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1. Surgeon General's Conference on Children and Oral Health Washington DC June 12-13, 2000

http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/sgr/children/children.htm
08-01-2000
Surgeon General's Conference "Face of a Child" on June 12-13, 2000 in Washington, DC.
The little-known but alarming facts surrounding alcohol consumption by children ages 9 to 15 have prompted more than 25 Governors’ Spouses to join forces and put this issue on the national agenda. Today they launched Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol
3. National Institute on Child Health and Human Development: Why Children Succeed or Fail at Reading

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/readbro.htm
08-01-2000
Most children will learn to read, no matter what method is used to teach them. But unless they receive special help, at least 20 percent of them cannot master this simple task that the rest of us take for granted.
4. National Institute of Drug Abuse: Info-Fax on Anabolic Steroids

http://165.112.78.61/Infofax/steroids.html
08-01-2000
Anabolic-androgenic steroids are man-made substances related to male sex hormones. "Anabolic" refers to muscle-building, and "androgenic" refers to increased masculine characteristics. "Steroids" refers to the class of drugs. These drugs are available leg
Chickenpox dramatically increases the risk for acquiring invasive Group A Streptococcal disease, and universal chickenpox vaccination could potentially prevent up to 15% of all pediatric invasive GAS disease.
6. Global Initiative in Asthma: World Asthma Day 2000

http://www.ginasthma.com/xworld.html
08-01-2000
The theme of World Asthma Day 2000 is "Let every person breathe", expressing the belief that asthmatic people have the right to timely diagnosis, appropriate treatment, and education to help self control of their asthma.
7. Pew Environmental Health Commission -- ATTACK Asthma: Appendix One, Asthma and Its Environmental Triggers

http://pewenvirohealth.jhsph.edu/html/reports/PEHCAsthmaRptApp1.pdf
08-01-2000
Statistics, factors and models on which the ATTACK Asthma Report is based. Part 2 of 3.
8. Centers for Disease Control: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination

http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/
08-01-2000
CDC Web site from the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, including information on World TB Day, TB news alerts and links to the TB-Educate Listserv(R).
The first-ever Surgeon General's report on oral health identifies dental and oral diseases that burden some population groups and calls for a national effort to improve oral health. It also focuses on the relationship between oral and overall good health.
When most people think about concerns related to swimming, they think about drowning, diving injuries, and sunburns. However, few think about getting sick from swimming.
The report elaborates on the meaning of oral health and explains why oral health is essential to general health and well-being. In the course of the past 50 years, great progress has been made in understanding the common oral diseases-- dental caries (too
Official conference Web site with links to post-conference information sources.
13. American Academy of Pediatrics Recommends Pneumococcal Vaccine For Children Under Age 2

http://www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/junpcv7.htm
08-01-2000
The AAP guidelines state that the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) is recommended for use in all children 23 months of age and younger. Although other pneumococcal vaccines are available, PCV7 represents the first pneumococcal vaccine app
The results reported confirm previous findings, but the mechanism by which cola drinks are associated with bone fractures in physically active girls has neither been fully explored nor determined. Nevertheless, national concern and alarm about the health
15. Centers for Disease Control: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report -- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance 1999

http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4905a1.htm
08-01-2000
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories of priority health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults --- behaviors that contribute to unintentional and intentional injuries; tobacco use; alcohol and other drug use; se
This homepage contains electronic versions of the latest edition of Health, United States and previous editions back to 1993. Users may download a complete copy of Health, United States or selected sections, such as the chartbook, or individual tables. In
Antibiotic treatment of children with E. coli O157:H7 infection increases the risk of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
18. Pediatrics: The Highly Protective Effect of Newborn Circumcision Against Invasive Penile Cancer

http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/abstract/105/3/e36
08-01-2000
Kaiser Permanente study with results supporting the highly protective effect of newborn circumcision against invasive penile cancer and the less protective effect against carcinoma in situ.
19. Pew Environmental Health Commission: ATTACK Asthma -- Appendix Two: The Federal Asthma Research Agenda

http://pewenvirohealth.jhsph.edu/html/reports/PEHCAsthmaRptApp2.pdf
08-16-2000
Federal strategic plan on attacking the problem of asthma over 2000-2004 in conjunction with Healthy People 2010. Outlines research, planning and budgeting of efforts.
20. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator

http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/facilitylocatordoc.htm
08-03-2001
This searchable directory of over 12,000 drug and alcohol treatment programs will show the location of facilities around the country that treat alcoholism, alcohol abuse and drug abuse problems. The Locator includes residential, inpatient and outpatien
21. Stem Cells: Scientific Progress and Future Research Directions

http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/scireport.htm
08-29-2001
On February 28, 2001, Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, requested that the National Institutes of Health prepare a summary report on the state of the science on stem cells. This report was developed in response to his request. It
22. Health On the Net Foundation (HON)


http://www.hon.ch/
10-02-2001
The Health On the Net Foundation (HON), created in 1995, is a not-for-profit International Swiss Organization. HON's mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health informa
23. Health on the Net: HONselect


http://www.hon.ch/HONselect/
10-02-2001
Health on the Net (HON)'s search integrator for strictly medical and health queries. HONselect combines five information types - MeSH® terms, authoritative scientific articles, healthcare news, Web sites and multimedia - into one service to focus and acce
European study which provides data that meningococcal C conjugate vaccine is safe and immunogenic and results in immunologic memory when given with other routinely administered vaccines to infants at 2, 3, and 4 months of age. JAMA. 2000;283:2795-2801
25. US Government ClinicalTrials.gov Site

http://clinicaltrials.gov
08-01-2000
The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.

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