[PNRNews] News Shorts for the Network 5-12-08

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News Shorts in this email:
   
Regence Foundation offering grants to support health care in Northwest 
<#Regence>
Dental therapy for Alaska Natives <#Dental>
A "serving" of moose - Fighting cancer with native foods <#A_serving>
Latina Health <#Latina>
Montanan's THE PATH Act legislation for tribal health <#Montanans>
Health Affairs issue focuses on disparities / Health disparities 
conference <#Health_Affairs>
New NLM websites - Bathtub Collection and genealogical resources <#New_NLM>
MedlinePlus Multiple Languages resource - Regional connections 
<#MedlinePlus_Multiple>
Fit for Life at the library / Montana State Library's "first aid 
station" <#Fit_for_Life>
Questions are the answer to getting the most from health care <#Questions>
The consumer's personal genome warning, and genetic diagnostics for 
world health <#The_consumers>
Ruckus Nation prize awarded to Seattleite / Your chance to help win the 
Nobel Prize <#Ruckus>
NIH Public Access Policy - Got questions? <#NIH_Public>
NLM in the news <#NLM>
NLM announcements <#NLM_Announcements>
Holiday closure <#Holiday>
Breathe, and pick a link for National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month 
<#Pick>

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*Regence Foundation offering grants to support health care in Northwest*

The Regence Group has launched a grantmaking organization, the Regence 
Foundation, to distribute philanthropic contributions in Idaho, Oregon, 
Washington and Utah. The Foundation will grant funds to nonprofit 
organizations working in the areas of Building Healthier Communities, 
Transforming Health Care, and End-Of-Life, supporting programs that 
encourage collaborative and innovative outcomes in health care.

See http://www.regencefoundation.org/programs/index.html.

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*Dental therapy for Alaska Natives*

The New York Times recently reported on a program training "dental 
therapists" to provide care for Alaska Natives lacking access to 
dentists. Dental therapists in the program receive two years of training 
at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, after which they can perform 
routine tooth extractions and fill cavities. Patients requiring other 
dental care are referred to dentists.

Dental therapists are supervised by a dentist through documents and 
X-rays. The Times reports that some dentists feel the program should be 
offered nationwide to provide less expensive care to the 100 million 
U.S. residents who can't afford treatment.

Times article: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/28teeth.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=slogin&oref=slogin 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/28teeth.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=slogin&oref=slogin>

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A "serving" of moose - Fighting cancer with native foods*

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium's Cancer Project has 
published a new "Traditional Food Guide for Alaska Native Cancer 
Survivors" that shares such information as the definition of a "serving" 
of moose and the vitamin A content of fireweed. The Guide gives dietary 
credibility to wild foods and makes them part of the healing package for 
Alaska Native cancer patients.

More about the Guide:
http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/389001.html
http://www.anthc.org/abt/News/upload/08-4-16-food-guide-_2_-2.pdf

Grants.gov currently lists a grant opportunity titled "Using Traditional 
Foods and Sustainable Ecological Approaches for Health Promotion and 
Diabetes Prevention in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) 
Communities": 
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17548 
<http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17548>

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*Latina Health*

North Seattle Community College will host Washington's sixth annual 
Latina Health Fair on May 17. Over 500 Latinas and their families are 
expected to receive free medical exams and preventive screenings (blood 
pressure, glucose, cholesterol, vision, osteoporosis, BMI), 
individualized health report cards, and care referrals. The Latina 
Health Fair, an outreach program of the Washington Health Foundation's 
Community Health Access Program (CHAP, 
http://www.whf.org/programs/chap.aspx), involves over fifty 
organizations in the Puget Sound region and hundreds of volunteers 
(volunteers welcomed!). Learn more at the UW School of Medicine Hispanic 
Health Pathway: http://faculty.washington.edu/dacosta/HHP/index.html

MedlinePlus Health Topics page on Hispanic-American Health: 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hispanicamericanhealth.html

Reuters article on a study showing that Hispanic mothers prioritize for 
fruits and vegetables when shopping - more so than white and 
African-American mothers - and that a lower percentage of their daily 
calories come from fat: 
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSCOL16975020080501?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 
<http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSCOL16975020080501?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0>

May 11-17 is National Women's Health Week: http://www.womenshealth.gov/whw/

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*Montanan's THE PATH Act legislation for tribal health*

The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs recently approved 
legislation that promotes health outreach and education programs for 
American Indians. Sponsored by Montana's Senator Jon Tester, the Through 
Higher Education, Promoting the Advancement of Tribal Health (THE PATH) 
Act requests federal funding for creation of health care education 
programs, including outreach programs, at tribal colleges:

http://tester.senate.gov/Newsroom/pr_042408_path.cfm
http://www.rwjf.org/programareas/features/digest.jsp?c=EMC-ND141&pid=1141&id=7706 
<http://www.rwjf.org/programareas/features/digest.jsp?c=EMC-ND141&pid=1141&id=7706>

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*Health Affairs issue focuses on disparities / Health disparities 
conference*

The entire March/April 2008 issue of Health Affairs 
(http://www.healthaffairs.org/) is devoted to health disparities, 
including these topics:

"Geography Of Opportunity" & Child Health
Racial & Ethnic Disparities In Mental Health
Oral Health: Giving Policy Some Teeth
State Reforms: Moving Beyond Access
Education & Life Expectancy
Collecting Disparity Data
Workforce Diversity
Language Access

"Building Capacity to Eliminate Health Disparities" is the title of the 
inaugural founding conference of the Academy for Health Equity to be 
held June 26-27 in Denver. Conference details: 
http://www.academyforhealthequity.org/conference.asp

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 * New NLM websites - Bathtub Collection and genealogical resources     *

NLM's History of Medicine Division is excited to announce two new 
websites focusing on the Bathtub Collection and genealogical resources.

The Bathtub Collection (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bathtub/) 
consists of fragments found in the old and rare bindings of the NLM's 
rare book collection when items were rebound and conserved in the 1940s 
and 1950s. It is called the "Bathtub Collection" because then-curator 
Dorothy Schullian took the leftovers of conservation work home and 
soaked them in her bathtub to retrieve the often interesting bits and 
pieces of medieval manuscripts and early printed ephemera she found. 

NLM is also home to numerous genealogical resources for those seeking 
information about ancestors with medical or health related training. 
Among these is the AMA Deceased Physicians Card File, a collection of 
nearly 400,000 index cards created by the AMA between 1901 and 1969, 
focusing on everyone in the U.S. who received a medical degree. The 
cards were updated throughout the physician's career with information 
about degrees obtained, licensing, addresses and finally cause of death, 
and sometimes obituary citations and even portraits. Please visit the 
site at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/genealogy/.

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*MedlinePlus Multiple Languages resource - Regional connections*

MedlinePlus' new Multiple Languages resource 
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html) allows you 
to browse in languages from Amharic to Vietnamese. Many topics link to 
resources provided by Healthy Roads Media, an organization formed in 
2002 with a grant from National Library of Medicine. Healthy Roads Media 
(http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/about_us.htm) offers "free health 
education materials in a number of languages and a variety of 
formats...developed to study the value of using information technology 
strategies to provide meaningful access to health information for 
diverse populations in a variety of settings." NN/LM PNR recently 
partnered with Mary Alice Gillispie and network member Healthy Roads 
Media (Bozeman, Montana) on a web-based immunization information 
resource project.

EthnoMed (http://www.ethnomed.org/ethnomed/) is another good starting 
point for links to translated health information. The site contains 
"information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related 
issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or 
the U.S., many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the 
world." An example of translated health information available from 
EthnoMed is this guide to preventing rickets in breastfed babies, 
written in Tigrinya, a working language of Eritrea: 
http://www.ethnomed.org/ethnomed/patient_ed/rickets/tigrickets.html. 
NN/LM PNR member Ellen Howard, who led the effort to develop and 
maintain EthnoMed, recently received the Michael DeBakey Outreach 
Services award, a national award recognizing contributions to medical 
education and librarianship.

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*Fit for Life at the library / Montana State Library's "first aid station"*

Fit for Life is an initiative of Libraries for the Future (LFF) that 
provides library systems with training, resources, and support to 
promote health and wellness in their communities, with a focus on 
populations in urban areas with limited access to reliable health 
information. LFF/Fit for Life will give grants to 15 urban library 
networks charged with launching community-wide public awareness 
campaigns to promote the importance of fitness and nutrition, offering 
health programming for individuals of all ages, and distributing free 
health publications. Visit the Fit for Life site at 
http://www.fitforlifelibraries.org/index.html.

NN/LM PNR is partnering with member Montana State Library in MSL's 
"What's Your Story - Find It at the Library" campaign to promote the 
library as a place to find health information. The campaign, spearheaded 
by Sara Groves, sports a handsome "Your library - First aid station for 
health information" logo 
(http://msl.mt.gov/whatsyourstory/Tools/special/health_fair/MSL_healthFair_LOGO_WEB.jpg). 
A guide to planning a health fair 
(http://msl.mt.gov/whatsyourstory/How-Tos/health_fair/h_toc.asp) is one 
of the resources available at the MSL site.

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Questions are the answer to getting the most from health care
*
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a "Questions are 
the answer" web page designed to help consumers improve their health 
care by taking an active role. The page includes a list of questions to 
ask, 20 tips to prevent medical errors, and other resources: 
http://www.ahrq.gov/questionsaretheanswer/.

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The consumer's personal genome warning, and genetic diagnostics for 
world health*

"The Personal Genome, Consequences for Society" is the title of a recent 
panel discussion featuring George Church, professor of Genetics at 
Harvard Medical School, and Bill Gates, among others. The panel gives 
caveats regarding sites offering genome mapping to the general public 
(e.g. http://www.decodeme.com/), dissects recent genetic 
nondiscrimination legislation 
(http://www.kaisernetwork.org/DAILY_REPORTS/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=51751), 
and talks about what genome mapping might mean for world health.

Watch the videotaped discussion: 
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=24551&fID=5264 
<http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=24551&fID=5264>

Did you know there's a YouTube-type site for biological research? It's 
called JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments, http://www.jove.com/) 
and it takes advantage of "video technology to capture and transmit the 
multiple facets and intricacies of life science research...."

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*Ruckus Nation prize awarded to Seattleite / Your chance to help win the 
Nobel Prize!*

Ruckus Nation, a global competition to elicit ideas for new products to 
increase physical activity among children, recently awarded its $50,000 
grand prize to "Dancing Craze", an interactive dance game with wearable 
sensors allowing kids to select music, record their moves and share 
their own virtual dance videos online. Seattleite Stacy Cho submitted 
the idea. The contest's co-sponsor HopeLab (http://www.hopelab.org/), a 
nonprofit organization dedicated to finding innovative solutions to 
improve the health and quality of life of young people with chronic 
illness, ultimately might develop one or more of the winning Ruckus 
ideas. HopeLab's first product, the Re-Mission video game for teens and 
young adults with cancer, has been proven through research to improve 
health outcomes for young cancer patients. More about the Ruckus Nation 
winners: 
http://www.rwjf.org/programareas/pioneer/resources/product.jsp?id=27231&pid=1140&catid=18 
<http://www.rwjf.org/programareas/pioneer/resources/product.jsp?id=27231&pid=1140&catid=18>

University of Washington researchers are trying to change the way 
science is done, and who does it. They have developed a new game called 
Foldit that turns calculating all possible protein shapes (key to 
understanding biological mysteries such as Alzheimer's and HIV) into a 
game. The idea is for the general population to help advance medical 
science (and possibly win the Nobel Prize?) by playing Foldit. The 
Foldit project is being presented this week at the Games for Health 
meeting in Baltimore. Read more about it: 
http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?visitsource=uwkmail&articleID=41609 
<http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?visitsource=uwkmail&articleID=41609>

More games that matter to health: When Changemakers 
(http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/about) co-sponsored the "Why Games 
Matter: A Prescription for Improving Health and Health Care" competition 
last year, they received 74 entries from 13 countries. The winners are 
attending the Changemakers Change Summit at the Games for Health 
Conference in Baltimore this month. Competition entries included 
"Freedom HIV/AIDS - Mobile Phone Games to Create HIV/AIDS Awareness in 
Asia and Africa" and "Building HOPE: Developing the Nation's First 
High-Speed Inter-Hospital Gaming Network". Check out more fascinating 
entries at 
http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/competition/browse/725?sort=desc&order= 
<http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/competition/browse/725?sort=desc&order=>.

Podcast interview with Ben Sawyer, co-director of this month's Games for 
Health Conference: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/videoblogging/.

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*NIH Public Access Policy - Got questions? *

The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the 
published results of NIH funded research. This important policy requires 
all investigators funded by NIH to submit an electronic version of their 
final peer-reviewed manuscripts, upon acceptance for publication, to 
PubMed Central (NLM's free digital archive of biomedical and life 
sciences journal literature, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/). The NIH 
Public Access website features a just-updated FAQ at 
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm (caffeine required before reading). 
Recent changes:

Questions C7, C9 and C10 are new, and reflect improvements to PubMed. 
They clarify and simplify how awardees can comply with the fifth 
specification of the NIH Public Access Policy, which states: "Beginning 
May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress 
report to the NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission 
reference number when citing applicable articles that arise from their 
NIH funded research. This policy includes applications submitted to the 
NIH for the May 25, 2008 due date and subsequent due dates."

Questions A4, B10-B12, C8, C11, D5, E4, E5, F5 and F6 were developed 
based on questions received by NIH. These questions do not signify any 
changes in policy or procedure. Changes have been made to the wording of 
FAQs B1-B5, for clarification only (no changes in policy or procedure).

The January 11, 2008 FAQ uses the term 'article' as a generic word for a 
peer-reviewed scientific publication and all its versions.  At the March 
20 Open Meeting, some stakeholders commented that 'article' could be 
confused with the term 'final published article'. Therefore, the FAQ 
uses the term 'paper' instead of 'article'. Updates to the Public Access 
Policy website will reflect this change.
 
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*NLM in the news*

Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu/idea/) is a consortium of 
universities, companies, government, and research labs. The IDEA 
(Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications) award recognizes innovators 
who have created network applications that enable transformational 
progress in research, teaching, and learning. NLM received the 2008 IDEA 
award for its geography-independent cancer research tools. The library 
is developing advanced network-based tools and techniques that leverage 
the speed and capability of research networks like Internet2 to enable 
doctors from around the world to more effectively participate in cancer 
research studies and enable more comprehensive analysis of cancer 
research data. More about the research tools and the award:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/internet2.html
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/2310120.html

MedlinePlus/NLM is cited as the place to start for reliable health 
information:
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=208905&c=11 
<http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=208905&c=11>
http://www.gjsentinel.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/cmpu/611014.html
http://www.13wham.com/guides/health/story.aspx?content_id=4b49733b-51ee-4e60-aa16-90132af9d7ab

Randy Owen is honored by Friends of NLM for work with St. Jude's 
Children's Hospital:
http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1585126/randy-owen-honored-for-work-with-st-jude-childrens-hospital.jhtml?rsspartner=rssMozilla

Michael DeBakey receives Congressional Gold Medal; David Lipman is 
member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences:
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000008799
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/lipman_aaas_fellow08.html

Donald Lindberg writes intro to Supplement on diagnostic errors:
http://www.huliq.com/58064/how-diagnostic-errors-happen
 
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*NLM Announcements*

The March-April 2008 NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete. View the 
table of contents for update alerts, newly available material and new 
database features: 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_issue_cover.html

NLM new hires: Fernando Alvarez joins NLM as the new Bilingual Technical 
Information Specialist, to provide leadership and expertise on 
MedlinePlus en español. Mr. Alvarez comes to NLM from the Library of 
Congress where he was a Senior Reference Librarian in the Hispanic 
Division for five years. Norma Ruiz joins the Health Information 
Products Team as a new Technical Information Specialist to work on both 
MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español. Ms. Ruiz brings nine years of 
experience at NLM providing outreach, training, and systems expertise. 

NLM will cosponsor Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop, June 9-10, 2008
http://loinc.org/meetings/20080609/public-laboratory-loinc-committee-meeting-06-09-08/view 
<http://www.regenstrief.org/medinformatics/loinc/meetings/20080609/public-laboratory-loinc-committee-meeting-06-09-08/view>

New or updated MedlinePlus topics:
Chequeo médico, 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/healthscreening.html
Eosinophilic Disorders, 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/eosinophilicdisorders.html

See http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/jobs/jobs.html for job opportunities at 
NLM, NIH and DHHS.
 
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*Holiday closure*

The National Library of Medicine and NN/LM PNR will be closed Monday, 
May 26 in observance of Memorial Day.
 
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*Breathe, and pick a link for National Asthma and Allergy Awareness 
Month (May): ** *

Idaho's asthma day camp
http://www.lungidaho.org/asthma/asthma-day-camps/

Asthma Wizard for kids
http://www.nationaljewish.org/disease-info/diseases/asthma/kids/wizard/contents.aspx

Native AIR (Asthma Intervention & Reduction)
http://www.nativeasthma.org/

Oregon Environmental Council on asthma
http://www.oeconline.org/kidshealth/priceofpollution/asthma

Washington Asthma Educator Institute
http://waiboard.alaw.org/asthma-educator-institute

Asthma study at Beijing Olympics
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYDvr7kBDTR7rbYu4R5KeJwWoZWAD90G94O80

Che Guevara had asthma! NLM exhibition: The Breath of Life
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/breath/breathhome.html

MedlinePlus asthma tutorials in English and Spanish
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/asthma/htm/index.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorials/asthmaspanish/htm/index.htm

Awareness Month planning kit
http://aafa.org/pdfs/awareness_month_planning_kit.pdf

   
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