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Thu, 2011-09-29 09:25 — mdmcdonald
The Community Health Resilience Collaboratory is focused on exploring the advancement of community health resilience.

The mission of the Community Health Resilience Collaboratory is to advance community health resilience.

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Former Cowboy Flying Free Health Care to Those in Need

Sat, 2012-04-07 18:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CNN Heroes - by Allie Torgan - April 6, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Stan Brock made a name for himself lassoing animals on 'Wild Kingdom'

Today, he runs a nonprofit that provides free health care to people all over the world

He started a nonprofit, Remote Area Medical. Since then, the all-volunteer group has held more than 660 medical clinics worldwide, providing free health care to half a million people.

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    • Proceedings for the 2011 Community Health Resiliency Workshop are Now Available

    Sun, 2012-03-25 19:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

     

    Thank you for attending the 2011 Community Health Resiliency Workshop; your participation helped make this event a success!

    Material from the workshop is now available for download in the attachment below, and at: http://www.communityhealthresilience.com/proceedings.html. 

    Respectfully,

    The Community Health Resilience Workshop Coordination Team

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    How the Legal Assault on Obama’s Health Law Went Mainstream

    Sun, 2012-03-25 17:17 — Kathy Gilbeaux

          

    People walk in front of the Supreme Court as others form a line, Saturday, March 24, 2012. | AP Photo

    by Josh Gerstein - politico.com - March 25, 2012

    When President Barack Obama signed the health care bill two years ago, the legal challenges to the law were widely belittled as long shots — at best.

    But as the cases head to the Supreme Court this week, what looked to many like far-out legal arguments to undo “Obamacare” don’t seem so zany anymore.

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    Firefly Technology Sheds New Light

    Thu, 2012-03-22 13:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    The light-producing enzyme in the firefly is the key to rapid pathogen detection // Source: cri.cn

    submitted by Luis Kun

    Homeland Security News Wire - March 22, 2012

    A new device, employing the same chemical which lights up fireflies, can easily detect food contamination; the researchers who developed the system hope it will soon be used to test for other diseases, including HIV-AIDS.

    Food contamination can now be detected easily by a new device based on the chemical which lights up fireflies.

    The Bioluminescent Assay in Real-Time (BART), jointly invented by Professor Jim Murray of the Cardiff University’s School of Biosciences and Dr. Laurence Tisi of Lumora, allows users to test rapidly and simply for food poisoning bacteria. Professor Murray and his partners at technology company Lumora Ltd. hope to develop the system to test for other diseases, including HIV-AIDS.

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    Antimicrobial Resistance in the European Union and the World

    Fri, 2012-03-16 23:42 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    Dr Margaret Chan
    Director-General of the World Health Organization

    The EU’s contributions to the solutions of the global antimicrobial resistance problem Keynote address at the conference on Combating antimicrobial resistance: time for action
    Copenhagen, Denmark

    14 March 2012

    Your Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary, excellencies, distinguished delegates, experts, representatives of regulatory authorities, agencies for disease control, and civil society, ladies and gentlemen,

    You are meeting to explore what EU Member States can do to solve what you rightly recognize as a serious, growing, and global threat to health.

    Drug-resistant pathogens are notorious globe-trotters. They travel well in infected air passengers and through global trade in food. In addition, the growth of medical tourism has accelerated the international spread of hospital-acquired infections that are frequently resistant to multiple drugs.

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    An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Climate Change and Human Health

    Thu, 2012-03-15 21:13 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society - March 15, 2012

    Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, worsening ozone levels in urban areas, the spread of desertification, and expansions of the ranges of communicable diseases as the planet heats up, the professional organization representing respiratory and airway physicians stated in a new position paper released today.

    The paper is published online and in print in the Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society.

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uoc--lde030912.php

    An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Climate Change and Human Health

    http://pats.atsjournals.org/content/9/1/3.abstract

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    Saratoga Hospitals Deploy Biometrics to Increase Security and Improve Efficiency

    Thu, 2012-03-15 18:45 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    submitted by Luis Kun

    Homeland Security News Wire - March 13, 2012

    To improve privacy and security measures, Saratoga Hospital in New York recently announced that it would be partnering with DigitalPersona Inc. to install biometric access controls to verify medical personnel’s identities and increase efficiency.

    Saratoga Hospitals operates five remote care facilities in New York where it employs more than 1,700 doctors, nurses, and staff members. Due to the awkward username and password authentication process, hospital officials say they had difficulty accurately tracking access to its sensitive data networks.

    “We needed a solution that would encourage our staff to comply with our access control policies without limiting their ability to treat patients and be productive,” explained Gary Moon, Saratoga Hospital’s information systems security analyst, in an interview with InformationWeek Healthcare. “Passwords can be cumbersome, and oftentimes the staff would stay logged in to avoid having to manually type a password each time they needed to access patient information. Thus, we could not track who had accessed information.”

    Flu Strain Identified in 2 Calvert County Deaths

    Wed, 2012-03-07 21:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

    A health worker leaves the Lusby home of an 81-year-old woman who died from respiratory illness on March 1.

    by Tim Persinko - nbcwashington.com - March 7, 2012

    Lab testing identified the same strain of influenza in two of the three victims who died with respiratory sickness last week in Calvert County.

    The county's health department has been investigating a cluster of illnesses that led to three deaths in Lusby, MD, near the Calvert Cliffs nuclear facility.

    The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Health said on Wednesday afternoon that Influenza H3, a strain of Influenza A that has been circulating this season, was found in two of the cases.

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    3 Dead, 1 Sick From Mystery Respiratory Illness

    Wed, 2012-03-07 21:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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    • Disease Sleuths Surf For Outbreaks Online

    Thu, 2012-03-01 21:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    Source: NPR - Credit: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard

    by Adam Cole - npr.org - February 24, 2012

    . . . "Surveillance is one of the cornerstones of public health," says Philip Polgreen, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa. "It all depends on having not only accurate data, but timely data."

    Public health officials have been trying to speed up their responses to disease outbreaks since, well, they started responding to outbreaks.

    There's still plenty of room for improvement.

    The current system requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to compile reports about from physicians and labs all over the country — and that can take a while. There's typically a week-long delay between an outbreak and the release of an official report.

    To get an early read on things, epidemiologists look for the first clues of illness — a rise in thermometer sales or increased chatter on hospital phone lines. Now, they're tapping into the Internet. . . .

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