Written on September 7, 2010 by Jade Haigh
Later this week, we’ll be attending the U.S. Conference on AIDS (USCA) the largest AIDS-related gathering in the U.S. As you may remember, in November we posted some highlights from USCA 2009. In this post, we’ll give you a sneak-preview of what’s coming up at USCA 2010 and an update on last year’s USCA activities. If you’re attending this year’s conference, we invite you to join us in the following activities:
- Learn more about the National HIV/AIDS Strategy at Booth #308 –Talk with HHS staff to learn basic facts about the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. –Attend the closing session on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy which will feature Dr. Howard Koh, Dr. Ron Valdiserri, Mr.
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Written on September 4, 2010 by Jade Haigh
The Federal Implementation Plan for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) requires the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health to support the implementation of the Strategy by forging collaborations across HHS and with other Federal departments and by coordinating Federal efforts with States.
To help HHS do that job effectively, I want to ask the readers of this blog the following questions:
- What do you think are the most important parts of the NHAS and the Implementation Plan? What parts most impact the work you do?
- Can you suggest ways that the Federal government could do a better job of explaining how the Federal budget is used to support domestic (i.e., U.S.
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Written on September 4, 2010 by Jett Dooley
Bethel, Ohio For a second time, an Ohio woman has given birth to a baby who couldn’t wait and arrived on the drive to the hospital.
Christina Schuler’s 8-pound, 11-ounce son was born Tuesday in the front seat of the family’s pickup truck. Her husband pulled over less than a mile from their hospital in southwest Ohio’s Clermont County.
The woman from Bethel says her labor was even shorter than it was in December 2006, when she gave birth to her son, Ethan, in a car.
The Schulers also have one other child. T
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Written on September 3, 2010 by Jordan Ballard
Nutritional supplements are a $26 billion-a-year industry, but there is no Food and Drug Administration oversight. It’s up to watchdogs like Consumer Reports to keep the public informed.
Recently, the magazine consulted clinical research and case reports to come up with its list of “12 supplements you should avoid.” Take our quiz based on the list.
1. Kava, a South American plant, has been used to treat anxiety. But it’s been shown to cause liver damage. Which of these countries has not banned the use of kava?
a) Germany
b) United States
c) Canada
2. Country mallow, used to treat allergies and bronchitis and to promote weight loss, contains ephedrine, an amphetaminelike stimulant banned by the FDA in 2004.
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Written on September 1, 2010 by Jade Haigh
A couple of weeks ago I participated on a panel with our CDC colleagues Ann Aiken and Jessica Schindelar about Twitter monitoring, evaluation, and engagement at the CDC’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media. During this panel I spoke about “engagement” on Twitter – providing different definitions of it and how we at AIDS.gov work to engage our Twitter followers (and here are the slides ).
When it comes to defining “Twitter engagement” there isn’t just one definition. There are many websites and software programs that evaluate “engagement” on Twitter such as Klout , Twitalyzer , Tweet Grade , Tweetlevel , and many others. Some sites look a
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