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updated May 6, 2009

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is to prevent disease and to protect and promote the health and safety of the people of Rhode Island.
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Adult Immunization Program Enrollment
Healthcare provider enrollment and ordering for adult immunizations is open from May 1 to June 30, 2009. (This is for routine vaccinations only.)

Hospital Conversions / Mergers Program

Fire Safe Cigarette regulation status
The Fire Safe Cigarettes regulations implementation has been indefinitely postponed. Do not submit certifications at this time. Change in status will be posted on this site. Please check periodically. For more information contact: Jan Shedd, Team Lead for Health Promotion and Wellness (222-5927).

Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program Draft State Plan pdf
The goal is to launch and sustain a statewide coordinated effort to prevent and control heart disease and stroke. The program is committed to furthering policies and systems that: sustain individual behavior change, enhance access to effective medical care, and improve health status with a special focus on the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in heart disease and stroke prevention. See also: Stroke Task Force Report to the General Assembly pdf

Food Safety Inspections
Health Department food safety inspection reports completed since January 2007 are available online for all retail establishments including restaurants, markets and health care facilities. These reports consist of all inspection types including routine and reinspections, illness investigations and preoperational inspections. Some inspections may not contain violations.
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Reuters Health

Canada reports first flu death as U.S. cases climb
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The new H1N1 flu killed its first patient in Canada, making it the third country after Mexico and the United States to report a death from the virus that has sickened more than 3,000 people in 27 countries.

Probiotics may help ward off postpartum obesity
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who take probiotic supplements starting in the first trimester are less likely to develop central obesity after they've given birth, according to a new study.

Constant sun -- too much of a good thing?
LONDON (Reuters) - Too much sunlight in places like Greenland where long summer days often cause insomnia appears more likely to drive a person to suicide, Swedish researchers said Friday.

Yahoo Health

Study: Some children may be able to 'recover' from autism (AP)

Leo Lytel, second from right, 9, and his family David Lytel, left, Lucas Lytel, 11, and Jayne Lytel pose for a photograph with one of the family cats in their home in Washington Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Leo was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. He was undiagnosed at age 9. Provocative new research suggests that 10 percent of autistic children actually 'recover' from the troubling developmental disorder and lose the diagnosis later on in childhood. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Leo Lytel was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. But by age 9 he had overcome the disorder. His progress is part of a growing body of research that suggests at least 10 percent of children with autism can "recover" from it — most of them after undergoing years of intensive behavioral therapy.


Hong Kong lifts hotel quarantine where flu found (AP)

Hotel residents wait for release from quarantine at the Metropark Hotel where they were held for a week in Hong Kong Friday, May 8, 2009. Hong Kong on Friday lifted its weeklong quarantine on a downtown hotel where a Mexican swine flu patient stayed, releasing some 280 guests and employees who were isolated in the building. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - Hong Kong lifted a weeklong quarantine Friday of an upscale hotel where Asia's first swine flu case was traced, allowing 280 guests and workers to end an isolation that was criticized as overkill by some but a medical necessity by authorities.


Harvard survey: Swine flu in, affection out (AP)
AP - Thanks to swine flu, there's a little less hugging and kissing in the United States.

CDC

CDC Recommends Shingles Vaccine
People age 60 and older should be vaccinated against shingles, or herpes zoster, a condition often marked by debilitating chronic pain...

New CDC Study Finds Arthritis Can be a Barrier for Adults Seeking to Manage Diabetes through Physical Activity
More than half of adults with diagnosed diabetes also have arthritis, a painful condition that can be a barrier to physical activity—an important health strategy for managing diabetes...

Falls a Leading Cause of Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits for Infants Each Year, CDC Study Shows
Half of the estimated 328,500 infants 12 months of age or younger who were treated for injuries in hospital emergency departments each year from 2001 to 2004 were injured as a result of a fall, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NIH

NIH Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study Commemorates 25 Years of Discovery
The longest U.S. study of people with HIV/AIDS will be honored at a 25th anniversary commemoration on May 12, 2009, at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) has significantly contributed to the scientific understanding of HIV, AIDS and the effects of antiretroviral therapy through more than 1,000 publications, many of which have guided public health policy and the clinical care of people with HIV. MACS investigators prospectively study the natural and treated history of HIV infection in thousands of homosexual and bisexual men at sites in Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.

Fogarty International Center Welcomes New Advisory Board Members
The Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health has announced the appointment of six new members to its advisory board. Joining the board as voting members are Dr. Gail Cassell, Dr. Roscoe M. Moore, Jr., Dr. Ariel Pablos-Mendez and Dr. Bonita F. Stanton. Additionally, there are two new ex-officio members on the board, Dr. Barbara Alving, director of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) at NIH and Dr. Donald Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at NIH.

Flow of Potassium Into Cells Implicated in Schizophrenia
A study on schizophrenia has implicated machinery that maintains the flow of potassium in cells and revealed a potential molecular target for new treatments. Expression of a previously unknown form of a key such potassium channel was found to be 2.5 fold higher than normal in the brain memory hub of people with the chronic mental illness and linked to a hotspot of genetic variation.

WHO

Joint FAO/WHO/OIE Statement on influenza A(H1N1) and the safety of pork
7 May 2009 -- To avoid any misunderstanding FAO, WHO and OIE would like to reissue their joint statement, originally issued on 30 April. Influenza viruses are not known to be transmissible to people through eating processed pork or other food products derived from pigs.

Countries move toward more sustainable ways to roll back malaria
06 May 2009 -- UNEP and WHO, in partnership with the Global Environment Facility, announce a rejuvenated international effort to combat malaria with an incremental reduction of reliance on the synthetic pesticide DDT.

Joint FAO/WHO/OIE/WTO Statement on influenza A(H1N1) and the safety of pork
02 May 2009 -- Joint statement stressing that pork and pork products, handled in accordance with good hygienic practices recommended by the WHO, FAO, Codex Alimentarius Commission and the OIE, will not be a source of infection with influenza A(H1N1).

 

In the News

05/08/2009 12:15 EDT
Conference Features Sen. Reed as Keynote, Debut of Student Video Presentation

05/06/2009 10:30 EDT
Emergency Registry for Rhode Islanders With Special Needs

05/01/2009 18:30 EDT
HEALTH Announces Fourth Probable Case of Influenza A H1N1 Virus

04/24/2009 16:45 EDT
Department of Health Closely Monitors Investigation of Swine Influenza

04/22/2009 09:30 EDT
Rhode Island's Pediatric Flu Vaccination Rates Tops in Nation

04/09/2009 16:00 EDT
Sprouts Recalled Due to Possible Listeria Contamination

04/06/2009 10:30 EDT
Report Details Rhode Island Physicians' Technology Use

04/02/2009 12:00 EDT
Blue Cross, United Compare Favorably Against Regional Health Insurers

03/31/2009 10:15 EDT
HEALTH Promotes Smoke-Free Air In Cars, Homes

03/27/2009 09:15 EDT
Flu Is Widespread in RI It's Not Too Late To Vaccinate

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