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CDC Creates Interactive Training for Diagnosis, Management of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
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- Published: 15 May 2019 15 May 2019
Washington, DC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created a first-of-its-kind education module to help clinicians recognize and diagnose Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), a sometimes serious and fatal disease spread by the bite of an infected tick.
Seabees Help Preserve a Portion of USS Arizona History
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- Written by Jessica O. Blackwell Jessica O. Blackwell
- Published: 14 May 2019 14 May 2019
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - In the aftermath, and from the ashes of December 7, 1941, which propelled the United States into World War II, rose a new call and opportunity to serve in the Navy, the Naval Construction Battalions. Today, they are known as Seabees.
NIH facilitates first Tribal data-sharing agreement with Navajo Nation
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- Published: 13 May 2019 13 May 2019
Washington, DC - The National Institutes of Health has facilitated a data-sharing and use agreement between the Navajo Nation and NIH grantees of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, which was ratified today in a ceremony at the Navajo Nation Head Start Center in Leupp, Arizona. The agreement was signed by the Navajo Nation, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, and RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Executive Order on Economic Empowerment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
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- Written by White House White House
- Published: 14 May 2019 14 May 2019
Washington, DC - By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to empower Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to improve the quality of their lives, raise the standard of living of their families and communities, and more fully participate in our economy, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Home-based cardiac rehabilitation is an option to overcome barriers of traditional cardiac rehabilitation
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- Written by AHA AHA
- Published: 13 May 2019 13 May 2019
Dallas, Texas - Home based, medically supervised cardiac rehabilitation may be, for some patients, an alternative to traditional medical center cardiac rehabilitation programs after a heart attack or other heart procedure, according to a joint scientific statement from the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.