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News from The Libraries – May 2013
On Friday, December 14, at 8am CT the Kaiser Family Foundation will broadcast a webcast covering legislative efforts related to health disparities. The UT Health Science Center Libraries will host a viewing of the webcast at the Briscoe Library in San Antonio, room 2C. Former Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher will be among the speakers. Join us – coffee will be served.
Recently posted information in the New York Times appears to show that treating older patients who suffer from diabetes as well as depression, can live longer when both health issues are addressed.
The five-year study, involving approximately 600 patients suffering from depression, also included 123 individuals with a history of diabetes. Split into two groups, one was treated by primary care doctors and the other group received more focused treatment under the direction of a depression case manager. The results showed the treatment for depression did not influence the death rates among the non-diabetic patients, but it did make a considerable difference in those patients with diabetes. The group who worked with the case manager was half as likely to die as those who received the less specialized care.
An article on the randomized controlled trial appears in the December 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.
The Texas Department of State Health Services has launched a new Website, “Ready or Not? Have a Plan,” designed to help Texans prepare for emergencies such as hurricanes, wildfires, terrorist attacks, and disease outbreaks. As part of the awareness campaign, the State of Texas encourages businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and others to co-brand, distribute and display these materials by providing prepared campaign materials.
Ready or Not? is available in both English (TexasPrepares.org) and Spanish (TexasPrepara.org).
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“San Antonio-based Villa-Mex Imports Inc. is asking customers to discard the dark brown syrup sold as ‘Barrilito’ — named for its little glass barrels with bright yellow labels. The candy was sold by retailers statewide. Recent laboratory tests showed lead levels above the 0.1 parts per million allowed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Texas Department of State Health Services said. Tested samples ranged from 0.101 to 0.132 parts per million.” (KSAT/Associated Press)
In August the California Department of Public Health issued a warning about this candy and another product sold as “Miguelito.”
The National Next of Kin Registry (http://www.nokr.org) is a free emergency contact system to help if you or a family member is missing, injured, or dies. NOKR provides the public a free proactive service to store emergency contacts, next of kin, and vital medical information that would be critical to emergency response agencies. The information is made available securely to registered emergency agencies during times of urgent need.
A gathering of UT Health Science Center at San Antonio officials, legislators, and state and local leaders gathered in Harlingen on Thursday, Nov. 29 for the dedication ceremony at the Regional Academic Health Center’s Academic and Clinical Research Building. The facility, which encompasses 80,000 square feet, will house a clinical research facility and veterans clinic.
Initial research being conducted at the facility will include a major diabetes study, and data gathering for the National Children’s Study. In addition, the South Texas Veterans Health Care System will lease space for an outpatient clinic.
Officials have stated that the facilities “will help bring more medical residents to programs at the RAHC and set the stage for more doctors to practice here”. It is truly a beneficial element of both the research and patient community.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) WONDER (Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research) website is a menu-driven system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large.
WONDER provides access to statistical research data published by CDC, as well as reference materials, reports and guidelines on health-related topics. It also can query numeric data sets on CDC’s computers, using “fill-in-the blank” web pages. Public-use data sets include mortality, cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, vaccinations, births, census data and many other topics are available for query. Data are then readily summarized and analyzed, with dynamically calculated statistics, charts and maps.
Don’t miss this great story (also available in Spanish) from the DHHS Office of Minority Health about Manuel Hernández and the social networks he created for Latinos with diabetes — tudiabetes.com (in English) and estudiabetes.com (in Spanish). Both of those sites were created using a free online tool called Ning that provides a platform, infrastructure and hosting for user-created social networks. The story of tudiabetes.com (only eight months old and a vibrant community of over 1400 members) and estudiabetes.com (six months old, 178 members) shows the power of using Web 2.0 tools like Ning to create new kinds of online communities connecting people with common interests — like those who have been affected by a particular health condition — in all corners of the globe.
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