Guess the Culprit
Guess which organism killed 14,000 people last year- quadrupling in number in the last 10 years, and costing $1B extra in health care. Almost all the cases happen among people who recently received medical care. Ironically, antibiotics are making the problem worse, because when a person takes antibiotics, good germs that protect against infection are destroyed for several months. The [...]
Influenza Wave Coming Ashore
It took longer than usual- but Influenza is finally circulating in AZ- and we’ve moved to the “Regional” flu category now (Regional is sort of the middle of the scale). The circulating strains in AZ (confirmed by our lab) are covered by this year’s vaccine- mostly our old friend the 2009 H1N1 virus and the familiar H3N2 virus. The “Epi Curve” suggests [...]
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Health √
Take a minute to check out the new and improved HealthCheck Programs website. The HealthCheck Programs include the Well Woman HealthCheck Program and Fit at Fifty HealthCheck Program. Both of these programs are primarily federally funded through the CDC and provide uninsured Arizonans with vital access to breast, cervical and colon cancer screening and diagnostics. The new website is a vast improvement from its [...]
For the Modern AZ Mom
Please join us in encouraging pregnant women and new moms to sign up for Text4baby. Text4baby is a program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition that provides pregnant women and new moms with information to help them give their babies the best possible start in life. Text4baby is the country’s first free, health education program using text messages. Participating national [...]
AZ Trauma System a Model for South Korea
We had the pleasure of meeting with a delegation of health officials from the Republic of Korea (South Korea) this week to talk about Arizona’s Trauma System. The Director General of Public Health policy (Byung Guk Yang, MD) and his team met with our Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System team to talk about how we developed Arizona’s trauma system over [...]