2006 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting: Seattle.
The 2006 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting was held June 25-27 in Seattle. This year's meeting featured more than 130 educational sessions, 800 poster presentations, and nearly 100 exhibitors in a confluence that brought together health services researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. Featured here are some of the most compelling presentations...

(Not so) gently down the stream: choosing targets to ameliorate health disparities.
Health disparities in the United States exist by race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status (SES), and geography and can occur in screening, incidence, mortality, survivorship, and treatment. The Framingham Heart Study, for example, found that 35 percent of women suffered a second heart attack...

Prevention and women's reproductive health: a matter of concern.
The recent legislation on abortion in South Dakota and the subsequent copycat legislation proposed in nine other states (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2006a) are a grim reminder of the continuing assault on women's reproductive health by state legislatures. The South Dakota law makes it a felony for physicians to perform...

Ford Motor Company and United Way Team Up for Boost America! On July 13 and 14 in Detroit.
Ford Motor Company, United Way Community Services and the International Center for Injury Prevention will hold a two-day booster seat giveaway/fitting clinic in Detroit as part of the national Boost America! campaign to promote child safety and the proper use of booster seats for children -- 40 to 80...

Harris Corporation Awarded IT Services Contract to Support National Center for Health Statistics.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation , an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a potential three-year, $5.4 million contract to provide programming support and other IT services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). As the U.S....

Acute (adult clinical inpatient) care nurses' attitudes towards and knowledge of nationally endorsed 5As smoking cessation guidelines.
ABSTRACT Nurses are expected to be involved in health promotion, including smoking cessation. This study aimed to assess nurses' knowledge, sense of responsibility and willingness to provide smoking cessation interventions as described in the national 5As guideline. Data were collected by a survey distributed to a convenience...

Journey to healthy aging: impact of community based education programs on knowledge and health behavior in older adults.
Abstract The objective of this study was to determine if community based health education programs increased knowledge and health behavior in older adults. The study was a pretest-posttest design with a convenience sample of 111 independent community dwelling older adults. Participants received two disease prevention education presentations:...

Avaya Broadens Its Support for Accessible Communications Solutions for People With Disabilities.
- Avaya IP Office Accessibility Suite helps small businesses tap into new labor markets and broaden their customer base - Enables two leading professional services companies to protect privacy and improve worker productivity BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- According to the National Center...

Free 30-Day Trial of ElderCarePay(TM) Now Available - The First Software Product Specifically Designed for Household Employers of Nurses, Nurses' Aides & Other Caregivers.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- A free 30-day trial of ElderCarePay(TM), the new software product specifically designed for household employers of nurses, nurses' aides and other caregivers is now available at http://www.eldercarepay.com/. More than 1.4 million adults over 65 years of age regularly receive visits from paid...

Keep Clean Diesel Option for South Coast School Buses.
LOS ANGELES, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In a letter to South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Chairman Dr. Bill Burke and other members of the Board, The Diesel Technology Forum today urged the SCAQMD to include clean diesel technology as an option for future school bus...