Medical Condition Petition Status
The AZ Medical Marijuana Act requires us to periodically accept petitions to add new medical conditions to the list of conditions that qualify folks for an AZ Medical Marijuana Registration Card. In January, we accepted petitions from the public and had a public hearing in May. Folks submitted numerous articles as a part their petitions for PTSD 1; PTSD 2; Depression; Migraines; and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. We also received [...]
Telling the Public Health Story
One of the key elements of our Strategic Plan is to “Build Public Health Value.” One of the best ways to do that is to tell good stories that capture people’s attention and imagination- stories that highlight the value of public health. During our Division of Licensing’s employee recognition event last week, Larry Martens read a perfect example of how [...]
The Push to Stop Preterm Births
On June 18, we held a news conference with the Arizona March of Dimes and the Arizona Perinatal Trust to officially launch a new campaign to reduce preventable preterm births. We got great coverage this week, including a FOX News interview that aired in several other cities across the country. We’ve joined a national challenge issued by the President of the Association [...]
2012 Water Drive Success
Quite a show of teamwork from all our staff today as they moved more than 60 thousand bottles of water out of storage into a huge pile in the parking lot of 1740. But the work wasn't done – they loaded all that water into trucks, trailers and vans to be distributed throughout Maricopa County to the homeless and those [...]
H7N3
Remember the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic? That brand new virus that caused the pandemic was a combination of RNA from four different flu viruses – North American swine influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe. The natural laboratories for new influenza viruses that end up causing pandemics (like the '09 pandemic) are [...]
Madan Jumps In Head-first
Our own Madan Gopal from I.T. has been invited by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to participate in a national Roundtable discussion about the role and use of health IT to fill the needs of behavioral health providers, to integrate behavioral health record data into primary care, and on how ”Meaningful Use” could support this integration. Madan was asked [...]