“Winnable Public Health Battles” Smoking and Tobacco Use
All this week, I'm talking about the five "winnable battles" in public health as laid out by the new CDC Director - Dr. Thomas Frieden. Dr. Frieden talked about focusing its strategic planning on public health and policy interventions to help win the 5 “Winnable Battles” in the next 3 years. There’s not much on the CDC’s website yet on [...]
“Winnable Public Health Battles” Childhood Overweight and Obesity
This week, I'm sharing the CDC's 5 Winnable Battles as set forth by the new head of the CDC), Dr. Frieden. During the next 3 years, CDC will be increasingly focusing its strategic planning on public health and policy interventions to help win the 5 “Winnable Battles”. There’s not much on the CDC’s website yet on the new strategy, but [...]
5 “Winnable Public Health Battles” Infection Control
I was in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago for new health officer orientation and was able to meet with Dr. Frieden (the new head of the CDC) a couple of times. Each time that we met he referred to a general theme that the CDC will be using over the next 3 years to drive public health policy- it’s called [...]
Did smallpox vaccination halt spread of HIV?
A study published this week in the journal BMC Immunology suggests that being vaccinated for smallpox triggered by the smallpox vaccine may inhibit the growth of the HIV. The researchers extracted white blood cells from subjects and exposed them to HIV in a culture dish. The results showed that HIV replication was slowed by about 80 percent in the cells [...]
New Tobacco Quitline Ads
Edit: Our agency does not provide free Nicotine Replacement Therapy. If you wish to receive this, please contact http://ashline.org or 1-888-55-66-222 We began running our new smoking cessation TV ad’s this month in targeted markets. They use a “call to action” format and encourage smokers to call a phone number (the ASHline http://www.ashline.org/ 1-800-55-66-222) to get help- including free [...]
Into the Inferno
It’s not just the Phoenix Suns that are hot; your backyard will be one of the hottest places on the globe for the next 4 months. The heat on the desert floor isn’t just a nuisance, it’s expensive & lethal. Do you know what to do to protect yourself and your family? Do you follow through? Year in and year [...]