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Air Pollution, Asthma Burden Unevenly Shared Among U.S. Children
Kellen Bolden was only 10 years old when an asthma attack took his life, but his mom still remembers him as a "little man" with big aspirations.
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Geo-Medicine New Frontier In Medical Informatics
Health IT specialists will soon want to know more about a field called geo-medicine, which combines geographic information system (GIS) software with clinical databases to provide insights that might improve individual and population health. While most of the activity is still confined to academic research, GIS firms have begun to explore its commercial potential as well.
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Deborah Guadalupe Duran to lead strategic planning for health disparities research at NIH’s NIMHD
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) announced today the appointment of Deborah Guadalupe Duran, Ph.D., as chief of the Office of Strategic Planning, Legislation, and Science Policy. A nationally known innovator in strategic planning, performance, and program evaluation, Dr. Duran joins NIMHD to lead the institute's development, monitoring, and assessment of the National Institutes of Health's health disparities research agenda.
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New Federal Action Plan for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities
As asthma awareness month comes to a close, a new window of opportunity for helping children with asthma is opening.
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EPA Struggles To Address Role Of Social Stressors In Environmental Risk
EPA assessors are increasingly weighing socioeconomic and other non-chemical contributors to environmental risk, but they are struggling to characterize those risks and persuade decision-makers to address these factors in policy decisions -- a top priority for EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's efforts to address environmental justice inequities.
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Taking Steps to Protect your Family from Lead Exposure
I grew up in an older home in a small, midwestern town full of aging structures. Like many children, my younger days were often spent exploring dusty spaces and playing in the dirt around homes that were over 100 years old. We were surrounded by danger, yet oblivious to the potentially harmful effects of lead paint and dust.
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