Cancer Screening: What You Should Know
Perinatology Picks
- Clarification for ‘What is this all about the ‘minor markers’ for
Down Syndrome?’
- Do We Need to do MSAFP Testing after First Trimester
Down Syndrome Screening?
- Physiologic evidence to support levels of anomie and
hostility with risk of PTD
- Higher risk of offspring schizophrenia: Maternal exposure
to severe adverse life events
Primary Care Discussion Forum
- Conclusion of the adolescent behavioral health on-line discussion
STD Corner
- HIV Screening in Dental Clinics?
- Racial Disparities Persist Across All Reportable
STDs
- USPSTF Recommendations for STI Screening
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
- Take the stairs and live longer
- Possible Way to Detect Gestational Diabetes
- Periodontal pathogens and gestational
diabetes mellitus
Women’s Health Headlines
- Surgeon General's Conference on Women and Mental Health
- After
School Programs Can Increase Physical Activity of Adolescent Girls
- Obesity:
Pinn Point on Women’s Health
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
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Breastfeeding:
US Breastfeeding Committee Strategic Plan
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
Community Health Representative National Educational Meeting
- July 29-31 2008
- Las Vegas , Nevada
- 40th anniversary of the CHR Program.
http://www.nachr.net/conferences/2008/
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
- Download brochure here:
http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/MCH/F/CN01.cfm?module=08&option=9#top
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or (907) 729-3154 (with voicemail)
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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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