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“Be SunWise & Play Sun Smart”

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00June 5th, 2012|General|

Aksel Laudon, a 6th-grade student at Kyrene Centennial Middle School in Phoenix, is this year’s “Be SunWise and Play Sun Smart” poster-drawing contest winner. Aksel’s drawing was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks from more than 7,000 student poster entries. Aksel and his teacher Jeffrey Garrett, and their families will be celebrated at the June 5 DBacks game in a pre-game award ceremony on [...]

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AZ Cancer Registry Scores Gold

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00June 4th, 2012|General|

Our Arizona Cancer Registry scored a coveted Gold rating from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) this week for having complete and accurate data suitable for calculating complete and accurate incidence statistics. We’ve received Silver ratings for the last several years- but this year we got the Gold for our increased its data completeness [...]

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The Texas Sharpshooter

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00June 1st, 2012|General|

There’s an old tale about a Texas “Sharpshooter” that pulls his pistol out of his holster and shoots at the broad side of a barn pretty much at random without aiming. Then he goes up to the barn with a paintbrush and draws a circle around the bullet holes and says: “See, I have perfect [...]

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Smoke Free AZ Turns 5

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:10-07:00May 30th, 2012|General, Prevention|

It’s hard to believe- but our Smoke Free Arizona program turned 5 this month. Voters approved the Act back in November of ’06 by a few percentage points. The Initiative language gave us a super-short turn-around time (just like medical marijuana)… and we turned the key on the program by May of ’07. Implementation of the [...]

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State By State Injury Report

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:10-07:00May 29th, 2012|General|

People get hurt because of unsafe acts and unsafe conditions. It’s always easier to deal with unsafe conditions- because you can often make a system change and have an impact. Changing unsafe acts (behaviors) is a lot harder. Anyway- a new report came out this week called The Facts Hurt: A State by State Injury [...]

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“It’s a Wrap”

By Will Humble|2012-05-25T20:47:07-07:00May 25th, 2012|General|

It’s been a busy week for our medical marijuana team. Our 2-week dispensary application period ended a couple of hours ago… as did the hearing regarding adding new debilitating medical conditions. We received 484 dispensary applications over the last 2 weeks. As you know, we have 126 Community Health Analysis Areas (CHAAs) and a maximum [...]

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Premier EMS Agency Program

By Will Humble|2012-05-25T08:35:44-07:00May 25th, 2012|General|

About 500,000 times a year in Arizona a call goes out from someone that finds themselves in a medical crisis. Our pre-hospital and hospital providers step up to the plate to answer that call. All Arizonans are proud and appreciative of what you do for our citizens, friends, co-workers and families. You make a difference! [...]

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Debilitating Conditions Hearing

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:11-07:00May 24th, 2012|General|

Friday afternoon we’re holding a public comment session about whether or not to add four new debilitating conditions to the medical marijuana program. The comments should center on scientific studies done on how marijuana affects Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Migraines, Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. We're looking for peer-reviewed, published studies that show the benefit or the [...]

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Tightening AZ’s Waistline

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:11-07:00May 22nd, 2012|General|

The CDC, along with HBO, The Institutes of Medicine and several private partners created a series of documentaries, called Weight of the Nation which aired last week, but you can still watch them all online. We wrote a feature about our own Matt Gainey- who made tremendous strides to change his health. Matt is just one [...]

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AZ Child Dies from Flu

By Will Humble|2012-05-20T16:08:34-07:00May 18th, 2012|General|

Most people think that when the weather warms up, we can stop worrying about the flu. But it’s still here. Recently, a young Gila County child died from influenza. It's the only pediatric death from flu in Arizona this year, last year 5 children under 18 died. Adult flu deaths are not tracked by the [...]

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